Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/Noticeboard

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 No consensus to delete, marking {{historical}} per the keep notes. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/Noticeboard

This is inactive and has been for several past months, even the original creator has once said it's dead. So let's remove it, it's not being used anymore, which is why I've been missing a lot of Pokémon related deletions. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 15:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete, project itself is currently marked inactive, and page is unused. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 20:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• ? Excuse my ignorance here, but can't it just be marked as historical? Former members notified that the Pok-noticeboard isn't doing anything? Deletion doesn't do anything but make it non-resurrectable to editors (except admins). I have exactly zero interest in anything Poke-related, but deleting an inactive board (keeping in mind that it does not free up any server space) seems overboard. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Arg. I think I misunderstood. This is for the specific subpage, called noticeboard, not for an entire Wikiproject. I endorse Deletion in that case. My apologies for my previous dumbfoundedness. I won't strike my prior comment, because I want others to read how silly I sounded.  :-) Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
    • I have exactly zero interests... I am surprised you're part of this discussion then. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 21:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
      • Doesn't stop him from commenting. I'm sure most of us have zero interest in the subject material of whatever AfDs we comment on. Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 04:30, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
        • Not me, I personally find it useless to be part of a discussion if I don't know a damn thing about something because I can't prove notability if I don't know about something. But then again, I'm not usually in deletion discussions. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 16:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game related deletions. MrKIA11 (talk) 23:48, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Actually it's more of a project-related than video game related. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 00:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

• Keep for historical reasons, even if it is just a notice board. This is the norm for all subpages of an inactive project, and this subpage does have some history on it. -- Ned Scott 04:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep - can be marked as historical I believe. Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 04:30, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
• Mark as historical and include a soft redirect to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pokémon, which is still active. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. Can be marked as a historical archive. No reason to delete it. Celarnor ^{Talk to me} 08:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Actually there has been a reason given to remove it, so your "no reason to delete it" statement is therefore wrong. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 08:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
    • No. No policy/guideline based reason has been provided. All you've provided is a NOEFFORT argument, which is something to be avoided in XfDs. Celarnor ^{Talk to me} 18:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
      • Where you were leading me applies to articles in the mainspace, not the Wikipedia space, there is a huge difference. If you want to tell that my arguments are invalid at least prove it with something that applies more to the WP space. I will not believe my argument is invalid until I see some good example that applies to pages like noticeboards because like I said this isn't and never was an article. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 23:08, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep and mark it historical. I don't think a noticeboard being inactive is a reason to delete. --Pixelface (talk) 08:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Looking at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Pokémon#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Pok.C3.A9mon.2FNoticeboard, it looks like the project members agree with deleting it for inactivity. I'd say not to delete it because this way we can track better what happened at the wikiproject, so historical tag + soft redirect would probably be ok. --Enric Naval (talk) 13:34, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Only I was part of that discussion, I'd hardly call that an agreement. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 17:01, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Probably a case of WP:SILENCE, nobody disagreed or cared enough to keep it, so nobody commented. --Enric Naval (talk) 17:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
• DeleteIf the page isn't being used, it should be deleted.--LAAFan 19:20, 23 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.