Wikipedia talk:No blank pages
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Please discuss any major proposed changes to this guideline on this page, as well as any questions about the guideline.
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[edit] Image blanking?
Can something be added to prevent "image blanking"? That's what I call it when a user tries to "blank" an image by uploading an empty file on top of it. It happens every so often- my bot has noticed this a few times in the past month or so. It's obviously inappropriate, and deserves a mention here. I'd be happy to write it up, but thought I'd mention it here first. Staecker 12:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
- Image blanking is clearly inappropriate, but I'd suggest not including any mention in this guideline. The guideline is primarily of historical interest, now, and it has to do with a sort of "place-holder" (full article intended to follow ... ). By contrast, blanking an image in the way you describe seems more like vandalism.
- May I suggest instead that you take the matter to Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals), as a recommendation that the wiki software be changed so that it checks file uploads and block empty uploads? (I suspect that, or even a bot to do this, would be much more productive than changing a guideline, which I doubt that blank-file-uploaders will read, or care about, and which doesn't help other editors spot this kind of inappropriate action in any case.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Userpage/Usertalk blanking
Does this policy cover Userpages and Usertalk pages? Nat Tang talk to me! | Check on my contributions!|Email Me! 14:35, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Exceptions to the rule?
Hi.
I think there should be some exceptions to this rule, as in a few cases blank pages may be appropriate. For example, an attack page against a real, living person containing potentially libelous material or something that might lead to imminent real world damage should be able to be dealt with by non-administrators without having to wait for an administrator to speedy delete the page, which can still take time. Although such exceptions would likely be rare, if a non-administrator sights something that could have very immediate bad consequence being on Wikipedia, and there is no way to save the page (ie. whole page is trouble) then blanking it should be allowed, and held until an administrator can fully delete the page. Ie. blanking as an "emergency" measure when absolute urgency is needed. mike4ty4 03:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
- If that's the case, just replace the page with {{db-vandalism}} or another appropriate deletion tag. However, simply tagging the page for deletion is good enough for most cases. --Sigma 7 04:49, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Blanking
I don't disagree with image or talk pages, but in the matter of articles, I would prefer that, instead of deleting, a very short article to be created, because anonymous can contribute to stubs but cannot create them. However, I have seen admins deleting very small stubs because they were just too small. -- ReyBrujo 13:53, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pure wiki deletion
I recommend we allow experimental use of page blanking in accordance with Wikipedia:Experimental_Deletion/XD1 and Wikipedia:Experimental Deletion/XD1/Example and Wikipedia:Pure wiki deletion. A code or configuration change might be needed to implement red-linking of blanked pages. Ron Duvall (talk) 00:00, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
