- 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 No consensus. However, broad agreement was reached that the page ought to be cleaned up so that its purpose (presumably, to be a parody) is more clear, and so that it does not mislead clueless newbies into thinking the page gives serious advice or instruction. AGK [•] 13:42, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
- User:Lorem Ipsum Generator/Wikipedia:Requests for Vandalism ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
We shouldn't encourage people vandalize pages ( WP:Don't feed the trolls) Guerillero | My Talk 02:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Delete, joke or not, doesn't seem like a good idea either way. – Connormah ( talk) 02:23, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Delete. Although humour pages are often tolerated, this is just WP:BEANS. -- SGCM (talk) 02:24, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Keep Parody of our bureaucracy and the tactics that some editors use to game the system should be allowed. If he wrote the same points he's making in a dry essay, we'd allow it. If this were just some skeleton fake noticeboard that was more like a guestbook, that'd be one thing, but it contains a lot of critical commentary on the way Wikipedia works, and I don't think we should suppress that sort of thing. The genius of his parody is that we are playing right into his hand with this MfD no matter how it turns out. :) Gigs ( talk) 23:01, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
- Keep - Essays do not have to be directly to the point. Sometimes, it is more powerful to use other techniques to get your message across. Meets User Essay requirements. So long as the page does not include any actual requests for vandalism, joke or not, the page meets user space requirements. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 03:02, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
- Delete. I think it's stretching things to call it a User Essay. It doesn't make any real contribution to the encyclopaedia. Nevertheless if LIG intends to work on this and make it into a real essay, we should probably give him some more time. -- Klein zach 05:20, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
- Four days old. I'm sure when this already-not-very-funny page is abandoned it can be cleaned up easily enough in six months. It isn't urgent that it be shut down immediately. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 10:23, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
- Comment. Whether the page is humorous and "important" or not, I do believe I made a decent guide to how to cast and archive a vote on Wikipedia. If a similar one doesn't exist already, maybe this could be split up into a (non-humor) voting tutorial and a (non-humor) guide to Wikipedia's request systems with a brief description of each? I think I might be able to do that... -- ████ ██ 23:51, 9 October 2012 (UTC) (PS my sig is censored cuz it's contents are a secret ancient guide to the Voynich Manuscripts citation needed)
- 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.
The result of the discussion was No consensus. However, broad agreement was reached that the page ought to be cleaned up so that its purpose (presumably, to be a parody) is more clear, and so that it does not mislead clueless newbies into thinking the page gives serious advice or instruction. AGK [•] 13:42, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
- User:Lorem Ipsum Generator/Wikipedia:Requests for Vandalism ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
We shouldn't encourage people vandalize pages ( WP:Don't feed the trolls) Guerillero | My Talk 02:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Delete, joke or not, doesn't seem like a good idea either way. – Connormah ( talk) 02:23, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Delete. Although humour pages are often tolerated, this is just WP:BEANS. -- SGCM (talk) 02:24, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Keep Parody of our bureaucracy and the tactics that some editors use to game the system should be allowed. If he wrote the same points he's making in a dry essay, we'd allow it. If this were just some skeleton fake noticeboard that was more like a guestbook, that'd be one thing, but it contains a lot of critical commentary on the way Wikipedia works, and I don't think we should suppress that sort of thing. The genius of his parody is that we are playing right into his hand with this MfD no matter how it turns out. :) Gigs ( talk) 23:01, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
- Keep - Essays do not have to be directly to the point. Sometimes, it is more powerful to use other techniques to get your message across. Meets User Essay requirements. So long as the page does not include any actual requests for vandalism, joke or not, the page meets user space requirements. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 03:02, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
- Delete. I think it's stretching things to call it a User Essay. It doesn't make any real contribution to the encyclopaedia. Nevertheless if LIG intends to work on this and make it into a real essay, we should probably give him some more time. -- Klein zach 05:20, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
- Four days old. I'm sure when this already-not-very-funny page is abandoned it can be cleaned up easily enough in six months. It isn't urgent that it be shut down immediately. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 10:23, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
- Comment. Whether the page is humorous and "important" or not, I do believe I made a decent guide to how to cast and archive a vote on Wikipedia. If a similar one doesn't exist already, maybe this could be split up into a (non-humor) voting tutorial and a (non-humor) guide to Wikipedia's request systems with a brief description of each? I think I might be able to do that... -- ████ ██ 23:51, 9 October 2012 (UTC) (PS my sig is censored cuz it's contents are a secret ancient guide to the Voynich Manuscripts citation needed)
- 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.