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 . ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 15:39, 14 January 2019 (UTC) reply

User:Comet Tuttle/Repair

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This is abandoned and it is clearly WP:NOTHOWTO. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 15:03, 5 January 2019 (UTC) reply

• Keep - Not unrelated to improving Wikipedia. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:17, 5 January 2019 (UTC) reply

  @ Rhododendrites: Read WP:UP#COPIES and WP:NOTHOWTO. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 16:30, 5 January 2019 (UTC) reply

  Sigh. Ok now actually click those links. UP#COPIES is about copies from mainspace. This is not. This also isn't a copy, it's the original. NOTHOWTO is about the encyclopedia. We have plenty of howtos in other namespaces (like how to edit Wikipedia!). ... — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:36, 5 January 2019 (UTC) reply

  @ Rhododendrites: "How to edit Wikipedia" and the other how-to guides are about Wikipedia. "How to repair a computer with a virus?" is not related to Wikipedia or Wikipedia's goals so this is actually WP:NOTWEBHOST and as it is in the userspace, it would meet WP:U5. It is point 5 which is "Content for projects unrelated to Wikipedia". Pkbwcgs ( talk) 20:46, 5 January 2019 (UTC) reply

  The refdesk gets a lot of regular questions. From the looks of this, this is designed to answer such questions. The ref desk has long been understood to operate outside of several standard Wikipedia rules. Sourced how-to questions/answers are not uncommon. This page was used to work on exactly that. Wikipedia is also not indiscriminate collections of statistics, but in userspace people frequently work on tables with no context because it will be useful elsewhere. What in the world does anybody stand to gain from deleting this? Not only is there no pressing reason for deletion, but nobody will ever see this page outside of the one person who found it useful to create (someone who is not an SPA/new user). There was a clear intent for it that's clearly meant for the ref desks. The only people who will see this otherwise are people digging through userspace looking for pages that can be deleted. If someone works on a help page in their sandbox, there's no reason not to let them keep a copy there. None at all. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 20:54, 5 January 2019 (UTC) reply

• Weak Keep - As I have noted with regard to the other nominations in this set of nominations, Wikipedia is not a how-to guide is being applied incorrectly here. Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:51, 6 January 2019 (UTC) reply

• Delete same as the sister pages. We are not a how to guide Legacypac ( talk) 05:38, 8 January 2019 (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.