Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Votes for best User page


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany 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. — freak([ talk]) 14:21, Jul. 27, 2006 (UTC)

Votes for best User page
Nothing to do with building an encyclopedia. This is not MySpace. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The project page says they aim by this to encourage people "to learn more about code and layout" - that's the last thing we want to do.  We need to encourage people to edit articles well.  It belongs on MySpace.  Delete it's sub-pages too.  --Hugh Charles Parker (talk - contribs) 23:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It strikes me as a little bit peculiar to say that the last thing we need to do is have people understand how to use the code and layout tools (when how else might they...improve the encyclopedia...da da! bingo!) ....from someone who uses them in their signature! -Splash - tk 23:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This strikes me as another "you're not working hard enough on the encyclopedia! Ya! Ya! Move! Move!" nomination. With nearly 1.3 million articles, the suggestion that pages such as this which are emphatically not damaging to the encyclopedia should be deleted because they are of only tangential relevance to it is rather over-egged. Instead of whipping people, boatswain like, into subservience, why not just ignore them and be thankful for what edits you do get out of them. Wikipedia is not MySpace, convenient rhetorically though that is, and it is insulting to most users to suggest that they think it is. It is, however, a community of enthusiastic volunteers who, occasionally, take a break. There would be no encyclopedia without those people, so cut them some slack. Keep, absent proof it actively damages the encyclopedia. -Splash - tk 23:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Splash. — Mi ra  02:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, because it directs people's attention in the negative direction of putting a lot of vanity in their userpage rather than things they do elsewhere --Improv 04:23, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete This can only become a proxy for a popularity contest. If they wanted something like Guide to creating your user page I'd be all for it, but at the very least this does not belong in the Wiki namespace since it's about users.
 * Delete per nom. -R. S. Shaw 07:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, harmless. Could actually be used to help people create userpages that are useful for building the encyclopedia. Kusma (討論) 10:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Improv. While I sympathize with Splash and am supportive of people "taking breaks", the perceived (and probably actual) rather large number of users who clearly spend more time improving their user page than "working on the encyclopaedia" makes a user page contest send an inappropriate message. Martinp 12:55, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, popularity contest that won't help individuals nor the community improve the encyclopedia. Magnet for vanity and ego-puffery.  Barno 16:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, this emphasizes entirely the wrong things about Wikipedia. -- Cyde↔Weys  22:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for the same reasoning as featured users. Pegasus1138 Talk 06:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. One of these is enough. --Sam Blanning(talk) 15:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * D  Gang sta EB   ~(penguin logs) 20:39, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, pointless, we already have this. --Ter e nce Ong (Chat 10:47, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, inactive -- and we've already got the Esperanza UPA. &mdash; Nightst a  llion  (?) 08:43, 27 July 2006 (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.