Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Competence is acquired

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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: keep. (non-admin closure) – Train2104 (t • c) 04:29, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Competence is acquired


This is a minority view, apparent from the fact that no one seems to cite it. As such, I don't think it appropriate for this guidance to live in WP-space and should probably be userfied. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 02:11, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * So "Therefore, take note, once the initial "hump" is passed, is the editor amenable to suggestion, to changing the way the do things and to resolving difficulties" would be a minority view? Siuenti (씨유엔티) 02:16, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The problem is that the author mistakenly suggests that this goes against WP:CIR ("If so, WP:CIR probably does not apply"). But in fact the sentence, and the whole article, says exactly the same thing that WP:CIR already says. That newbies are incompetent, you should be patient with them (as you were one of them, too), give them some chances etc. The whole essay basically looks like the author has only read the title in "Competence is required", not the actual content. Which makes this essay rather pointless and redundant IMO. If that's a reason to delete it, I'm not sure. Perhaps it could be rewritten to look less stupid. Or it could be merged with WP:CIR (which is much more clever, maintained by many people).&mdash;J. M. (talk) 18:56, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep I think we should only force userfication when an essay promotes an extreme position and/or the author is attempting to WP:OWN it. I don't see either of those things in this case, just a little-known essay. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:54, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per Beeblebrox. Not very tightly written, or it might be linked to more. Johnbod (talk) 03:08, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per Beeblebrox. The essay expands somewhat upon WP:BITE, it could be mentioned there or at WP:CIR.  ~barakokula31  (talk)  04:38, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not a bad essay. I think it would be ideally merged with Competence_is_required as the best essays adhere to WP:NPOV. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:51, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep It does need to linked in more places, that does not mean it should be deleted (the proposal, despite reference to usefication). Endercase (talk) 16:08, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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