User:Gigs/Kept in userspace Jan 2009

This page is the opinion of User:Gigs, and is adjunct to Requests_for_comment/User_page_indexing. Comments go here

I believe it is damaging to Wikipedia if people land on a userspace article that contains content that appears encyclopedic.

Here is a survey/audit of all the "keeps" at WP:MfD in January.

Potentially Damaging Userspace Keeps

 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Britt25/sandbox for CVS/Pharmacy (keep)
 * Old version of a mainspace article, untouched for 1year+. Confusing to any unsavvy user that finds it.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:ChanceYoungJr.Robert (keep)
 * A redundant fork of Ray Charles


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Lady Aleena/Television/Crossovers (keep)
 * Unmaintained article fork, that has disconcertingly attracted IP editors doing minor corrections to it! Could they have been confused into thinking it was a real article?


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Emilysw/A History of Acting: On the face of it (keep)
 * An essay completely unrelated to wikipedia in any form.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jislober (keep)
 * An essay completely unrelated to wikipedia in any form.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:WikiPRNYC (keep)
 * A somewhat promotional CV (that looks like an article)


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Raul654/GoRight (speedy keep)
 * Some sort of "shit list". Was blanked after MfD.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Kavc001 (keep)
 * Some kind of xbox clan page?

OK Keeps

 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Adam Carr/My archive of original photographic contributions (SNOW keep)
 * A gallery of the user's photographic work, much of it in use at wikipedia


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jw21/deUBdomain/notnarrow alt (keep)
 * A userbox that was offensive, but fixed and kept


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Rlevse/Application to date my daughter (keep)
 * Unrelated to wikipedia, but could never be mistaken for encyclopedia content.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Macfloyd (speedy keep)
 * Not sure about this one.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Krimpet/flaggedrevs (keep - closed early per WP:SNOW)
 * Was deleted by the owner after MfD.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Promethean/No (keep - closed early per WP:SNOW)
 * Template to add a banner about flagged revs


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dr. Blofeld/Blofeld's Angels of Death (keep - closed early per WP:SNOW)
 * A typical sandbox, hard to mistake for a real article


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Birkner (speedy keep)
 * A few lines about the editor


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:GlassCobra/Editor for deletion (2nd nomination) (speedy keep)
 * A parody


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Kmweber/Servantship Reform (keep)
 * An essay/old proposal


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Kmweber/Welcome template (keep)
 * An inappropriate welcome template


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:UBX/get-over-it-baltimore (keep)
 * Snarky userbox


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Kmweber/In Progress (keep)
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Kmweber/In Progress/Karl Kae Knecht notes (keep)
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Kmweber/Some AfDs to fight (keep)
 * Editors notes, mostly appropriate


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Co149/Resume (keep)
 * A resume. Later deleted by request of user.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:KeithTyler/Resume (keep)
 * A resume.


 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:F. Lee Horn/Resume (keep)
 * A resume. Remind me what personal resumes have to do with wikipedia?