Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Nisala12/ශා. අන්තෝනි දේවස්ථානය බටගම

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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 Blank. — xaosflux  Talk 23:25, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

User:Nisala12/ශා. අන්තෝනි දේවස්ථානය බටගම


Stale draft by a non contributor not in English. Worse if you search the title this has been indexed amd copied around the web. Legacypac (talk) 17:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Feeding this into Google translate shows it is apparently an extensive good-faith draft, though likely on a non-notable subject. Is there any policy requiring editors to draft in English (honest question, I'm not sure)? A2soup (talk) 18:11, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Content obviously needs to be in English, but non-english work someone is translating is fine. This was the only thing the user did, way back in 2011, so it is pretty inconceivable they or someone else is going to do anything productive with this page other then delete it. I've MfD'd and voted on other MfD's for many similar non-English pages and I have yet to see a non-English userpage kept, so there is good precedent to delete amd that is how policy is formed . Legacypac (talk) 18:38, 3 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep - good-faith, non-problematic draft. Non-English drafts are permitted in userspace. Nom's claim that it has been indexed are false, as one would expect since userspace is NOINDEX. Only the Sinhala wiki talk page has been indexed, and Wikivisually has scraped this page. If people are really concerned about getting it off of Wikivisually (and, IMO, we shouldn't be since this page is apparently non-promotional and Wikivisually is none of our beeswax), replace with Userpage blanked is a better solution than deletion. No benefit to the project is derived from deletion. A2soup (talk) 20:38, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Do not say I am making false claims - make you look ignorant. Indeed, the fact it has been scraped means it has been indexed else how does the scrappers find it. Also, my search results will differ from yours. Legacypac (talk) 02:09, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Indexing means noted by search engines so it can be displayed in results. This has not occurred. Wikivisually is not a search engine, nor has it indexed this page - it has rather copied its contents to one of its own pages. Wikivisually has then been indexed. Our search results may display in different priorities, but you will not have results that I am missing. A2soup (talk) 18:37, 5 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep. Presumably the author is not using a properly unified global account.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:50, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak blanking with inactive userpage template. I'd consider deleting but at the very least I made a request at the intertranswiki project talk page. In the future, I'd suggest people trying to see if Pages needing translation into English will consider drafts and perhaps listing it there rather than just keeping these around. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't see why we should bother the people at that project if the author hasn't shown enough confidence in it to try to move it out of the draft stage. Seems like busywork that's unlikely to yield results. A2soup (talk) 05:43, 4 April 2016 (UTC) Oops, I missed that the author actually did try to submit it. A2soup (talk) 03:08, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Does it seem like a good draft or not? If it is, then we should ask for help in making it viable. If it is not, then why are we keeping this? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:52, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * So A2soup is opposed to a plan to maybe get it worked on. How does that build an encyclopedia? Should we leave it another year, 5 years, 10 years or 100 years? Legacypac (talk) 02:09, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * That would be fine, and would save everyone time. It's gonna stick around the servers as long as they are running whether you delete it or not, and I see nothing on the page requiring maintenance. I have no problem with asking for help making it viable, I just figured the translation people might not appreciate getting a load of half-formed, possibly-not-notable drafts if you were to make it a regular practice. I realize now, though, that this draft was submitted for AfC, so my earlier comment about the author not having faith in it was wrong. So for this one at least, sending it to the translation people is probably a good idea. I have amended my earlier comment accordingly. A2soup (talk) 03:08, 5 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I added the google autotranslation here. The page is clearly draft-like, a highly plausible early stage compilation of relevant information, clearly not ready for mainspace but in need of an interested editor.  The information is historical, not prone to going "stale", so there should be no time limit imposed. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:46, 5 April 2016 (UTC)


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