Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Canadian Paul/Olympics

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The result of the discussion was keep. Number 5 7 23:25, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:Canadian Paul/Olympics[edit]

Sorry but its now increasingly clear this violates WP:NOTWEBHOST. The editor even states that he wont make it an article, and hes been picking at it forever. Why wouldnt this be acceptable topic in mainspace? I mean theres articles for oldest MLB and there are certainly enough sorces. Beerest 2 Talk page 01:16, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Since I'm a little unclear on what part of WP:NOTWEBHOST this page violates, I guess I'll argue how the page is "used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia". To do that, I'll tell you what I use this page for (as well as similar ones such as User:Canadian Paul/Nonagenarians). Essentially, with the "related changes" feature, I use these lists to monitor the pages for vandalism and WP:BLP violations. One of the things I learned as I was attempting to clear out Category:Possibly living people (many years ago) was that nonagenarians tended to get thrown into this category without anyone checking whether or not they were alive. The PLP category does not have the same alerts and protections as the "living people" category, and thus vandalism and phony information often went unnoticed in these articles. Keeping track of these articles through my user pages allows me to monitor some of Wikipedia's most vulnerable and least visited pages, whose subjects are not consistently in the news but are low-key figures about whom their Wikipedia page may have a very significant impact on their online "reputation" (for lack of a better term). In other words, false information can easily spread because their notability is marginal and there is not a lot of information out there. It also ensures that all those people who are living remain in the appropriate category, so that they are afforded all the protections due to them in that category.

The one point that might be brought up is that all of this could be accomplished through the watchlist feature. Aside from my personal preference not to do that, because I find it cumbersome and less helpful, having a user page allows me to list other information about the individuals rather than have to remember who each of these nonagenarians is. For example, if I find a source that talks about the death of, say, the last Mexican Olympian from the 1932 Summer Games, I can more easily scan the pages that I am watching and move all the relevant individuals to the proper category. This is not merely a hypothetical; it occurs on a regular basis. Canadian Paul 01:11, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, as helpful to other people for watching PLP violations on olympians. Possible tip though, we could put this in a centralized project, which would be better. 123chess456 (talk) 23:42, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I'm not sure how this violates WEBHOST. This is a sandbox page used to help establish if Olympians are living or dead. This has been invaluable in helping with BLP issues relating to Olympic atheletes who could be living. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 08:37, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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