Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians for writing an encyclopedia


 * 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 No Consensus. &Euml;vilphoenix Burn! 23:40, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikipedians for writing an encyclopedia
Delete. This WikiProject is utterly useless. It literally has not done anything except exist for the past 5 months. Hyphen5 11:49, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: moved this discussion to WP:MFD. — sjorford (talk)  13:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. You probably see little activity on the WikiProject because most members are too busy writing an encyclopedia ;-) Seriously, is this WikiProject doing any harm? Some 30 users think it purposeful enough to sign up for the principle, so let it be. (And, Hyphen5, with all respect, I suggest you contribute to the project for longer than a week before nominating project pages for deletion.) &mdash; Matt Crypto 13:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep per Matt. —This unsigned comment was added by D-Day (talk • contribs) 14:04, 25 March 2006.
 * Keep. Even if the project were inactive, that wouldn't be grounds for deletion. -- Tantalum T  e  lluride  20:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete The project is unneeded. Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia because that's what the Wikimedia foundation says. Simply signing up for account means that an editor must be a 'Wikipedian for writing an encyclopedia.' Those not interested in writing an encyclopedia, and there are quite a few of these editors, are to be shown the door. Also, material in the project should be merged with Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. 172 | Talk 23:38, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep no harm. — xaosflux  Talk  05:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Archive in a way that treats it as clearly distinct from actual functioning projects. (TantalumTelluride is partially correct in that this shouldn't be summarily deleted, but in my opinion it might as well go into BJAODN space, or the equivalent of unpassed-policy-proposal space, not stay in WikiProject: space.)  "172" is correct:  Everybody here should be a member of this category.  Signing up on a list on a functionally null project page doesn't do any good, nor prove that an editor isn't in WP to self-promote or to carry on a feud.  Failing to sign up for a null-project doesn't do any harm, nor prove that the editor is any riskier than anyone else in terms of intent to write an encyclopedia.  Barno 03:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I could agree to that. --Hyphen5 14:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, it makes a very valid point. Thus, it's not useless. --Snargle 19:04, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Rob 08:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, useful WikiProject. --Ter e nce Ong 10:59, 30 March 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.