Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Short horizontal line

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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. Salvio Let's talk about it! 00:13, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

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This should be a paragraph on the manual of style talk page, not a separate wikipedia essay. If this precedent is followed the WP space would become filled with disjoint essays advocating points of view instead of the following the tradition of threaded discussions. Gerardw (talk) 10:56, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I have no strong objection to deletion. It has made its point. The fact that it can't stay stable because people constantly try to pervert its message says a lot about the underlying controversy, though.&mdash;Kww(talk) 11:14, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep We don't delete essays for being unstable or for having a heterodox point of view, simple as, and removing this on those grounds would set an extremely unsavoury precedent. The project namespace is "filled with disjoint essays advocating points of view", and that's a good thing as it provokes critical thought. Setting essays against threaded discussions is a false dichotomy – the former spur the latter. If you don't like it, write a rebuttal.  Skomorokh   11:37, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Skomorokh says my opinions on the matter far better than I could. I think it rather telling that you edit the page, get reverted and then nominate it for deletion. As Skomorokh says the project space is full of "disjoint essays" and that can only be a good thing if it acts as a counter-point for discussion. Woody (talk) 11:44, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Saw this on Kww's talk page and wandered over. I think it is a view worth keeping.  I hope it can be expanded and polished, making its point more elegantly.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:53, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per Skomorokh. (Don't take that as me subscribing to the essay though.) Tijfo098 (talk) 13:51, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. The essay is misguided, to put it mildly, but there seems to be signficant support for the views it expresses. I see no reason it shouldn't exist. It most definitely does not belong in the MOS. (And what on earth do essays have to do with threaded discussions, anyway?) Rivertorch (talk) 18:41, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep the danger of deleting viewpoints you disagree with is that you remove the opportunity to discuss the viewpoint and determine whether or not it has consensus. We do not require essays to conform to orthodoxy. HominidMachinae (talk) 20:14, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. This sort of essay should be allowed in the projectspace. At worst, it should be renamed to make its point of view clearer, but it wouldn't bother me if it stays where it is now. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:01, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per everyone so far, especially Skomorokh, Woody, & Rivertorch. Although I also strongly disagree with the view expressed. — Becksguy (talk) 01:08, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment maybe it should be renamed, it doesn't handle the issue concerning Unicode minus and ASCII minus, which also results in heated arguments. 184.144.163.181 (talk) 04:41, 11 May 2011 (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.