Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Moriting/Leigh mathews


 * 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--Aervanath (talk) 05:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

User:Moriting/Leigh mathews
Inappropriate use of userspace; userspace is supposed to be for working on content that will improve the Wikipedia. This is just the user editorializing on some issue. NW ( Talk ) ( How am I doing? ) 02:45, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep Brand-new user. Biting newcomers does not help.  Single line does not make WEBHOST invokable.  And userspace is not required to be for developing articles.  Lastly if this is "editorializing" I suggest you read 90% of userspace pages.  No sound reason for deletion. Collect (talk) 10:29, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Per this guideline from WP:User, I understood the content to be irrelevant to Wikipedia, or his general actions to Wikipedia. In fact, it is simply a piece criticizing the media for bringing hyping the Leigh Matthews murder. I don't believe that we should allow this type of content to be kept on Wikipedia. We are (theoretically) an encyclopedia, and things on Wikipedia should be at least tangentially related it. NW ( Talk ) ( How am I doing? ) 15:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Userspace is neither expected nor required to be part of the encyclopedia. That is why we have userspace.  If we were to require everything to be the encyclopedia, users would vanish - we allow essays, c.v.s and more as long as they do not violate certain direct rules, and the user is actually trying to be productive as well. Collect (talk) 12:34, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Userspace is not expected to be part of the encyclopedia, but it is expected (WP:NOT, WP:UP) to be used to support the encyclopedia—at minimum, to be relevant to the encyclopedia. –B LACK F ALCON  (T ALK ) 05:06, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - harmless essay. Bearian (talk) 21:44, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, obvious violation of WP:WEBHOST. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 01:03, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is not harmless; it has potential BLP issues. While it doesn't mention the apparent 'killer' by name, it's clearly about a real person, we still shouldn't allow people to use their userspace for casting aspersions on real people. Robofish (talk) 04:40, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. The content of the page is unrelated to the encyclopedia (see WP:UP) and, as mentioned by Robofish, has potential BLP issues (yes, even criminals are protected by the BLP policy). –B LACK F ALCON  (T ALK ) 05:06, 27 May 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.