Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:たいすけ55/sandbox

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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: keep. No consensus to delete at this time. Distinct from the cases where someone has 1500+ edits to their sandbox alone because this person is a prolific contributor to ja.wiki, so they are indeed a good-faith editor. With regards to the theory that it's a transcribed documentary - maybe so, but without a possible source, we can't make that assumption. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 19:57, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

User:たいすけ55/sandbox


Another user page that has 300+k of content that does not appear to be headed toward article space/improvement. Violation of NOTWEBHOST. Drmies (talk) 01:43, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - It's a sandbox, and appears to be actively used for some sort of experiment. I have no idea what the experiment is, but that doesn't matter.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:30, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Robert McClenon, it does matter. It has to be related to work for Wikipedia. Drmies (talk) 14:11, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - I'm willing to assume good faith based on the complete ignorance that I can't read the script. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:47, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I pasted a google translation at User:たいすけ55/sandbox google translated. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:39, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * weak Keep.  has 20K+ edits on ja.wikipedia.org.  Content appears plausibly related to inter-wikipedia translations.  This is a proper use of userspace.  WMF is one project, work in userspace at en.wikipedia.org is allowed to be in support of the foreign projects.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:43, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , I get your point, and I saw at least one baseball-related edit they made on the Japanese Wikipedia, but I still don't see what 450k of possibly copy-pasted text (see below and, how's your Japanese?), Japanese prose, can do for our project. Drmies (talk) 14:16, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * User:Drmies|Drmies, agreed, it is not clear how it could be for project related purposes. It could be the transcript of a documentary, intended to contribute to material for articles.  It can be useful to trawl unreliable sources for material before looking for the same material in reliable sources.  It would be good to hear from the user.  An assessment of the quality of the user's Japanese baseball article contributions could be informative.  An explanation for why this is on en.wikipedia.org, instead of ja.wikipedia.org, is probably reasonable to ask.  AGF is a good thing, but I think it is more probably that this page is being used for webhosting for non-project purposes.  Weakening my "keep".  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:58, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Just a note: if it is indeed the transcript of a documentary, it's a copyright violation and must be deleted regardless of the reason it is here. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 21:29, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. After reading the translation, I would tag both for speedy deletion under CSD G11, but that would be improper given the keep votes already cast. "Prior to entering the stance, from a distinctive style that warped the upper body largely backwards, a series of oversized homeruns were revived with a brilliant upper swing." "In 2001 he visited Japan suddenly hit 49 home runs and also caused a whirlwind with 'Twin Bazooka gun'" "The high batting average is constantly kept every year". For goodness' sake, just read it. It's far too bloated to be an encyclopedia article, it's written like a narrative with autobiographical portions (interviews?) interspersed, it promotes the batting record of the subject, et cetera. The whole thing looks to me like a copyvio, but given how many times this has probably been copy-pasted, I have no idea where to begin trying to prove that. But is absolutely correct that this is a WP:NOTWEBHOST violation. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 14:00, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Now that I think about it, you know what it read an awful lot like to me? The transcript of a documentary. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 21:30, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - I'd like to hear from . As they've been working on this sandbox up to and including today, a sensible first step if it's not even clear what's going on would probably be to communicate with that editor directly rather than tag it for deletion... That said, I was ready to !vote keep when I saw that of his/her 1,487 edits to enwiki, 1,355 are to this sandbox page. In 2015 their activity looks to have shifted away from mainspace completely, save a single-digit number of edits. What's going on? &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 14:38, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Unconvinced by any reason given here to delete it, Simply being large and not understandable to non Japanese speakers is not a valid enough reason. Probably best to leave established editor's sandboxes alone. Egaoblai (talk) 20:01, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Neutral - Having read the translation, I can't see a good case for keeping it, but the case for deletion hasn't been made either. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:35, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep per Robert McClenon and SmokeyJoe. I also share Rhododendrites concerns. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 17:07, 27 June 2018 (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.