Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Consider for future inclusion (people)

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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 Redirect seems pointless & there are better active altertaives now. Skier Dude ( talk ) 02:42, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Consider for future inclusion (people)


Doesn't look like it's doing anything much. If it did, it could become the biggest page in Wikipedia, and still not be of much use, other than as a honey pot attracting nonentities. Peridon (talk) 14:50, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, ancient leftovers from 2004 that were apparently never acted on. Redundant to Requested articles/Biography. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:53, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 'Not a bad idea really, is its scope covered by any other article? Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:27, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Read my post. Requested articles/Biography already does this. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:06, 3 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Requested articles/Biography as that is the best place for people to list potential article subjects. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:05, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I doubt anyone's going to type in "consider for future inclusion (people)". Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:06, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It preserves the history of WP: pages and ideas folks have had for planning. Hence I vote a redirect as well toRequested articles/Biography. Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:57, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * This page only had one thing added to it ever. IMO that's not enough history to preserve. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:42, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 'Preserving page history' is for when things are merged or moved. The history of deleted articles is preserved in the computers and can be accessed or restored by admins at any time if required. Peridon (talk) 13:16, 4 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Don't redirect - This looks like it served a different purpose - this is explicitly for people who are not notable enough for biographies that might be in the future. Thus, it might make sense to resurrect this concept as part of wikiproject Biography. D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  02:59, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * How are you going to protect it from entries like 'Wayne Shurtarz' (who thinks he's awesome), 'Gertie the Ninja Aardvark' and 'Mohammed Patrick Goldstein' (who has just got his first job as a tea lad, but might be POTUS one day because he was definitely born in the USA)? Wikipedia doesn't deal with 'might-be' - see WP:CRYSTAL. And when does someone (who?) decide to remove a name? If they're not notable, how do you know they're now dead and not in a notable way? Peridon (talk) 11:31, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * What Peridon said. We already have enough trouble with people pimping themselves out on Requested Articles; it would only be worse if we were to keep this around. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 11:35, 4 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. I see no value in maintaining a list of people who might one day be sufficiently notable for an article. And as Peridon says, what determines the criteria for being listed here and how do we decide who to add and remove? If someone is notable, start a stub, if not, just forget about them until they become so. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:37, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - Isn't a WikiProject or meet one of the other purposes listed at Project namespace. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 02:28, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Nice idea, bit dangerous. It could turn into a pseudo-mainspace page.  It could become a link farm.  At a minimum, it should be NOINDEXed, which I just added.  It needs to very obviously coply with WP:BLP.  Almost notable people may be worth a mention on other pages long before having their own article.  This could be useful in expanding our coverage in an organised way.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:02, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Requested articles/Biography/By profession. Consider merging the single entry.  I think that orgainsing by profession is better than by nationality, because decisions, and the SNGs, follow profession somewhat, and do not follow nationality.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:05, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I can't really see the point of making it a redirect - it was created in 2004 with one entry, and it's still got one entry. No-one has found it until an energetically trawling IP found it and tagged it CSD. (I brought it here in respect of its age...) There's a whole load of other stuff being trawled up - advertising on user pages, pages requested for deletion by the author but without the template, and other stuff. Spring clean time, I think, and some of it way overdue. Peridon (talk) 17:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. We shouldn't delete most project pages that are so old, in the interests of preserving our history, but this page never had any substantial history.  I'm very impressed that the IP found the page in the first place.  Nyttend (talk) 14:08, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - no meaningful history to preserve and no benefit in having an active redirect. Achowat (talk) 15:57, 11 June 2012 (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.