Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Goriana/sandbox

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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: redirect to David A. Ansell. And for the love of fuck, draftspace or userspace dupes of mainspace articles can be redirected or histmerged without needing an MfD. I gotta start speedy closing these. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

User:Goriana/sandbox


Redundant to David A. Ansell. Likely the source/draft for the mainspace article, but no attribution issues because the same user copied it to mainspace.  P 1 9 9  ✉ 19:21, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete now that we are here but you can just blank or redirect such pages. Legacypac (talk) 19:25, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was really thinking about blanking it, but there is very little reason to think this user will come back (inactive since 2011). I prefer cleaning house. --  P 1 9 9  ✉ 19:53, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Same, but you'll find a fairly overwhelming consensus against that here. Basically everyone but and I. Just redirect to the article, accomplishes basically the same thing without the fuss. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 21:18, 7 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect as a sufficient fix the copy-paste to mainspace. Please do not delete old contributors edit history without good reason (there is no such reason here), it is unwelcoming to them on their return.  Do not work on the assumption that old users do not return, they do, and the assumption is a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Cleaning is good, cleaning your own house is a virtue, cleaning other's houses including disposing of their things is not, it creates far more grief than good.  Redirecting is cleaning without disposing.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:53, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect - What is the point to deleting? For a change User:SmokeyJoe has it right.  If a draft is created in a sandbox, the draft is then moved to draft space, and from there sometimes to mainspace, and the redirects are useful and left in place.  Jump jump jump.  (Redirects are jumps.  Not to be confused with Dump dump dump.)  Replacing this sandbox with a redirect is no different than what would happen if this were done in the AFC manner.  Redirect.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:18, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * So, Robert McClenon, you are going to insinuate that I usually have it wrong? It sounds like you want to get serious, but without saying anything with any substance.  What, exactly, do you want to dispute?  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:07, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - I didn't mean that User:SmokeyJoe is usually wrong, but they are wrong often enough here at MFD. I would like to get serious with crud in draft space that is being pushed aggressively at mainspace, rather than dumping on other Wikipedia volunteers.  Dumping on other Wikipedia volunteers is a Wikipedia way, but it isn't a good idea.  Robert McClenon (talk) 10:40, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to David A. Ansell. Keeping the history visible does no harm. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 20:00, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Obviously not delete - Someone writes a draft in their sandbox, copies it to mainspace, and you want to delete their sandbox? If a history merge is possible (I never quite got the hang of when it is, but as I recall it works when the content was basically the same and there aren't a bunch of other people in between the end of one article and the start of the other?) then that seems most sensible, otherwise if anyone finds the duplicate content offensive, they can just blank it. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:37, 13 May 2018 (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.