Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiJackal

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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, no consensus. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 10:03, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

WikiJackal


Part of the proliferation of wikifauna. I don't see how this increases collaboration on the project. Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  04:52, 18 September 2015 (UTC) As the Wikijackal article points out, Wikipedia's credibility has been damaged in the past due to reporting the deaths of celebrities who didn't actuallly die. These embarrassments have likely happened because there were editors who heard or thought they heard rumors of a celebrity dying, and were in such a rush to be the first person to post that the celebrity had died, they didn't stop, take a breath, and check to confirm that the source reporting the death was reliable and/or actually reporting the death, and maybe confirm it by finding another completely independent source that confirmed the death. Using a Wikifauna essay to put a name to this kind of editing raises awareness of this problem, and encourages people to reflect on whether it is the best thing for the encyclopedia for them to rush to be the first to report a death. It reinforces Wikipedia policy, regarding editor responsibility for taking the time to find reliable sources,that Wikipedia is not a newspaper as well as that there are no deadlines on Wikipedia. That covers "reflective merit", as well as being "helpful and useful in building the encyclopedia," and being a "sincere and genuine effort to improve the encyclopedia" by making it less prone to a certain kind of embarrassing error on biographies of living persons. The playful, humorous tone of the Wikijackal article is intended to bring this issue up in a gentle way, to poke a little friendly fun at people who too hastily update deaths so they might be more open to reflecting on this behavior than they would be if cautioned in a more serious manner. Mmyers1976 (talk) 20:57, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep-Nominator gives no reason this particular nomination should be deleted, he merely provided the generic reason he has provided for the multiple Wikifauna MfD nominations he has posted in a very short time. It seems like the decision to nominate is being made based on an opinion of Wikifauna as a whole, not based on objective review of individual essays. That's not how deletion nominations should work, and it starts to approach violating WP:POINT. I don't see how most or even any wikifauna "increase collaberation on the project." Can anyone give me any examples of wikifauna that do increase collaboration on the project in a concrete way, and examples of how they do that? This essay doesn't violate any policies, it doesn't contradict or subvert policy, and it is related to Wikipedia, at least as related as many other Wikifauna. Like all Wikifauna, it's an essay, and essays are generally kept, even if they are just humorous essays, unless they violate, subvert, or contradict policy, or don't have anything to do with Wikipedia. Mmyers1976 (talk) 13:59, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Additional Comments -Discussions on the Wikifauna talk page have identified potential criteria for a Wikifauna talk page being allowed:
 * provide some educational and reflective merit closely related to Wikipedia's goals.
 * be helpful or useful in building the encyclopedia.
 * be a sincere and genuine effort to improve the encyclopedia.
 * express an attitude designed to encourage a cooperative spirit among editors.
 * 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.