Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:A1savannah09/Dominique chickens

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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. Salvio Let's talk about it! 01:01, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

User:A1savannah09/Dominique chickens


This userspace page is a stale alternative version of the article Dominique (chicken). It was created in 2009 and represents its author's only edit. Although "[s]hort-term hosting of potentially valid articles and other reasonable content under development or in active use is usually acceptable", userspace is not intended for long-term hosting of abandoned article drafts (User page).

I considered the possibility of merging usable content to Dominique (chicken), but there are complicating factors. For one, it is not clear from which source or sources much of the information was taken, and such content is not suitable for merging. In addition, most of the remaining content closely paraphrases this source (present in the main article); e.g., compare

"The differences between Plymouth Rock and Dominique was not made until 1870 when the New York Sate poultry show made a rule that only rose combed fowl of a smaller size could compete as Dominiques, and that all medium and large single combed fowl of this color would be known as Plymouth Rocks."

with

"The differentiation between Plymouth Rock and Dominique was not made until 1870 when the management of the New York state poultry show ruled that only rose combed fowl of intermediate size could compete as Dominiques, and that all medium and large single combed fowl of this color would be known as Plymouth Rocks. (source)"

For these reasons, I think the page ought to be deleted. -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:32, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:STALEDRAFT, user is long gone so this isn't going to be improved no matter how long we give it. Thryduulf (talk) 07:26, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per both above. Sounds like an unhelpful fork.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:01, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:STALEDRAFT states: "Userspace is not a free web host and should not be used to indefinitely host pages that look like articles, old revisions, or deleted content, or your preferred version of disputed content. Private copies of pages that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion." Because this page violates WP:NOTWEBHOST and WP:STALEDRAFT, it should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 04:08, 12 May 2011 (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.