Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Cleanup Taskforce notes

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 * 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 discussion was  to allow Black Falcon to proceed as desired. SmokeyJoe's suggestion to leave some documentation is wise; I think the talk page of this discussion would serve well. Feel free to ping me if you need a hand with any of this. --BDD (talk) 17:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce notes

 * see Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/

The Cleanup Taskforce was marked inactive following this discussion in 2008 and it has lingered in this state for the past six years. I have no strong objection to the page's continued existence as historical reference material, although it has been superseded by WikiProject Cleanup and is unlikely to ever be revived.

This nomination proposes deletion of the Cleanup Taskforce's more than 500 subpages that contain obsolete information about specific articles. Typically, they contain only a few lines of content that consists of:


 * Unspecific comments – e.g., /1921 in Germany, /Buddhism, /German 9th Mountain Division, /Kashmir Conflict
 * Process discussion and notes – e.g., /Miami model, /Zoo Tycoon

In some cases, such as /Flag of Biafra, the article to which the subpage was dedicated no longer exists or was entirely rewritten. In the few cases where the subpage contains comments that are a bit more specific, such as /British hip hop, the information is too old to be useful.

Whatever value the Cleanup Taskforce main page holds, this method of implementation involving a subpage for each article is ineffective and inferior to the simpler option of using articles’ talk pages. The continuing existence of this material provides no added value and is simply a source of confusion for anyone who encounters it. If there is consensus to delete, then I am prepared to complete the manual work required to implement that decision. -- Black Falcon (talk) 04:59, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Black Falcon's offer to archive or delete as per his judgement. Please leave a short description of what, in the end, you do, just in case someone in future wants to know what people used to do. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:03, 17 March 2014 (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.