Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Oceanflynn/Caribou (North America)

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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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 01:41, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

User:Oceanflynn/Caribou (North America)


WP:FAKEARTICLE would seem to apply here: “Userspace is not a free web host and should not be used to indefinitely host pages that look like articles, old revisions, or deleted content, or your preferred version of disputed content. ” That’s exactly what this appears to be, there was a dispute over whether their should be a seperate article for North American species of caribou/reindeer. In the end it was decided we should have just the one article, located at reindeer. This seems to have been created solely to preserve this users’ preferred version/title, no substantive edits since being created nearly two years ago. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. No duplicate preferred copy pages. Legacypac (talk) 20:01, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Never intended as a Fake Article. That is harsh, unmerited and does not reflect the tone of thousands of edits I have contributed. As it was going to be deleted, I kept the article in case references and/or content were lost in the merging process. I had forgotten about it. My last edits to "Reindeer" were made in the fall of 2017. This user space article has been cut and pasted offline, so it can be deleted. As we are all volunteers here at Wikipedia, reputation is our social capital.Oceanflynn (talk) 20:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * WP:FAKEARTICLE is just the shortcut to a policy reason why we delete userspace pages. It's not intended to offend you or suggest any wrong doing on your part. Cheers, Legacypac (talk) 02:36, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * He in totally right though, it comes over badly, I boldly added some shortcuts to the policy and you can now cite WP:SPURIOUS or WP:UPA instead where a more subtle approach is desired. Prince of Thieves (talk) 20:05, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Either Delete or Promote. As it is, this is a content fork.  The discussion above is that we only need one article, not two, and the author appears to agree, so Delete.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:46, 5 March 2018 (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.