Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Gender

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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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 06:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Gender


Abandoned portal that never received proper attention from the editors. It has strong redundancy with the main article and the Portal:Feminism. Guilherme Burn (talk) 13:43, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

1 - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman redundant in Portal:Gender/Selected article/1 and Portal:Gender/Selected article/2.

2 - Portal:Gender/Selected biography show redirect error.


 * Delete this worthless junk portal.Catfurball (talk) 21:38, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. This portal has been abandoned since 2008. The selected articles/biogs are now over a decade old, and the DYK pages are equally decrepit.  . Per WP:DYK, "The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section" ... but this eleven-year-old list loses the newness, so its only effect is as a trivia section, contrary to WP:TRIVIA.
 * WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". The evidence of the past 11 years is that this topic has utterly failed to attract portal maintainers. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 23:58, 6 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Worthless. Portal:Transgender gets tenfold as many views. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 03:32, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over a decade. It fails WP:POG because it has no maintainers and few readers, and the vast amount of time it has been this way more then adequately demonstrates this is not a broad enough subject to gain large numbers of readers and maintainers as POG requires. Unmaintained junk like this also lowers the quality of Wikipedia by luring readers to a place meant to enhance their Wikipedia learning, but that really just wastes their time. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:04, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Portal:Transgender. It'd discourage recreation better and still be a useful navigational tool. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 15:10, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * @MJL, I oppose redirection to Portal:Transgender. Transgender is a sub-topic of the wider topic of gender, so this would be redirecting a broad set to a very narrow one. That guarantees a lot of dissatisfaction, like redirecting Portal:United States to Portal:Chicago. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 13:05, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I oppose redirection too.Guilherme Burn (talk) 14:11, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, maybe a mention of it in the deletion log? &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 15:23, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * What would be the point of some sort of "Hiya, Portal:Transgender"? -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:42, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete without redirect per above. Another worthless abandoned portal. -Crossroads- (talk) 15:28, 9 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete – I concur with the comments by User:Guilherme Burn, including that this portal is largely duplicative, and the analysis by User:BrownHairedGirl. The suggestion to redirect to Portal:Transgender is absurd and vexatious.  The latter portal, although much more popular than this portal, is about a subset of the topic of the subject portal.  I don't see tenfold more pageviews for Transgender.

This portal identifies 5 "related" portals. Metrics for these portals are shown for the period of 1 Jan 2019 – 28 Feb 2019. (The metrics are for that period rather than a longer baseline because of the renaming of portals, a good-faith but misguided effort to diddle with a problem that interferes with baseline view measurement.)

Portal:Human sexuality and Portal:LGBT are two of the very most popular portals; and this portal could more reasonably be folded into Portal:Human sexuality or Portal:Feminism. Portal:Society is a special case, because it is linked from the Main Page, but no one can define what its scope is anyway.

Delete this portal. In the future, if anyone wants to show a plan for a portal that is not duplicative of existing portals, and will have maintainers, and will rely on a design that does not use subpages, they can present the plan to Deletion Review. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:32, 9 August 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.