Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by interest in literature


 * 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 delete. --Core desat 07:25, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Wikipedians by interest in literature
Delete - This page appears to be nothing more than a signature book by name of favorite author. I can't see what value comes from having this list in the Wikipedia namespace. Nothing seems to link to it and it is horribly incomplete. If there is any value for collaboration here, I would suggest user category creation. After Midnight 0001 12:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Same reason as above. —Jfowler27 16:07, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. We already have Category:Wikipedians interested in books and Category:Wikipedians interested in literature. – Black Falcon (Talk) 23:02, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, I'm on that list. Forgot about that. I don't think these lists ever caught on did they, once user boxes and user cats came in they sort of fell away.  If it can't be tagged as historical and archived somewhere for an eventuality in which it becomes useful, and we really need the server space, then I can see a value in deleting.  Otherwise, if it's just deleting for the sake of it or to be tidy, can't we just stick it in the attic? Hiding Talk 14:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete We have a category for this. Does not add much to wikipedia.--SJP 17:42, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - What category? I'm not sure that you could simply create user categories, you'd have to create one of each author wouldn't you?  --Doug.(talk • contribs) 17:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Read falcons comment. Cheers!--SJP 19:54, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - I had read it, but I hadn't looked at the actual cats, Thanks. Now I see, we do in fact have cats for each author, or at least several authors.  I was already thinking this was a delete - to the extent this sort of thing is of any value it's better addressed through cats and user boxes; but now I'm certain, this is duplicative with the existing cats.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:29, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete list that never caught on. Doczilla 08:39, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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