Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Fifteen-million pool

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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:  keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:29, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Fifteen-million pool

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Now is not the time for this pool. We must wait until Wikipedia reaches 7.5 million articles. Georgia guy (talk) 23:20, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Really not a good idea. JBW (talk) 23:28, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as racketeering and illegal gambling, or attempts to do so, at the very least. If this were a humourous essay, it'd be a different story. This has no purpose. Doug Mehus T · C  00:31, 26 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep but make a subpage of Modelling Wikipedia's growth. “Not the time” is short sighted, and long term thinking is not prohibited. Connection to racketeering is nonsense. Is not gambling because there is no payout, just internal recognition. The long term and very long term prospects of Wikipedia are a serious and worthy matter for Wikipedians to spend some time on.  Read Modelling Wikipedia's growth first. -SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:04, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Sorry, I thought that there was going to be a monetary award in this. You're right, it's harmless. Doug Mehus  T · C  01:17, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep, not being entirely sure why the nominator says it is too soon, and with a minnow for the gambling argument (that editor can supply bread if they want to make a fish sandwich). Robert McClenon (talk) 16:40, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The Twelve-million pool was created when it was supposed to be. The rule for the pools is that each one opens at 50% of the way and closes at 80% of the way. For the 12M pool, this means it opens at 6M articles and closes at 9.6M articles. For the 15M pool, it opens at 7.5M articles and closes at 12M articles. But we're not at 7.5M articles yet. Georgia guy (talk) 16:54, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - Do we really need rules for how far out our silly internal games are allowed to be played? If there are people who want to participate in this, then a great big "meh" to it. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 00:40, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep; Rhododendrites sums it up for me. Keeping it just means more participation and less wasting time making a new one. This shouldn't be considered as precedent however.  J 947 &thinsp;(c) , at  04:28, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
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