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) 00:45, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Motorcycle racing[edit]

Portal:Motorcycle racing (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Another abandoned portal.

Created[1] in September 2006 by Readro (talk · contribs), it has a purge button at the bottom, , instead of the usual slot near the top, but it might as well lose the button entirely because there is no alternative content:

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Motorcycle racing shows a one-of-each set of subpages, all abandoned

• Portal:Motorcycle racing/Standings, last updated nearly a year ago, in June 2018
• Portal:Motorcycle racing/Selected article, displaying only a lightly-tweaked version of the same content as in 2006. See diff[2]
• Portal:Motorcycle racing/Selected picture, with the same picture as in 2008. See diff[3]
• Portal:Motorcycle racing/Motorcycle racing news, still showing news from April and May 2008

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 130 consecutive updates.

In theory, this a broad topic. But in practice, 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 9 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. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, as has recently been done with Portal:Geophysics.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:40, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete:
  • • This is yet another ancient neglected heritage portal that has not been maintained.
    • I thank User:BrownHairedGirl for noting that much of the defense of unmaintained portals is magical thinking.
    • We don't need to address whether this is a broad topic in a nomination that is without prejudice. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:47, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Abandoned draft of portal, 11 subpages, created 2006-09-10 17:22:05 by User:Readro. Never went alive, nothing to keep. No prejudice to a Creator who would fall from the Heaven. Portal:Motorcycle racing. Pldx1 (talk) 10:28, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom and Pldx1. It's a nice idea and the topic is wide enough to warrant a portal, but without a maintainer a portal fails its purpose of being an actively-maintained mini-version of the Main Page. SITH (talk) 12:42, 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.