The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created. Proposer abandoned the proposal. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:16, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject: Project Archive

This Project Will Primarily Focus on Archiving Large Articles That Are In AFD or soon to be deleted, so that the information will still be accessible for those that/need and want it & so that the creators/contributors can have satisfaction that their work has not been for nothing. We wiil also be fullfilling Archival Requests.

• Primarily Large Articles That Are In AFD or soon to be deleted

• Archival Requests

• Category:Articles Archived by "Project Archive" (Tag All Pages You Archive With This Tag)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
• Category:Wikipedia deletion

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This article has been archived by WikiProject: "Project Archive"

• Articles That Have Been Archived

Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.

1. Abandoned As Proposer- PaulGamerBoy360 (talk) 01:31, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1. Fundamentally misunderstands WP:Deletion policy and why we employ it. Such a project would not be possible under policy, nor desirable. We delete pages for good reason, and the most common ones are they that are "something I made up one day" garbage, outright hoaxes, copyright violations, WP:BLP violations (attack pages, etc.), commercial spam, or utter trivia about non-notable things and persons. We cannot be devoting long-term storage to such material and continuing to make it available to the public. If you are certain that an actually legitimate topic is "nearly notable" and will be shortly, or can be proven to be with additional (e.g. offline) source research, and want to work on it, you are already free to use the WP:REFUND process to have the deleting admin userspace the deleted article for you for additional work, as long as it doesn't contain something that has to be suppressed like copyvios, attacks on living subjects, etc. And the community already routinely draftspaces articles that are "not quite ready yet".  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:51, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

   The point is so that the person(s) who have worked hard on the article(s), won't feel as though their work has been for nothing, It is Primarily Going to focus on Larger Articles. PaulGamerBoy360 (talk) 16:49, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

   Often their work here has been for nothing, because they did not read and abide by our basic policies. That's too bad, but the project has no interest in protecting their "feelings" at the expense of us retaining non-encyclopedic content (which often has legal issues, too).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  04:38, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

   No often they wrote good articles that did pass the policy but over time policy has changed and become stricter, i have seen many large articles with over 20 refs get deleted through afd. PaulGamerBoy360 (talk) 15:40, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2. As SMcCandlish said - I don't see how this would even be possible. This doesn't even sound like a WikiProject. -Kj cheetham (talk) 22:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This Project Will Focus on Archiving Large Articles That Are In AFD or soon to be deleted, so that the information will still be accessible for those that/need and want it & so that the creators/contributors can have satisfaction that their work has not been for nothing.

How would articles be archived? -Kj cheetham (talk) 22:41, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have abandoned this project a while back, due to the fact that it would quite literally be impossible/nearly impossible. Although I strongly disagree with what SMcCandlish has said about their work actually being for nothing. 😎😎PaulGamerBoy360😎😎 (talk) 14:49, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]