Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:SmartKitten

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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 * Pppery * it has begun... 22:01, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

User talk:SmartKitten

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This is the talk page of one of my doppelganger accounts. I used it to test a custom Twinkle welcome before I was aware that User talk:Sandbox for user warnings existed. I tagged it for speedy deletion under G6 & G7, but it was declined - hence the filing at MfD. As the talk page isn't for an editing user, there are no other messages in the history, & the messages left were for testing purposes, there's no harm (as far as I can see) in deleting it. It's not the end of the world if it's not deleted, of course; I'd just prefer it if it was to keep things tidy :) Any queries let me know. All the best, &zwj;—&zwj;a smart kitten[ meow] 22:33, 28 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I think it can be redirected to your talk page. No objections to deletion though. 94rain  Talk  01:39, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete with a trout to Liz. This page existed for two minutes before it was nominated for G7. I would recommend redirecting it to your talk page, so that future users leave messages in the correct place. But let people undo their own mistakes in their own user talk space. House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 03:02, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. User talk pages are not deleted, and user pages of doppelganger accounts are not deleted as well. There is no need to delete this talk page, wanting it to be deleted is drastically overcomplicating things, deletion is just a way of hiding a page from view from users who don't have a particular user access level, it doesn't save hard disk space, there's nothing here that needs to be hidden from anyone's view, experimenting is fine, if seeing this as a courtesy request, no courtesy is needed, tasking an administrator with deleting is bordering on extravagant, seeing how deletion doesn't serve any purpose.—Alalch E. 22:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete, obvious test edit the user then CSDed immediately. The messages in question being tested were introductory messages, they seem relevant ones to test at talkpages. Not something to do too often, but there shouldn't be a prohibition on it. There is nothing in the CSD criteria that would make this a special situation ineligible for G7. CMD (talk) 01:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's actually something I should have mentioned in my MfD nomination (I must have forgotten to - thank you for reminding me!) - I checked the G7 criteria prior to nominating the page for speedy deletion, and there isn't anything there that excludes the User talk namespace, as there is with other CSDs. Best, &zwj;—&zwj;a smart kitten[ meow] 02:38, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's right, but we're beyond CSD, the applicability of G7 is superseded by the sole fact that an administrator declined G7 under reasonable circusmtances, and now we're at MfD, so the issue is should this page be deleted under parameters that are relevant in an MfD. Speedy deletion runs on a separate track. Speedy deletion is summary deletion meant for the most obvious things. Deleting a talk page of one user nominated by another user, when the same talk page apparently contains talk-related content, is not especially obvious, but the G7 tag could have been acted on (doppelganger account, the seemingly-talk contnent were tests...), and that would not have been an error. But it wasn't acted on, and that is also not an error. And now it can't. MfD is not a second instance of speedy deletion. —Alalch E. 17:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Deletion policy explicitly says that XfD is the place to debate contested speedy or proposed deletions, so we can consider a CSD-based rationale at MfD. House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 02:39, 2 February 2024 (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.