Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Editorials

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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: no consensus. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:05, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Editorials


Per Avoid writing redundant essays, it is generally considered beneficial to avoid writing redundant essays that do not add a new point of view to the project space. Per The value of essays, the objective value of an essay cannot be determined, but the volume of interaction surrounding an essay can indicate how important it is. Neither page is a policy or guideline, but I take them to represent a rough consensus around essays and their purpose.

This essay has had just 14 page views between 1 July 2015 and 17 March 2019. It is orphaned, the talk page does not exist, and the author (Basket of Puppies) has been indefinitely blocked since 2012 for abusing multiple accounts. Furthermore, the question in the essay appears to be answered by WP:NEWSORG (editorials are considered the same as opinion pieces, opinion pieces are rarely reliable secondary sources, and notability is generally based on coverage in reliable secondary sources). I think it would be appropriate to delete the essay or move it to a subpage of the creator's user page. Jc86035 (talk) 14:09, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Useless "essay" (really just a paragraph). CoolSkittle  (talk) 15:23, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Userfy as a disputed single-author essay. I presume to judge that User:WhatamIdoing does not consider herself an author.  As a useressay, there is no reason to delete.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:52, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I do not consider myself an author. If this doesn't get moved to userspace, then it could be renamed to something like   or something like that, and treated as an RFC that never happened to get any responses.  I have no objection to deleting it.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:46, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - No need to delete. No need to make a fuss about userfying.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:28, 21 March 2019 (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.