Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Presidential poll

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 speedy deleted - this kind of content in any form must be kept outside the wiki. _→AzaToth 01:55, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Presidential poll / User:Basketball110/Presidential poll

This page is a bad idea for wikipedia. In my opinion it takes things away from the encyclopedia – yes of course, editors matter, but this does not promote a collaborative environment and puts individual views against each other. It takes focus off more prominent issues here and it is more like what you would expect on a social networking site. My main concern is the end result – it could appear that a top ten website is endorsing a candidate because the “majority” of the community is supporting them. It does nothing for our reputation as a neutral resource. The page will achieve very little as an end result. Ryan Postlethwaite 01:20, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

(ec nom - that's a first for me!)

Inappropriate in Wikipedia namespace. Waste of time in the projectspace, possibly divisive. Note that this was moved into userspace by Nishkid64 (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights), an action reverted by Earthbendingmaster (talk · contribs). Userspace ultimately encourages the same waste of time. ~ Riana ⁂ 01:24, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

If you think it needs to be in user space, I will move it back? Earthbendingmaster 01:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it should be anywhere, but userspace is far better than project space. ~ Riana ⁂ 01:27, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

To anyone reading this, please don't actually do anything based on my offering an opinion here. This is not a decree, just an opinion. It is my opinion that pages of this sort should not just be deleted via MfD, but should qualify for immediate speedy deletion upon creation. This sort of thing is just wrong wrong wrong for Wikipedia. We should leave our politics at the door.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 01:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I did not really think this would cause any controversy, I also did not want it to look like Wikipedia is endorsing a particular candidate, but once you really think about it, it really would look like that. I am sorry for starting this. Earthbendingmaster 01:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Leave politics out of Wikipedia. Earthbendingmaster 01:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Hi ebm, will you be OK with my interpretation of this as a U1 request? ~ Riana ⁂ 01:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Well, technically, Basketball110 also helped create it, as it is his userpage, so I suppose it would have to be requested by him also. Though you have my request. Earthbendingmaster 01:47, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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