Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Occult

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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) 02:16, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Occult

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Abandoned portal on a 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 portal has neither large numbers of readers and no maintainers. The portal has essentially been abandoned for over a decade, (the creator is inactive on Wikipedia with only 7 edits after 2012, but last touched it in July 2008, which was also their last edit to portal space). The page view count is higher then the abysmal rate of most portals, but still low. From January 1 - June 30 2019, there was an average of 61 views per day to the main page (while the head article Occult had 1,388 views per day in the same period.) There is a steady long term downward trend in views - the July 1 - Dec. 30 2015 portal rate was 86 views per day.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Occult shows (in rotation) four articles, each under a different heading. 1 was last substantively updated in 2007 when putting aside reverting vandalism and format changes. 2 was last updated in 2008. 3 was converted to a new article in 2015 and hasn't changed. 4 was converted into a transclusion in 2018 after being static for a decade. The DYK section was last touched in 2012, and has included many vandalism-level entries, such as 1 and 2. Number two was live for over five years until it was removed in 2012. The one picture in the gallery has been the same since 2007, though there was a format update in 2018. The Things to Do section untouched since 2008, save for a link update. The Occult topics section has been untouched since 2007. The quotes section has been untouched since 2008. There are multiple red links to long ago deleted articles on the main page.

WP: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.". However, WikiProject Occult has been labeled inactive since 2017, and it appears to have never had anything meaningful to do with this portal. The portal was last mentioned on the talk page in two posts by one editor about links in 2013. The only other mentions were a few generally confused comments in 2006-7.

It's time to just Delete this abandoned Bonsai portal and I Oppose re-creation because it has failed numerous points of POG for a decade or more. Newshunter12 (talk) 12:37, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nomination. No change since last compared to other religion and philosophy portals.  A well-viewed but not maintained portal with inadequate breadth of coverage.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:03, 14 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:Religion), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 09:35, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, and oppose re-creation. Long-term poor 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". -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 01:53, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete and oppose re-creation per Newshunter12. Abysmal maintenance, and page views are too poor to be worthwhile. -Crossroads- (talk) 20:45, 24 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.