Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Civil engineering

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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) 02:06, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Civil engineering

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Another pointless portal page, created 3 years ago and then abandoned apart from driveby formatting tweaks.

It's a static page, with only one selected article (concrete) and one selected image (File:Burj Khalifa.jpg). Purgeing the page makes no changes, and Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Civil engineering shows that's because there is only one of each.

The head article Civil engineering is a much better navigational hub.

This is not a portal at all. It's just a slim single-issue, single-sided leaflet. It's a waste of the time of every one of the 12 readers who are lured here every day by links from other pages.

Note that Civil engineering is a Level-3 vital article, and it's obviously a topic on which a good portal could be created if anyone ever devotes enough time to actually build one. So I propose that this portal be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal not based on a single navbox or list, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:22, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete with all prejudice to recreation. The low readership and low editor interest over a very long time show this topic fails WP:POG as a topic that attracts either. Even the rebooted Portals project could not be bothered to automate a d expand the coverage here. Legacypac (talk) 19:27, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Civil engineering is a broad topic perfectly suitable for a portal – products of civil engineering such as bridges, dams, roads, lighthouses &c&c are very well covered here, and there's a long interesting history. However, this is currently static. It followed the Stone Age model of a truly hand-maintained portal where the subboxes were manually updated monthly, and was never converted to a randomised portal. It seems to have been updated a few times in 2006 but not since. Espresso Addict (talk) 04:11, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - Where is Portal:Surveying? Perhaps neither it nor this portal has been surveyed.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:59, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per the analysis above that this is another pseudo-portal. Without prejudice, but thousands of portals are being deleted without prejudice, and we need new portal rules.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:59, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Yet another fake pretending to be a portal. 8 subpages, created 2016-07-03 16:00:04 by User:Serchia. Portal:Civil engineering. Pldx1 (talk) 16:38, 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.