Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF

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 You must be f*cking joking. This is the thanks we get for creating multiple FAs? If you want any more FAs from a project, you don't delete it. That would be all our records and plans gone. kingboyk 12:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF

Inactive SLSB talk ER 01:23, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. --Evil1987 01:30, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - project page was actively edited on July 25. John Carter 01:34, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - 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 01:36, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy keep I had no idea about what Carcharoth just wrote. Generally, most Wikiprojects that come here were never active in the first place. This WikiProject helped produce a featured article and could arguably be considered like a talk page archive for that article. Archive? Maybe. Delete? Definitely not. Shalom ^Hello 02:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. — $PЯINGεrαgђ 04:16, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. It's pretty inactive. Besides a few recent edits on the project and talk pages: there's been little activity. We shouldn't be keeping projects open for only a few members, of an otherwise dead project. Make it a task force, if interest for it remains. It seems too small of a scope to be a project. RobJ1981 04:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - The project produced 4 FAs and at least a dozen GAs. Its inactive at the moment, but there's no reason it can't be marked as such and resurrected at a later point. Wickethewok 04:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - we don't delete inactive projects. Martinp23 12:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• This is a joke isn't it?! I am still here, I just don't work on KLF stuff much at the moment. I edited the WikiProject page only yesterday for pete's sake. The WikiProject has created multiple FAs and GAs and the project infrastructure contains lots of important information. We do not delete inactive projects, and I am frankly amazed to see a "delete per nom" from a user I thought I respected. Jesus. --kingboyk 12:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC) (e/c)

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.