Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikipedia is serious business

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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 and tag as an essay. Salvio Let's talk about it! 16:19, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is serious business


It just is? Surely this needs a better explanation of 'serious business' or else it would suffice to all our other essays, guidelines and policies outlining that the place is for 'serious business'. This page is useless.  Rcsprinter  (state the obvious (or not))  15:58, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to Real Life (which is probably close to what the creator had in mind). meshach (talk) 20:23, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Uh, no. Not funny. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:07, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Strong meh I could see this developing into a humorous essay (with lots of lolcats and such), but seriously, I don't see how "unfunny" and "short" are violations of WP:ESSAY. I suppose WP:HARMLESS isn't a very good argument for keeping something, but as that page notes, it's potentially very relevant in MfD...  Honestly, I'm unconvinced that this page is worth the effort of deleting. -- N  Y  Kevin  @110, i.e. 01:39, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Userfy-Little gags like this don't need to be in the Wikipedia namespace. --Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 17:53, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Presumably because Wikipedia is serious business. Killiondude (talk) 04:50, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Wikipedia is in the real world (as suggested by Meshach). --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:25, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Inappropriate use of Project namespace that should dealt with appropriately. I have no prejudice against expansion, deletion, redirection, or userfication; really, any solution but "Keep". Achowat (talk) 20:37, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep: Not convinced by any of the discussion here that this page should be deleted. --MZMcBride (talk) 07:02, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Have restored the humour tag in line with the Two truths doctrine Leutha (talk) 20:52, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep I really do not see how this harms the Wikipedia, or how WP is helped by even discussing the deletion of pages like this. When I consider all the copyvio and promotionalism we really need to get rid of ...   DGG ( talk ) 21:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per MZMcBride and DGG. Killiondude (talk) 06:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Userfy - I'm not particularly convinced by the deletion rationale, as it is part of Category:Wikipedia humour, but is there a situation where this could be used for a purpose other than to mock someone? -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:48, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * FYI, the humour tag was added after the MfD was started.  Rcsprinter  (message)  19:13, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * FYI, the humour tag was restored after the MfD was started.Leutha (talk) 22:49, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - Meets Wikipedia essays: addresses some aspect of working in Wikipedia, personal or minority view, contains enough advice and opinion of one or more Wikipedia contributors. It is a short essay but the message comes across in several ways. The humor tag needs to be removed because the tag is not based on policy or guideline (there is no policy or guideline for keeping a page because it is considered humorous). Instead, tag the essay with one or both guidance essay humorous essay. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 06:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep and tag as an essay per Uzma Gamal.-- Lenticel ( talk ) 06:33, 21 May 2012 (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.