Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Rotesman79/sandbox

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: delete . ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:44, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User:Rotesman79/sandbox[edit]

Wikipedia is not a web host for made-up office holders. Whpq (talk) 14:38, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral for now, unless anyone has tried communicating with the author about this fiction. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:55, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I came across this particular page because a non-free image was being used in the table, but this is pretty much the kind of thing I was asking about at WT:AFC#Fanfiction types of drafts/userspace drafts. There seem to quite a lot of pages like this that only get noticed when they are flagged for an issue of some kind. While I can understand Robert McClenon's desire to be neutral, I think these kinds of pages create problems that might go beyond WP:NOTWEBHOST; the use of images of living people for this type of fiction, even if it's a legitimate attempt at writing a draft for a future article, might create BLP problems per WP:BLP#Images. It seems obvious (at least it does to me) that each image was specifically selected for each entry, so it's not like they have been randomly added as some sort of placeholder. These images could never be used in this manner in the article mainspace; so, they shouldn't really be allowed to used like this in the draft or user namespaces as well. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:01, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep: I will remove the images from the table; these images are people who look similar to them. The content of this article is 90% true, I put the rest of the information (not the tables) in a page creation submission; however, the draft was rejected so these tables, ranks and timelines now lie useless in my sandbox, not being used. This information is not in the mainspace, and duly doesn't deserve to be deleted. Rotesman79 01:57, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Explain which 90% is true. What article or draft was this used for that has been rejected? -- Whpq (talk) 11:00, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Rotesman79, over 90% of your edits are to this sandbox. Can you give a simple explanation of what it is for? Is it intended as a resource for you to do constructive editing, which would make it OK? Or is it for an off-Wikipedia purpose? Or is it just random playing? Normally, here at MfD, we agree that editors get reasonable leeway to do whatever in their userspace, short of violating anything at WP:NOT or WP:UPNOT. If this page is not for Wikipedia, you are well intro the grey zone. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:23, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note - The same material has now appeared in the sandboxes of two new accounts. See User:GrumlySmith/sandbox and User:GrumleySmith/sandbox. I have opened and SPI. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SpaceFox99. -- Whpq (talk) 13:51, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Update - Editor has been blocked for sockpuppetry. -- Whpq (talk) 18:04, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.