Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/user:Cuyler91093/various

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 Keep. Userpages and subpages are not limited in number by policy or tradition. Certainly, pages which are unrelated to the encyclopedia may rightly be considered for deletion at MfD -- as happens sometimes -- but the MfD nominator in this case appears to offer no reason for deletion other than sheer number. The consensus is that this argument, standing alone, fails, and it has no root in policy. Xoloz (talk) 17:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Cuyler91093

I have noted that this user has at present over 70 subpages to their userpage. This is unacceptable behaviour and contrary to the principles of Wikipedia. I have requested that they delete at least 65 of these within the next few days, or they are likely to be deleted by someone else as they do not benefit the WP project. --AlisonW (talk) 17:50, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

• Comment Should not the MfD wait until the "few days" have eclipsed? I Abstain until then. BTW, no offense, but without seeing any other correspondence with the user, this seems a bit bitey, which I am sure was not intended. You could have used {{uw-userpage}}. Does the user even know to mark the pages with {{db-userreq}}? Unless I am missing some back-story, I just have concerns over the chosen manner. :) --12 Noon ^2¢ 18:36, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

My apologies; I was adding the note I left for the user to MfD now as a 'heads-up' rather than a request for immediate action. --AlisonW (talk) 18:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep any particular reason you chose 65 pages, or is a completely arbitrary number? Most of the subpages are very small - if one page had the content of 65 of them, would it some how be acceptable. You should be looking at the content of the pages rather than the number of them, as Wikipedia policy does not dictate a max number of pages. If specific pages are problematic, nominate them; you shouldn't just throw them all up on MFD and expect other people to sort them out for you. If you specify which pages are against policy, I'd probably say delete, but as it is, I say keep all. - Koweja (talk) 03:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep The user has 46 subpages at this moment, can't tell if they have requested some to be deleted. Anyway, the number has nothing to do with whether Wikipedia is being used as a webhost. You could have one page of spam, or 65 genuine subpages used for archives or transclusions. In this case, there are legitimate uses for the majority of them. –Pomte 11:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep This user is an active contributor to the encyclopedia. He chooses to set up his user page through transclusions. In general I think we should refrain from deleting harmless subpages of active contributors. --JayHenry (talk) 17:31, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep per JayHenry and Pomte, and per my reasoning in the essay Wikipedia:Editors matter. Where someone is actively contributing to the encyclopedia (or, indeed, where they're not), deleting all their user subpages is not going to do any good whatsoever to the quality of Wikipedia, and may well do a great deal of harm by driving them away. Walton^One 12:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
• Question What specific sub pages do you have a problem with? I have nearly 20 myself. I'm sure some active editors who have been here since 2001-2002 may have hundreds. Whats the big deal? Lawrence Cohen 15:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep I count fewer subpages than anyone else has yet, if you exclude the main user page, JS files etc etc. Also, the user has 2251 mainspace edits so even if all these user subpages are utter shit (and it doesn't look like ALL of them are) then he/she is inclined to a little latitude on this matter.
  Also (and here's how I really feel, and I suspect lots of others would just as willingly let you know were it not for your position), this nomination is bullshit and Alison should know better; if the Wikimedia board (on which our nominator sits) are so distanced from the community they're meant to be supporting that one of them doesn't see anything even the teeniest bit wrong in fucking off a tireless contributor (one with nearly TWICE AS MANY MAINSPACE EDITS AS THE NOMINEE, by the way, and if I sucked as hard as Alison "I count over 70!" W does at math I could say precisely twice as many) by nominating all their user pages for deletion, well, Wikimedia is in deep shit. What a fucking disgrace. Lewis Collard! (it's cold out there, but i'm telling you, i'm lonely) 07:43, 16 January 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.