Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Bstone/BSTONEISAWESOME

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous 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 kept — Werdna talk 06:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Bstone/BSTONEISAWESOME

Just wrote a long deletion reason and twinkle deleted it. Yay. Here we go again. This is a followup to the RfD discussion on WP:BIA, which is about to close as delete. The page is first of all confusing to non-english speakers who do not understand why policy and nutshell templates are being used to say that Wikipedia policy is that this user is awesome. Second, both non-english speakers, and people unfamiliar with MediaWiki and namespaces, might become easily confused by the confusing title of the page, which references user space, project space.....which one is it (Maybe you and I know it is user space, but readers unfamiliar with media wiki may not). Third, it is not beneficial to the encyclopedia. It is in fact a complete waste of space, compounded by having a project space redirect that is a second wasted space. Great, now we've wasted time on two pages of ego-stroking that could have gone towards benefitting the project. Even tangentially this page has no redeeming value. Finally, it's just not funny. If it was funny, you might argue (weakly) that it had some sort of argument for levity. But it's not funny at all (an opinion that was raised at both DRV for the redirect and on the RfD). Finally, since I'm sure this will be brought up (since it was the page creator's argument for keeping the redirect), WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS is not a valid reason to keep. Yes, I'm sure if you dig enough you can find other users with craptastic wastes of space in their user space. That is not a reason that this craptastic waste of user space should be kept.⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 07:28, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete as nom. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 07:28, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 11:47, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• So Fix It Just replace the policy tag with a "humor" or similar tag instead of deleting. This is something that can be solved with normal editing, and you are throwing the baby with the bathwater, and unnecessarily pissing off a productive user that just happens to want a nice page on his userspace (I changed it myself). Another option is rewording it completely so it's clear that the message is not serious like the message here --Enric Naval (talk) 14:41, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I am fixing it. The page should not exist. It's up for deletion. Once it is deleted, it will exist. If a user gets pissed because a completely useless, unproductive page they created as a joke is deleted, that's a) not my problem, and b) not conducive to benefiting Wikipedia. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 17:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Dunno, if an editor is making a lot of good edits, and then wants to keep a pair of humorous pages, we should weight the disadvantages of losing a good editor against the advantages of not having this page --Enric Naval (talk) 16:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

• Keep and immediate close Other pages of this type exist. How many "secret" pages and other levity pages exist. If the main concern is with the "policy" box then I would be happy to change that. Please immediately close this MfD. Bstone (talk) 01:00, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

  I've removed the WIKIPEDIA and asked for it's deletion, while moving the page to Bstone/BSTONEISAWESOME. Hopefully this will fix all issues. Bstone (talk) 03:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

• Swatjester, please leave Bstone alone. It's tagged as humour, it's tagged as needing citation, and it's got precedent (WP:EVULA - does that need RfD?). Your grudge against Bstone has gone on long enough, please stop. Keep. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 02:06, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, it's a humor page in the userspace. Oh, and block Swatjester for being intentionally disruptive. Monobi (talk) 03:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep: The page is now located at User:Bstone/BSTONEISAWESOME (without the Wikipedia: prefix), so I see no problem with keeping it. - Rjd0060 (talk) 03:35, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep As it is now fixed and I don't see the problem with a humorous page in userspace. Enigma ^message 04:30, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep lolwut? -- Ned Scott 06:45, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep.--WaltCip (talk) 21:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Absolutely strongest possible delete imaginable. Nothing funny belongs on Wikipedia whatsoever. Okay, in all seriousness, the redirect was a waste, but come on now, this is going too far. There's nothing wrong with this.--UsaSatsui (talk) 22:07, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, Bstone is awesome Gurchzilla (talk) 22:27, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Not funny. That is to say, I'm not sure which is less funny: The page, or this deletion discussion. I also don't know which is more harmful to Wikipedia, an unfunny user page that fools no one, or a deletion debate that essentially wastes everyone's time and needlessly rouses feelings. So Keep the original page. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 17:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep because in this case, other crap really does exist. WP:EVULA is a well-known humor page by a respected administrator. Just because EVula's page is funny and Bstone's is not funny doesn't mean we should delete Bstone's page. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 20:55, 27 May 2008 (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.