Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Walaa adel page copies




 * 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 all. @harej 00:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Walaa adel page copies (group nom)
User:Walaa adel created complete cut&past copies of a sizable number of articles in his userspace. Since they were cut&paste, page history and thus attribution was not preserved. This user stated (in October 2009) that this was to facilitate translating these articles to another wikipedia, see this thread and User talk:Walaa adel. This user has not edited this wikipedia (at least not under this account) since early November 2009. The article copies include live category links (and maintainance templates that generate category links) and are this at least potential sources of confusion. No translations have appeared to date (so far as i am aware), and no explanation has been given for why copies of live articles in userspace are needed for this purpose. Some of the pages have recently been deleted. I therefore propose deletion of all of the following userspace pages, which as far as i know are all the remaining pages so created. DES (talk) 14:51, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

List of pages

 * User:Walaa adel/ASCII
 * User:Walaa adel/Ashanti (entertainer)
 * User:Walaa adel/Ashley Tisdale
 * User:Walaa adel/Ashton Kutcher
 * User:Walaa adel/Asia
 * User:Walaa adel/Asif Ali Zardari
 * User:Walaa adel/ASP.NET
 * User:Walaa adel/Asperger syndrome
 * User:Walaa adel/Aspirin
 * User:Walaa adel/Assembly language
 * User:Walaa adel/Assessment
 * User:Walaa adel/Astigmatism
 * User:Walaa adel/Asthma
 * User:Walaa adel/Brand
 * User:Walaa adel/Construction
 * User:Walaa adel/Cousin
 * User:Walaa adel/FIFA 09
 * User:Walaa adel/Fulgencio Batista
 * User:Walaa adel/GameSpot
 * User:Walaa adel/Glucosamine
 * User:Walaa adel/Heckler & Koch MP5
 * User:Walaa adel/J. Jayalalithaa
 * User:Walaa adel/Killswitch Engage
 * User:Walaa adel/Kris Allen
 * User:Walaa adel/Indian cuisine
 * User:Walaa adel/International Bank Account Number
 * User:Walaa adel/Internet Explorer 7
 * User:Walaa adel/Metabolic syndrome
 * User:Walaa adel/Mos Def
 * User:Walaa adel/Rajiv Gandhi
 * User:Walaa adel/SS501
 * User:Walaa adel/Sapphire
 * User:Walaa adel/Stephenie Meyer
 * User:Walaa adel/Sylvia Plath
 * User:Walaa adel/Super Mario Bros.
 * User:Walaa adel/Testicular cancer
 * User:Walaa adel/The Unit

Discussion

 * Delete all as nominator. DES (talk) 16:14, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all as editor annoyed by leftover copy-n-paste articles contaminating the categories Jason Quinn (talk) 17:34, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment out categories and keep. He's only been inactive for a month or so. Something could have came up in his life. Wait for a few more months, then delete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott5114 (talk • contribs) 13:15, 17 December 2009
 * Delete all of them immediately Enough with this copy-paste nonsense that we continue to uncover every few weeks. I do not believe the "translating" argument because there are hundreds of better places to work on translations. Miami33139 (talk) 21:30, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all. These copies have all been translated into Arabic - see Walaa adel's stuff on the Arabic Wikipedia. These deletions were utterly non-controversial - this MfD was simply not needed. See this message - the Google translation toolkit could be more elegant but it does not not require copies to be taken. Hopefully Walaa adel has got the message and will learn to translate directly. &mdash; RHaworth 22:09, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all - I nominated 32 of these for speedy (see editor's talk page for more detail), most of which are not in the list above. I don't agree that the editor needs more time: creator's contribs went back at least to August last time I checked, and not a single edit for translation, just endless copy & paste to subpages. MuffledThud (talk) 23:53, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The ones nominated for speedy were all deleted, as far as I can see. I declined a couple of the speedies but another admin deleted them shortly after. The list above includes pages still undeleted as of the time i started to compose this nom -- two were deleted around the time the nom was posted.  I don't think such pages should properly be speedied, but that is a technical issue. (Although the objections of at least one editor here give it some point IMO -- speedy delete is supposed to be for uncontroversial deletions.) It was those speedy delete tags that brought this set of pages to my attention. DES (talk) 14:48, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Articles I nom'd for speedy which are still up: User:Walaa adel/Assembly language, User:Walaa adel/SS501, User:Walaa adel/Cousin, User:Walaa adel/Indian cuisine, User:Walaa adel/Fulgencio Batista and User:Walaa adel/Brand.
 * But you're right, next time I'll take the deletions here rather than speedy them, thanks for the heads-up. This sort of thing shouldn't happen too often though, fingers crossed.  MuffledThud (talk) 15:01, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete all The user is a noob and does'nt know anything. He is just copy pasting stuff from here and there. Managerarc (talk) 16:37, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I have a feeling that !vote was merely badly worded, but I have to say, that's the most WP:BITEy thing I've seen in an xFD in a long time. If this guy was contributing in good faith and saw that, he probably wouldn't be for much longer. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 15:45, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Snowy delete per strong consensus to delete at WP:Miscellany for deletion/User:Maynassar article copies, WP:Miscellany for deletion/User:Wikidocster/(all), and WP:Miscellany for deletion/User:Beebarose/Abstract art. No need to go through the full seven-day listing with these. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 22:07, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all Disruptive. The problems shown on the user's talk page suggest that to avoid further waste of time, procedure should be to speedy delete all, and then check for any other subpages and delete them. Johnuniq (talk) 06:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * comment what waste of time? 10 minutes for the closer? No one else need spend time unless s/he chooses. I spent more than that putting the nom together. These don't fit any of the speeedy criteria and those should be adhered to very strictly IMO. DES (talk) 22:33, 21 December 2009 (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.