Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Military history of Africa

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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) 04:29, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Military history of Africa


Stillborn portal.

Six selected articles created in April 2007 that were last updated in July 2007.

Five never-updated equipment blurbs created in April 2007.

Six never-updated bios created in April 2007.

Mark Schierbecker (talk) 06:07, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Errors
 * Seven entries do not link back to their article. Seriously?
 * Five entries have reference sections.
 * Portal:Foo/Selected biography-type subpages do not have links to edit their entries.
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over a decade. 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 FayssalF, who last edited it in November 2007. It also clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This decrepit portal has had over a decade of no maintainers and it had an abysmal 8 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019. 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 the Military history of Africa is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 06:51, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Analysis of Military History Portals
The following table shows information about all of the recently nominated military and war portals, as well as Portal:History, which is a main page portal, and Portal:War (to which Portal:Military History redirects).

As can be seen, none of the portals that have been nominated have more than 30 daily pageviews. None of the portals that have been nominated have a current maintainer or have been recently maintained.

Robert McClenon (talk) 20:30, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete – 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, can go to Deletion Review.
 * 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:Africa and Portal:War), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:15, 31 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.