Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Arminianism

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was:  delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:31, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Arminianism

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Abandoned old-style manual portal converted to a wholly automated pseudo-portal based on the sidebar Template:Arminianism. As such it is now just a WP:REDUNDANTFORK of the sidebar.

This is the same flaw as portal based on a single navbox. The fact that a sidebar is located at the top right of an article rather than full-width at the bottom does not alter the redundancy. (For a full explanation of why a type of based on a single navbox is redundant, see the two mass deletions of similar portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals).

This page was previously an old-style multi-page portal, converted to the automated form by @The Transhumanist in September 2018. The last manual version does work, but it is unimpressive: a static box of quotes, and only a selected article. Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Arminianism shows only 5 selected article pages, all created on 5 September 2011‎ (the day when he portal was created). Only has had any edit after the intial save, and that was only three weeks later.

So basically, the portal was very skimpy, and has been abandoned since late September 2011. Its creator has not edited since April 2014. I don't think there anything worth keeping; the 8-year-old forks of article ledes are long overdue for an update or rewrite.

I am unsure whether Arminianism is a broad enough topic to satisfy WP:POG's guidance that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Most of its significance is in the denominations which draw on Arminianism, such as Methodism, and there'd be little point in this portal expanding too far into that territory and duplicating Portal:Methodism.

So, I propose that this portal be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal not based on a single navbox, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time ... but I can see a case for outright deletion. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:40, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - No need to restate most of what BHG has stated, but this is an abandoned heritage portal on a relatively limited theological school that is mostly significant for its influence on John Wesley and Methodism. We don't need it.  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:55, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Old portal, 15 subpages, created 2011-09-05 07:09:13 by User:Theseus1776. Too narrow a topic --> nobody to maintain --> TTH navbox fork. Portal:Arminianism. Pldx1 (talk) 08:17, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.