Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Featured Article of the Year


 * 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 debate was There is a strong consensus for deletion. The page has 4 edits, and the only substantive edits were over 6 months ago. As mentioned below, the idea is unlikely to be enacted by the WP community. Lazulilasher (talk) 01:57, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Featured Article of the Year
Deletion requested at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. This idea was never used.--  Myosotis Scorpioides  22:37, 4 November 2008 (UTC) See: this entry
 * Delete. Never used. Unlikely to happen as well.- Mgm|(talk) 00:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as unused proposal. I think we don't need to tag this as historical since there were no activity in the first place.-- Lenticel ( talk ) 07:12, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Inactive page that never got off the ground.  MBisanz  talk 14:54, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Tag as historical, important historical piece of Wikipedia history. Tohd8BohaithuGh1 (talk) 12:19, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Tag as failed. Otherwise someone will recreate it in the future. MfD shouldn't really be used where the "rejected" and "historical" templates can be used much more efficiently. Carcharoth (talk) 05:29, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, not an important historical piece of anything, was never used or proposed anywhere, and highly unlikely it would ever be recreated. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 05:31, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete No indication this was ever proposed or even discussed anywhere, so I don't think failed is appropriate. Maralia (talk) 05:40, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It's being discussed here, so that is justification enough for a 'failed' tag. Still, deletion won't harm things really. It's a thing about historical records that I have. Even the tiniest piece of wiki history should still be accessible to everyone, IMO. Well, apart from the bad stuff that needs to go. This isn't bad, just misguided. Carcharoth (talk) 05:58, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no history here: a user created a page that was never used, proposed, discussed, and would never go anywhere even if it was.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 06:00, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not disputing that. For an example of another dead-end page hanging around that never got used, see BLP Summit. A while back, some editors used to go around tidying up things like that and marking stuff as historical or failed. It was a system that worked well. Now, it seems, we have 5-day debates and create new pages to document the discussion. I'm trying to point people to more efficient ways to deal with things (based on what I observed others doing). If you want to have bureaucracy instead, and to have stuff hidden away in deleted revisions, that's fine. Carcharoth (talk) 06:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yet more options. Move to the user's user space. Blank and redirect somewhere. My point is that deletion is not the only option available. I make a point of reminding people of that, but now I've made that point, I'll shut up! :-) Carcharoth (talk) 06:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Userfy for User:User:Basketball110, as the only non-trivial author. Don't delete, we don't delete failed or bad project ideas.  Could tag as failed, userfied or not.  Could redirect.  Completely agree with User:Carcharoth, "used to go around tidying up things like that and marking stuff as historical or failed. It was a system that worked well. Now, it seems, we have 5-day debates and create new pages to document the discussion.".  MfDing these things is silly and a waste of time.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:45, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree with Carcharoth.  Master&amp;  Expert ( Talk ) 21:37, 9 November 2008 (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.