It's hard to tell. I've deleted User Talk pages before, but have also declined to delete them before. I've never had a problem deleting User Talk pages for newer users who want to 'quit', especially if all thats on their page is welcome messages and/or orphanbot notices.
X ----- Original Message ----- From: "MacGyverMagic/Mgm" macgyvermagic@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] issue with an admin refusing to allow me "right tovanish"
Sounds reasonable, but how do we make the distinction between 'indispensible' an 'of interest'? Should we leave a note on the page that an admin is willing to retrieve info from deletion should be be needed?
Mgm
On 12/21/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
It's the hidden from non-admins part that is a problem. If you did any significant editing, the discussions on your talk page
could
be of interest to other editors even after you leave. It could be tagged
as
belonging to a left user, it can be protected from trolls, and it might
even
be blankable, but it cannot be deleted.
In general, I do not agree with this approach. Allowing people to vanish, including deleting their user and user_talk pages, is often the best way to part company with dignity. "Could be of interest" should not be the standard, I think, but rather "Is indispensable to the functioning of the encyclopedia."
There can be exceptions, of course. If a user repeatedly joins and deletes (perhaps sockpuppeting), causing a lot of disruptive demands to delete their userpage, we could just ignore it if that seemed like the best way to deal with it.
But in general, I see no reason to have a general policy of keeping talk pages around that make someone who would like to leave us unhappy. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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