Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unreasonable people

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete, Already trans-wikied. Tznkai 00:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unreasonable people

About the clearest transwiki i've ever seen. More or less a technicality. Too lazy to suffer the wrath of some policy wonk out there.karmafist 11:29, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• Transwiki to Wikiquote. This shouldn't be on AfD, this should just be assigned a {{move to Wikiquote}}-tag. -- SoothingR^(pour) 13:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wikiquote and close this vote. --King of All the Franks 13:30, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki as above. Nothing to see here, move on, move on.... Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 13:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki as above. This doesn't need AfD, you can just be bold and add {{move to Wikiquote}}, as SoothingR brought up. --24.61.119.222 WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 14:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Uh, this wasn't what I expected... --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 14:03, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • It requires AFD if you want it to be deleted afterwards. The transwiki system is not a back door for deletion. Uncle G 14:43, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
    • That may be the case, but don't take it to AfD just to transwiki it, it should head there after the transwiki. That sounds better. No change in vote, of course. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 14:41, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Duh, well it was me who tried to stick this in what I now know was the wrong place. And then, when I got the word to Transwiki to Wikiquote, well I spent about 20 minutes laboring valiantly with the various instructions, but ended up finally with the feeling that I was in the hands of one of those elaborate answering machines that keeps passing you on to the next set of choices. Is that me? Or is it the instruction set? As Karmafist (I tremble to think what it might mean. Or might actually do!) tells us it's a clear call. Yeah, but not for this soldier. Help! ericbritton 16:31, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Since you are the original author, you can just re-submit your own content directly to Wikiquote in the appropriate place. However, the appropriate place is q:George Bernard Shaw, which already has this quotation. Uncle G 04:15, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks Unc. But I as a new and innocent soul would very much like to be able to pop references in the Wikipedia to this phrase -which it turns out is central to the 'change-making' role or attempts of varioius programs under The Commons. Thus I write something like xxxUnreasonable people and the good reader is taken to this citationunder the WQ portal. That somehow possible? ericbritton 08:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
      • The purpose of Wikipedia is not to be a search engine for Wikiquote. Wikiquote already has its own search facility. If you want to start a themed Wikiquote article on the subject of reason, then you are welcome to. But searching Wikiquote for "unreasonable man" already yields the GBS article as the fifth result. Uncle G 17:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• It's already on Wikiquote? I can't find it there, but if there is no need to transwiki, maybe delete? (If there is a need, my old transwiki vote stands, but otherwise...)--accidentally unsigned comment by WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 14:45, December 29, 2005 (UTC)
  • It's on q:George Bernard Shaw, as I said. Uncle G 17:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Since I am sort of a transport/communications guy I am always concerned about seamlessness in social technical systems (turns out that people don’t like to catch a bus to catch a bus, etc.). So when there I am in Wikipedia, it is my I am sure quite silly desire to be able to one click to, say, a word that the author has pointed up as a possible key to a message. Or a quote such as this. Which only goes to show you how naive one can be. Thanks so much for putting me into the picture. (But I bet that this seamlessness will come about sooner or later, and probably sooner.)

Perhaps I might add that as I blunder around here, there is a bit more to it than may meet the eye. I have a long time interest in creating and supporting knowledge building mechanisms for public policy decisions and actions, and that at least in part via [Self-Organizing Collaborative Network]s. So, perhaps not surprisingly, we are looking at ways of integrating the Wikipedia into a number of our groups work projects under [The Commons]. My hope is that our use of it will turn out to be useful to others in turn. (Hope I have not put you to sleep.) ericbritton 18:23, 29 December 2005 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.