Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Isotopes

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 (left marked {{inactive}} - any member should feel free to reactivate). — xaosflux ^Talk 03:46, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Isotopes

Inactive SLSB talk ER 00:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep - There are plenty of ideas and discussion on the talk page. Inactivity alone is an insufficient reason for deletion. We should not delete inactive projects that have been active in the past. Mark them as historical while making clear that anyone can chose to restart them if they want to. I think some people have the impression that things can be retrieved from deleted pages indefinitely (ie. 5 years later) for historical purposes, rather than just temporarily (if the deletion was a mistake, or is overturned). I asked about this back in January 2007 on the technical area at the Village Pump, and I got a response from Brion Vibber:

Deletion means deletion. The deleted page archives ARE TEMPORARY TO FACILITATE UNDELETION OF PAGES WHICH SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DELETED and are subject to being cleared or removed AT ANY TIME WITHOUT WARNING. (Brion Vibber, 19 January 2007) [1]

Hopefully this will help clear up any confusion in MfDs of projects that have been active in the past, and people will be clear that if there is any chance that something in project space might be needed for future reference, then it should be archived, not deleted. Carcharoth 01:40, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• Comment - notice left on talk page of parent WikiProject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry. Carcharoth 00:49, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Do not delete This WikiProject, when active, was a model of collaboration, one of the most productive groups I've seen on WP. I don't mind if the project content is kept or archived, but it should not be completely deleted. Walkerma 07:12, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Those pages have discussion and guidelines that can be useful for historical purposes, to understand why the presentation of isotopes in Wikipedia is the way it is, and in case someone wants to restart the project. --Itub 07:44, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Since no reason has been put forth to delete it (the single word "inactive" is not an argument), and the information contained could be of value to current and future editing endeavors, the project should be kept. --Ed (Edgar181) 11:04, 28 July 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.