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 | [soliloquize] || 04:19, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Final Fantasy[edit]

Narrow topic: the video game franchise Final Fantasy. Low readership of only an average of 8 views per day in January–June 2019.

The list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Final Fantasy shows that most are wholly unchanged since creation in 2013, and the rest have only trivial edits.

WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This fails on at least two of the three counts:

N Broad topic. Clear fail.
N High readership. Clear fail. 8 views per day is trivial.
N Lots of of maintainers. Clear fail. Abandoned.

The head article Final Fantasy is a featured article. It's time to stop luring readers away our finest content to an abandoned page. Just delete it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:27, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I was the last person to seriously work on this portal, back in 2013. Even at the time, it seemed to be too small in scope, but I edited heavily in the area so I gave it a go. Prior to me, the last serious work was when it was created in 2005. So, other than a brief 2-day punctuation by me 6 years ago, this has gone unmaintained, narrowly scoped, and unread for 14 years. Even if you support the idea of portals, this is pretty pointless. --Pres N 04:24, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per the thorough and highly detailed investigation of the portal by the nominator, BrownHairedGirl. 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 abandoned junk. I also oppose re-creation, as over a decade of hard evidence shows Final Fantasy is not a broad enough topic under WP:POG to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 07:36, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per analysis by User:BrownHairedGirl and concurrence of PresN. Low readership and no maintenance. 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) 15:07, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Per reasons above. --ProtoDrake (talk) 14:56, 24 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.