Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Ed Poor/Flat earth problem


 * 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The result of the discussion was Keep MfD withdrawn and userfied article tagged as an essay. Tim Vickers (talk) 20:01, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Ed Poor/Flat earth problem
Deleted after Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Flat earth problem, author moved the text of the article to userspace and replaced Flat earth problem with a cross-mainspace redirect to his userfied copy. I have deleted this redirect. No edits made to the usefied copy for over a month. I haven't included this in Miscellany for deletion/Ed Poor subpages since it is more recent than those examples. -- Tim Vickers (talk) 22:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * keep only userfied for a month -- seems premature to say it has been there too long. Collect (talk) 23:47, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep and I think its a reasonably good page at that as an opinion. Well within user space tolerance for essays of this sort. DGG (talk) 01:27, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per DGG. Jclemens (talk) 03:36, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep: the premises are erroneous, the logic is flawed and it appears to be a naked attempt to undercut WP:REDFLAG. On the other hand, people seem to have a very-nearly 'anything goes' approach to user essays. So I suppose that this is acceptable, along with essays stating that 'Only people named "Bob" (no Robbies or Bobbies need apply) are reliable sources', and that 'We have to turn all the text in Wikipedia green, otherwise the Martian goats will eat them'. HrafnTalkStalk 08:57, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * As a note, if people think it would be best to just tag this as an essay, I'd be OK with that solution as well. However, at present it is categorised as an article. Tim Vickers (talk) 15:59, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * My first impression was also to read it as an article -- and thus deletable as an article on a self-created protoneologism. Then I noticed that it had been userfied from WP-space -- and was thus an essay, rather than an article, so should still be considered an essay. So yes, tagging it as an essay would be the right thing to do. HrafnTalkStalk 17:53, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. I don't think this needs to be deleted now, so I'll say Keep Tim Vickers (talk) 18:57, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * keep per Hrafn. JoshuaZ (talk) 18:27, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
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