Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Emilysw/A History of Acting: On the face of it


 * 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--Aervanath (talk) 12:24, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Emilysw/A History of Acting: On the face of it
User has made a single edit, which was to create this article. This article was about to die in PROD. The PROD reason was "This is an essay, not an encyclopedia article." I userfied it at that time for cleanup. Note that this is about acting not a Wikipedia essay. It's been 2 months and the editor seems to have left Wikipedia after creating this. Wikipedia is not personal web space. Contributor info:. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  21:13, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment from nominator Obvious options: Merge into a related article; rewrite it as an article rather than an essay/report; delete it; move it back into article space as-is and send to AFD; leave it alone. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  21:20, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * keep - two months is not that long in the life of a wikipedia editor, I was off for a year and came back. Give it a couple of years before declaring user has gone for good. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:55, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete No realist chance for improvement, shouldn't have been userfied originally.&mdash;Kww(talk) 14:36, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. I agree with Graeme. 2 months isn't long enough to declare a user permanently away. Also, the article on Acting is embarrassingly short and could well profit from either the named sources or a rewrite of the content of this material. I don't feel comfortable deleting this, until the principle editors of said article have looked at the material. At the very least the sources should be dropped off at the relevant talk page. - Mgm|(talk) 10:22, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep No rule against essays in userspace. Did research -- many users are away for up to 8 months for some reason (school? job?) and return as active edotors.  Essay is not spam or advertising of any sort, and has value as an essay. Collect (talk) 12:04, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
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