Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Worstcook/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 Bgwhite (talk) 20:41, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

User:Worstcook/sandbox


Here's another example of Wikipedia being used to keep track of some imaginary game. I would have deleted it immediately, but sending it through MfD will (hopefully) get the point across and will give this editor the opportunity to copy this stuff to some other place. Drmies (talk) 23:02, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * And where would I copy it too.Worstcook (talk) 00:04, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Not to mention The Amazing Race and Survivor are real gamesWorstcook (talk) 00:05, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I hate to say "not my problem", but it's not my problem. [I don't really know what wikia.com is, but there's a ton of these fantasy kind of things on it.] Wikipedia isn't here to provide you server space for things that are not meant to end up in real articles. Drmies (talk) 03:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. These are not imaginary games. The page is related to Amazing Race and Survivor, which are both well within our scope, so this shouldn't be deleted solely on those grounds. — This, that and the other (talk) 06:57, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * "Is related to"? That's not a very strong argument. You may not be aware of this, but there's a cottage industry in fantasy reality show. (We need our fiction fictionalized at well, it seems.) It's hard to tell what this is: yes, these are the names of the contestants (if our article can be trusted), but what is this doing here? Note also this edit distribution. Drmies (talk) 15:06, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * This is a different way to do these elimination tables that I like to use, and I can keep track of things better on since it is my sandbox I think I have the right to do this.Worstcook (talk) 17:09, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You don't "own" the userspace you put this in. Why should someone have the right to use Wikipedia's server space to keep track of the score of some TV game? Drmies (talk) 18:57, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Because sandboxes are used to express a specific user's ideas and this is my sandbox, I think that many other people use their sandboxes for many other different things. This is not an encyclopeic article so I think that it shouldn't be deleted.Worstcook (talk) 19:06, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * No, blogs and letters to the editor are for expressing ideas. Sandboxes are to work on articles before they go live. It's not an encyclopedic article, you say, and that's precisely why it should be deleted. One last time: we are not your free web host. Drmies (talk) 02:07, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It's not a blog I know that, this is about a real reality TV show events that have occured. End of story.Worstcook (talk) 02:49, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Question What has this page got to do with The Amazing Race and Survivor (TV series)? Is it material that will be added to these pages? -- Klein zach  10:25, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Ordinarily I've little time for these reality TV sandboxes, especially as the contents are frequently fictional, but in this case there is at least a historical correlation between the contents of the sandbox at a given time and what articles the author is editing. Worstcook should be encouraged to just edit the articles in question directly: if that is no longer possible or desirable, then I agree that indefinitely working on sandbox content that the author has no intention of putting into articles is not an appropriate use of userspace. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:13, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * To be fair not many sandboxes I have browsed are things intended to be put in articles, and their are many that do don't get me wrong, but this is something I've been working on and is a style I think works, I don't know if anybody else agrees so that is why I complete these in my sandbox. Something I have been encouraged to do in the past by other users when I first started editing Wikipedia and make fake reailty Tv tables, however this sandbox is filled with different things.205.209.83.211 (talk) 05:23, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT. I can't see any reason to maintain this material in userspace.-- Klein zach  02:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)


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