Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Maynassar article copies


 * 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 all Closing early per WP:SNOW and WP:IAR. As this user has done nothing but make copies of articles into their user space, and has ignored attempts to communicate with them, it seems clear that they either misunderstand what Wikipedia is for or simply don't care. Further attempt made at explaining licensing and attribution issues to user along with closing. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:20, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

User:Maynassar article copies
I'm nominating everything currently at Special:PrefixIndex/User:Maynassar/ but not placing Mfd on each of them. User:Maynassar has copied 44 articles to user subpages over 3 months and has no edits outside own userspace. I asked for the purpose of these copies at User talk:Maynassar, explained some problems with them and asked for permission to delete. The only response was to make 3 more copies. There is no sign the user is working on these articles. They were copied with categories, fair use images and everything. Others have cleaned up some of them. --PrimeHunter (talk) 14:54, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Maynassar/Agriculture
 * User:Maynassar/Al capone
 * User:Maynassar/Amesterdam
 * User:Maynassar/Amrito Rao
 * User:Maynassar/Amy Adams
 * User:Maynassar/Amy Lee
 * User:Maynassar/Amy Smart
 * User:Maynassar/Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
 * User:Maynassar/Ana Ivanovic
 * User:Maynassar/Anal fissure
 * User:Maynassar/Analysis of variance
 * User:Maynassar/Analytical chemistry
 * User:Maynassar/Anarchy
 * User:Maynassar/Anastacia
 * User:Maynassar/Anchor
 * User:Maynassar/Ancient Greece
 * User:Maynassar/Ancient Rome
 * User:Maynassar/Anderson Cooper
 * User:Maynassar/Andhra Pradesh
 * User:Maynassar/Andorra
 * User:Maynassar/Andre Agassi
 * User:Maynassar/Andrea Bocelli
 * User:Maynassar/Andrei Arshavin
 * User:Maynassar/Anemia
 * User:Maynassar/David Archuleta
 * User:Maynassar/Egypt
 * User:Maynassar/Hepatitis B
 * User:Maynassar/Madhubala
 * User:Maynassar/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
 * User:Maynassar/Resistance 2
 * User:Maynassar/Samurai Jack
 * User:Maynassar/Scuba diving
 * User:Maynassar/Sum 41
 * User:Maynassar/armored vehicle
 * User:Maynassar/genetically modified food
 * User:Maynassar/high school
 * User:Maynassar/kosher food
 * User:Maynassar/list of prime numbers
 * User:Maynassar/oedipus
 * User:Maynassar/open shortest path first
 * User:Maynassar/opeth
 * User:Maynassar/puerperal fever
 * User:Maynassar/salt
 * User:Maynassar/universal mobile telecommunications system
 * Delete. Massive violation of GFDL and Image Fair Use Policy. In addition user is unresponsive to enquiries from other users. This is not a good omen about their encyclopedia-building intentions. Dr.K.praxislogos 15:04, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete in the absence of a reason to keep. Although not an actual current GFDL problem, these copies present of possible GFDL problem should they later be used for something.  Keeping a copy of a deleted page is OK, if there is some worthwhile purpose, but these pages exist in mainspace and continue to be edited.  If there is work on them to be done, the work should be done directly to the mainspace article.  If the copied versions have some special relevance, link to the version, don't copy it.  Don't fork within the project without good reason.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 20:51, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Under the GFDL every time you make a copy of the material you must acknowledge the contributors of the material. Transplanting the material to user space without acknowledging the contributors of the original article is a current and real violation of GFDL. Dr.K.praxislogos 01:14, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Can that problem be overrcome by providing an attriubtion statement on the talk page? However, I think we agree on wanting to dissuade needless content forking?   --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:41, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. Content forking in userspace is covered under WP:FAKEARTICLE as Deserted Cities mentions below and should not be done. Attribution in this case is needed but since these pages will most likely be deleted in the near future I am not sure it is worth the trouble. Dr.K.praxislogos 02:53, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:FAKEARTICLE, the user is not allowed to keep copies of actual articles in their userspace. Deserted Cities (talk) 22:13, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:FAKEARTICLE, and direct the user to read that guideline. A massively inappropriate use of userspace. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 06:16, 15 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete I will also note User:WikiDocster, and a few weeks ago there was another "Egyptian medical student" who did nothing but copy articles to their userspace and these were all deleted. There is a pattern here and I don't get it. Miami33139 (talk) 00:27, 19 November 2009 (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.