Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Old drafts

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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 all. JohnCD (talk) 12:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Old drafts

 * (irrelevant for 11 years)
 * (empty since 2009)
 * (former merge sandbox, empty since 2011)

These old drafts, sandboxes, or test pages have just been sitting around. I found several others, and moved them to /sandbox names when possible, but these either have no parent page, or there is already a newer /sandbox for the parent. Two of these are tagged with, but there appears to be no WP-history-relevant reason to retain these in particular; they're just old drafting that someone abandoned. This actually points out a WP:CSD gap, since the last two of those should be speediable. G6 should explicitly include deletion of empty pages; presently there's only an "empty" criterion for articles (A3), categories (C1), files (F2), and portals (P2), but it should apply generally, including to projectpages, templates, userpages other than /sandbox, etc.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  18:21, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete the first as old sandboxing. These should only be temporary, as with sandboxing of mainspace articles.
 * Delete the second and third, yes, given User:SMcCandlish's assessment.
 * Oppose G6, or any speedy, applying in project space for "empty since". Not all admins can be trusted to look as deeply as SMcCandlish, many consider the CSD criteria as missions to delete anything and everything that it would seem to apply to.  Pages of no clear purpose may have a purpose that you see, especially if old, and if new the author may be intending something that you are about to disrupt.  Far better, as in effective and safer, to userfy weird single author things from ProjectSpace without leaving a redirect.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:38, 17 November 2015 (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.