Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Gabriel Kent/archive:Biography of Nikola Tesla

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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. MER-C 12:03, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

User:Gabriel Kent/archive:Biography of Nikola Tesla


The text on the page says "This article contains additional biographical information about Nikola Tesla that is not on the main page." Its intent is clearly to serve as a WP:FAKEARTICLE. Binksternet (talk) 05:12, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Nikola Tesla. No need to delete this Wikipedian's userspace edits.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete as forked content of Biography of Nikola Tesla. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:34, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete as per nom. Yes, we need to delete this to discourage user from creating copies of existing articles. -- P 1 9 9 ✉ 16:38, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Deleting random edits from a user's edit history makes it harder for the community to detect and discourage real problems. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:41, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The user hasn't been involved for years. Keeping it around allows the possibility of the user still doing this and the end result would be the deletion of these pages anyways and a block of the user. It's easier to tell someone that their pages were deleted for misuse than to detect these things absent insanely rigorous watching of every single userpage out there. There's no attribution problem as discussed below or else a redirect would be necessary. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:28, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I think you are correct. I had not noticed the article Biography of Nikola Tesla, just that the material was more than that at Nikola Tesla.  Old forked content is a Wikipedia copyrights menace, and being old forked content is a very good reason to delete.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:34, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. You need to review the history with with Biography of Nikola Tesla which is where this version comes from. Compare this with this. There were minimal changes in this version here while the original biography article was made into a redirect and merged into the main article in June 2005. At that point, the subsequent changes here are not important enough to be kept since they haven't been incorporated and thus we don't need to worry about attribution. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:21, 8 July 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.