Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:List of common misconceptions

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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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 22:47, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Draft:List of common misconceptions


Draft no longer in use for editing purposes. It's becoming a honeypot for bots and wikignomes fixing irrelevant errors. Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:37, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete and what a fantastic explanation - I've never been able to articulate the "time wasting draft" rational so clearly. Legacypac (talk) 02:18, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It is very interesting. I became very distracted reading it.  WP:Alternative outlets probably applies, and WP:NOR would be the reason it doesn't belong here.  I guess it is possible that common misconceptions is a notable topic....  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:15, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * There you go, List of common misconceptions, an article from 2003. This draft appears to be a fork.  User:Dennis Bratland should be questioned about its creation.  User:Auric and User:Headbomb have made 4 and 3 edits to it.  Anything useful should be merged back into the mainspace article.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:19, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I can't find the thread in the talk archive, but there was talk of splitting off or deleting entries because the list was too long. I created the draft to work on making them each shorter. Still needs to be done but the draft right now isn't being used, as far as I know. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 07:35, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * merge into the mainspace article seems the best thing here. Egaoblai (talk) 16:12, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is no point merging this, since the mainspace one badly needs to go to WP:AFD: It's just a pile of OR, selective PoV and cherry picking, WP:NOT trivia-mongering in the form of something like a warehouse full of miniature WP:COATRACKs, and largely unreliable sourcing when there's any at all. Of the non-obvious points in it I spot-checked, I found RS contradicting several of them; many of these things are actually debatable and WP cannot report one viewpoint on them as context-free fact.  Of the really obvious stuff, well, it's obvious and it's not WP's job to debunk silly urban legends; that's what Snopes is for.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  18:57, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of common misconceptions, from which it originates, and delete if the article is deleted. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:58, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
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