Call me biased, but I think that if a personal wants to delete a page in the WP: name space, they should in very limited circumstances. I know that user pages are not deleted unless they are using it as a personal website or promoting illegal activities.
If this was over the VFD mess I started, I mainly wanted to ask for the deletion of the page since when I first read the page, it was not trying to ask for a change in policy: they were going to do their own thing and circumvent policy. While I know the VFD will be closed under no-decision, with many people focusing on the project after the VFD, the project itself will fail under it's own accord.
Regards,
Zachary Harden
From: Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk,English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] VfD vs. Wikipedia: Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:39:32 +0100
On 20/08/05, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
More to the point - the policy does not exist "because there is a page on it". Wikipedia is not, as I believe a guideline says somewhere, a game of nomic; the existence of hard-and-fast policy is integral to the system, not just something we happened to write.
Policies are also descriptive, not prescriptive.
I'm sure that, in the early days, there were some "decrees from on high" from the likes Wales and a couple of others.
Ever since though policy has been more about a record of what happens, rather than an attempt to change it.
The "how to create policy" page makes a telling point - in the last two years, only about 5 out of 70 attempts to 'create policy' succeeded.
Dan