Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wiki Game

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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. (NAC) Armbrust The Homunculus 12:34, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Game


Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. Nor is it a web host. RadioFan (talk) 23:58, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong and speedy keep - this and other "meta" pages from the early years of Wikipedia are part of Wikipedia's history and early culture. If you want to clear out pages that if they were created today would likely be deleted at MFD, I recommend staring an RFC with three possible options:  do nothing/no change to current practices, declare that history not a valid argument to "keep" at MFD, or that if they go to MFD, instead of deletion such pages for any reason other than violating policy (e.g. copyvio, attack, BLP, etc.) should be either moved to a special place and/or tagged with a special template to indicate they are being kept only or primarily because of their historical importance to the project.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  04:14, 29 September 2013 (UTC) Update: I have no objection to transwiki to Meta as suggested by  below provided that it is clearly welcome there.  My concern is that if we "transwiki instead of no consensus" then it gets deleted at Meta, it will be gone forever.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  04:49, 29 September 2013 (UTC) Update:  I have no objections to tagging this as historical. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  21:35, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment if it is deleted from Meta:, you could always undelete it here. -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 05:26, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOTASOCIALNETWORK ; if it should be kept it should be transwikied to . -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 04:30, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, but tag as historical. This is part of the history of the project.  It was project related, and it has worthwhile purpose.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:56, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment does it need to be the face page? If this is kept, it could always redirect to The Wikipedia Adventure, with the old version hidden in the history of the redirect. (though I'd still preferentially delete it, or transwiki it) -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 05:26, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The Wikipedia Adventure is much newer, started in 2011. Wiki Game was active in 2004.  Redirecting the history to the relatively new page is not a logical archive method, but a way of loosing things.  There is nothing so offensive on The Wikipedia Adventure that it needs to be hidden.  However, if you would like to replace the current version with an essay on why these things are not appropriate, that might be fine.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:25, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Do you mean nothing offensive on "Wiki Game"? If not, I'm not following what you're saying. As for hiding "Wiki Game", it's not active, so redirecting to the currently active game would be the thing to do. -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 06:46, 30 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep WP:MADEUP applies primarily to article content, and I don't see how WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK applies at all. Keep as a harmless bit of Wikipedia culture; I don't see much value in transwikiing, and none in marking as historical—nothing about it seems to be outdated or superseded. --BDD (talk) 16:46, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. This game is a notable aspect of Wikipedia culture. There were at least 33 attempts to create an article about this game in the mainspace before one finally was allowed to be kept. But even so, there was no real dispute that an article about the game ought to be maintained in the projectspace. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:18, 8 October 2013 (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.