Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Joe Neilson

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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. ✗ plicit  23:48, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Joe Neilson

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An unreferenced WP:FAKEARTICLE about a possibly living person. Flounder fillet (talk) 17:15, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep: Weak keep, weak blank. I have added Userpage. It is a Wikipedia article style Userpage about the user himself.  There is a url in there.  It is not unsourced, and as it looks like a draft it is not eligible for WP:U5, but is very close.  The intention appears to be self promotion for a political candidate, who did not win.  Probably it should be Blanked, and pages like this should be blanked instead of being brought to MfD.  SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:18, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Blank. Despite WP:FAKEARTICLE indeed suggesting deletion, there is a negligible probability that anyone will ever even view this content once blanked, or will want to restore it to be able to keep editing it or to copy it somewhere else on Wikipedia, and its nature is not such that applying a "high degree of sensitivity" would point to a need to make the content inaccessible from page history. So deletion is not realistically, meaningfully better than blanking, and if deletion is not better than blanking, blanking is better than deletion.—Alalch E. 02:21, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete - This would be a marginally valid use of userspace by a user who was editing Wikipedia. The user is not editing Wikipedia, so that this is U5 and is web hosting.  Robert McClenon (talk) 06:09, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Have you read “except for plausible drafts” at WP:U5. This page is a plausible draft, even if it is an autobiography. SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:43, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes. We very seldom see plausible draft autobiographies by users who do not otherwise edit Wikipedia.
 * I still consider this a misuse of Wikipedia, although it is not one covered by any of the criteria for speedy deletion, so we are here at MFD. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:12, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree with that. Not meeting U5 doesn’t mean it is not misuse of Wikipedia, just that it is formatted like an article.
 * I think pages like this, involving a public person autobiography, might be better blanked on sight than put through MfD, but I don’t oppose deletion. SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:47, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete The edits by multiple users and IP addresses in the page's history, as well as the hundreds of pageviews over its lifetime, suggest that it is receiving views somehow and misleading people. There are probably links to this page somewhere on the internet, and if viewers who click them find blank white, they may look through page history. The page also nearly meets the threshold of U5. Air on White (talk) 00:53, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete Useless, no point in blanking rather than full deletion. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:00, 28 May 2024 (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.