Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ballet

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. ‑Scottywong | communicate _ 02:50, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Ballet

Neglected portal. Portal languished with one bio, one selected article, one image and one DYK from 2008 until February 2016, when User:Tanyawade added nine featured articles. Tanya ceased editing in 2016, leaving this portal without a maintainer. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 03:34, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This portal has been abandoned for over decade, except for a burst of one-off activity three and half years ago by former editor, Tanyawade. 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 10 years of no steady maintainers and it had a very low 14 views per day in June and July 2019 (despite the head article Ballet having 802 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 am strongly against allowing recreation, as a portal about one form of dance is not warranted. Newshunter12 (talk) 18:06, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this junk portal.Catfurball (talk) 22:55, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator. Portals require ongoing maintenance, but like so many other portals this one has long-term neglect interrupted by once-a-decade drive-by updates. That leaves a portal to rot for years on end.

WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". After a decade in existence, we need no longer estimate "likelihood"; we have evidence that this portal has attracted neither readers nor maintainers, so we have evidence that the likelihood is near-zero. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:31, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Portal:Ballet as per analyses by User:Mark Schierbecker and User:Newshunter12. No maintenance since 2016. Only 14 daily pageviews. Uses forked subpages, which are a failed design that most heritage portals share, but which make the lack of maintenance even worse. An editor who wants to create a new portal with an improved architecture will know where Deletion Review is. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:10, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.