Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Dmitri Mendeleev

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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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:13, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Dmitri Mendeleev


Another pointless micro-portal, on scientist Dmitri Mendeleev. The Category:Dmitri Mendeleev contains only 6 articles, some of which may not even beling there (e.g. it is debatable whether Mendeleev is WP:DEFINING charcateristic of the Periodic table, since he was one of several scientists who developed it over the course of more than a century). There are 7 more articles in the sub-Category:Chemical elements predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev, but it is doubtful whether they woukd be a useful addition to the portal. This portal is over 4 months old. At the time of its creation, the guidline WP:PORTG clearly said portals should be about broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers. If WP:WPPORT (of which this page's creator Gazamp advertises themselves as a member) functioned as anything other than a spam-generating cabal, they would long since have triaged it as way-below the minimum, and initiated its deletion. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:21, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete not enough content to warrant a portal, fails WP:PORTG --DannyS712 (talk) 23:35, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete can't even follow their own amazingly loose guidelines. The article is how to lean about the subject. Legacypac (talk) 00:21, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete even though he was a great scientist. By the way, chemists do consider him to be the father of the periodic table, because earlier efforts were just earlier efforts that illustrated the need for what Mendeleev did.  Robert McClenon (talk) 04:07, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Even I have to agree here, that the portal serves very little function (although I do disagree to WP:WPPORT being called a 'spam-generating cabal'). I think this might have been one of my earlier efforts... Thank you for highlighting it; I'll go back and revisit some of my other early portals to check their relevance too. Gazamp (talk) 11:08, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fram (talk) 13:27, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - No portals for individual themes.Guilherme Burn (talk) 19:59, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too narrow. —  python coder    (talk &#124; contribs) 21:29, 22 March 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.