Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Organic chemistry

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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) 03:57, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Organic chemistry

 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:49, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:49, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Abandoned portal, on the Organic chemistry. Static page, with several boxes of selected biog etc, but no lists of content other than navboxes, no rotation of content and no slidehows. Almost no updates since 2007.

Created in December 2007 by, whose last edit was in 2017.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Organic chemistry shows a modest set of sub-pages, but the set of content pages appears to be static:
 * Portal:Organic chemistry/Selected reaction. Same topic (Wittig reaction) since 2007
 * Portal:Organic chemistry/Selected picture. Same image (Paclitaxel) since 2007
 * Portal:Organic chemistry/Selected biography. Same topic (Elias James Corey) since 2007
 * Portal:Organic chemistry/Selected article. Sme topic (aldol reaction) since 2007

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 130 updates.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the B-class head article Organic chemistry and its navbox Organic chemistry.

This is clearly a broad topic, so I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:55, 18 May 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - When I took this course, one of its secondary purposes was for unqualified pre-medical students to fail in their sophomore year,so that they could change majors. This portal seems to have failed.  It has 18 daily pageviews, contrasted with 1485 for the main article.  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:05, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:49, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I don't think portals were meant to include "featured biographies" where the content was frozen at the time the portal was created, without being able to take into consideration improvements to the content of the underlying article over the succeeding 12 years. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:01, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: abandoned portals serve no purpose.   SITH   (talk)   19:25, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 21 subpages, created 2007-12-15 11:13:25 by User:Chaos. Never went alive. Nothing to keep (ONE of each model). Portal:Organic chemistry. Pldx1 (talk) 21:07, 28 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.