Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prehistory of Oceania

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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) 02:23, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Prehistory of Oceania


Abandoned effort with some of the same redlinked elements since inception in 2015. The long list of redlinked pages requested is not attractive. The Transhumanist messed around with the layout, making the page worse. Portals should not live in the under construction category for 4 years. Legacypac (talk) 13:52, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - As the nominator says. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:53, 4 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep. None of the proposed justifications for deletion are consistent with policy for articles and shouldn't be used for portals, either. Abyssal (talk) 13:44, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Portal Guidelines require (or required until recently) a maintenance plan. The community has been very clear that portals must be maintained and abandoned ones are commonly deleted. Legacypac (talk) 15:58, 5 April 2019 (UTC)


 * KEEP, WTF, this portal was not created by the Trans"humanist" and is very notable and linked at hundreds of pages. Tisquesusa (talk) 04:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * If linked at hundreds of pages while under construction for 4 years, all the more reason to delete this. Legacypac (talk) 04:32, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * @Tisquesusa: to be precise, this portal is linked to from 41 categories, 17 portals, and 112 articles. But it still gets only 1.1 pagviews per day.  It is too narrow a topic; readers do not use portals with such narrow topics. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
 * "Too narrow"? Do you define that? Or do the 4 billion years of prehistory do that? Every continent has a Prehistory of portal and it is a good way to compile content spanning such a long time, diverse paleontology and human prehistory. This portal was there for years because of the hard work by Abyssal, this has nothing to do with the recent wave of brainlessly created portals by Transhumanist. Portals in general get fewer views, I am building and expanding the content in mainspace on all the continents, so eventually more people will look at the portals. Tisquesusa (talk) 14:50, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Too narrow as in this subject does not even have its own article in mainspace. This is just a section on another article. We could speedy delete the portal. Legacypac (talk) 16:45, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * You could also fuck off and do something constructive...Tisquesusa (talk) 20:28, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * , telling people to fuck off is hardly constructive, so I'll ask you for the sake of civility to not do that again. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 23:33, 13 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete There is not even a Prehistory of Oceania article, for Jimbo's sake! Starting with the portal seems bass-ackwards.  UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:26, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Far too narrow a topic, which fails the WP:POG criterion of '"broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers"''.
 * And it is simply not wanted by readers. In the 90 day of Jan–Mar 2019, it attracted only 98 pageviews, barely more than 1 per day.  That is hardly more than the background noise created by bots and webcrawlers, so it is possible that no actual human readers visited the page at all. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:52, 12 April 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.