Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject assessment/A-Class criteria

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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: speedy keep. Consensus is clearly not to delete; if you want to see this deprecated, you should get consensus first, then delete the page. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 10:54, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject assessment/A-Class criteria


Moribund class. Used only by WikiProject Military history. Misleading as it is. &thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 11:44, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Huh? It's also used by WP Chemistry. Also, if you think it is historical, it should be marked as such, not deleted. If it's misleading, it should be rewritten, not deleted. Galobtter (pingó mió) 11:49, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Point of order, WP:Chemistry have only five a-class articles; and more to the point, haven't used the procedure since 2009.   >SerialNumber  54129 ...speculates 12:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep, the class is used, and this describes what to do if projects want to use it. If projects don't want to use it, that's fine too. This is not a reason for deletion. And while WP:PHYS doesn't perform A-class assessments ourselves, we do recognize WP:CHEM/WP:MILHIST's A-Class reviews in the many areas where physics and chemistry/military history overlap. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 12:16, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Point of oder-2: Shouldn't the MfD template on that page be surrounded by ? Now hundreds of pages in Category:WikiProject assessments appear as tagged for deletion. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:31, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. In use by multiple projects including those mentioned above, WP:TROP, and WP:HWY (and its subprojects). See also previous discussion Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_121, which included the suggestion of making A-class a non-standard grade (like Bplus-class) - Evad37 &#91;talk] 12:42, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment: This MfD appears to have caught hundreds of unrelated pages and categories at Category:Miscellaneous pages for deletion. &mdash;Xezbeth (talk) 13:22, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Headbomb. Since it's being used, there's no real reason to delete it.  If there is a strong demand to reconfigure WP:ASSESS to indicate that A-class is rarely used, or should not be considered a "standard" grade, that's a different discussion, and it would seem a lot more reasonable than complete deletion.  We'd need to involve MILHIST in any discussion of that sort.  FYI: I'm a (somewhat lapsed) member of WP:CHEM, and I can confirm that we haven't maintained the A-class articles as we should have, nor have we been able to support the kind of peer review we used to do in 2006-2008.  Walkerma (talk) 02:27, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah I guess it isn't really used, however that's obviously isn't a criteria for deletion. Galobtter (pingó mió) 07:09, 16 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep WP:SK#1. The rationale speaks only to archiving or moving.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:30, 15 December 2017 (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.