Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:A Hybrid of Political Doctrine and Encyclopedic Collaboration


 * 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 debate was Speedy keep (non-admin closure). Closed per WP:SNOW and per the last !vote. Ruslik (talk) 11:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

A Hybrid of Political Doctrine and Encyclopedic Collaboration
Useless personal essay. DonaldDuck (talk) 02:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. What's with the prejudice against personal essays?  bibliomaniac 1  5  02:16, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Essays are percepted as "semi-official guidelines" by web surfers and new editors, unfamiliar with wikipedia. And what recommendations do they see? "Don't be anal, don't be a dick"? The less redundant pages and essays, the better.DonaldDuck (talk) 06:51, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * On what are you baseing the statement, "Essays are percepted as 'semi-official guidelines'"? I think the banner at the top of essays is very clear about the content and its "enforceablility".  --Jordan 1972 (talk) 13:02, 21 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. This is just an essay.Biophys (talk) 04:16, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - While I will not be writting an essay any time soon, I do believe they are very useful in summarizing someone's opinion on a policy, guideline or a particular perspective. Given the vast number of editors here, I can almost guarantee that any essay out there will find several people in agreement with whatever point of view is being set out.  The most I would ever recommend on a essay would be to userfy. --Jordan 1972 (talk) 13:02, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Snowball keep wtf? -- Ned Scott 04:58, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. If you really don't like it, and it remains authored by a single person, propose, on its talk page, moving it to userspace.  We don't delete other peoples essays about wikipedia.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:31, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per Wikipedia essays, "Essays that are in the Wikipedia project space (prefixed by "Wikipedia:" or "WP:") should ideally represent a consensus amongst the broad community of Wikipedia editors. Those that reflect the beliefs of a limited number of editors should be edited to present a view more representative of the community; those that are poor candidates for broadening should be relocated to a subpage of the user that authored them." I think this essay "represent a consensus amongst the broad community of Wikipedia editors." -- Suntag  ☼  06:35, 23 September 2008 (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.