Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Stop your POV

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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: delete. If Blofeld wants it back upon his return, ping me and I'll restore and userfy. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Stop your POV


Spam page Author has retired leaving behind only a placeholder...has become a magnet of vandalism...Delete — FR&thinsp;+ 09:25, 22 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment. This essay was started by the now-retired editor Dr. Blofeld in 2010. It consisted solely of the words "Essay to be written." He made no further edits to it. It was later repeatedly vandalised by an IP to produce this version, the one nominated for deletion. I have now removed the vandalism, leaving the original sentence. There may well be reasons for deletion of an essay that consists solely of "Essay to be written." However, "Spam" is not one of them. Even the silly nonsense added by the IP in 2011 doesn't qualify as spam. FR30799386, I strongly suggest you find a different rationale for deletion. Voceditenore (talk) 10:42, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - This is not a spam page, but it is a WP:STALEDRAFT, and we should apply a somewhat stricter rule to essays and would-be essays in WP space than in user space. The author had seven years in which to complete the essay before they diva-flounced off the encyclopedia, and the stupid placeholder is a magnet for vandalism.  Use Common Sense, and stale drafts may be deleted.  Therefore:
 * Delete Robert McClenon (talk) 14:32, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Userfy to User:Dr. Blofeld/Stop your POV. I personally have a user subpage devoted to reminding myself to write an essay; not appropriate for projectspace but certainly appropriate for the userspace. No harm in retaining the current title as a redirect. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 16:52, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete doesn't even count as a stale draft Amisom (talk) 17:34, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete – Let's just clean up. Dr Blofeld is articulate enough that he would have written it if he meant to, and if he comes back and suddenly decides we need one more essay on POV pushing, he won't have lost anything of value by this deletion. — JFG talk 07:49, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete cleaned up to be a todo note is a bad use of Wikipedoa space and userfying it when the editor did not decide to put it there and is long gone helps no one. Legacypac (talk) 08:01, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete or Userfy - pages with just a note to self aren't appropriate for projectspace, of course, but no objection if Blofeld wants this userfied (I imagine, given there's nothing in the page history, that he would be fine with just recreating it, though). &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 14:58, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Userfy Not of value in project space in this form, obviously. Not likely to do harm in user space, optionally semi-protect to prevent a repeat of the vandalism. No particular reason to delete, although no huge loss if deleted. STALEDRAFT doesn't apply, because that is about drafts of articles. (In fact it is in a section entitled "Old unfinished draft articles".) We don't have STALEESSAY. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 17:42, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Userfy without redirect. Meaningless to all others. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:01, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Vandalized? a four edits by one productively editing IP Dec 2010 - April 2011, the only occasions across eight years, and actually I dispute that it was vandalism. At worst, unconstructive edits, most reasonably, provocative but interesting edits.  The nom's rationale, "has become a magnet of vandalism" is not true.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:40, 27 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete as meaningless as is - Dr B. has retired so keeping in their userspace is pointless, If they return they're more than welcome to go to WP:REFUND. – Davey 2010 Talk 21:28, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. A message to write an essay is not useful to a person who isn't around to write it. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 04:16, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * This page is absurdly trivial (full content = "Essay to be written.", apart from the interesting title), but two points:
 * (1) Isn't around? This is a massively active Wikipedian (590473 edits found in 25 projects) with recent inactivity a small blip over his edit history; and the "retired" taggery is well known to be unreliable;
 * (2) Deleting the notes, records and placeholders of past Wikipedians is disrespectful, which means unwelcoming to them when they look back to contemplate resuming, meaning it contributes to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
 * --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:40, 27 June 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.