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) 04:44, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Python (programming language)[edit]

One bio. One selected article. Out of date. Not near enough for WP:POG. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 04:36, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I concur with the points made by the nominator. I will add that a programming language is not a "broad subject area" likely to attract large numbers of readers and portal maintainers. The portal has 12 daily average pageviews, which does not justify a portal, as opposed to 6430 daily average pageviews for the head article. There appears to have been no maintenance since 2010. The low rate of viewing of the portal and the lack of maintenance may illustrate that the topic was never the sort of broad subject area intended by the portal guidelines. The subject isn't likely to find a maintainer who will provide the labor needed to support a miniature Main Page (and that effort would be better applied to many other aspects of Wikipedia). The portal should be deleted without the distraction of the concept of a replacement portal. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:21, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Abandoned micro-portal.

WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Python is widely used, so a theoretical argument could be made that it is a broad topic. I disagree with that theoretical argument, but we don't need to rely on theory because we have empirical evidence that in practice this portal does not pass that test: it has not attracted maintainers, and it has not attracted readers. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:28, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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