Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikibility

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The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 21:44, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikibility

The article is about a non-notable research study being done by some Cal Poly students. They seem to want people to use the article to comment on their experience using Wikipedia. Dave6 08:37, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I don't see how this can be developed into a full article. — Brim 09:19, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
• I think this could be placed on the user (User:Redstar918's) home page, I suggested that on their talk page. Kappa 11:34, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. People can test wikipedia already. Redirect to Wikipedia:Sandbox if necessary. — Asbestos | Talk 12:26, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non-encyclopedic on so many levels. It's signed (which hasn't been apropos for quite awhile here at WP) and seems to be encouraging people to edit the article with their wikipedia experiences, guestbook-style I suppose. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:44, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Move, To that user page. Otherwise delete. Inter 15:47, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Move to a user subpage, which is where this belongs. Leave the resulting redirect for the moment, but list it on redirects for deletion so in time it goes, and meantime doesn't disrupt what I'm assuming is a good faith project. Andrewa 16:14, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Move and list redirect for deletion, per Andrewa. Very annoying. I'm assuming he's going to invite Cal Poly people to play in the sandbox he's created in our main article space. As good guys, we might as well let him do this in his user space, even though Wikipedia is not a free Wiki host and it's not utterly clear that what's he's doing is directly relevant to our purposes. We probably should contact him and insist that any brilliant UI improvements he comes up with be properly licensed so they could be incorporated into MediaWiki. It was rather discourteous of him to do this without even trying to contact the community via the Village Pump and asking. Dpbsmith (talk) 16:24, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, this is not an article and could be speedied. Wyss 19:17, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, users can add to their user pages, and advertise via community pages etc. Rich Farmbrough 19:50, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete outright. There isn't so much here that the user can't recreate it himself in his User space. Furthermore, the article is nonsense, and it is hard to believe that such a moronic project is connected with a university-level course. Even if Cal Poly is not a very prestigious school, surely its courses are not so easy that you can get credit for such stupidity. The experience of working on the Wikipedia is not even remotely captured by hacking on some arbitrary text and reporting your subjective reactions. Anyway the students didn't need a special sandbox on Wikipedia for that. Almost any wiki software on a PC with an internet connection would have served as well. --BM 22:37, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and don't let the User recreate it in his/her User space. The User space is not a chat board. RickK
• Delete - shallow nonsense of no note Brookie 15:26, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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