Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Meldshal42/Secret Page

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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 Keep ~ Anthøny 23:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Meldshal42/Secret Page

Wikipedia shouldn't be a game of "find the hidden page". This is an encyclopedia: not a personal playground for people to look and post on secret pages that aren't encyclopedic. RobJ1981 21:44, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Comment: I've seen quite a few of these around before, and, while I agree the pages aren't very useful, I do believe users are entitled to have them in their userspace. — Bob • (talk) • 22:35, August 1, 2007 (UTC)
Comment. The user should be aware that there is no such thing as a secret user page. Anyone can find a user's list of pages using Special:Allpages. ●DanMS • Talk 01:47, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Or Special:Prefixindex. Hut 8.5 11:52, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Bob took the words out of my fingers. :) These pages are surprisingly common. Here's my take on the question of wasting time: it's more of a waste of time to go after such pages than to leave them alone. Shalom Hello 02:40, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - concur with Shalom, also, page is innocuous, friendly, and less elaborate than what many users have right on their main user pages.--Parsifal Hello 03:18, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete This is useless and the epitome of social networking in a childish way that does nothing for the encyclopedia. This and all the others. DGG (talk) 09:26, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
    • Hi, I was wondering, how do userpages in general contribute anything to the encyclopedia? PeaceNT 16:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Shalom. Things like this are allowed in userspace, provided that the users who create them also contribute to the encyclopedia. We need to remember that deleting people's user subpages makes them less, not more, likely to contribute to the encyclopedia itself. WaltonOne 15:43, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I agree with DGG. This is an encyclopedia, not myspace. Eusebeus 15:44, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep productive editors are allowed stuff like this in their userspace. Hut 8.5 16:10, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per all above. Deletion of this page, although it would make Wikipedia infinitesimally less similar to Myspace, would make the user less likely to contribute. Yes, it's remotely similar to social networking. However, every time an attempt is made to delete some obscure, nearly orphaned userbox on some topic that only a few Peruvian physicists, who don't have Wikipedia accounts, would use, half of the users in the discussion scream bloody murder about how they are entitled to have the userbox, even though they wouldn't have it on their own userpage in their wildest dreams. Anyway, the user is productive and doesn't use Wikipedia as social networking. May I remind you that Jimbo's userpage is closer to social networking than this is? Bart133 (t) (c) 16:13, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • You presume to equate Meldshal42 to Jimbo Wales?--WaltCip 00:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Why not? The rules apply equally to everyone. WaltonOne 11:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Is it really a big problem for this page to exist? No. Will deleting it make the user contribute more to the encyclopedia? Almost certainly not. So why delete it? -128.12.68.95 20:48, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Per all of the above. ♠TomasBat 01:40, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Shalom. Oysterguitarist 04:36, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as valid use of userspace. Helps build the community spirit and does no harm. PeaceNT 16:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - I see nothing wrong with this page. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 14:50, 5 August 2007 (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.