Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Esteghlal F.C.–Tractor S.C. rivalry

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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:  delete. Salvio 13:08, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Esteghlal F.C.–Tractor S.C. rivalry

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The long and short of it is that this draft is being misused to circumvent deletion policy.

As it stands, this page would be WP:G4 eligible if moved to mainspace. In October of last year, the editor who created this draft repeatedly recreated articles on this subject, all substantially similar to the current draft, to the point where several title's required create protection. Only after they were threatened with a block did this behaviour stop. It was in this context that they created this draft.

Since the first batch of edits in early November, no attempt has been made to actually develop content. A few edits earlier today made minor updates documenting yesterday's match between the two clubs in question. Everything else has been formatting. While these might be honest attempts at improvement, they could also easily just have been made to keep the draft from reaching WP:G13. Most tellingly though, a number of IP's editing this draft, likely the original author editing while logged out, have made links to the draft from the mainspace as though it were an article. (See here for example). As such, I can only conclude that the intent behind retaining this draft is not developing it further, but rather to retain in the draft space a page that would be deleted from the mainspace. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:46, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:47, 12 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - The applicable deletion discussion is Articles for deletion/Esteghlal–Tractor Sazi rivalry. This is not a case where a draft of a deleted article should be kept for future notability or possible improvement.  As User:Sir Sputnik notes, this seems to be a case of gaming the system.  Robert McClenon (talk) 17:46, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete and SALT as above. GiantSnowman 10:41, 13 July 2020 (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.