The result of the discussion was No consensus - with no real policy/precent, I have to give a significant weight to the (roughly balanced) headcount. No arguments strike me as fundamentally compelling. Wily D 08:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Created completely out of process. Founder signed up the same day they started this. This does not seem to be anything that can't be handled by the barnstar project. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 03:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Nomination gives no good reason given for deletion. There is no “creation process” defined to be “out of”. New ideas are not deleted due to coming from new recruits. No evidence that the Barnstar project has controlling rights. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 05:26, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
“An essay supported only by its author but disputed by others” is usually a successful rationale in having an essay userfied or deleted. You are thinking that a higher standard should be required? I have sympathy for that view, and would be interested, but I think that the devil in the detail may be insurmountable.
I think that low-level cruft in WP space is not so great a concern because people don’t browse WP space by titles. What matters more is where a page is linked from.
I think that starting unrealistic WikiProjects is too easy, but that doesn't mean they should be deleted. Overly specific WikiProjects are better redirected to more realistically useful Wikiprojects. Any editor can do this cleanup without havign to run it through MfD. Come to MfD if unreasonably opposed.
In principle, I think that MfD is well used to shut down something inappropriate. I created {{ closed down}} for this specific purpose. (We shouldn't delete mistakes because doing so dooms future editors to repeat the mistakes). Conceivably, this is a reasonable case. Unfortunately, we have a substandard nomination (typical of TPH). His rationales for deletion are poorly stated. He refers to a “barnstar project” without even a link. Wikipedia:Barnstars is not a WikiProject. If he means Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards then I expect to find some discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards. He most obviously has not posted a productive message at Wikipedia talk:BADGE (it is a redlink). MfD should not be used an unbounded open discussion space. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 23:07, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was No consensus - with no real policy/precent, I have to give a significant weight to the (roughly balanced) headcount. No arguments strike me as fundamentally compelling. Wily D 08:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Created completely out of process. Founder signed up the same day they started this. This does not seem to be anything that can't be handled by the barnstar project. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 03:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Nomination gives no good reason given for deletion. There is no “creation process” defined to be “out of”. New ideas are not deleted due to coming from new recruits. No evidence that the Barnstar project has controlling rights. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 05:26, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
“An essay supported only by its author but disputed by others” is usually a successful rationale in having an essay userfied or deleted. You are thinking that a higher standard should be required? I have sympathy for that view, and would be interested, but I think that the devil in the detail may be insurmountable.
I think that low-level cruft in WP space is not so great a concern because people don’t browse WP space by titles. What matters more is where a page is linked from.
I think that starting unrealistic WikiProjects is too easy, but that doesn't mean they should be deleted. Overly specific WikiProjects are better redirected to more realistically useful Wikiprojects. Any editor can do this cleanup without havign to run it through MfD. Come to MfD if unreasonably opposed.
In principle, I think that MfD is well used to shut down something inappropriate. I created {{ closed down}} for this specific purpose. (We shouldn't delete mistakes because doing so dooms future editors to repeat the mistakes). Conceivably, this is a reasonable case. Unfortunately, we have a substandard nomination (typical of TPH). His rationales for deletion are poorly stated. He refers to a “barnstar project” without even a link. Wikipedia:Barnstars is not a WikiProject. If he means Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards then I expect to find some discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards. He most obviously has not posted a productive message at Wikipedia talk:BADGE (it is a redlink). MfD should not be used an unbounded open discussion space. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 23:07, 22 January 2013 (UTC)