Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:XD0248/hidden page 1

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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. -- Cirt (talk) 00:14, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

User:XD0248/hidden page 1
We decided to delete these (secret pages) AGES ago. This is an encyclopedia, not your local department of myspace.  Perseus  8235 19:56, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete The arguments for deleting secret pages are summarized in the essay Why secret pages should be deleted. WP:UP states that examples of unrelated content to writing an encyclopedia are "Games, roleplaying sessions, secret pages and other things pertaining to "entertainment" rather than "writing an encyclopedia". Such activities are generally frowned upon by the community. Games of no educational value relevant to the project are routinely deleted at MfD." WP:NOTMYSPACE states that "[t]he focus of user pages should not be social networking or amusement, but rather providing a foundation for effective collaboration." To the creator: in a July/August 2010 policy discussion (at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/Archive 34), community consensus was that the policy What Wikipedia is not does prohibit secret pages. The deletion of this page is not a reflection on you; instead, it is a reflection of the changing community consensus that secret pages set an inappropriate ethos at Wikipedia. In that policy discussion, I wrote here about why all secret pages should be treated equally; whether a user social networks or does not social network on Wikipedia has no bearing on the fact that all secret pages should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 00:37, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete-- These pages are obviously not appropriate for Wikipedia anymore. But Perseus, I disagree with the tact you took with User:XD0248 on his talk page. Although we should encourage mainspace contributions over userspace ones, posting a graph of his contributions on his talk page in gigantic bold letters isn't the way of doing that. We have to be sure not to bite the newcomers when we delete these pages. Nomader  ( Talk ) 23:34, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with nomination and Cunard.  Thank Perseus8235 for removing user talk page message.  These games things used to be acceptable.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:37, 16 February 2011 (UTC)


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