Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia talk:Today's second feature/August 8, 2005

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Wikipedia talk:Today's second feature/August 8, 2005


This page is not referenced anywhere. It just includes DYK template and has no other content. ke4roh (talk) 22:12, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I assume (given your reference to the DYK template) you intend to delete Today's second feature/August 8, 2005 not just the talk page (which personally I would have deleted as vandalism / housekeeping were it not for your MfD template). Although it's not something I've seen before, Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Today's second feature shows that this is part of a very old archiving system for the main page, so keep - no need to mark as historical, because it obviously is. BencherliteTalk 22:25, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I did intend to nominate the non-talk page for deletion. I had not previously seen the others according to the prefix, but in that case, I suppose I should nominate all that only include the DYK template for they serve no purpose now.  -- ke4roh (talk) 04:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Wait? There's no archive at this page. It's the DYK template for TODAY, not August 8, 2005. So how is it an archive system if it doesn't archive anything? D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  04:24, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Good spot; fixed (see below for more). BencherliteTalk 19:22, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't care what happens to the talk page, but keep the archival system of Today's second feature for historical interest. As it says on that page, "Today's second feature" was used to display the "did you know" of the Main Page on weekdays and the featured picture on weekends. Because this system was in place before the advent of parser functions/magic words, somebody had to manually enter the the correct template (either DYK or TFP) for each day of the weekk. Graham 87 06:34, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * There are some meaningful pages within the Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Today's second feature list. The problem with this page (and presumably others like it that I haven't yet sought out) is that the only content is "  ", and then there's the log of who put it there.  We have an actual log of DYK on August 8, 2005, but this is not it.  How many thumbnail images did I upload and document the provenance of before the auto-thumbnailer?  They're gone.  This is similar.  Perhaps my clumsy nomination is at fault. -- ke4roh (talk) 12:28, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Wikipedia page (all of them). Keep talk page. The talk pages do archive the relevant discussion, but the non-talk pages no longer have any purpose. D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  13:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Orphaned talk pages qualify for speedy deletion, and this !vote makes no sense. How is Wikipedia talk:Today's second feature/August 8, 2005 relevant to what was on DYK on 8 August 2005? Graham 87 02:28, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * We tag the talk page as G8 exempt - there's a template for that, sometimes talk pages without article pages shouldn't be deleted, and that's the case here. D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  03:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * This debate won't lead to the deletion of Today's second feature and all its subpages since they've not been nominated (and they record part of WP's history, so are unlikely to be deleted). We're just talking about a page which didn't properly record the history for the day in question (which I've now fixed: I've now changed Today's second feature/August 8, 2005 so that it shows what was up on Aug 8, 2005. It's redundant to Recent additions/2005/August, but that's not particularly troublesome to my way of thinking).  Its talk page (which relates to an entirely different DYK day by mistake) should just be replaced with an oldmfd after this discussion is closed as keep. It makes no sense to delete the August 8, 2005 page but keep its talk page which has nothing of value on! BencherliteTalk 19:22, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep now that it's fixed. D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  01:39, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


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