Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Balloonman/You Might Be a military Brat if:

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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. JohnCD (talk) 11:35, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

User:Balloonman/You Might Be a military Brat if:
Sorry to be a jerk, but I see no encyclopedic reason to have this page, it adds nothing to the project NOT comes in here C T J F 8 3  chat 22:10, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Not disruptive, not attacking other editors, no policy-based reason for articulation given. Note that it is already tagged as humor, whether or not you find it funny. Jclemens (talk) 01:25, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Editors matter. Harmless user subpage. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:27, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Did you both miss my reason for deletion? This adds nothing to the encyclopedia, it's not that i find it disruptive or unfunny, Metro, can you find a policy not an essay to support your keep and Jclemens I'm pretty sure WP:NOT is a policy. Unlike useless essays, a policy says Wikipedia is not a personal webpage. Again, this add zero to the encyclopedia, and belongs on Facebook/Myspace (another WP:NOT) C T J F 8 3  chat 07:39, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, but User pages, which is a project content guideline referenced from the same section of WP:NOT that you are citing, says that a user is allowed to have a "small and proportionate amount of suitable unrelated material" in their userspace. And, in fact, this content is somewhat related to the user's Wikipedia activities. User:Balloonman successfully nominated Military brat (U.S. subculture) for featured article status (although it has since been demoted), and this user subpage deals with that subculture from a personalized perspective. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 11:04, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Ya, examples in that section say "....such as (free use) pictures from Wikimedia Commons, favorite Wikipedia articles, or quotations that they like", this is nothing of the such. How many personalized subpages can a user have before it gets ridiculous and too much like Facebook. How many other non-Wikipedia related things have been deleted? (Yes I'm aware of the essay WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS), I can recall one related to a user's gaming. Are we here to build an encyclopedia or provide humor and personalized accounts of ourselves? C T J F 8 3  chat 15:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - Took me a while to come to an opinion. The page "You Might Be a military Brat if:" is non-Wikipedia humor that does not comment on Wikipedia matters. Wikipedia:User pages says: "You can have as many subpages as you want but keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a free web host, please use subpages within reason. (See: Subpages for more)." Subpages doesn't prohibit this type of user subpage and "within reason" seems vague. So it was back to Wikipedia:User pages. What may I have in my user pages? allows Non-article Wikipedia material such as reasonable Wikipedia humor ... comments on Wikipedia matters. This page is not Wikipedia humor that comments on Wikipedia matters. "What may I not have in my user pages?" says "you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia." It does prohibit "things pertaining to "entertainment" rather than "writing an encyclopedia"" but does not expressly mention non-Wikipedia humor that does not comment on Wikipedia matters. The page should not be a user subpage, but if I gotta work this hard to figure it out, then there likely is a weak consensus that "non-Wikipedia humor that does not comment on Wikipedia matters" pages do not belong in user pages. Thus, weak delete. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 07:50, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems to be a lot going on with this topic: Articles for deletion/List of Military Brats (deleted), List of military brats, Featured article review/Military brat (U.S. subculture), List of fictional military brats, Military brat, Military brat pretends to navigate T43, Military Brats waiting for Service Member's return-- Uzma Gamal (talk) 08:39, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep this is in userspace where sometimes it is difficult to see the link to the pedia. In this case the link is presumably an editor revealing something about themselves, their background and their attitudes.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  12:51, 19 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - Wikipedia humor even shows up in Wikipedia space, so it should definitely be fine in a user subpage. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:32, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not really Wikipedia humor, no commentary on Wikipedia-based stuff, just some joke about military brats. NotARealWord (talk) 15:02, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep: I see the point of view of both sides here but I think says it best.  This page gives an insight into the editor and their background.  If this were part of his main userpage, I don't think it would even come up as an issue.  I don't think anyone would question the same content there.  Because I don't feel it would be questioned there, I don't see a problem with it here.--v/r - TP 18:47, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Frankly I don't really care, but it is harmless humor as WSC points out, does provide insight into who I am... for some reason, the word petty comes to mind regarding this discussion. Not worth the time to discuss.--- Balloonman  NO! I'm Spartacus! 19:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. A pleasantly interesting presentation of information about a long term editor.  It's telling us about Balloonman.  Preferably, the source of the lines should be given or made explicit.  Is this list (without Balloonman formatting) from elsewhere?  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep There is no policy saying userspace must be "encyclopedic." This is not spam, not attack, and is properly marked as humor (though it may have truth concealed therein). No real reson to delete - clear Keep. Collect (talk) 20:56, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
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