Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Mind Benders

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany 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 delete. (Radiant) 09:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Inactive, unencyclopaedic, violates WP:NOT a place for social networking and a webhost for games, and distracts horribly from the encyclopaedia - I mean, creating fake articles in your userspace on imaginary topics? WTF? Why not just write real FAs for a change? Bizarre. Moreschi 10:58, 30 November 2006 (UTC) Also nominating the following 110 subpages - Jesus Christ! Moreschi 20:25, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/1
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/3
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/4
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/5
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/6
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/7
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/8
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/Questions/9
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/1/redirect
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/10
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/11
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/12
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/13
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/14
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/1
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/10
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/3
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/4
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/5
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/6
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/7
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/8
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/Questions/9
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/infobox
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/2/redirect
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/3
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/3/redirect
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/4
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/4/Redirect
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/5
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/5/Answers/Question 2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/5/Questions
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/5/Redirect
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/6
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/7
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/8
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/9
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Answers
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Answers/Question 1a
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Answers/Question 1b
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Answers/Question 1c
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Answers/Question 2a
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Answers/Question 2b
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Answers/Question 2c
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Answers/Question 3a
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Help Wanted
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Original
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Original/Answers
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Pre-round
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Questions
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Bonus
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 1
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 10
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 3
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 4
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 5
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 6
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 7
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 8
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Question 9
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 1/Answers/Survey
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Bonus
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 1
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 10
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 2/Hint
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 3
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 4
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 5
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 6
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 7
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 8
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 2/Answers/Question 9
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 1
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 10
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 11
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 3
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 4
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 5
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 6
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 7
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 8
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round 3/Answers/Question 9
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/1
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/11
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/15
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/2
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/3
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/4
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/5
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/6
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/7
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Four/Rules
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round One
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Three
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/Round Two
• Wikipedia:Mind Benders/to do

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• Delete on the one year anniversary of its inactivity. Sweep out the cruft. —Doug Bell ^talk 11:26, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete all now that the true extent is exposed with all of the subpages. We're gonna need more than a broom for this one. :-) —Doug Bell ^talk 20:57, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
• Not quite one year of inactivity... /Questions last edited 00:36, 2 April 2006. Still, MfD seems fitting, especially since the recent demise of WP-hosted games/conversation etc. at Esperanza after its own MfD. Delete. haz (talk) e 14:05, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
  • The one year inactivity was based on the original single page nominated. —Doug Bell ^talk 20:57, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Not the place. I'm surprised this lasted this long. --Improv 21:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete this wouldn't be so bad if this had been just a few users, but this is insane. 110 pages' worth of this stuff is just crazy. Opabinia regalis 02:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki, failing that, delete. Zocky | picture popups 02:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

  To where? — xaosflux ^Talk 04:22, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all of course. These 110 articles are totally not needed.--Meno25 03:06, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Userify contributions. This are quite reasonable practice exercises in writing and WP format, apart from research and the pressures of vandalism (and even of other legitimate editors). If more users did this sort of thing well, WP would be a better place. I have asked Flocelloguy his opinion on the project, since nobody seems to have bothered to do so. Septentrionalis 05:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

  Userfy? For what possible purpose, and to what user? And those questions would only be meaniful if there was some reason this stuff would be OK in user space, which it isn't. —Doug Bell ^talk 06:32, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

  • To the userspace of the major contributor; for most of these writing exercises, there's only one. Septentrionalis 06:59, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
    • And who is that? I looked at several of the page histories at random and see no pattern of who that user is. But nevermind really, because userfy is a pointless idea for these anyway. —Doug Bell ^talk 07:08, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all, with a jackhammer if the ordinary admin mop isn't strong enough. —Angr 06:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Mind-bending delete! - Mailer Diablo 06:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Folantin 08:20, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The Department of Fun is supposed to be fun to keep the community together. It is not bad to allocate a few resources to doing that. In this case it also promotes good research skills and the encyclopdicness the nominator is only relevant to the article namespace. Besides, how can this become active if it's deleted? - Mgm|^(talk) 10:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
  • There's no indication that it will become active. Wouldn't it be better to keep the DoF trimmed down to the things that someone can actually participate in instead of frustrating them with all the abandoned cruft? —Doug Bell ^talk 10:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:FUN --Fred McGarry 11:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete the lot per nom. Useless. Proto::type 12:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per nom__Seadog ^♪ 13:09, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Jaw drops. Delete per nom. riana_dzasta 15:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and repeat to the tune of 110 times-yeeeeeeesh! WP:NOT a gameserver, etc., etc. Seraphimblade 03:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
• Tag as {{historical}} - officially tagging the page as historical and inactive would accomplish the same goals as deletion, and would not leave a "void" in the history - in addition, we usually don't delete inactive or rejected pages. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and salt. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 15:15, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Pointless violation of WP not a webhost, whether inactive or not. -- Kicking222 02:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
• I just tagged the main page as historical so Keep and leave it tagged, Delete the rest. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 05:27, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
• Tag as historical. bibliomaniac15 05:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete subpages. Front page tagged as historical, other pages simply superfluous. ><RichardΩ612 ^ER 10:02, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per MgM and because it is historically interesting. Guettarda 06:04, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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.