Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Molecular and cellular biology

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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) 03:44, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Molecular and cellular biology

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Neglected portal.

The selected article has been virtually unchanged since November 2006. The selected bio has not been substantially changed since January 2007. Until August the news section was serving up the piping hot news of who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:16, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment, please check the particularly messy move log if cleaning up the backlinks if and when this portal is deleted. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:21, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * V messy indeed. The other relevant titles seem to be Portal:Molecular and cell biology and Portal:Molecular and Cellular Biology. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 09:58, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over a decade, save for some one-off updates by passing editors, and is 18 articles short of POG's minimum of 20. The portal clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of maintainers and readers. This portal has had a decade of no steady maintainers and it had a low 45 views |Portal:Molecular_and_cell_biology per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (despite the head article Molecular biology having 678 views per day in the same period, which is not enough to sustain a portal). 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 a decade of hard evidence shows Molecular biology is not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 08:49, 15 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:Biology), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 09:34, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - I don't consider 45 daily pageviews to be low for a portal. That isn't the problem.  Only two articles, with only tweaking and renaming for more than a decade, is a problem.  Inadequate coverage and inadequate substantive maintenance.  Robert McClenon (talk) 15:15, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, and oppose re-creation. Narrow topic + Low readership + almost no maintenance = clear fail of 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".
 * POG also guides that "the portal should be associated with a WikiProject (or have editors with sufficient interest) to help ensure a supply of new material for the portal and maintain the portal". In this case, the closest project is WP:WikiProject Molecular Biology. I searched for ""Portal:Molecular" in the talk page archives of WT:WikiProject Molecular Biology, and there was only one hit: a 2009 note about the portal's abandonment, which wasn't followed up with any offers of help.  So that WikiProject isn't interested.
 * The next closest project is WP:WikiProject Microbiology. I searched for ""Portal:Molecular" in the talk page archives of WT:WikiProject Microbiology, and there wasn't a single hit.  So that WikiProject also isn't interested. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 23:06, 22 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.