Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Sufism

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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. MER-C 11:16, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Sufism

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Neglected portal. Dogmatic edits creeping in due to lack of maintainer.

Ten selected articles created c. May 2015. Two were updated in February 2016. Portal:Sufism/Selected biography was also updated in 2016 with a stub.

Portal:Sufism/Did you know is written dogmatically and is completely inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 08:37, 31 August 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:Islam), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:56, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Metrics for Islamic Portals
Robert McClenon (talk) 20:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete – Low readership, too few articles, little maintenance to articles.  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, can go to Deletion Review.
 * Delete per the nom and Robert McClenon. This portal has been abandoned for over four years, save one-off updates by passing editors, and is nine articles short of POG's minimum of 20. 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 over four years of no steady maintainers and it had a very low 13 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Sufism had 2,573 views per day in the same period). I also find the DYK's in this portal to be dogmatic and deeply inappropriate for an encyclopedia.
 * WP:POG also states portals should be associated with a Wikiproject, but this portal has never been mentioned at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Islam and is not named on the main page. 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 over four years of hard evidence shows Sufism is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 06:42, 1 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete this junk portal.Catfurball (talk) 21:48, 3 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.