The result of the discussion was: keep. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 15:17, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
I propose that this page be moved to userspace (not deleted!). I found this page by Googling "Wikipedia most viewed pages", where it is the first result for that query and high-up for similar ones. It gets about 8,000 pageviews a month, presumably from other readers who take the same path.
Its colorful commentary gave me a good laugh, for which I commend Maxaxax (the page's creator and primary contributor). However, this commentary (e.g. [1], [2], [3]), combined with the mishmash of data sources and topics, makes this seem more appropriate for user space than project space. I believe that readers interested in seeing the most popular pages on Wikipedia are better directed to Wikipedia:Top 25 Report, though a page that does list all of the most-viewed pages over the entire 2007–2021 collection period without commentary would be something I would like to see somewhere in WP space – perhaps that can be this page if it can be made more purely informative and statistical in nature.
Note: the page was previously in main space, and was moved to WP space in 2016 ( AfD). I am basing my reasoning here on the premise that this page will drop off of Google results once userfied, but I am not quite sure on this point – please correct me here if needed. — Goszei ( talk) 02:29, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was: keep. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 15:17, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
I propose that this page be moved to userspace (not deleted!). I found this page by Googling "Wikipedia most viewed pages", where it is the first result for that query and high-up for similar ones. It gets about 8,000 pageviews a month, presumably from other readers who take the same path.
Its colorful commentary gave me a good laugh, for which I commend Maxaxax (the page's creator and primary contributor). However, this commentary (e.g. [1], [2], [3]), combined with the mishmash of data sources and topics, makes this seem more appropriate for user space than project space. I believe that readers interested in seeing the most popular pages on Wikipedia are better directed to Wikipedia:Top 25 Report, though a page that does list all of the most-viewed pages over the entire 2007–2021 collection period without commentary would be something I would like to see somewhere in WP space – perhaps that can be this page if it can be made more purely informative and statistical in nature.
Note: the page was previously in main space, and was moved to WP space in 2016 ( AfD). I am basing my reasoning here on the premise that this page will drop off of Google results once userfied, but I am not quite sure on this point – please correct me here if needed. — Goszei ( talk) 02:29, 23 April 2021 (UTC)