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 debate was Keep as no real policy based reasons to delete this talk archive have been brought forward. Tikiwont (talk) 08:26, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clear flame war; not worth even being in an archive. Message from XENU^{u, t} 15:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a guideline somewhere about deleting flame wars? I'd like to review the guideline and precedent before weighing in. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 17:16, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The only guideline I can find is the help for archiving a talk page. That doesn't talk about deleting page history, although it says that even for user talk pages that archiving is preferable to deletion. The idea of completely deleting the entire history of discussion for an article seems way outside of standard practice. Whether I think the discussion was useful or not doesn't enter into my decision. However, if there is a policy or guideline somewhere that says flame wars should be deleted, point it out to me and I'll change my mind. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 01:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree. Well, it's not got any 'of value' content. It's just one huge flame war that's not even worth being archived. Message from XENU^{u, t} 01:54, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Suggestion if this page is really problematic then I have a suggestion. Go to the talk page and see if others feel the same way, then instead of using the normal cut/paste archive, use a dated diff link instead. -- Ned Scott 02:03, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion ended 6 months ago; it isn't active. The major usernames involved in that discussion are no longer active accounts; it's likely no one would respond. Since it's in an archive, it doesn't really impede any current discussion. Is there any situation in which Wikipedia guidelines support deleting the talk history? Or is the history of how an article got to be the way it is valuable even if it was a somewhat ugly process? WeisheitSuchen (talk) 03:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm still active, I've just decided to avoid participating with the voting process to avoid being yelled at. Psychcf (talk) 12:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep No reason not to. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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