Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Trams

 __NOINDEX__
 * 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) 08:51, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Trams

 * – (View MfD)

Stillborn portal. Five selected bios created in May / June 2014. Eight selected articles created in February / May / June / 2014. No edits at all after July 2014. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 08:10, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This Bonsai portal has been abandoned for over five years, and is seven 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 Fremantle99, who last updated it in January 2015, which was also his last edit to portal space, and has only made four small edits to Wikipedia in 2019. 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 over five years of no maintainers and it had a very low 11 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Tram had 824 views per day in the same period, which is not enough to sustain a portal).
 * 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 five years of hard evidence shows Trams are not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 00:23, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Three Transport Portals
Robert McClenon (talk) 14:19, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per User:Mark Schierbecker and User:Newshunter12. Low readership, not enough articles, no maintenance of 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, and including a maintenance plan (since lack of maintenance is a problem with most portals), can go to Deletion Review.
 * 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:Transport), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 02:57, 6 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.