Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Military of ancient Rome

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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) 04:30, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Military of ancient Rome


Neglected/stillborn portal.

Eight selected articles. Six of the never-updated entries were created in June 2008, one in January 2009 and one in July 2011. One vandalism edit was allowed to exist for three weeks. 

One selected bio last updated in November 2007‎. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 06:56, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over a decade, save for some small updates by passing editors. The creator, PocklingtonDan, last edited the portal in 2007 and left Wikipedia in 2013. This portal has only nine articles, which is fewer than half the POG minimum of 20. 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 steady maintainers and it had a low 30 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 of ancient Rome is not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 07:38, 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) 20:35, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete – This portal has a higher pageview rate than many, but still has a lack of maintenance, and is not heavily enough viewed to be considered a highly viewed unmaintained portal.  That is, it is simply an unmaintained portal.   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:Ancient Rome and Portal:War), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:14, 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.