Misplaced Pages

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Misplaced Pages:Once upon a time...

This page is linked from the Misplaced Pages:Department of Fun. It was/is an attempt to write a story on Misplaced Pages. It is inactive. It is also questionable whether it should be here even if active--Misplaced Pages is WP:NOT a site for writing original stories and poems.

Also included in this nomination are the following two user subpages:

• User:Gkhan/Chapter 1 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (no substantive edits in over a year)
• User:WBardwin/Chapter (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (no substantive edits in 6 months, all additions by WBardwin)

See similar MfD Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:AtionSong/World's Longest Poem (second nomination).

--Doug Bell  02:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Note: This is actually the second nomination of this page. The first one was a year and a half ago at Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Once upon a time... and closed as an overwhelming keep. --tjstrf talk 02:10, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• Neutral. If it's just going to be inactive, it's not helpful. But I don't see how this hurt anything to begin with. Transwiki might be the correct option if it were still active, but as is, maybe we could tag it as historical? --tjstrf talk 02:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete. WP:NOT#OR: "Misplaced Pages is not a place to publish your own thoughts and analyses or to publish new information not heretofore published," nor "original inventions," nor "ersonal essays or logs." WP:NFT: "Misplaced Pages is not a free wiki host for you to use for your own purposes. It's an encyclopedia. Our primary goal here is to write an encyclopedia, not to provide free web hosting to people. Even if your article isn't taking up much space, you are still misusing Misplaced Pages and preventing it from becoming a usable encyclopedia." The overriding purpose of this website is to build an encyclopedia, and things that subtract, slow down, and take away from that purpose do not have a place here. Editors contributing to this story could be contributing manhours towards articles and useful environments. — Whedonette (ping) 02:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete per Whedonette. Nonsense and offensive content. Of no benefit to the encyclopedia, and is totally unrelated. Yuser31415 04:09, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment WP:NOR does not strictly apply to Misplaced Pages space. Our policies, for example, are all based on original research of Misplaced Pages's needs and behaviours. --tjstrf talk 04:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Per WP:NFT and WP:USER this page should be deleted. It's not benefitting the encyclopedia so WP:IAR doesn't apply. Also an inactive project is simply wasting Misplaced Pages server space. Yuser31415 04:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
      • Are you seriously suggesting that only WP:IAR lets us use original research in Misplaced Pages-space? Your server space argument is a misconception, seeing that it's still on the server even if it's deleted. I am neutral on this, but could you use arguments that actually apply to the situation? --tjstrf talk 04:28, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
        • No, that's not what I mean. If the article benefitted the 'cyclopedia, then WP:IAR would apply. But since the article certainly doesn't, it should be deleted outright. Look, I realize that Wikipedians are normal people; they need entertainment just like everybody else, and Misplaced Pages's a great place for it, if the game actually benefits the encyclopedia. I would probably vote keep on a game that required users to make improvements to articles. Yuser31415 20:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 08:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: this is just plain silliness - if you want policy, WP:NOT a place for social networking, and this distracts horribly from the encyclopaedia. I am becoming ever more convinced that the wretched Department of Fun is causing far more harm than good. Slay all related subpages as well. Burn with fire, lots and lots of fire. Moreschi 19:52, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Moreschi pretty much said anything useful I might have said myself. | Mr. Darcy talk 20:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Irrelevant to writing an encyclopedia. JChap2007 03:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Moreschi, who seems to be turning into my mouthpiece in these matters... riana_dzasta 04:54, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep -- although the project never got off the ground, note that USER PAGES are being targeted for deletion. Part of the agreement with Misplaced Pages users is to allow them to create user pages for their own and common use. As such they are private property and I do not want my user page deleted. If the concensus is that the Once Upon a Time Project be deleted, user pages should be retained. See established Misplaced Pages guideline -- Ownership and editing of pages in the user space in Misplaced Pages:User page. WBardwin 06:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

  Comment: You have some misconceptions regarding user pages. For example, the User page guideline you reference states in WP:USER#Ownership and editing of pages in the user space: pages in user space still do belong to the community. Also from that page: Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Misplaced Pages. Misplaced Pages is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal homepage. And from WP:USER#Removal: In excessive cases, your user subpage may be deleted, following a listing on Miscellany for deletion, subject to deletion policy. —Doug Bell  06:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, sorry, Misplaced Pages is not a web host and even user pages should have some general connection with the encyclopedia. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:03, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per the others,_Seadog 16:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)