Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Copyright situations by country

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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The result of the discussion was:  Procedurally withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 02:46, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Copyright situations by country

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This page has had Update on it for seven years. An actively maintained version of this page exists, however; I propose soft redirection to Commons:Commons:Copyright rules by territory, a much more comprehensive, detailed, and accurate set of pages that serve the same function. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:48, 2 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Speedy close, no deletion rationale, soft redirect as proposed. If you’re not sure, propose it on the talk page, Wikipedia talk:Copyright situations by country. If you are sure, and do it, and are reverted or there is an objection articulated, only then come back to MfD.  Don’t bypass the talk page step. SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:20, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I've never heard of you being to try unilaterally BLAR-ing a page before going to XfD. I  bring it up on the talk page, but said talk page has 0 pageviews in the past 30 days and <30 watchers, and active editors of this page have stopped editing at least 5 months ago. So if I went to the talk page I almost definitely would not get a response, but this page has existed since 2005, so I figured that BLARing the page was potentially controversial, which is why I decided to go to MfD first. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 01:40, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Please use the talk page first if you think it’s potentially controversial.
 * What makes you think it would be controversial?
 * From everything you’ve said, I think you should just do it. The problem with coming to MfD cold like this is that if the mfd reviewers all think “yes, sounds good”, there will then be a higher level consensus, but lacking proper consideration.  The one week deadline of MfD is unfair to someone with an opposing view.  If you just do it, and someone later comes up with an objection, resolution is done on the talk page.  If there’s an old MfD, it complicates the resolution of the disagreement.
 * MfD is not “miscellany for discussion”. If it were, it would attract virtually everything where someone’s wants a rushed decision.  And then, actually deletion discussions would be lost in the noise. SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:31, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 * You would probably get responses if you start a discussion on the talk page, and post a notice about it at WT:COPYRIGHT, and WT:MCQ. -- Whpq (talk) 02:33, 3 June 2023 (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.