Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AaronSw/Campaign finance groups

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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. Salvio Let's talk about it! 11:00, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

User:AaronSw/Campaign finance groups


Please don't think me morbid, but this unfortunately deceased user won't be working on these anymore, and many of them appear to be more like personal notebooks than working drafts. This is routine cleanup; it may just be a more emotional process than usual. --BDD (talk) 16:19, 5 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Without looking at the others, User:AaronSw/Election is linked in many places both on-wiki, and off-wiki (mailing lists, blog posts, other wikis), and should be kept. Legoktm (talk) 10:34, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I suppose we should keep the two subpages as well. --BDD (talk) 19:18, 16 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - so long as they aren't used like the ones mentioned above. I would also add that if they are used in the manner mentioned above we should change them to reside in a better location. Kumioko (talk) 22:31, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep – these do absolutely no harm to leave where they are, and several of them are incredibly useful. I direct people to User:AaronSw/David Foster Wallace nonfiction at least once every couple months. –jacobolus (t) 03:55, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It might be best to make a personal copy, then. WP:NOTWEBHOST applies. --BDD (talk) 05:19, 19 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep. I come here from a real-world link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AaronSw/Election and I am surprised to see that such deletions are proposed. Additionnally, from a non-real-world point of view, the page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/AaronSw/En#AaronSw makes reference to User:AaronSw/Election. In fact, this User:AaronSw/Election was a part of the Statements done by candidate Aaron Swartz for the 2006 election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. The deletion proposals amount to replace this link by "we are sorry but AaronSw has personally encountered a deletion process... and his Statements also".
 * By the way, I am *really* surprised that the Election pages were not at the top of the list of the pages proposed to deletion (and give a more informative title to this deletion request). I am also surprised that the "Please consider notifying the author(s) by placing User:AaronSw/Song lyrics ~ on their talk page(s)." has been skipped.
 * To be sure of my Keep opinion, I have open some other pages of the list. The User:AaronSw/Song lyrics is referred into the User:AaronSw page that "is preserved here in their memory". How to deal with this link ? Adding the comment "useless, he will never more sing anything" ?
 * To conclude, the 'toread' page links to
 * As a progressive activist, I share the same fear that Mr. Kinoy must have felt hearing those words. I myself have heard them, and they make me very angry. My greatest fear is also "growing old" in that manner. I believe, though, that is is possible to stay true and not forget yourself.
 * Due to the circumstances, the way how AaronSw would have grow old will remain unknown, but I think that it is of academic interest to keep clues about the reflections of this person. Pldx1 (talk) 08:56, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your humane appeal, but I'm concerned at the precedent this would set. "You can't indefinitely store personal materials on Wikipedia. Unless you're famous." --BDD (talk) 15:10, 21 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep, this is a valuable resource. DavidPKendal (talk) 19:37, 21 June 2013 (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.