Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Chuck Marean/first article

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 Keep. — xaosflux ^Talk 07:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Chuck Marean/first article

i can't imagine how this could ever become a an actual article. looks like babbling Twicebakedpotato 19:18, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Interestingly enough, you haven't even contacted the user about it. Even more interestingly, your only edit to Wikipedia is to add this MFD. How about getting an explanation from Chuck as to what this is? Right now, it seems something suitable for Wikibooks. Titoxd^(?!?) 19:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
  • ok i told him —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Twicebakedpotato (talk • contribs).
• Titoxd, I happen to agree with you. --James, La gloria è a dio 00:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Contact the author and consider transwikification. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• My plan is to 1) finish reading the books, 2) group the notes into paragraphs 3) keep the best of the redundant statements 4) streamline the overall structure 5) add illustrations 6) put my best draft into the main space. The article is not finished and it's in my user space so I can see what it looks like on the wiki. As you can see, I'm trying in-text references. I'm reading several textbooks. I've only finished reading one of them so far. Chuck Marean 07:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep This is not doing any harm as long as it stays in user space. As Chuck noted, he's using it to practice inline citation. This is a perfectly reasonable use of a user space page. If these notes were moved into article space in anything like their current state, that would be entirely another matter, but as it stands there is no rationale to delete this page. Gwernol 15:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Delete Like Gwernol states, this is relatively harmless in its current location. But it really would have little chance to succeed as an article since its basically a how-to guide, which forces me to conclude that it shouldn't really exist on Wikipedia's servers. We've discussed it briefly with Chuck before, and I'm hesitant to disrupt his work since he seems content to just stay there and write rather than venture off into project space where he's experiences some troubles. But it just doesn't really belong.--ZimZalaBim (talk) 15:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Gwernol. It appears that the user is simply using this as a sandbox. If it helps the user become a better editor or to learn how to mark-up an article, great. The content issue is not really an issue until and if the content ever moves to the mainspace. Agent 86 19:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Gwernol and with the provision that there is perhaps some content here that might merit encyclopedic inclusion in some form, such that I don't know that the text—at least in some form—is categorically devoid of prospective mainspace purpose. It is, as Titoxd observes, wholly indecorous for an editor to nominate a page such as this prior to his raising the issue with the !owner. Joe 20:48, 26 January 2007 (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.