Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Mtreichler/Starmind (Web)

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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. — ξ xplicit  05:33, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

User:Mtreichler/Starmind (Web)


Four year old stale draft already covered by Starmind International. Ricky81682 (talk) 01:32, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete now that we are here, it is a superseded draft, but why not pseudo-delete by redirecting to the mainspace article. With one edit, you can solve the problem of old never to be used content lying around, keep the user's contribution history undeleted, and provide a succinct and effective pointer to the better content on the off-chance that the user comes back looking for his old interests, and avoid the administration-heavy process of deleting isolated completely harmless userpages and the risk that some users will find that offensive and unwelcoming on their return.  NB.  To assume that one-time brief contributors will never return is an entirely negative and self-fulfilling belief.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:55, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It wasn't the same user who created it I believe. Else a redirect or a history merge are appropriate. Sometimes, people have found the draft to have useful information and a merge is appropriate. Once people found the draft better and a reverse merge was done. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:14, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * No, unless using a new account (entirely possible but let's ignore that), User:Mtreichler made no contributions to the mainspace article, and his draft was not used by others. It is an unused draft, very drafty at that, and certainly not deserving of a history merge.  I would of redirected with the edit summary "superseded".  The redirect is only of any possible value to User:Mtreichler and is only a very very cheap userspace redirect.  The redirect does not imply any contribution was made to the target.  Someone interested in the mainspace article may look through the incoming links, and although there is nothing of value in this case, that can sometimes turn up interesting old things.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:25, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Except it isn't related, history or otherwise. If it was, I'd suggest or conduct a merger myself (see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Harry Blue5/Arthas Menethil). There was once where the draft became the main and it got redirected that way. :) You'll find dozens of drafts of the same topic once in a while (especially old video games articles for some reason). Redirecting to the mainspace article may make some sense but if the mainspace article becomes a redirect, there's nonsense double-redirects; if it's deleted, these redirects need to be deleted; if it's moved, so on and so on. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:39, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I think we are talking on different wavelengths. There is no "except".  It is unrelated and inferior, and should be deleted or pseudo-deleted (blanked or redirected or soft-redirected).  Disagree that the hypothetical double redirect is of any concern.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:05, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * We agree on delete then. As I said, it's a four year old draft already covered by the mainspace version. The psuedo-deletion is disagreed upon I guess. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:21, 21 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete as not needed. SwisterTwister   talk  06:09, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. We don't need copies in userspace. jni (delete)...just not interested 17:10, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
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