Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Essjayism

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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. Essay is self-referential and seemingly reliant on berating a living individual, even using his nom de wiki for the title. Editor is welcome to write an essay on problems of faux authority and bootstrapping that does not focus primarily on one person. --RL0919 (talk) 00:17, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Essjayism
I think we need a consensus as to whether this essay should be kept in view of at least WP:BLP. The essay addresses a situation opposite that of Superman adopting his Clark Kent identity. However, instead of using fictional characters, it invokes the name of a living person and seems to be an effort to trade off Wikipedia's popularity to increase the usage of a recently created neologism involving part of that living person's name/identity. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 06:19, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Expansion on nom: Another reason to delete is WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK - institutionally heaping scorn on a former editor through an essay is not a way to go. Also see WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND - Wikipedia namespace should not be used to convey grudges or nurture contempt. These may not be an exact fit, but I think they are relevant. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:50, 20 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. WP:BEANS comes to mind here, especially in light of how the essay basically says "if this still exists, you know it's real". Kansan (talk) 06:22, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. The quality of that thing is abysmal. I am not sure what's worse: the orthography or the reasoning. But that's not necessarily a reason to delete it in case others are interested to contribute to it until it makes sense. I think we should generally encourage everybody who wants to write a new essay to either find a decent number of other contributors before starting or start it in user space and leave it there until it has somewhat matured or obtained a critical mass of cooperating editors. Oh, and as a general principle I think essays should only be deleted when userfication is impossible for some reason. Hans Adler 12:19, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. The creator has expressed concern that due to a block (a slightly dubious one in my opinion) he is unable to comment here or improve the article. See User talk:PPdd for his full comment. Hans Adler 12:23, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The following is being transcluded from here into this discussion. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:57, 20 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Either rename to a name that does not identify a specific editor, or just delete per Kansan. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:54, 23 March 2011 (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.