Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Massively multiplayer online games

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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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:19, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Massively multiplayer online games


Long-abandoned, static portal.

Created in December 2006‎ by, who last edited in 2009.

It's just a static view with one picture, one selected article, one DYK page; all way outdated.

See Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Massively multiplayer online games:
 * Portal:Massively multiplayer online games/Selected article, same topic since 2006
 * Portal:Massively multiplayer online games/Did you know, displaying the same unlinked, ungrammatical last line since 2010 since 2010, and something odd going on with the numbers in the first line
 * Portal:Massively multiplayer online games/Selected picture, picture changed in
 * Portal:Massively multiplayer online games/Maintainers: User:Greeves (last edited 2009), and User:Evildoctorbluetooth (last edit 2015), and one someone from wikia

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.

In theory, this might be broad topic. But in practice, it doesn't 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". This has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 6 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical editors who will want to resurrect it. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, as has recently been done with Portal:Geophysics.

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) 04:42, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - This portal's health has dropped to zero. It may have always been zero.  Robert McClenon (talk) 05:41, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of portal, 12 subpages, created 2006-12-23 21:39:04 by User:Greeves. Never was alive, nothing to be kept. Portal:Massively multiplayer online games. Pldx1 (talk) 08:11, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: not actively maintained, doesn't appear to have ever been, fails WP:PORTAL on that basis.  SITH   (talk)   12:31, 12 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.