Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Naming conventions (families)

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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: Userfy. At User:Chicbyaccident/Naming conventions (families) &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 07:34, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (families)


This seems to have been created and added to the guidelines (findable via the navigation sidebar) with no discussion or consensus. It has no talk page and is the work of only one editor. Does not seem to add anything to existing guidelines, just summarises them. Certainly does not deserve to be a naming guideline alongside others which have been developed by consensus. JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 00:19, 4 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep summarizing existing guidelines inline with consensus is a good thing. All such pages have to be drafted by some initial editor. I'm not concerned if there was no big debate that lead to this page and I don't see anything controversial or obviously problematic. Legacypac (talk) 00:46, 4 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment: If it is kept, do we want to retain Subcat guideline which declares it to be a guideline, which "documents an English Wikipedia naming convention," [bolded in original]? Mathglot (talk) 12:24, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure. If there is something wrong with it let editors fix it. Legacypac (talk) 16:44, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Other than a general objection to process (not enough discussion?) I don't see anyone saying there is anything wrong with the page. Why userfy it? Legacypac (talk) 23:54, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Change to essay userspace essay (or a MOS page, or an info page). Just call it an WP:ESSAY or similar until consensus is reached at WP:VP/P that this should be a guideline; no need to delete. VQuakr (talk) 03:02, 7 February 2018 (UTC) Tweaking the !vote; user essay is better for this. VQuakr (talk) 02:37, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Remove the line and userfy.  It was added without enough advertising.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:01, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Moving it to user space or making it into an essay both make sense, as it deals with my main concern that this has been added as a guideline without any previous discussion or consensus.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 09:32, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I support userfying as it is a single author page, and presuming that someone (such as you) disputes it. Disputed single-author essays should be userfied.  Convert either to essay or useressay.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:40, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Disputed single-author essays should be userfied. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:40, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Wordiness, bloat, telling experienced editors (who else will find this page) how to suck eggs, diluting the impact of similar page, are all reasons to send it to userspace until at least one other editor agrees to it adding value. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:42, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The default is to not add more instructions per WP:CREEP. VQuakr (talk) 02:34, 9 February 2018 (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.