Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bala

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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 23:19, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Bala and User talk:Bala

Delete as blatant link spam in user space. User pages should have a link to the project and not be used as a hosting service. According to this help desk request the user has no other useful edits. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:06, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Agree. We are liberal with what goes onto userpages, but it should not be advertising/spam. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:11, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, obvious spam. — JIP | Talk 08:12, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete same Elfguy 12:49, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete same --Andy Janata 13:48, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Sjakkalle.—Encephalon | ^ζ  13:52:00, 2005-08-16 (UTC)

• Comments only: I am not sure, but this user page is unusual (?)--Bhadani 13:59, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Linkspam. I've wrapped the whole thing in nowiki tags to neuter the hyperlinks. I will of course restore the page to its original condition if the article is kept. (*scoff*) Incidentally, could this be speedyable as consisting solely of external links? TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:23, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

  Answering my own question, no it can't be speedied under our current criteria. Articles consisting only of external links can go, user pages still have to come here. Perhaps that should be changed.... TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:25, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete spam. -- Cyrius|✎ 18:50, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Normally I'd vote to keep. If someone wants to spam their own userpage that's their business. However this user hasn't been on Wikipedia in over a year and has never contributed after the day they created this userpage. So Delete. Gateman1997 21:25, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete this is a user space page too far. -Splash 21:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• Comment, why is the user talk page also up for deletion? It appears to be fine, only contining a welcome message?Gateman1997 23:14, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
  • The User Talk page was originally a list of links as well. Someone removed the links and replaced them with a Welcome template shortly after the VfD started. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 23:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• • • Ah then why don't we remove the talk page from VfD as it has no business being up there now.Gateman1997 23:37, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• • • • It doesn't really do any harm deleting it; someone can re-add the welcome template if they're so inclined. This prevents reversion back to the advertising, and adds weight to the community disapproval for such tactics. I don't imagine that the user in question cares much about the page either way—he hasn't edited under that name since April 2004, and his only edits were to create the spam user pages and add a spam link to Google (search engine). TenOfAllTrades(talk) 01:37, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Googlebombing and linkspam. Groupthink, doubletalk, toomuch1984 — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 00:17, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Googlebomb. --Apyule 02:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

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