Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:The Simpsons

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: no consensus. Based on my reading of this discussion, it seems like the key arguments for deletion are that the portal topic is too narrow, that there are only a few page views and little maintenance and that in it was created by a sock. The counterarguments are that the topic might in fact be broad enough to justify a portal - including the presence of many FAs and GAs that could be used (?) for improving the portal -, that the portal can be fixed and that the deletion arguments are not grounded in policy. These are all in principle valid points, but the delete camp appears to have a better argument in terms of how many people agree with it and I am not sure if the duplication concern has been addressed by the keep side. We currently do not have any policy or guideline which describes when portals may be kept or not beyond the very general site-wide policies - but I don't see anything in WP:ATD that excludes portals from its purview. This is perhaps close to a delete consensus but in the absence of arguments and !vote numbers that clearly favour one side of the discussion, this is a no consensus case. Given that the key concern here is the maintenance status of the portal, I'd imagine that this will be renominated for deletion if no improvement takes place. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:37, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]