Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Six Idiots

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: Speedy userfied. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:13, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Six Idiots[edit]

Stillborn Wikiproject. The Wikiproject was not proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals, nor would it likely have been accepted if it had. The creator has seemingly not ever edited the topic's main page (Horrible Histories troupe), nor proposed the Wikiproject on the talk page, nor edited the talk page at all other than to add the new WikiProject template (Talk:Horrible Histories troupe), nor does there appear to be much existing collaboration going on at that talk page that would need to spread into a separate WikiProject. The "Build it and they will come" approach to WikiProjects has routinely not worked in the past, and is unlikely to work now. Despite the downer tone, I do encourage the creator to help out if desired, just to start with Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/British television task force or the article talk page first. In the unlikely situation of WikiProject British TV regulars complaining about too much Six Idiots content glomming up their talk page, only then spin out a separate WikiProject or task force - but this is realistically very unlikely to happen.

Note: If there is consensus for deletion, these should also be deleted: Category:Six Idiots articles by quality, Category:FA-Class Six Idiots articles, and Template:WikiProject Six Idiots. SnowFire (talk) 20:41, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this is the creator. I made this partially by mistake then kinda stuck to it. I would suggest it is moved to WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Six Idiots. Kind regards, JacobTheRox (talk) 09:56, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete abortive Wikiproject, which is a non-controversial matter considering the above comment by the creator, and then the creator can create the proposal himself.—Alalch E. 11:31, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or the creator may cut and paste into the space of their choice, then tag for speedy deletion as U1. BusterD (talk) 13:20, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Alalch E., @BusterD, @SnowFire: The article has been moved to User:JacobTheRox/WikiProject Six Idiots. I will tag U1 there in a second. Thanks for your help, JacobTheRox (talk) 06:20, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Close as speedily userfied: This has been a non-controversial discussion. The creator who is the author of the only substantial content on the page, which they made "partially by mistake", becoming aware that it "was not created properly", moved it to their userspace in the course of the discussion. G6 was applied to the redirect which remained. The page is now a userspace draft for a WikiProject, and if the creator wants that deleted they can tag it. As reasons to delete a projectspace page and a userspace page are different, this MfD's nomination and comments are misaligned with a hypothetical case of deleting the resulting userspace page, and so the MfD has run its usefulness.
Do not close as "speedily deleted" (not what happened).—Alalch E. 13:46, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- To be clear, the related categories and templates should still be deleted. SnowFire (talk) 15:39, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  Can already do that with G6. —Alalch E. 17:06, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  I deleted the related pages using G8, which I think fits better here, but that's not important. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:13, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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