Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Secret pages
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[edit] Question
Wait, let me get this straight...you want to delete all userpages not directly linked to the User's actual acts of editing? --Quadraxis (talk) 05:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- No, the proposal wishes to delete pages that are part of a game in which a user is asked to find a certain page (the secret page) that another user has created. These pages are usually unlinked pages in a user's subspace, but I've also seen them in doppelganger account spaces. MBisanz talk 05:30, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Just an observation...
...but this has degraded into a giant clusterfuck. Just, by the way. Think we should start an RfC on this subject along the lines as the Cabal one? Because just like that one, this one has many parties... and its no longer an easily understood, cohesive discussion. I just want to make sure that everything is done fairly, and that all of the points are made and understood. Queerbubbles | Leave me Some Love 18:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- This will be closed as a no-consensus and the closing admin will recommend taking this to a policy discussion. This isn't really a deletion discussion. This is instead meant to determine whether or not a certain practice should be allowed in the future. That's a question of policy. The mass-deletion should never have been suggested first, ideally, but sometimes this is how ideas start. Equazcion •✗/C • 18:19, 3 Apr 2008 (UTC)
[edit] For next xfD
Classify the pages on several groups:
- forgotten pages
- funpages with not much traffic
- pages that make people lose their time searching for them
- pages that make people lose a *lot* of time, and their creators never edit on mainspace, and give awards to everyone that finds them and encourages other editors to invest time on searching for them
and make a separate argument for each. This will help much to center the debate. This is appliable to any xfD involving a varied group of pages --Enric Naval (talk) 19:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- Make people lose their time, ??? I'm not sure you can "make" people do anything! aliasd·U·T 00:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Sure enough you can. This nomination has caused lots of people to lose their time making unfocused arguments on an unclear nomination. Troll_(Internet)\Trolls do this stuff on purpose. (in this case, it was not a troll, of course) --Enric Naval (talk) 00:33, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
