The result of the discussion was: redirect to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. I'm taking a third option and redirecting this instead of outright deletion or keeping it in its current state. It is (like most portals) completely inactive and there is no one maintaining it. Unlike most portals, the topic is extremely attractive to POV trolls. If it were active and well-watched like the mainspace article, I wouldn't worry, because any concerning edits would be caught and reported quickly. But this is inactive and I presume much less watched, so I am concerned about maintaining a platform for POV / extremism that won't be guaranteed to be quickly reverted.
On the other hand, deletion destroys the history just in case anyone did want to reactivate it, however unlikely. So I am redirecting as a compromise - no history is lost, but we remove an unmonitored platform for concerning edits.
If someone wants to reactivate this and actually actively maintain it at any later time, please advise me or any other admin and we can revert. But for now I am redirecting to the mainspace article. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 02:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
This useless portal was attracting terrorist POV edits for a while. Now no one cares about it, except for strange recent edits like adding an empty "Things you can do" box. What would you put in that box? Blow yourself up, behead hostages, destroy 5000 year old art... Portals are not used much and this one is just a bad idea. Legacypac ( talk) 06:06, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
I blanked in December 2015 that no one has bothered to add anything back too since. That should tell everyone no one cares about maintaining this portal. Legacypac ( talk) 07:14, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was: redirect to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. I'm taking a third option and redirecting this instead of outright deletion or keeping it in its current state. It is (like most portals) completely inactive and there is no one maintaining it. Unlike most portals, the topic is extremely attractive to POV trolls. If it were active and well-watched like the mainspace article, I wouldn't worry, because any concerning edits would be caught and reported quickly. But this is inactive and I presume much less watched, so I am concerned about maintaining a platform for POV / extremism that won't be guaranteed to be quickly reverted.
On the other hand, deletion destroys the history just in case anyone did want to reactivate it, however unlikely. So I am redirecting as a compromise - no history is lost, but we remove an unmonitored platform for concerning edits.
If someone wants to reactivate this and actually actively maintain it at any later time, please advise me or any other admin and we can revert. But for now I am redirecting to the mainspace article. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 02:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
This useless portal was attracting terrorist POV edits for a while. Now no one cares about it, except for strange recent edits like adding an empty "Things you can do" box. What would you put in that box? Blow yourself up, behead hostages, destroy 5000 year old art... Portals are not used much and this one is just a bad idea. Legacypac ( talk) 06:06, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
I blanked in December 2015 that no one has bothered to add anything back too since. That should tell everyone no one cares about maintaining this portal. Legacypac ( talk) 07:14, 20 June 2017 (UTC)