Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:New editors

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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:  redirect to Help:Introduction.  —&#8288;Scotty Wong &#8288;— 20:36, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:New editors

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This is just a crummy, unmaintained essay of little to no use to new editors. We have a lot more, and better pages to point them to for guidance. I took a random sampling of 10 user talk pages that link here, all are from the same time seven years ago. Nine of them have zero edits, the other was blocked for vandalism. So, despite all the incoming links, this seemingly isn't really used in any meaningful way. I'd rather have nothing at this title than this junk heap. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to something like A primer for newcomers or Help:Introduction. I agree that this page is a waste of time - it has a so little on it it is unlikely to help any newcomer with getting started here, of the 5 bullet points here only 2 of them are actually targeted at newcomers and both of them are basically little more than instructions to go look somewhere else. I think a redirect is better than outright deletion here because it has 800 odd backlinks and gets a handful of page views a month, suggesting that people are searching for or otherwise coming across this - we might as well send these people to somewhere useful. 192.76.8.77 (talk) 20:33, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Help:Introduction per 192.76. SnowFire (talk) 18:00, 6 February 2022 (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.