The result was no consensus. 198 appears to be right on the hairy edge of the upper limit of sequential integers that deserve an article. It is nearly identical to its neighbor articles, 197 (number) and 199 (number), although it has quite a lot more references (probably owing to its more embattled history at AfD, DRV, and AfC). Keep/delete voters are split right down the middle, numerically speaking. Delete voters at this discussion argue that the number isn't notable enough for its own article, and that the number doesn't have enough significant or interesting properties to write about. Keep voters argue that deleting this article would result in an awkward gap in the number articles from 1-200 (which is obviously not based on any policy, but more of an IAR argument, albeit an arguably valid one), potentially causing issues with navigation templates. Keep voters also implied that, in practice, notability criteria for numbers seems to be inconsistently applied, and applying the same level of scrutiny would likely result in the deletion of many other number articles between 101-200, which would be an outcome that most likely wouldn't find consensus if it were proposed.
This is a difficult discussion to close. While the policy-based arguments favor deletion, there are some convincing IAR arguments that pull it back in the other direction and make it impossible to find a solid consensus here. Some participants suggested a further discussion at Wikipedia talk:Notability (numbers) on whether the top end of the range of "automatically notable" integers should be expanded from 101 to 201, and I agree that this would be a useful discussion to have before nominating this article for deletion again. —ScottyWong— 15:18, 20 June 2023 (UTC)