Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:PurpleFountains/sandbox

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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. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 07:41, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

User:PurpleFountains/sandbox


I moved this from the user's user page, but after looking at the user's edits I think an MfD is appropriate: we are not a webhost. Drmies (talk) 00:20, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a free webhost; user's only material contributions are to this page. Stifle (talk) 10:23, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep; While the vast, vast majority of the User's edits have been to that page (139 to 4 others) it seems like the start of a legitimate article. I can think of many reasons why a User would want to keep templates and tables in a personal sandbox for later use. With neither evidence of bad faith nor intervening policy, assuming that this User isn't experienced enough to use the Sandbox appropriately is somewhere between a failure of WP:BITE and WP:AGF. Achowat (talk) 16:51, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I would bet money that there is an undeclared WP:COI and that the motivation is for promotion. For this to be acceptable userspace drafting, I think it should be blanked while not being actively edited.  But on the other hand, it is tagged with user sandbox which defaults noindex, which defeats promotional hopes.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:47, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per JohnCD below. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. I disagree that this is the start of a legitimate article. If you check it out, the first part appears to be the record of a very successful singer called "Melona Warren", but all the links about her albums go to other works: for instance, the three different albums on the first table all link to Kaleidoscope (Kelis album), the last six different songs under "Singles and tracks" all link to Get Sexy by the Sugababes, and so on. Later on there are detailed tables for an "Apprentice" style reality show, but the winners' names don't correspond to any of the real shows. This is classic FAKEARTICLE stuff, using Wikipedia as a playground, and has nothing to do with building an encyclopedia. JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - on the talkpage of the sandbox the editor comments "Hello, I'm only practising for when I write a real article. There is no harm in practising." - s/he has been practicing for an awfully long time. If you read through all the material, it is very obviously a FAKEARTICLE and as JohnCD says, this looks like using Wikipedia as a playground. ŞůṜīΣĻ ¹98¹ Speak 23:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)


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