Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Belugaboy/Block

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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! 09:54, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

User:Belugaboy/Block


To quote Cunard, who has used this argument numerous times:

"WP:UP states that examples of unrelated content to writing an encyclopedia are "Games, roleplaying sessions, secret pages and other things pertaining to "entertainment" rather than "writing an encyclopedia". Such activities are generally frowned upon by the community. Games of no educational value relevant to the project are routinely deleted at MfD."

WP:NOTMYSPACE states that "[t]he focus of user pages should not be social networking or amusement, but rather providing a foundation for effective collaboration.""

 HurricaneFan 25  16:26, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep- harmless humour page. Reyk  YO!  20:14, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete obvious violation of WP:UP. Also serves no point since there seems to be nothing leading to this page anymore, making it useless. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 02:56, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete It's not completely useless, it is linked from his main userpage. But it violates WP:UP per above.  -- N  Y  Kevin  @777, i.e. 17:39, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and TPH. -- Klein zach  02:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. This doesn't really qualify as a "game" by any sensible definition (what are the rules? how do I win or lose the game?); instead, it is a simple joke, i.e. a humour page, and harmless. Three of the other categories of non-acceptable user page content listed at WP:UP specifically mention extensive - this little humour page is far from extensive, and I therefore don't believe it violates that section of the guideline. (Maybe the last sentence in the page needs removing in order to comply properly, though.) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 05:41, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete The arguments for deleting secret pages are summarized in the essay Why secret pages should be deleted. WP:UP states that examples of unrelated content to writing an encyclopedia are "Games, roleplaying sessions, secret pages and other things pertaining to "entertainment" rather than "writing an encyclopedia". Such activities are generally frowned upon by the community. Games of no educational value relevant to the project are routinely deleted at MfD." WP:NOTMYSPACE states that "[t]he focus of user pages should not be social networking or amusement, but rather providing a foundation for effective collaboration." To the creator: in a July/August 2010 policy discussion (at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/Archive 34), community consensus was that the policy What Wikipedia is not does prohibit secret pages. The deletion of this page is not a reflection on you; instead, it is a reflection of the changing community consensus that secret pages set an inappropriate ethos at Wikipedia. In that policy discussion, I wrote here about why all secret pages should be treated equally; whether a user social networks or does not social network on Wikipedia has no bearing on the fact that all secret pages should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 05:49, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Thse silly old games are a waste of time and a negatively contibution to the project.  However, a MfD listing is a bigger negative than running the hMfD discussion, so I urge nominators to simply blank in the firsst instance.  Delete, now that we are here; making it clear that silly, non-educational games are not acceptable.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 15:59, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Unilaterally blanking this page is unhelpful; the community decided to discussion the deletion of these pages on a "case-by-case" basis, which unilateral blanking would not provide. In this particular case, blanking would have been unhelpful owing to the discussion I started in October 2010 at User talk:Belugaboy/Archive 1/Archives/ 1. One of the user's friends defended the page and the user decided not to heed my comment. A year later, the WP:NOTMYSPACE-violating page will be deleted. Cunard (talk) 18:05, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, you are right. This is not the first interaction, and MfD is well used when the user is obstinate.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:57, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. bd2412  T 17:56, 23 November 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.