Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dcoetzee/Willy on Wheels:A Case Study (2nd nomination)

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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) 15:15, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

User:Dcoetzee/Willy on Wheels:A Case Study


This page is obsolete as Willy on Wheels ceased editing many moons ago and I also think it should be deleted because it gives him recognition. VTribut (talk) 15:11, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment Troubling. It does give him recognition, but it also serves an important historical purpose, in that editors, especially those who revert vandalism, can learn from it.  (You know the old quote, something about history repeating itself?)  Anyway, I had not read this particular essay until it came up for deletion here, but some brief research shows that it is copied/quoted extensively off-wiki, so the recognition-cat (so to speak) is out of the bag, and deleting it now will probably do little if anything to curb that.  (It might even spur Willy to make a new appearance, but by itself this isn't a reason to keep the information.)  While the vandal known as Willy on Wheels does seem to have stopped his unruly behavior for now, who is to say that he won't come back someday?  Additionally, there is other Wikipedia evidence of Willy on Wheels, such as this allegedly successful RfA!  I'm leaning toward a 'keep' but officially just 'neutral' for now.   Etamni &#124;  &#9993;  11:08, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * keep I completely forgot this was pending. Since nobody has posted anything that makes me lean the other way, I'll say keep now. Etamni &#124; &#9993; &#124; ✓ 05:37, 13 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep Interesting and informative essay on the history of Wikipedia. There doesn't seem to have been any recent copycats, so no WP:BEANS factor either. Brustopher (talk) 23:45, 12 August 2015 (UTC)


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