Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Skifdank


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany 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 debate was speedy deleted all for abuse of userspace. = Mgm|(talk) 11:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Skifdank
I'm back with "Wikipedia is not MySpace 6" (I believe): Submitted again for your official verdicts, more userfied vanity articles for "editors" clearly who ain't here for the editin', but for the publicizin'/self-expression, this batch from February and March this year. And yes, I left messages on their Talk Pages.

And now for the boilerplate text. These:
 * a) are user pages that were moved from article space by an admin/editor.
 * b) were originally articles that were originally speedy-delete candidates or speedy-delete eligible.
 * c) have page creators who have few/no edits outside user space.
 * d) have page creators who have not edited at all (with a couple of exception)s since the initial page creation seven to eight months ago (with one exception, which was created in July).
 * e) are, prima facie, not user pages, but attempts to use Wikipedia as a free webhost/promotional vehicle. WP:NOT, stating that Wikipedia is not a free web host is applicable.


 * , created February 2006
 * Topic:
 * Total edits: 2. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Page for a student group at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
 * Total edits: 7. Edits outside user page: 4 (adding self to Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: User's CV.
 * Total edits: 6. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Bio of a 12-year-old.
 * Total edits: 2. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Vanity bio
 * Total edits: 12. Edits outside user page: 1 (to Sandbox).
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Vanity bio, with huge photo
 * Total edits: 11. Edits outside user page: 6 (uploading photos and adding self to West Plains, Missouri).
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: MySpace-like listing, with huge photo
 * Total edits: 11. Edits outside user page: 6 (uploading photos, adding to another MySpace-like page at User:Dgassam, and 2 edits to Assam Agricultural University.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created July 2006
 * Topic: MySpace-like listing with photo, linked to the page above
 * Total edits: 8. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: July 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: LONG (505 words) vanity bio
 * Total edits: 2. Edits outside user page: 1 (uploading unused photo).
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Short CV.
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Promotion for a non-notable youth group, founded by guess who?
 * Total edits: 7. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Vanity bio and long school-assignment essay ("Illegal Immigration - A Topic which we are very concerned about")
 * Total edits: 17. Edits outside user page: 3 (uploading unused photo and adding self to John Allen and Illegal immigration).
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Absurd vanity bio
 * Total edits: 2. Edits outside user page: 1 (vandalism to Roadkill).
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: Long vanity bio of minor sportswriter.
 * Total edits: 13 (including removal of level4 vandal warnings from talk page). Edits outside user page: 2 (adding ref to self in Hannah Kearney).
 * Last edit: June 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: vanity bio
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: vanity bio
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created February 2006
 * Topic: MySpace-like page for US Navy sailor
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: February 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: MySpace-like page
 * Total edits: 2. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: Vanity bio
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: Long what-I-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up essay (529 words)
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: Vanity page for Kingdom of Loathing player
 * Total edits: 3. Edits outside user page: 2 (adding a friend to Kingdom of Loathing).
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: Nonsense article about a "Pixton sandwich"
 * Total edits: 2. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: MySpace-like page for London teenager
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: Vanity bio for a gamer.
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: Some sort of notes page
 * Total edits: 1. Edits outside user page: 0.
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: User CV for a writer.
 * Total edits: 7. Edits outside user page: 4 (adding self to 3 different articles).
 * Last edit: March 2006
 * , created March 2006
 * Topic: Long vanity bio (605 words).
 * Total edits: 5. Edits outside user page: 1 (uploading unused photo).
 * Last edit: March 2006

Calton | Talk 04:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Waste of time. Blanking the pages would be an easier and equally effective solution. Deletion of these pages neither saves space nor more effectivly removes the material. - 152.91.9.144 05:09, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually deletion makes these pages invisible to non-admins meaning it effectively kills the promotion. If it's in the history, people can still link to it even if it's blanked. - Mgm|(talk) 10:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * None of which you seem to actually be willing to do yourself, I notice. In any case, it's my time to waste -- although that characterization, I'll also note, seems to be almost entirely yours, Mr. "I Can Read Deleted Pages". --Calton | Talk 05:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll also note that you sprang into action within 13 minute of my creating this page. Stalk much? --Calton | Talk 05:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * *Cough* Yes indeed, I have nothing better to do than sit and refresh "Special:Contributions/Catlon" all day. Your personal venom aside, there really is no margin in deleting these pages.  Blanking would make the content go away, deleting doesn't save any space, and although I'm not sure I'd suspect that mirrors only copy existing pages, so they'd take a blank page and blank it but might do nothing to update a no-longer existing page...  Happy to be corrected on that pure speculation, by the way.  There's really no need to bring these to MfD as no one is going to object to the material going away.  Even a  would work most of the time, or simply be bold and use  or something of that sort. - 152.91.9.144 05:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Bah, perhaps mirrors aren't using that smart an updating strategy after all... Searching for the phrase "what about Adam Mathes" from User:Ibrahim Odeh doesn't get any hits and "User:Ibrahim Odeh" only gets the wikipedia discussion. - 152.91.9.144 06:04, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes indeed, I have nothing better to do than sit and refresh "Special:Contributions/Catlon" all day. You should have stopped after "do". One wonders why you a) respond to what I didn't say; b) focus only my nominations, as opposed to the dozen or so I see on this page; c) don't apply the same "just blank it" strategy here; d) don't just delete them yourself with your special non-admin admin powers.
 * Even a would work most of the time. really? And your proof of this is what, exactly? Especially given that this issue is only being discussed, well, right now? --Calton | Talk 06:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Dude, not only are you a cranky cuss, half the time I don't even think that you read what you're typing. I'm not "respond to what [you] didn't say" when you throw out an ad hominem like "Stalk much?"  And what are you trying to say with the diff pointing to this page? I'm trying to discuss the relative merits of different approaches to problems of this sort.  I have no idea what you're doing. - 152.91.9.144 07:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete all. It's this kind of thing that makes me want to just tag things for speedy instead of userfying them when they are obvious vanity. -Amarkov blahedits 05:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all per nom. There's a proposal to allow this rubbish to be prodded, see Template talk:Prod. MER-C 06:23, 27 November 2006 (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.