Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Mtsuzuki/sandbox/Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History

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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:  Deleted by author request. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:04, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

User:Mtsuzuki/sandbox/Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History

 * – (View MfD)

Part of a group of pages with unclear use, and enormous size. They appear to be just combination pages of smaller "on this day in history" type pages. Pages are upwards of a million bytes with 2,000+ references. Good luck loading them. See here for discussion with user about these pages.

I am also nominating the following related pages. As a note, I tried to add MfD notices to the top of those pages, but they were so large that the server timed out before I could succesfully save the edits:

CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 03:49, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - I have succeeded in tagging them for MFD. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:38, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Indeed very large pages, but they may be of interest for historical purposes. JoJan (talk) 15:20, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment I note that the user in question has kept going, adding pages for each month all the way through Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History DEC. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 20:45, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep all. An enormous undertaking, indeed, and enormous credit to the editor for devoting so much time and energy to compiling such an overwhelming chronicle that links to every corner of Wikipedia. Since the editor is convinced that this project will result in ultimate benefit to Wikipedia, the time for the project's completion should be extended for as long as the editor is perceived as continually attending to it. This matter may be revisited following the passage of three to four months. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:10, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete all Wikipedia was never designed for something like this, as the page size indicates. Even with a gigabit connection, this page still takes ages to load.--WaltCip (talk) 18:31, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep ; we don't know if has a backup of this. This doesn't belong here (yet); but it is worth keeping . — &thinsp; J 947  [cont] 00:24, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * My intention with this was in part to give Mtsuzuki time to backup the data. Otherwise, I would probably have nominated them for speedy U5. Mtsuzuki claims this is for the benefit of Wikipedia, but would not tell me what that benefit was, only that it was a surprise; I fail to see the utility unless Mtsuzuki would like to start talking. Should Mtsuzuki provide a reasonable reason for their existence, I'm more than happy to vote keep on my own MFD. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 00:38, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * There are now also the following that I see:
 * Draft:Chronology of recorded history (used to be at Draft:Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History MAY)
 * Draft:Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History JUN
 * Draft:Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History JUL
 * Draft:Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History AUG
 * Draft:Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History SEP
 * Draft:Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History OCT
 * Draft:Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History NOV
 * Draft:Comprehensive Chronology of Recorded History DEC
 * In any case, Delete all per arbitrary and redundant WP:OR grouping and WP:NOTWEBHOST after the author has saved them elsewhere if they want to. But there's no reason to keep this on Wikipedia if the author doesn't even intend to AfC them in the current form since they would just expire after denial at AfC anyway. And whatever "surprise contribution" they may be working towards, it should really be discussed first if it's on such a grand scale. We have day-by-day pages of manageable size and I find it hard to see how useful it is to have these pages duplicate all that based on arbitrary time periods. — HELL KNOWZ   ▎TALK 11:25, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - I think if the consensus is to delete, we should give the author at least a week of opportunity from the closure to move the files elsewhere. It might also help if we suggested options to them for areas to move all this information.--WaltCip (talk) 17:23, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - Wow. I thought it would be less complicated to make a contribution on Wikipedia :-) I apologize that I misunderstood the purpose of AFC. I thought it was a space for working drafts that would be submitted in the indefinite future. Another user directed me to the sandbox for this, however, and so I will take me toys and go play there :-) I've since removed the content on the AFCs, so please feel free to delete them all. I don't personally know how. Also, if anyone is interested in synoptic world history and comprehensive chronologies, please let me know and I will show you the final product upon completion. It will still take a few months, but I should be finished with phase 1 in a few weeks, and I hope the project as a whole will be a collaborative effort after launch. Thank you much for your patience and understanding.Mtsuzuki (talk) 18:37, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment – most of the pages have been deleted via G7 now. — &thinsp; J 947  [cont] 21:43, 13 May 2020 (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.