2015-02-21 16:21 GMT+01:00 MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com:
Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote:
It seems so. In my case, I created years ago a lot of redirects to my English userpage from many Wikipedia languages, and now I have to request the deletion for all them. Not very useful.
"Not very useful" is a slightly rude comment to make, in my opinion. You specifically and intentionally created local user pages on various Wikipedias. I imagine you and others would be rightfully upset if someone came along and simply overwrote your local user pages with a global user page without your knowledge or consent.
Can we get a special bot task in meta to request userpage deletion in batches?
There's discussion on Meta-Wiki about Synchbot deleting local user pages on a per-user, opt-in basis. I'm personally of the view that users seeking to un-spam the dozens or hundreds of wikis where they have created a local user page and done nothing more ought to clean up the "mess" themselves.
I edited/added images and managed bots (generating edit rankings and other) in many Wikipedias. I didn't spammed anything, just had to create the redirect userpages years ago because MediaWiki didn't offered anything better.
If you don't know about the case, shut up.
Instead of deletion, blanking the user page might be a neat way of triggering the global user page to re-appear (a version of pure wiki deletion). Though, of course, some users might want a 0-byte user page.
MZMcBride
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