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) 00:46, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Molecular anthropology[edit]

Portal:Molecular anthropology (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Long-term abandoned portal on a narrow topic.

Molecular anthropology is specialised inter-disciplinary field on the intersectional between the social science of anthropology and the physical sciences. It has little coverage on Wikipedia. There is not even an eponymous Category:Molecular anthropology or a Category:Molecular anthropologists.

The portal was created in October 2009‎ Pdeitiker (talk · contribs), who last edited in 2016. As can be seen at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Molecular anthropology, there is no DYK page and no news page. It is simply a static display of one of each of 3 types type of subpage:

• Portal:Molecular anthropology/Selected biography, same topic since 2009[1]
• Portal:Molecular anthropology/Selected picture, same image since 2009[2]
• Portal:Molecular anthropology/Selected article, same topic since 2012[3]

WP:POG#How_often_to_update? says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this pseudo-portal has missed over 100 consecutive updates.

Even if this was in theory a broad topic, in practice there aren't enough articles to make it broad on Wikipedia. And it doesn't meet the WP:POG requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 2 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical editors who will want to resurrect it.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted, with prejudice against recreating it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:16, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete:
  • • I wondered what molecular anthropology was. It seemed like an interesting concept. Now I know. It is interesting.
    • That means that we need an article.
    • I agree that we do not need this abandoned heritage portal, or any portal. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:52, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, ONE bio, ONE article, created 2009-10-14 22:18:21 by User:Pdeitiker. Never existed as a portal. The more empty, the more expandable is not an argument to keep. Portal:Molecular anthropology. Pldx1 (talk) 08:53, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:REDUNDANTFORK and failure of WP:POG. SITH (talk) 12:40, 12 May 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.