Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Skifdank

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany 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 debate was speedy deleted all for abuse of userspace. = Mgm|^(talk) 11:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Skifdank

I'm back with "Wikipedia is not MySpace 6" (I believe): Submitted again for your official verdicts, more userfied vanity articles for "editors" clearly who ain't here for the editin', but for the publicizin'/self-expression, this batch from February and March this year. And yes, I left messages on their Talk Pages.

And now for the boilerplate text. These:

a) are user pages that were moved from article space by an admin/editor.

b) were originally articles that were originally speedy-delete candidates or speedy-delete eligible.

c) have page creators who have few/no edits outside user space.

d) have page creators who have not edited at all (with a couple of exception)s since the initial page creation seven to eight months ago (with one exception, which was created in July).

e) are, prima facie, not user pages, but attempts to use Wikipedia as a free webhost/promotional vehicle. WP:NOT, stating that Wikipedia is not a free web host is applicable.

• Waste of time. Blanking the pages would be an easier and equally effective solution. Deletion of these pages neither saves space nor more effectivly removes the material. - 152.91.9.144 05:09, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually deletion makes these pages invisible to non-admins meaning it effectively kills the promotion. If it's in the history, people can still link to it even if it's blanked. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

• None of which you seem to actually be willing to do yourself, I notice. In any case, it's my time to waste -- although that characterization, I'll also note, seems to be almost entirely yours, Mr. "I Can Read Deleted Pages". --Calton | Talk 05:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• I'll also note that you sprang into action within 13 minute of my creating this page. Stalk much? --Calton | Talk 05:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
  • *Cough* Yes indeed, I have nothing better to do than sit and refresh "Special:Contributions/Catlon" all day. Your personal venom aside, there really is no margin in deleting these pages. Blanking would make the content go away, deleting doesn't save any space, and although I'm not sure I'd suspect that mirrors only copy existing pages, so they'd take a blank page and blank it but might do nothing to update a no-longer existing page... Happy to be corrected on that pure speculation, by the way. There's really no need to bring these to MfD as no one is going to object to the material going away. Even a {{prod}} would work most of the time, or simply be bold and use {{db|Userfied advertising page}} or something of that sort. - 152.91.9.144 05:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Bah, perhaps mirrors aren't using that smart an updating strategy after all... Searching for the phrase "what about Adam Mathes" from User:Ibrahim Odeh doesn't get any hits and "User:Ibrahim Odeh" only gets the wikipedia discussion. - 152.91.9.144 06:04, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
      • Yes indeed, I have nothing better to do than sit and refresh "Special:Contributions/Catlon" all day. You should have stopped after "do". One wonders why you a) respond to what I didn't say; b) focus only my nominations, as opposed to the dozen or so I see on this page; c) don't apply the same "just blank it" strategy here; d) don't just delete them yourself with your special non-admin admin powers.
      • Even a {{prod}} would work most of the time. really? And your proof of this is what, exactly? Especially given that this issue is only being discussed, well, right now? --Calton | Talk 06:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

        Dude, not only are you a cranky cuss, half the time I don't even think that you read what you're typing. I'm not "respond to what [you] didn't say" when you throw out an ad hominem like "Stalk much?" And what are you trying to say with the diff pointing to this page? I'm trying to discuss the relative merits of different approaches to problems of this sort. I have no idea what you're doing. - 152.91.9.144 07:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all. It's this kind of thing that makes me want to just tag things for speedy instead of userfying them when they are obvious vanity. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 05:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nom. There's a proposal to allow this rubbish to be prodded, see Template talk:Prod. MER-C 06:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.