Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Topology

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The result of the discussion was:  delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:11, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Topology

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Neglected portal. So yeah, not really WP:POG-worthy. ToThAc (talk) 17:15, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Six selected articles; one is a good article, and the rest are B-class.
 * Creator only maintained the portal for a week. They have since had relatively short bursts of activity since 2013, and there have been no other maintainers.
 * Average daily pageviews in the first half of 2019 are 12 for the portal versus 1198 for the parent article, or roughly 1.002%.
 * Delete as per nomination by User:ToThAc. Too few articles, too few pageviews, not enough maintenance.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:00, 10 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:Mathematics), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 23:37, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over a decade. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of maintainers and readers. This portal has had over a decade of no maintainers and it had a very low 12 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (despite the head article Topology having 1,198 views per day in the same period). This is a steady long term drop from 25 views per day from July 1 to Dec. 30 2015. 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 Topology is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:31, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, and oppose re-creation. Low readership + poor/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".
 * POG also guides that "the portal should be associated with a WikiProject (or have editors with sufficient interest) to help ensure a supply of new material for the portal and maintain the portal". However, there is no WP:WikiProject Topology, and WP:WikiProject Mathematics doesn't seem interested. Relevant discussions are:  Feb 2019 lament about the flood of portalspam, with subsequent discussion, plus an April 2019 question by Legacypac asking "Which of these approx 30 Portals does the math project provide support to or are you interested in managing?". Legacypac's plea brought only one response, and no offers of maintenance. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 22:02, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Mathematics Portals

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