The result of the discussion was: delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 00:24, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Abandoned mini-portal.
Created [1] in April 2008 by Cenarium ( talk · contribs), whose last edit was in 2017, and whose last edit to this portal was in August 2008. The lead of WP:POG has said since 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", and this one has not been maintained.
Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Number theory shows only 6 subpages with content:
WP:POG requires that portals be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers"'. This one has attracted no maintainers, and while it's 23 daily pgeviews in Jan–Feb 2019, which is 2½ times the abysmal median of 13 for all portals, but still onlt yy% of the 1093 daily views for the head article Number theory.
Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article Number theory and its navbox Template:Number theory.
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
So this portal is just complex way to give the reader an outdated excerpt of the lead of one article outa possible 6 ... when previews of a much wider set are built into the head article.
Maybe someday someone will build and maintain a portal which actually adds value for readers. But if so, they will do better to start afresh, rather than building on these 11-year-old content forks.
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) 23:59, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was: delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 00:24, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Abandoned mini-portal.
Created [1] in April 2008 by Cenarium ( talk · contribs), whose last edit was in 2017, and whose last edit to this portal was in August 2008. The lead of WP:POG has said since 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", and this one has not been maintained.
Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Number theory shows only 6 subpages with content:
WP:POG requires that portals be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers"'. This one has attracted no maintainers, and while it's 23 daily pgeviews in Jan–Feb 2019, which is 2½ times the abysmal median of 13 for all portals, but still onlt yy% of the 1093 daily views for the head article Number theory.
Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article Number theory and its navbox Template:Number theory.
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
So this portal is just complex way to give the reader an outdated excerpt of the lead of one article outa possible 6 ... when previews of a much wider set are built into the head article.
Maybe someday someone will build and maintain a portal which actually adds value for readers. But if so, they will do better to start afresh, rather than building on these 11-year-old content forks.
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) 23:59, 25 May 2019 (UTC)