Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Template:LTADatabase

Template:LTADatabase
There are many issues with this page and many reasons why it really isn't a good idea.

Let's start with how well this works as a template. Well, the biggest issue here is that this isn't a template - it's just a bulleted list. It has no template functionality at all. In addition there's nowhere this would make sense to use it as a template, where would it be useful to transclude a massive list of every account ever used by every LTA ever onto a page?

I don't think the content here is of much use either. This "database" is hopelessly incomplete - it contains a grand total of two ""LTAs"", each of which lists a single account or IP. One of the listings is a disruptive IP with less than 500 total edits, they're not an LTA by any reasonable measure. Keeping an up to date list of all the accounts used by LTAs would be an enormous amount of work for next to no benefit. A list of account names used by an LTA is of essentially no use as an anti-vandalism or anti-sockpuppetry measure, it doesn't aid in identifying or blocking future socks and it doesn't really aid in clean-up.

Finally, the standard way of dealing with LTAs is "block, revert, ignore", more commonly known as "do not feed the trolls". Making a "shrine" for vandal accounts is counterproductive and just encourages the vandals to come back. The English wikipedia has stopped tagging socks by LTAs for this reason - getting huge numbers of accounts tagged as socks turned into a game for a lot of vandals.

Overall I just don't think this is useful as a template, I don't think it is useful as a project page and I think it would simply act as a podium to highlight abuse and encourage LTAs to make more accounts. — 192.76.8.85 18:10, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Vote closes: 19:00, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, fully agree with the nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 23:38, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per w:WP:DENY, best to ignore trolls to as great an extent as possible. Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 17:04, 25 July 2022 (UTC)