Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mahayana Buddhism

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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) 03:56, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Mahayana Buddhism

 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Abandoned portal, on the Mahayana branch of Buddhism. Static page, with several boxes of selected biog etc, but no lists of content, no rotation of content or slidehows. Almost no updates since created in 2008.

Created in March 2008 by, whose last edit was in 2012.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Mahayana Buddhism shows a non-trivial set of sub-pages, but most of it is formatting or organisation rtaher than content. The set of content pages appears to be:
 * Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected Buddha/Bodhisattva. Same topic (Manjusri) since creation in 2008
 * Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected Mahayana Buddhist. Same topic (Acharya Nāgārjuna) since creation in 2008
 * Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected Mahayana Practice. Same topic (Buddhist meditation) since creation in 2008
 * Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected Picture. Same image(File:Luohan side.jpg) since creation in 2008
 * Portal:Mahayana Buddhism/Selected School. Same image(Zen) since creation in 2008

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 130 updates.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the B-class head article Mahayana and its sidebar navbox Mahāyāna Buddhism.

This is clearly a broad topic, so I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:53, 18 May 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - This portal has daily 11 pageviews. As BHG says, it is a broad area.  Not every broad area will attract a portal maintainer.  As I noted about Jesus and Christianity, the ability to present a reasonable summary of a religion is likely to require extensive education in the subject.  (The more breadth and depth a subject has, the more education is required to be able to distill its knowledge.)  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:13, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: abandoned portals serve no purpose, of questionable scope currently, no prejudice against curated recreation.   SITH   (talk)   19:26, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 54 subpages, created 2008-03-27 17:42:55 by User:Emishi. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Mahayana=grande navigation. Not the case here. Portal:Mahayana Buddhism. Pldx1 (talk) 21:09, 28 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.