Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Wikidocster/(all)




 * 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. delldot  &nabla;.  01:17, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

User:Wikidocster/(all)
Copying articles within Wikipedia
 * Special:PrefixIndex/User:WikiDocster/ This content has not been individually nominated. I have noticed a pattern of users who say on their user page that they are Egyptian medical students and their sole activity on Wikipedia is copying, in alphabetical order, series of articles into their userspace. They make no contributions and do not interact with the community. See also, this MfD closed yesterday: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Maynassar article copies. Miami33139 (talk) 17:42, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Snowy delete per WP:Miscellany for deletion/User:Maynassar article copies. This is an unacceptable breach of Wikipedia's userpage guidelines. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 21:48, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 *  Delete . Cannot understand what the user thinks he is doing, and it does not look like a good thing.  It looks like pointless content forking, which when done internally is a hazard our copyright obligations.  Nominator should have advised  of this MfD.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:22, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 *  Keep  per Wikidocster's response on my talk page:

I have just seen a message from you that the articles in my domain have been considered for deletion. First of all, I am sorry I was late in seeing your message. The explanation for this copying is as follows:

I work on the Google-Wikipedia translation project, in which we use the Google translator toolkit to translate the English wikipedia articles to Arabic wikipedia articles. So the English articles I copied in my domain are for translation into Arabic articles using the Google translator toolkit. I have to copy the English source into my domain, so that the toolkit uploads the Arabic translation in my domain as well, before the article is edited and transferred to be a mainstream Wikipedia article.

I hope this explains the issue for both myself, and for MayNassar as well. Thank you.

WikiDocster —Preceding undated comment added 10:32, 26 November 2009 (UTC).


 * This should have been discussed at User_talk:WikiDocster from the start. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 20:05, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This is the first time any of these users have explained anything even when their previous articles have been redirected and deleted, dating back months. They are simply making a temporary copy for assisted machine translation. They don't need them long-term and they can still be deleted. We can teach them to use the user-requested CSD tags. Miami33139 (talk) 20:16, 26 November 2009 (UTC)


 * So in light of WikiDocster's explanation, would it be an acceptable compromise to blank the pages in order to avoid violating WP:FAKEARTICLE while not outright deleting so the user can still access the pages through the revision history? A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 22:26, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not certain that WikiDocster's method is ideal, but, assuming it is OK, if it is what he does, he should tag the pages with db-u1. I'll post a note to his talk page.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:43, 27 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete and tell the user to tag with db-u1 his temporary copies when he is finished. ie. Clean up after yourself.  Indefinite copies of existing articles are not OK.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:31, 29 November 2009 (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.