Jdu22

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Help request

So, as a novice steward of Wikipedia, I'm wondering: if someone is asking an HW question in the discussion section of an article after which they leave no name or time stamp (e.g. physical capital), and the question has not been answered, is it appropriate for me to delete this? If not, at what point is it appropriate to delete the question? Perhaps when the discussion page has becomed overwhelmed with other topics? -Thanks.

Jdu22 05:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, the first thing I would do is look in the page history to figure out when they asked the question, and if it was recent, point them towards the Wikipedia:Reference desk on their discussion page. Regarding removing the questions, sometimes the questions and their answers may be insightful, and help with the article. However for the rest of them, if they have little to no relevance to the actual editing of the article, you could remove them if you wanted to. Hope this helps — TheKMan^talk 05:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Also note that in most other cases, removing other people's comments is usually frowned upon (most so on pages like WP:AFD and WP:RFA, less so on your own talk page, and least so in cases of trolling or vandalism). — TheKMan^talk 06:02, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Keeping Wikipidia Concise

Hey there, thanks for your help earlier. So, I looked at the history page of the physical capital article and it appears as though the question comes from an IP address and was posed a few weeks ago. I imagine it might be useful for the poster to be given the welcome message which includes general instructions for posting discussion topics, etc. But, anyway, I wanted to probe further on this topic of deletion. It seems that it would be up to the wikipidia steward's discretion (a subjective opinion) whether to delete or leave a question such as the one that I cited earlier. Which leaves it quite ambiguous, I guess. Further, is the discussion page meant for general discussion on the topic of the article or for discussion for how to improve the article (or both)? My thinking is that it is important to keep wikipedian articles concise and not bogged down with extraneous matters like 'over-investing in physical capital' (and thus a paring down of the discussion page might not be a bad idea), what is the general consensus on this?

Jdu22 06:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

It isn't much of an issue either way. Some comments can be completely unneeded but aren't really a problem. Whichever way you go, I don't think anyone is going to challenge your decision. Anyway, talk pages should mainly be used for discussing the work on the article, rather than discussing the subject of the article. Here are some pages that may be helpful: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages, and Help:Talk page. Personally, I, like many others, don't go out of their way to remove irrelevant discussion, but when I do find the clearly pointless stuff, I remove it. — TheKMan^talk 06:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Ecological Economy

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If you wjant to go for administrator after a while I will vote for you :-)

--Swedenborg 09:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)