Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Zachggg3/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. --BDD (talk) 20:24, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

User:Zachggg3/sandbox


This appears to infringe WP:NOTWEBHOST. Nothing in the article seems to be related in any way to editing any Wikipedia article. I have also searched on Google for content related to the content of this Wikipedia page, and have found nothing. I have twice asked Zachggg3 what the purpose of the page is, and how it relates to contributing to the encyclopaedia, but he/she has continued to edit it without making any response at all to my queries. Since this page was created on 29 July 2012, 80% of the user's edits have been to this page (806 edits out of 1013). I have looked at a fairly large sample of the user's 207 edits to articles during that period, and tried to find connections with the content of the user's sandbox at the time, but I have found no connections at all. It seems, unfortunately, that this is use of Wikipedia as a free web host to hold content related to some contest, nothing to do with editing Wikipedia, and nothing to do withe the content of any Wikipedia article. The number of page views is much larger than the number of edits to the page (e.g. from the beginning of March 2013 up to yesterday there were 284 edits and 1449 views of the page) which may mean that the page is being used by the people involved in the contest. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:41, 15 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment - the user appears to have blanked his sandbox for now. However, the prior incarnations were being used to host some sort of game or contest.  -- Whpq (talk) 22:05, 16 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes. Since it's been blanked, it may well make no difference whether the page is deleted or kept. However, my feeling is that it may as well be deleted, since if it is never going to be used again then it makes no difference, and if there is any chance of it being resurrected from its editing history then deletion is the right thing to do. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:05, 20 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTWEBHOST/WP:NOTGAMEHOST and WP:UP, which states: "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." Cunard (talk) 01:47, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Please see User talk:Zachggg3/sandbox for the user's explanation: "I apologize for not responding. I was only using the sandbox to store information regarding an off-site contest and using templates. I didn't realize using the sandbox for my own use was going against any rules. I've since deleted everything and I will not use the sandbox for anything else again. Again sorry in advance. Zachggg3 (talk) 02:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC)Zachggg3" Speedy deletion-author request/Db-g7 also seems to apply to the page. Cunard (talk) 01:47, 26 July 2013 (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.