Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Avy/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. -- Cirt (talk) 00:38, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

User:Avy/Sandbox
Defined by WP:NOT a file storage area. Not a encyclopedic page. Alpha Quadrant   talk    21:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Are you referring to WP:NOTMIRROR point 4? If so, that is about articles, not user space - for which you need to look at WP:UPNOT. I should also point out that this particular page (in pretty much this format) has been around since June 2009. I am curious as to why you did not discuss this with User:Avy before either putting it up for Speedy Deletion (for complete transparency, I declined that - and discussed this briefly with in IRC) or before bringing it here. I realise that xe is not a regular editor (there tends to be 2–3 weeks between edits), but basic courtesy towards a long-established (since 2007) editor with about 1000 edits (about 61% to articles) would seem to have suggested that discussing it with Avy would have been a good idea! Remember (as I said in IRC) - Wikipedia is not censored and all the images on that page are free use images (I think on Commons). Unless I see more specific policy guidance showing that this use of a userpage is wrong, then I'm veering towards keep --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 21:50, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep User space galleries are OK, so long as they are free images. Gigs (talk) 23:40, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't know which is more perverse - someone having what I can only describe as a "wank gallery" in their user space, or someone else trying to delete such galleries from other people's user spaces. 91.110.249.239 (talk) 01:37, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Definitely a slippery slope issue here... are we going to start deleting userspace catalogues of Renaissance art because of nudity? Peter Karlsen (talk) 07:12, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * nota bene: "WP:NOT a file storage area" is important: high-resolution images or other media can use up significant bandwidth if someone has uploaded them to hot-link from an external high-traffic page. This problem is minimized by ensuring that all uploaded media are free content, and consistent with the missions of Wikipedia or Commons. However, userspace pages such as this do not "store" media in any meaningful sense, being merely internal links to files that have already been uploaded (and not deleted, thus being found to be acceptable content for their host projects.) Peter Karlsen (talk) 07:32, 29 September 2010 (UTC)


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