Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Trucks (2nd nomination)

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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) 08:50, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Trucks

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Neglected portal. Previously deleted at MfD in July 2011, then resurrected with minor changes.

Five selected articles created in August 2010.

Five selected manufacturers. Three created August 2010, one of which was abridged in October 2012. Two from October 2012. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 08:20, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This Bonsai portal has been abandoned for nearly seven years, 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 Argosy, who re-created a junk portal in Oct. 2012 and re-abandoned it the very same month, and has made one Wikipedia edit since Feb. 2013. 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 seven years of no maintainers and it had a very low 22 views per day from February 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Truck had 965 views per day in the same period). 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 and two portal failures shows Trucks are not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 00:57, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Three Transport Portals
Robert McClenon (talk) 14:09, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete with silver bullets. This is a zombie portal.  The first page at this location was created as vandalism, and the portal was then created by a now-banned user.  The portal was then subject to an MFD, which concluded to delete it, and it was userfied as an alternative to deletion, and then moved back to portal space.  That is, the portal was given to an undertaker for burial, who instead re-animated it.  No maintenance since 2012.  Only 21 daily pageviews, as contrasted with 981 for the article.  In view of the history, this title should be salted against re-creation with silver nitrate.  I concur with analysis by User:Mark Schierbecker and User:Newshunter12.
 * 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) 02:58, 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.