Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Experimental economics/Comments


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   . Sorry, did this in the wrong order. Closing as I've already deleted it. Ged UK  15:02, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Experimental economics/Comments

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Okay, first, what I am really seeking to have deleted is a bit of weirdness, Talk:Experimental economics/Comments. It doesn't (yet) have an article associated with it. It does not meet the formal tests which would qualify it for nomination for Speedy Deletion, but it's a misguided kludge. It's essentially a brief essay created by an anon to argue that “This page [ presumably the not-yet-extant article ] needs to engage with critiques of the ontological and epistemological presuppositions of experimental economics.” SlamDiego&#8592;T 08:14, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment It could have been speedy deleted under "G8: Talk pages with no corresponding subject page". Now you have created the main page with only the AfD tempalte on it, it does strictly speaking have a subject page. However under WP:SENSE I have tagged both pages for speedy deletion. --Pontificalibus (talk) 08:54, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I considered G8, but felt that I should not interpret it that broadly. There certainly is (and should be) “Experimental economics”.  Anyway, I would not be unhappy were it decided and made clear that G8 should, in general, be applied more broadly that I applied it. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 09:06, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * There is an article associated with this talk page; it's Experimental economics. A template at the top of the talk page there has links to edit Experimental economics/Comments, and it appears someone went ahead and did so. This is a continuing problem that leads to G8 speedy requests for talk subpages all the time, and I don't understand why we never fix the templates. It's silly for us to go out of our way to ask for comments and then delete them all the time. Dekimasu よ! 11:47, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely right that there is something silly in one group asking for a /Comments page and another trying to get that page deleted. But can we locate the silliness more precisely?  Why does that template ask for a /Comments page for each tagged article, when the articles already have discussion pages?  It's not inconceivable that there's a good reason, but a reason isn't immediately obvious. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 12:30, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I have posted a query at Talk:WikiProject Economics. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 12:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I'm under the impression that this isn't limited to the templates of a single WikiProject. There may be some sort of a template template [sic] that is ultimately responsible. Dekimasu よ! 13:09, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, at least on an abstract level. WikiProject Economics was editted in imitation of a prior model. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 14:02, 7 June 2009 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.