User talk:JzG/Archive 81

MfD close
I agree with this MfD close you made. The trouble I'm seeing is that people became wise to the time deletion due to WP:STALEDRAFT. I don't think there was a consensus to edit WP:STALEDRAFT with "Unfinished draft articles may also be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts for adoption by other editors if the original author no longer wants them or appears to have stopped editing." There was that and other efforts over time to get around the time deletion due to WP:STALEDRAFT, basically by posting the content outside of article namespace and outside user namespace to take advantage of the lack of policy/guideline deletion of pages that look like articles in project and othe namespaces. Stale drafts sitting in project namespace is a big problem and a growing problem. MfD really does not have the tools to deal with it (other than an admin like yourself coming along and making a command decision). People should be given reasonable time -- about three or so months -- to work on their drafts within their user space. However, that time should be significantly cut down when the drafts are in Wikipedia project namespace, whether Article Incubator, WikiProject Abandoned Drafts, WikiProject Articles for creation, or whereever else they wind up. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 14:42, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * STALEDRAFT is in the page on user space. It is designed to cover actual Wikipedians working on actual content. These werenot articles by actual Wikipedians (else they would have been able to create them directly), they were by newbies, anons, drive-bys and so on. The value of such pages to the project is contingent on the question of whether the user intends to stick around and try to fix the problem. If the article is declined, the user does not fix it, and they still don't have enough edits to create the page directly, then it really is simply a janitorial exercise. We should PROD them at decline and CSD them if they are obviously test / attack / bad BLP pages. It should be really lightweight and simple. Most of the STALEDRAFT controversy is in any case whipped up by people maintaining userspace POV forks that they can't get into mainspace due to it being, well, a POV fork. We should not let that stop us doing simple housekeeping. Guy (Help!) 15:08, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

unsalting request
Hi there, a few years ago you salted Matt Lee after an AFD and plenty of recreations. There is now a different, and I believe notable Matt lee (he's won a fairly major award) that should be moved to the correct capitalisation. Can you please assist. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 12:39, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * All done. Let me know if there's an issue with residual protection. Guy (Help!) 13:24, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Threats to kill other editors
There's probably a civility policy against this, but if you're going by tandem I'll happily act as stoker on the back of it and will cheerfully wield second spanner against the culprit. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:13, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * This was apparently not sufficiently easily identifiable as sarcasm. a13ean (talk) 03:18, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I was thinking that the "saint" and unparalleled skill at "wrenching" were dead giveaways that the entire post was tongue-in-cheek. Killer Chihuahua 05:58, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd sort of hoped so, but apparently a sense of humour is not mandatory here. Guy (Help!) 14:51, 27 December 2012 (UTC)