Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Eastern Orthodox Church

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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. MER-C 11:13, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Eastern Orthodox Church

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Neglected portal. Seven selected articles created c. AD January 2009. Nine bios created in January / February 2009. One was updated in December 2011 Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:48, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - This portal's former title before it was moved, Portal:Eastern Christianity, is currently a disambiguation page. All three portals listed there have been nominated for deletion. Incoming links there will need attention if this portal is deleted (and also if it is kept).
 * Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks?  I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case Portal:Christianity), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:57, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over a decade, save for a few one-off updates by passing editors, and is four articles short of POG's minimum of 20. This abandoned portal has had over a decade of no steady maintainers and it had a very low 31 views |Portal:Eastern_Christianity per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Eastern Orthodox Church had 3,821 views per day in the same period).
 * WP:POG also states portals should be associated with a Wikiproject, but while WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy is active, the last mention of the portal on the talk page was as part of an RfC debate about something else in March 2009. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over a decade of hard evidence shows the Eastern Orthodox Church is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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Robert McClenon (talk) 15:24, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Mark S and NH12. Very little maintenance, not enough articles.   There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems.  Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, and including a maintenance plan (since lack of maintenance is a problem with most portals), can go to Deletion Review.
 * Delete this junk portal.Catfurball (talk) 21:51, 3 September 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.