Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fencing

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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) 01:20, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Fencing


Delete Abandoned infant portal covering a narrow subject. One each of article, biography, image, DYK (which has a "citation needed" tag: that's a first.). WP:TNT applies. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:23, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, but without prejudice to recreating a curated and maintained portal, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time.
 * The list list of subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Fencing shows that this is indeed an abandoned draft portal:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Fencing/Selected_article&action=history — no change since 2006
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Fencing/Selected_biography&action=history — one minor tweak in 2010, otherwise unchanged since 2006
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Fencing/Did_you_know&action=history — one copyedit in 2012, which was reverted
 * WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly.  Even on a monthly cycle, this pseudo-portal has missed over 150 consecutive updates, and it is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft.  The two primary purposes of a portal are navigation and topic-sampling, both of which are done vastly better by the head article Fencing and the navbox Template:Fencing.
 * However, Fencing is clearly a broad topic, and Category:Fencing shows that Wikipedia has lot of content on the sport. So this should be a WP:TNT deletion, to allow for the possibility that editors may emerge who want to both build and maintain a portal which actually meets the WP:PORTAL principle that "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects".  --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 14:47, 9 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete: Can be covered by Portal:Martial arts. --Phospheros (talk) 20:25, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete for now, as covered by Martial arts, but will consider a statement by the portal originator, although they have not maintained the portal. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:58, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * What are the rationale for the proposed deletion? — Twisted86 - Talk - at 14:39, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * This portal violates WP:POG, which state portals should be "about broad subject areas . . ." UnitedStatesian (talk) 12:24, 10 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:POG with BHG's caveat.   SITH   (talk)   11:49, 14 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.