Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:United States Merchant Marine

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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) 16:02, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Portal:United States Merchant Marine


Portal has long been abandoned, even before the portal's creator retired. Many selected articles are out of date, including the James Garner bio, which still refers to him in the present tense (died 2014). Mark Schierbecker (talk) 06:17, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is not a small portal; Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:United_States Merchant Marine shows plenty of subpages, although some of the selected articles pages are blanks.  However, it is abandoned, and an outdated set of content forks is not redeemed in any way by a large set of outdated content forks.
 * WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". But in practice, this portal has not attracted maintainers, and nor has it attracted readers: only 7 pageviews per day in Jan–Feb 2019. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:00, 24 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - I concur with the comment that "an outdated set of content forks is not redeemed in any way by a large set of outdated content forks". There should be an acronym for that.  The comment about Garner illustrates the inherent risk of portals with copied subpages.  As BHG notes, this portal has 7 daily pageviews, as opposed to 832 for the head article.  The content does not appear to have been updated since 2008.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:30, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

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Robert McClenon (talk) 23:21, 24 June 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.