Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MfD daily logs for 2005


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany 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 debate was Early Delete. Per all below. — xaosflux  Talk  17:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

MfD daily logs for 2005
The 79 pages included in this nomination are daily logs of MfD nominations (under various names) from 2005 that are now redundant to the main monthly archives. For your convenience, I have listed the archives below:
 * August 2005
 * September 2005
 * October 2005
 * November 2005

I propose that these pages be deleted for the following reasons:
 * 1) They no longer serve a purpose ... I have transcluded all discussions contained in the daily log pages onto the appropriate monthly archive page.
 * 2) They create unnecessary clutter that makes the MfD archives more confusing and less navigable. That was the reason I set out to move all of the transclusions.
 * 3) They have no significant incoming links (except from lists of pages from database dumps). Thus, their deletion will not create any broken links.

As these are just redundant archive pages, there is no point to marking them as "historical" ... they are of no historical value whatsoever. They are redundant and create a mess of pages that reduces the navigability of MfD archives. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 04:07, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

August 2005

September 2005

October 2005

November 2005


 * Question: How will this affect load times of those monthly logs? - Mgm|(talk) 10:57, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Negligible, see the links now, I've updated them to the new format (using bulleted discussion links instead of transclusions). — xaosflux  Talk
 * Delete as house keeping, unless anyone can point out any data that would be lost in doing so, in which case Redirect. — xaosflux  Talk  12:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge (already done) and redirect How would deleting the daily logs affect copyright? Not that it's likely to matter, but presumably there's a chance that an MfD was logged by a user other than the nominator, and so the authorship information of the logs themselves would be lost, contrary to the GFDL. To get rid of the slight chance of accidental copyvio, I suggest redirecting the logs so that they can hold the authorship information (the merging's primarily to reduce confusion, and redirection does this just as well as deletion does). --ais523 12:34, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete this is housekeeping stuff. And major props to Black Falcon for taking on this work. ^ demon [omg plz] 13:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. First, kudos to Black Falcon for an amazing wiki-gnome job! :)  I appreciate ais523 attention to GFDL, but all revelant information to the MfD's copyright would be maintained at the individual MfD subpage.  The only thing lost would be the event of the listing; whether done by the nominator, or someone else, this event (in itself) is not subject to copyright anyway: it doesn't involve any creative act.  Wikignome tasks like that are kept for the project's utility only.  With this reworking of the archives, they have no more utility. Xoloz 15:31, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Xoloz, in whose expression of appreciation for the new format I most surely join. Joe 05:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as housekeeping (CSD G6). No historical purpose served, moved to one subpage, great job by Black Falcon. Sr13 (T|C) 09:34, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge (already done) and delete Xoloz is right, this doesn't cause any copyright information to be lost. --ais523 11:26, 6 May 2007 (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.