Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than two years


 * 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 Merge, but no content to merge, so I will merge histories and delete. JERRY talk contribs 00:27, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Articles requested for more than two years
Now, this may seem surprising at first. On the surface, having this page sounds like a great idea. Here's the problem though. First, it is literally impossible to maintain. It's hard enough knowing which articles have been requested for a year and moving those properly. Moving ones from the 1 year article to here is even more complicated. Second, it hasn't been used once in nearly a month, I'm sure there are articles that can be put here. So, I can't see a great reason for keeping this around. One's energy is better suited to cleaning the 1 year backlog. Wizardman 20:01, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I never actually thought to merge it. If someone wants to do that go for it, sounds good. Wizardman  03:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge to Articles requested for more than a year, since - by definition - any article requested for more than two years has been requested for more than a year. I'll note that the "More than a year" list needs to be updated badly, as it's almost like a "More than a year and a half" list by this point, but the alternative would be to delete the list and thereby void all of the requests on it. I'm hesitant to do that. ZZ Claims~ Evidence 20:33, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I realize that there appear to be no current articles listed, but I refer to voiding requests as voiding requests that would otherwise be on this page were it properly updated, and assuming those requests were removed from the more than a year list. ZZ Claims~ Evidence 20:38, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge per above. I created a lot of articles form this page while a newbie, but its usefulness might be over. Bearian (talk) 20:57, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per above - and very strongly suggest that any new additions to the "more than a year" list have their date of request noted and listed. Why that's not done already when there is a clear intention of listing long-term requests separately is baffling. Grutness...wha?  22:24, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete It's currently empty and would be a waste of time trying to update it. Nothing to merge. Rocket000 (talk) 02:09, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I noted that this page wasn't being updated regularly a while back. I went and started looking up the dates of some of the music requests, and found that some (as in, a few dozen) of them had been on the page for over four years. There are currently several hundred or more requests that have been outstanding for more than two years in the music section alone. The only way we'll get rid of them is if there are people willing to write them; I guess the deadness of this page is evidence that there aren't. Chubbles (talk) 02:20, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Four years? Wow, that sucks. I could see a page like Articles requested for more than four years being manageable and useful. It's just that with two years there's way too many, and personally, I think going through all those to update the list would just be busy work. I doubt enough people would use it, or even care, to make it worthwhile. But with four years, I think that would get a little more attention. Rocket000 (talk) 02:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge whatever you can... however, it does seem that a considerable amount of individuals would be required to keep the list manageable. Master of Puppets Care to share?  04:33, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge--Looktothis (talk) 20:22, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge Works in theory, impossible to maintain in reality. Pre  ston  H  19:24, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
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