Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Evanescence

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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) 00:33, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Evanescence


Abandoned portal on a narrow topic, the rock band Evanescence.

Per consensus at numerous recent MFDs, a single band does not meet the WP:POG requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers".

Evanescence has been been quite successful, but we'not talking anywhere near Lady Gaga or Bob Dylan level of stardom, or of output: only 4 studio albums, and two live albums, and 11 notable songs. Even where a narrow topic has been copiously documented, that doesn't make it a broad topic, and that copiously documentation hasn't happened here.

The "large number of interested readers" has not happened either: only 7 pageviews per day. And nor has the maintainers happened.

The portal was created in June 2011 by, who hasn't edited since August 2011. Pertel created a series of subpgages (see Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Evanescence) on the day they created the portal, and the set has not grown since. There have been the usual layout tweaks to the front pages, but apart from disambiguation and other minor drive-by edits, the subpages remain in their original June 2011 state. Since then, the band has released two new albums, done two new tours, released several notable songs, etc ... but you won't know any of that from this portal. Even remains unchanged.

The topic is too narrow to make it worth resurrecting this. Just delete it. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:59, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - I was wondering whether maybe this portal was about the concept of 'evanescence', which is an interesting philosophical and esthetic concept. Maybe we could bunch it in with 'existentialism' or with the property of 'community'.  That would be an interesting Delete.  No.  This is a boring Delete of another single-performer portal by an inactive editor.  Duh.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:20, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Old portal, 36 subpages, created 2011-06-03 19:46:32 by User:Pertel. No apparent maintainer, everything turned obsolete. Too narrow topic in any case. Portal:Evanescence. Pldx1 (talk) 22:18, 8 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.