Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Java (programming language)
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We have had some pretty terrible computing portals, but this one may be among the worst designed portals ever.
The 10 selected articles were created in October– December 2009 as unabridged, unattributed copies of their articles. Selected article/6 is about the literal island of Java. Selected article/3 would have been about the entire history of coffee production in Indonesia had an editor not replaced the article with something more appropriate. This nine-year-old edit was the only update any of these pages ever got.
Featured Articles lists one de-listed Featured article and four de-listed Good articles.
Selected biography/3 does not link to its article.
Selected quote/6 mocks a supposed quote by Al Gore that has nothing to do with Java. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 12:02, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for nearly a decade, save some one-off updates by passing editors, and is 10 articles short of POG's minimum of 20. Since late 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained by Alainr345, a semi-retired editor (with only one edit in 2019) who hasn't updated it since May 2010 and last touched portal space the same month. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had nearly a decade of no steady maintainers and it had a low 41 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Java (programming language) had 4,574 views per day in the same period).
- POG also states portals should be associated with a wikiproject, but Wikipedia:WikiProject Java is inactive (the last editor to editor conversation was a March 2014 question and a July 2015 answer), and the portal was last mentioned on the portal, in passing no less, (excluding an MfD notice) in Dec. 2009. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as nearly a decade of hard evidence shows Java (programming language) is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:11, 6 September 2019 (UTC)