Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/User:Lcarsdata


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Lcarsdata
Please delete my userpage, never been used properly. Lcarsdata (Talk) 06:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete (one implicit), no dissent); discussion about possible changes to the speedy deletion policy should continue at Wikiquote talk:Speedy deletions. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I have speedily deleted User:Lcarsdata as a user requested deletion. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 20:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I have restored the user page and reopened this VFD. Our current speedy deletion policy specifically excludes the speedy deletion of main user pages: "This does not include deletion of the main user or user talk page, which should be nominated through the standard VFD process." —LrdChaos (talk) 21:04, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * We have contradicting policy on this issue. User page says (and has said since it was created early this year) that "you can request that your own user page or talk page be deleted … Just add to the page: ." We've already run afoul of this contradiction once, and have yet to resolve it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I hadn't even noticed User page before; I've made some changes to the "How do I delete my user and user talk pages?" section there to bring it in line with WQ:SD. I chose to edit WQ:USER instead of WQ:SD because WQ:SD is tagged as an official policy, while WQ:USER is not. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd like to press for the reverse, because (A) sysop SD'ing of a user page would be more in line with Wikipedia; (B) it will allow us to implement Right to vanish expeditiously, which we've already failed to do at all in one case so far; and (C) I don't think the community will care about users asking that their own user pages be deleted, so long as there is no administrative need to keep them. WQ:USER already empowers sysops to deny the deletion if it appears to be requested to avoid identification as a disruptive editor, and if we deny it, the user can nominate it on VfD, as has happened in the past. In short, I don't see this as a controversial policy. I believe the problem here is that we're sticking to an unnecessary policy out of inertia, given our overflowing plate of issues. Changing this will help a little. It'll be too late to speedy this particular entry as a result, but I'll tackle this quickly at Wikiquote talk:User page and Wikiquote talk:Speedy deletions. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know of any reason why we shouldn't change the SD policy in this way, I just decided that rather than make a non-substantial change to the SD policy (I feel that removing a specific exclusion qualifies as a change of substance) without any discussion, I'd just update the non-policy "User page" page for consistency. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:25, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 16:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, yeah — delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I got so caught up in the discussion about the policy I forgot to actually vote. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per user request. Sorry about an incorrect speedy. I misread the policy page. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 21:52, 7 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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.