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. — JJMC89 (T·C) 23:37, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Film in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Stillborn portal.

Ten selected articles created in April 2013. Never updated. One bio created June 2013. Minor update in June 2017. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 20:10, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over six years, save for some one-off updates in 2017. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. It also falls nine short of POG's minimum of 20 articles (the second bio page is empty). This portal has had over six years of no maintainers and it had a low 45 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019. 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 six years of hard evidence shows Film of the United States is not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:10, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - I concur with the analysis by Mark S and NH12. Very little maintenance in six years. Too few 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, can go to Deletion Review. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:14, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• 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:Film and Portal:United States), without creating duplicate entries. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:35, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nominator. Regardless of whether the topic is seen as broad enough, the problem remains that portals need maintainers ... and for 6 years, this portal has not been maintained. Unless there is a team of maintainers committed to keeping this portal in good shape for the long-term, it will simply rot again, and continue to lure readers a rotted page.

I also oppose re-creation, per NH12. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:37, 2 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.