Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mitochondria

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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) 19:55, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Mitochondria


Yet another abandoned portal. This one has been abandoned since 2015 as a static page, with one selected article, one biog etc. All the same topics as 4 years ago.

Created in July 2015‎ by.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Mitochondria shows a small set of sub-pages:
 * Portal:Mitochondria/Selected article/1, Portal:Mitochondria/Selected article/2 & Portal:Mitochondria/Selected article/3. All unchnanged since creation in 2015, and all with the same redundant topic: the head article Mitochondrion.
 * Portal:Mitochondria/Selected biography. Same topic (Peter D. Mitchell) since the page was created in 2015
 * Portal:Mitochondria/Selected picture. Same image (File:Mitochondria,_mammalian_lung_-_TEM.jpg) since the page was created in 2015

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 45 consecutive updates.

This seems to be narrow topic. WP:POG requires 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 2018 it got only 6 pageviews per day.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted, with prejudice against re-creating it. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:04, 18 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Agree that this is a detailed narrow subject area, and will never be a broad subject area. The portal has 8 daily pageviews, with 2326 daily pageviews for the head article.  A thorough knowledge of organic chemistry is necessary to understand what the function of mitochondria is, since they are biochemical power plants.  If Portal:Organic chemistry has failed pre-medicine, it is not surprising that Portal:Mitochondria has also failed.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:29, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete This portal does not meet the breadth-of-subject-area requirement of the WP:POG guideline. UnitedStatesian (talk) 12:38, 27 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.