Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Doxent/List of singers by range


 * 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 debate was Keep - Nothing wrong with this use of userspace as long as it doesn't come up on a Google search and is properly identified as a non-article. Added userpage, NOINDEX already added by KSB. Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:07, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Doxent/List of singers by range
List which resides in the userspace of an inactive user, is heavily edited (well, by user subpage standards) by third parties and appears (based on editing patterns of the users whom have contributed) to have recently and at several times in the past been used as a source for the addition of unreferenced information into article space by well-meaning, mostly new users. Many 'vocal range' lists similar to this one have been deleted from article space in the past as unverifiable original research (e.g. see Articles for deletion/List of contemporary and crossover bass-baritones).

From my reading of User_page, I would contend that this page serves the purpose of 'functionally substituting for articles or Wikipedia space pages' and is 'used solely for long-term archival purposes' and thus should probably be deleted per NOT.

There is absolutely nothing to say that the entries here are factually correct - and that the fact that data from this list is finding its way cross-namespace again, resulting in the need for editors to manually sift through categories and weed out article additions not supported by a reliable source (as I shall shortly be doing), probably means that this list is doing more harm than good by being here. Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 00:13, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep place a warning notice at the top and use __NOINDEX__ . It's generally acceptable to have such lists in the userspace even if that list would not survive in the article space. This is because lists in project/user space can be used for very different reasons, such as finding articles to work on, a custom watchlist, etc. -- Ned Scott 03:28, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. Looks like it relates to building mainspace content.  This is what userspace is for.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:46, 24 August 2008 (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.