Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Syriac Christianity

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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 11:14, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Syriac Christianity

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Neglected portal. Five selected articles and five selected bios created c. AD November 2011. All updates minor. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:54, 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:Christianity), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:57, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for nearly eight years, save for some small updates by passing editors, and is 10 articles short of POG's minimum of 20. Since 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 Kathovo, who last updated it in August 2012 and last edited Wikipedia 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 abandoned portal has had nearly eight years of no steady maintainers and it had a very low 11 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019.
 * WP:POG also states portals should be associated with a Wikiproject, but WikiProject Syriac Christianity is just a redirect to WikiProject Christianity/Syriac Christianity work group, which has been marked as inactive since 2016, and the portal has never been mentioned on the talk page and is not currently listed by name 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 a decade of hard evidence shows Syriac Christianity is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:58, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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Robert McClenon (talk) 15:20, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Mark S and NH12. Very little maintenance, too few articles, low readership.   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.
 * Delete this junk portal.Catfurball (talk) 21:50, 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.