Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Brachiopods (2nd nomination)

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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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 20:38, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Brachiopods

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Another abandoned non-portal.

This is of a very large number of zoology- or paleontology-related portals created by. The page history and scrutiny of Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Brachiopods shows that it was built in 2015 with 2 Selected pictures, and one DYK page with one entry, but no article sof any type. And there it has remained for 4 years.

Brachiopod is not a very narrow topic, but it's also not that wide.. Category:Brachiopods and its subcats contains 201 articles, but an AWB check finds that only 54 are not currently tagged as stubs, and 38 of those are assessed on the talk page as stubs (in Category:Stub-Class Marine life articles and/or Category:Stub-Class Palaeontology articles).

The remaining 16 seems to me to be too thin a set to suggest that we have enough content of even start-class quality to make it possible to build a useful portal on the topic ... and even if were possible, this abandoned portal is not it.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". Sadly, this one does not enhance the head article Brachiopod, which is rated as a good article,

Abyssal has created some portals which are well-developed (see User:Abyssal/Abyssal portal/Portals started). Others less so: e.g. see the current MFD:Portal:Trace fossils, MFD:Portal:Ammonoids, and MFD:Portal:Pseudosuchians, or the closed MFD:Portal:Prehistory of Oceania and MFD:Portal:Prehistory of North America. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:55, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete based on the analysis by BHG. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:07, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment A note to, these are all paleontology related, and not archaeology related.-- Kev min  § 15:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Indeed they are, @Kevmin. Sorry for my brain lapse, and thanks for making the fix. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 17:44, 2 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. This was MfD'd by BrownHairedGirl in March 2017 (Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Brachiopods); I'm not 100% sure why it was kept then. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:35, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned old portal, 12 subpages, created 2015-11-19 16:04:33 by User:Abyssal. No apparent maintainer. Portal:Brachiopods. Pldx1 (talk) 07:16, 3 May 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.