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. (non-admin closure) Doug Mehus T·C 03:15, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Thumperward/tropes

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Extremely old maintenance page from 2012. Almost none of this is valid anymore. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 08:21, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If I run that search again, I still see plenty of articlespace links to what is a user-generated site with zero editorial oversight - tracking those (with a view to removing them) was the original goal here iirc. On the other hand, I don't have the inclination to do that myself any more, so this doesn't really serve a purpose. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 08:31, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. No reason to delete. Do not police others’ userspace without good reason. “Old” is a very poor reason to delete others’ personal records. This page causes no harm to anything. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:43, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I may agree with User:SmokeyJoe, but what he says may need clarifying. "Old" is a very poor reason to delete the user pages of users who are editing Wikipedia, either actively or occasionally. "Old" is a reason to delete abandoned stuff by departed users. User:Thumperward is still editing, as the above comment indicates. I am just going through a box of my shirts that has been sitting unopened for three years. Do I want help in triaging which of them I will wash and wear, which I will throw away, and which I will give to charity? No. A user can keep their own dusty shirts, and papers with notes in cuneiform. If it turns out that the notes in cuneiform make false accusations, that is a different matter. But this is just a box of an editor's shirts. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:17, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Old" is NOT a reason to delete abandoned stuff by departed users. Stuff that should not have been created should be deleted regardless of the author's activity, and in userspace, users should be left to manage their own records. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:27, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as per above; no reason to delete, and I may go through the box of old shirts being discussed. J 947 ^{^{^(c)}}, at 18:31, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
So what you're saying is, if I had made a userpage in 2005 saying "Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz" and never deleted it, you'd all be clamoring to keep it because I might possibly maybe return to it someday before Armageddon? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:39, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- That is not a reasonable comparison. Here, Thumperward has a query that identifies possible fanfiction-excesses, or content forking, or something directed at mainspace content investigation, any of which has a content improvement angle. If you equate that to gibberish, you are unqualified to be assessing others userspace, certainly highly reputable users' userspace. And even if it were gibberish, the harm in ignoring it is zero, and the risk of deleting unexpectedly useful stuff is non-zero, so why should we be comfortable with you doing this. If it were something like music WP:OR, or unsourced misrepresentation of music content, stuff you which you have a good reputation of knowledge, you would get more encouragement from me. Perhaps you think Thumperward is in the business of spamming trope content? I think it is much more likely that Thumperward was fixing trope-related content. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:04, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep no need to be policing an active editor's userspace. If Thumperward updated the information, it's not impossible that someone else would do the associated work. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 08:07, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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