Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Half-tracks

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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) 00:52, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Half-tracks

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Abandoned, underdeveloped, manual portal on a narrow-scope topic.

Half-track is a narrow topic. These are specialised vehicles, mostly used for military purposes. Wikipedia has only 36 non-stub articles on them, in Category:Half-tracks and its subcats, and Template:Half-tracks provides good navigation between them all.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Half-tracks show only 5 selected articles and 5 selected pictures. Each of those ten pages was created at the same time as the portal, in late Feb / early March 2015, since when the whole portal has been abandoned apart from drive-by formatting tweaks and name changes from "Half-track" to the plural form "Half-tracks". The head article has way more links, so it's a better navigational hub; and it also has 37 images, compared with the portal's 5.

Per WP:PORTAL says that "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects" ... but as well as being narrow, this is massively degraded version of the main page.

WP:POG says that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This hasn't attracted maintainers, and nor has it attracted readers: in Jan–Feb 2019, it got an average of only 5 pageviews day. That places it less half the abysmal median of 9 views/day for all currently-extant portals; it's ranked at #123 out of 1502 in theJan–Feb 2019 list of portal pageviews. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:54, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not a maintained portal, and a very narrow focus. Creator is no longer active (after changing username). Robert McClenon (talk) 01:02, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. There look to be only 5 selected articles plus 5 images, which does not meet the minimum threshold. I would think this is a narrow topic but transport and military are two areas I don't edit at all, and seem popular with readers and editors, so willing to change my mind if anyone offers to maintain and expand it. Have the relevant Wikiprojects been notified?, I thought the median was 11? I know you wrote 9 at one point in the portal talk page discussion, but I assumed that was also a mistake. Espresso Addict (talk) 06:14, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * @Espresso Addict, the median was 11, but after the latest round of XFD closures the list has shrunk, and the median is now 12.  I take that as good news: it confirms that the cull is removing the least-read portals.
 * In this case, I don't think a portal maintainer would help. With only 36 non-stub articles, that's too narrow a set. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 11:29, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I was thinking that there might be more articles hanging around somewhere. But yes, I think I'd need some persuading that this topic was truly viable. On the increasing median, I imagine that most of the navbox-based automated ones that are being deleted weren't being read much; their topics were often rather bijou and their linkage not extensive. Espresso Addict (talk) 11:39, 30 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Old portal, 18 subpages, created 2015-02-24 00:31:43 by User:Tomandjerry211. No apparent maintainer, too narrow scope. Portal:Half-tracks. Pldx1 (talk) 14:35, 1 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.