Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:TheAbascus/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. Most were already speedy deleted. RL0919 (talk) 04:33, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

User:TheAbascus/sandbox


Page created complete with the notability and other problem tags. I suspect it was deleted somewhere but can't find it. Anyway it's a WP:NOTAWEBHOST violation supported by links to questionable sites. Legacypac (talk) 21:46, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment:, see Draft:IOTA (technology) and Draft:IOTA (cryptocurrency). Home Lander (talk) 21:51, 28 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Add Draft:IOTA (technology) per the recent Articles for deletion/IOTA (technology) and deletion as a recreation of a page deleted by discussion. I redirected the (cryptocurrency) version as it is less developed. Can someone add the MFD notice correctly? Legacypac (talk) 22:02, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Legacypac, ✅. Home Lander (talk) 23:32, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * WP sure has problems. But I cannot be bothered. Have to create the ~ 1455th article in Category:Fictional characters by superhuman feature or ability so that the world knowledge is enhanced constantly. -- Kku (talk) 04:56, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete all of them. In addition to being crud, the submitter is trying to game the system by flooding it.  Robert McClenon (talk) 07:26, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. IOTA is so spammy we've had to salt several possible titles for this bad article - substantially the actual wikitext here - that advocates keep putting up - David Gerard (talk) 11:00, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Added: User:Kku/IOTA (technology), User:Asikmehmet/sandbox, User:Chip77z/sandbox, User:Carvalhomartines/sandbox. Delete all and salt using MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. MER-C 13:38, 29 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I looked at where the logo was used - this spam extends to many different language wikipedia. Legacypac (talk) 13:02, 30 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment - At least two of them have not yet been deleted. Either this MFD needs to be kept open for the seven days so that the remaining crud can be deleted on formal closure, or the remaining crud needs to be speedied so that this can be speedied.  Robert McClenon (talk) 21:45, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I speedied the other pages as G11/U5 but it would be nice to have this closed formally so we can say the main titles were deleted by discussion (so G4) applies) amd so the SALTing happens correctly. Legacypac (talk) 22:45, 30 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment - While the titles listed should be salted, I am not sure that the Title Blacklist can be used effectively. The only way that I can see to use the Title Blacklist would be to define a regexp that encompasses strings containing "Iota".  However, there are many legitimate ways that Iota can be part of a title, as in the names of the Greek letter organizations at American universities.  If I understand correctly, there is no way for anyone but a developer to override a title blacklisting by the Title Blacklist, as opposed to ordinary create-protection, which can be overridden by an administrator, and the Title Blacklist blacklists pages from all spaces including draft.  If we think that titles with Iota are being spammed to game the system, it is probably easier to search for them and delete them than to prevent them.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:54, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: I deleted some user sandboxes as obvious spam but kept my distance from the two drafts for the quite selfish reason that I don't want to get drawn into controversy and conflict with all the single purpose editors who have been protecting them so long.  It's a fight that must be fought to protect the encyclopedia, I'm just not picking this one myself.  – Athaenara  ✉  08:19, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It's quite possible that Iota could just about pass notability muster, barely ... though the actual mainstream coverage is more like this FT article on things like their harassment of critics and legal threats against a security researcher. I'm half-tempted to make an attempt at it myself, but it'd be a spam magnet in short order, so ... - David Gerard (talk) 12:54, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It might work to have a page detailing the scam if the page was Extended Confirmed protected to keep out all the SPAs Legacypac (talk) 19:10, 1 December 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.