Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Mephistophelian

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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  Deleted per Legal, Contact me via email if any questions or concerns. Jalexander--WMF 06:41, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Mephistophelian


RTV request; any notification of the result is unnecessary (email is now disabled). Mephistophelian / discuss / email 14:41, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I feel miserable and my distress is worse than the exhaustion I experienced in 2010 or 2011, such that I believe continuing to volunteer here in any capacity is detrimental to my well-being, and exacerbating other health issues. I would prefer to delete the remaining entries in that namespace just to achieve closure in leaving Wikipedia, particularly as I have long-since associated those pages with anxiety, intimidation, distress, and exhaustion. Mephistophelian (talk) 08:31, 30 January 2013 (UTC).
 * Oppose, user talk pages are, even at a RTV, "rarely deleted" (text from WP:RTV), and no reason to make an exception this time has been given. Fram (talk) 14:51, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, except for the notice, the page is blank; there's nothing to "save."-- Jim in Georgia Contribs  Talk  15:15, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Nothing but the history, that is? That's the difference, obviously, between blanking (which I have no problem with) and deleting. The page has more than 1,000 revisions. Fram (talk) 15:29, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose, per WP:DELTALK, unless Mephistophelian or anyone else can cite any valid privacy concerns. With the archived talk already having been deleted, it's preferable to retain the history of this page, which includes content posted by others. -- Trevj (talk) 20:56, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Per the additional rationale inserted above, I now have more sympathy with this request. However, the username could always be changed, which would remove any immediately obvious attribution links in article histories. For comparison, I note that some vanished user subpages are retained (although they've been blanked). -- Trevj (talk) 09:13, 30 January 2013 (UTC) (example removed after MFD closed, with Trevj's blessing. --Floquenbeam (talk) 13:31, 31 January 2013 (UTC))


 * Oppose - We only delete user talk pages when there is an overwhelming reason to do so. User talk page deletion is definitely not a usual step when an editor vanishes. When we do delete a user talk page, it's generally because something in that talk page history is harmful, but no argument has been made as to why that's the case here. --  At am a  頭 22:48, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose, I neglected to check the history.-- Jim in Georgia Contribs  Talk  23:05, 29 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep (per Fram), but allow blanking. Much of this seems to stem from a recent discussion/disagreement at a RfA.  I'm not clear on why Meph is so adamant and upset here, but I would be sorry to see the loss of their technical abilities to the project.  At the time I cast my view I see no formal granting by the crats of a RTV, but in general if someone wishes to walk away from the project, then they are welcome to exercise that wish.  I don't see anything in either the contribution history or the talk page history which could be considered either private information or even embarrassing postings.  Hopefully after some time away from the project Meph will return under one name or another to continue their valued contributions.  It is made clear from the beginning of ones editing that a person acknowledges that their text becomes the property of Wikipedia and the public domain, and I don't see any extenuating circumstances here to have their contributions removed from public access.  — Ched :  ?  16:22, 30 January 2013 (UTC)


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