Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Social movements

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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) 07:02, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Social movements

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Stillborn portal.

Thirteen selected articles and six selected bios created in September 2010. Never updated. In The News was updated once in the last seven years. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 05:16, 6 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:Society), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 21:29, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Portal had 30 daily views in Jan-Jun19, which is better than most portals but not that good, and head article had 772 daily views in same time. Subpages and portal created in 2010, and only drive-by edits to subpages.   There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems.  Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, and including a maintenance plan (since lack of maintenance is a problem with most portals), can go to Deletion Review. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:20, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom and Robert M. This portal has been abandoned for over eight years. Since late 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained by Johnfos, who dumped it in Oct. 2010, a month after creating it (save four stray edits, the last of which was in July 2012) and is semi-retired, with their last edit in August 2016. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had a decade of no maintainers and it had a very low 30 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Social movement had 722 views per day in the same period, which is not enough to sustain a portal). This is a dramatic long-term decline from the 57 views per day it had from July 1 to Dec. 30 2015. Picture 8 was deleted from commons and removed from the portal in March 2013, but the blank sub-page has never been updated.
 * POG also states portals should be associated with a wikiproject, but while WikiProject Sociology is active, the only ever mention of the portal was a brief announcement of it's creation and someone responded and recruited the creator to something else. 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 Social Movements are not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 04:13, 8 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete, and oppose re-creation. Low readership + 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". -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 05:09, 11 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.