Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Buddy431/List of people who died on their birthdays

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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. BencherliteTalk 15:12, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

User:Buddy431/List of people who died on their birthdays


This appears to be a WP:FAKEARTICLE or wP:NOTWEBHOST. This article has been deleted and then deleted again. Ca2james (talk) 20:33, 22 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - It is cost-free to keep this userfied draft for eventual return as a mainspace article should sourcing eventually emerge. Moreover, consensus can change, after all. Carrite (talk) 17:17, 23 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment None of the three copies of this article in userspace had been edited since 2011. It's difficult to believe that any of these copies are for a future article when they hadn't been touched in well over three years - it's more likely that it's a WP:STALEDRAFT. Even if this was a future article, there's certainly no need to have three untouched copies of it in userspace. Ca2james (talk) 03:03, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually this has been revised extensively over the years, but curiously enough never by the editor who's space it is in. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:13, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * For some reason I thought none had been edited since 2011 but I see that I was wrong - thank you for correcting me. I've stricken that part of my previous comment.
 * Since this page has been edited by numerous people over a period of years just as if it were a mainspace page, I'm concerned that the editors don't have a clear understanding of WP:USERPAGE policies. Ca2james (talk) 15:53, 24 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. Consensus can change but there's no evidence of a change in consensus. List of people who died on their birthdays was deleted again in 2012 and no one has attempted to discuss restoration. There's an attribution failure here as well. The contents from this are precisely or substantially the same as what was deleted at List of people who died on their birthdays without the proper attribution. G4 requires that content moved to user space must be "for explicit improvement (but not simply to circumvent Wikipedia's deletion policy)" which seems to be the case here. Also, isn't anyone curious why User:TexasAndroid chose to create a copy in someone else's userspace? The actual editor who's space this is in has never edited the page. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:51, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I found the explanation but that doesn't help with the attribution issue. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:19, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The page was created specifically to answer a reference desk question from April 2011. Since this occurred nearly four years ago and the page hasn't been improved at all since then, the page is a WP:STALEDRAFT (in addition to the WP:NOTWEBHOST and WP:FAKEARTICLE concerns) and should be deleted. Ca2james (talk) 16:49, 18 January 2015 (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.