Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Editinginterface

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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:  speedy keep per WP:SK1. The nominator has switched their !vote to speedy keep and all other !votes are also keep/speedy keep. (non-admin closure) ~ Aseleste  (t, e &#124; c, l) 03:20, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Editinginterface

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Empty, less explanatory than default, not edited since 2008. 54nd60x (talk) 11:52, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * redirect to mediawiki:Editnotice-8. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:19, 14 April 2021 (UTC) withdraw opinion. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:00, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep  deleting this page will cause it to show the mediawiki default for this message, in its current state it does not show the message; and the message that  mentioned is already displayed.  We also don't use redirects on interface messages like this, when needed we do the reverse and transclude one message in to the other. With this new information do you still advocate for deletion 54nd60x? —  xaosflux  Talk 13:38, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep. This doesn't really belong at MfD in my opinion, this should be discussed at the WP:Interface administrators' noticeboard, where people who actually know what they're doing can discuss this to avoid breaking edit notices across the entire site. Per above having a blank page may be intentional, as it supresses the default output of the software, I fail to see why "less explanatory than default" is an issue since it isn't in active use, and this isn't a page that should be edited regularly, so I also fail to see why "not edited since 2008" is important. As an aside I'm a fan of "If it ain't broke don't fix it" when it comes to mediawiki since the software is literally held together with duct tape, and there is no benefit whatsoever to deleting this harmless blank page and the potential for catastrophic damage if something is still using it. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 16:06, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Strong keep per the explanation of the purpose of the page by Xaosflux above. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 21:07, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Strong keep After reading this new information, I request the message to be kept, but  can be removed so that the result is a blank message as I don't see the meaning of those HTML tags. 54nd60x (talk) 10:38, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Why? If they're not affecting anything leave them alone, they might be there for a reason, and we shouldn't be deleting them because you don't know why they're there. It's a blank fully protected page in a part of the encyclopaedia that no one accesses on a regular basis, there is no benefit whatsoever to changing it and it's possible that there's some kludge out there still using it for something. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 11:46, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The are still holding the class tag on their element in the output, can you describe an actual problem that is occurring here? — xaosflux  Talk 00:40, 16 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep per WP:Chesterton's fence and the failure of the nominator to explain any harm that this page is causing. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:58, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per Xaosflux's explanation. —  csc -1 04:53, 18 April 2021 (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.