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. MER-C 08:55, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Cycling[edit]

Fourteen selected articles: 10 from November 2010, two from February 2014 and two from May 2015. None have ever been updated.

Six selected bios: three from November / December 2013, one from December 2012, one from May 2013, one from December 2015.

Errors

Ellen van Dijk does not ride for a team that no longer exists. Bradley Wiggins and Fabian Cancellara retired in 2016.

Spoilers: In the News reports Chris Froome wins the 2013 Tour de France. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 06:27, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per User:Mark Schierbecker. Essentially no maintenance since 2015 on 20 articles. Portal has average 19 pageviews in Jan-Jun 19, as opposed to 632 for head article. Errors in subpages illustrate that the use of forked subpages is error-prone because the forked subpages are not edited when the articles are edited. 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. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:10, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the nom and Robert McClenon. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. It's a useless time suck that lures readers to an abandoned junk portal. I oppose re-creation, as many years of hard evidence shows Cycling is not a broad enough topic under WP:POG to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 21:13, 1 September 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.