225:: "Knowledge (XXG) is not a free wiki host for you to use for your own purposes. It's an encyclopedia. Our primary goal here is to write an encyclopedia, not to provide free web hosting to people. Even if your article isn't taking up much space, you are still misusing Knowledge (XXG) and preventing it from becoming a usable encyclopedia." The overriding purpose of this website is to build an encyclopedia, and things that subtract, slow down, and take away from that purpose do not have a place here. Editors contributing to this story could be contributing manhours towards articles and useful environments. —
585:(red? a red link? I don't know what to do about that!) of editing. Please show that the wikipedia community is indeed generally tolerant. To give the eminently serious and productive editor WBardwin a slap for letting his hair down seems to me just like thoughtless mistreatment of a good user. Is this something to make him leave over? :-( (PS. There's no need to nominate "European toilet paper holder" for deletion, btw; it was deleted at my request long ago, and I've only temporarily recreated it as an example--I'll delete it again in a day or two.)
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433:-- although the project never got off the ground, note that USER PAGES are being targeted for deletion. Part of the agreement with Knowledge (XXG) users is to allow them to create user pages for their own and common use. As such they are private property and I do not want my user page deleted. If the concensus is that the
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There seems to be some misunderstanding here regarding user space vs. project space. These user pages exist as part of the
Knowledge (XXG) eponymous department of fun page for this MfD. The fact that some of the pages exist in user space is really not the issue. The issue is whether to have a
548:. WBardwin was mistaken about userpage policy, and the page in his space certainly isn't private property. But please don't take that as a reason to delete his harmless userpage, as one thing doesn't have to do with another. I ask people to consider this part of the userpage policy:
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a place for social networking, and this distracts horribly from the encyclopaedia. I am becoming ever more convinced that the wretched
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feel that it's distracting to you, don't go there or pay attention to it. There's no need for juvenile attempts to destroy other people's work because you stumbled across it and do not like it; simply never go there again if it bothers you.
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201:. If it's just going to be inactive, it's not helpful. But I don't see how this hurt anything to begin with. Transwiki might be the correct option if it were still active, but as is, maybe we could tag it as historical? --
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