Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Metaphysics

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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) 08:52, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Metaphysics

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Stillborn portal.

Nine selected articles. Eight were created in June 2009. One was created in August 2007. None updated.

Seven selected biographies. Six created in June 2009. One created in August 2007. None updated. Some vulgar vandalism was allowed to stay from June 2010 to May 2014. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:39, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over a decade, and is four articles short of POG's minimum of 20. Since 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained by Gregbard, who last updated it in Dec 2011 and has since been indefed for copyright violations. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This abandoned portal has had over a decade of no maintainers and it had a very low 24 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Metaphysics had 2,646 views per day in the same period). This is a sharp long-term decline from 38 views per day from July 1 to December 30 2015. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over a decade of hard evidence shows Metaphysics is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 23:40, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * Delete – Unmaintained portal. Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Metaphysics shows 20 articles and 20 biographies, but most of them are empty stubs.  Only 16 are articles.  Is this good, as in a plan for future expansion, or bad, as in an attempt to look more complete?  In any case, none of them have been maintained after 2009.  Low viewership.   There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems.  Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, and including a maintenance plan (since lack of maintenance is a problem with most portals), can go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:22, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks?  I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case Portal:Pholosophy), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 00:14, 8 September 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.