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
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Redirect to the mainspace article. There is no need or reason for deletion. These space-wasting nominations are to be discouraged. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk)
02:57, 9 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Redirect to mainspace article. This is the standard way to deal with a duplication in userspace. Please read the instructions at the top of the "Miscellany for deletion" page (the page you are looking at now): "Note that we do not delete user subpages merely to "clean up" userspace. Please only nominate pages that are problematic under our guidelines." And under
WP:STALE, stale drafts should only be deleted if "problematic even if blanked," which is not true here.
Fagles (
talk)
13:39, 6 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment I've have completely discounted every above comment and relisted this discussion. It took me only ten seconds to see that this draft and the linked article are not about the same person (they don't even play the same sport, for God's sakes), and that the similarly-named
John-Paul Kelly is yet a third person. As a result, every single above vote is based on a false premise, and this whole discussion needs to re-start from scratch. Courtesy pings: @
Ricky81682:@
Legacypac:@
SmokeyJoe:@
JMHamo:@
Chrisw80:@
Northamerica1000:@
Fagles:Oiyarbepsy (
talk)
20:29, 12 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete It's a BLP with no references. I can't find any confirmation he existed, so unless someone can come up with sources, it should be 'deleted. He is not either of the two Rugby players listed at
John_Kelly either.
Legacypac (
talk) 20:38, 12 March 2016 (UTC) (I now think it is a hoax)
Legacypac (
talk)
17:45, 2 May 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment: Please don't strike-through my comments, my comment still stands irrespective. How do you know I was operating under a false premise?
Chrisw80 (
talk)
20:54, 12 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Thank you Oiyarbepsy, you are quite right. It is a BLP, but I see no BLP issues. It makes some grand notability claims, without sources, and I fail to verify them using google. I would prefer to see it go through the normal Draft/AfC process. It is not the business of MfD to review every poor draft. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk)
23:17, 14 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Re Hoax? It is not a hoax, just yet another JPK footballer. I am pretty he is not Wikipedia-notable, but then I have a decided disinterest in WP:ATHLETE articles. I am tempted to say that most of them should be merged and redirected to list/table articles on teams by period. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk)
22:43, 15 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Re: not an AfC page. I have never understood the distinction between an AfC page in DraftSpace and a non-AfC page in DraftSpace. I'm a bit surprised that there is a distinction. I am aware of controversy concerning third parties adding the AfC template to userpage drafts, but that's a userpage user ownership issue. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk)
00:07, 16 March 2016 (UTC)reply
G13 applies to AFC pages period, regardless of namespace. It doesn't apply to non-AFC pages. Draftspace is just another namespace and so deletion there falls under the general deletion guidelines. This is what
User:MusikBot/StaleDrafts/Report was created to find, old drafts from draftspace that would not fall under G13 since they aren't AFC drafts (the expansion of G13 has been repeatedly rejected). Now the draft itself alleges that this person played for
Exeter Chiefs for over a decade including numerous championships. Ignoring the fact that Exeter Chiefs is a top domestic rugby level team, for all the lauding and congratulations on the page, there is no mention of him anywhere. The biography, if accurate, would pass
Wikipedia:Notability_(sports)#Rugby_union but again, very strange. As such, I think it's more likely a hoax and given that it is unsourced BLP with almost nothing of substance, I tend to vote delete because I find many people do care about the creation credit for pages and having a draft already in existence but poorly done will keep away the people who care about that versus deleting it (analogous to how you see
WP:REDLINKS policy here). Nevertheless, I posted a comment at
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rugby_union#Draft:John_Paul_Kelly asking for confirmation. --
Ricky81682 (
talk)
00:28, 16 March 2016 (UTC)reply
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.
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.
Redirect to the mainspace article. There is no need or reason for deletion. These space-wasting nominations are to be discouraged. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk)
02:57, 9 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Redirect to mainspace article. This is the standard way to deal with a duplication in userspace. Please read the instructions at the top of the "Miscellany for deletion" page (the page you are looking at now): "Note that we do not delete user subpages merely to "clean up" userspace. Please only nominate pages that are problematic under our guidelines." And under
WP:STALE, stale drafts should only be deleted if "problematic even if blanked," which is not true here.
Fagles (
talk)
13:39, 6 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment I've have completely discounted every above comment and relisted this discussion. It took me only ten seconds to see that this draft and the linked article are not about the same person (they don't even play the same sport, for God's sakes), and that the similarly-named
John-Paul Kelly is yet a third person. As a result, every single above vote is based on a false premise, and this whole discussion needs to re-start from scratch. Courtesy pings: @
Ricky81682:@
Legacypac:@
SmokeyJoe:@
JMHamo:@
Chrisw80:@
Northamerica1000:@
Fagles:Oiyarbepsy (
talk)
20:29, 12 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete It's a BLP with no references. I can't find any confirmation he existed, so unless someone can come up with sources, it should be 'deleted. He is not either of the two Rugby players listed at
John_Kelly either.
Legacypac (
talk) 20:38, 12 March 2016 (UTC) (I now think it is a hoax)
Legacypac (
talk)
17:45, 2 May 2016 (UTC)reply
Comment: Please don't strike-through my comments, my comment still stands irrespective. How do you know I was operating under a false premise?
Chrisw80 (
talk)
20:54, 12 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Thank you Oiyarbepsy, you are quite right. It is a BLP, but I see no BLP issues. It makes some grand notability claims, without sources, and I fail to verify them using google. I would prefer to see it go through the normal Draft/AfC process. It is not the business of MfD to review every poor draft. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk)
23:17, 14 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Re Hoax? It is not a hoax, just yet another JPK footballer. I am pretty he is not Wikipedia-notable, but then I have a decided disinterest in WP:ATHLETE articles. I am tempted to say that most of them should be merged and redirected to list/table articles on teams by period. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk)
22:43, 15 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Re: not an AfC page. I have never understood the distinction between an AfC page in DraftSpace and a non-AfC page in DraftSpace. I'm a bit surprised that there is a distinction. I am aware of controversy concerning third parties adding the AfC template to userpage drafts, but that's a userpage user ownership issue. --
SmokeyJoe (
talk)
00:07, 16 March 2016 (UTC)reply
G13 applies to AFC pages period, regardless of namespace. It doesn't apply to non-AFC pages. Draftspace is just another namespace and so deletion there falls under the general deletion guidelines. This is what
User:MusikBot/StaleDrafts/Report was created to find, old drafts from draftspace that would not fall under G13 since they aren't AFC drafts (the expansion of G13 has been repeatedly rejected). Now the draft itself alleges that this person played for
Exeter Chiefs for over a decade including numerous championships. Ignoring the fact that Exeter Chiefs is a top domestic rugby level team, for all the lauding and congratulations on the page, there is no mention of him anywhere. The biography, if accurate, would pass
Wikipedia:Notability_(sports)#Rugby_union but again, very strange. As such, I think it's more likely a hoax and given that it is unsourced BLP with almost nothing of substance, I tend to vote delete because I find many people do care about the creation credit for pages and having a draft already in existence but poorly done will keep away the people who care about that versus deleting it (analogous to how you see
WP:REDLINKS policy here). Nevertheless, I posted a comment at
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rugby_union#Draft:John_Paul_Kelly asking for confirmation. --
Ricky81682 (
talk)
00:28, 16 March 2016 (UTC)reply
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.