User talk:Rossami/GAFD temp

Notes to move over to nominations in the Miscellaneous Deletion process:

• Pages in a user's personal space (e.g. User:Foo/Bar) can be nominated for deletion on Miscellaneous Deletion and may be deleted if the community consensus is clear that the user has abused their user space. However, Wikipedia is very lenient about user pages so this should only be done in extreme cases.
• Pages in Wikipedia namespace (e.g. Wikipedia:Something) can be nominated for deletion on Miscellaneous Deletion and may be deleted if the community consensus is clear. However, it is rare that these nominations are successful. Some deletion nominations are a form of protest against a policy documented in the Wikipedia space. Those nominations inevitably fail. If you want to change a policy, you should never nominate it for deletion. Instead, set up a discussion page and try to reach consensus to amend or overturn the policy.

Appropriateness of AFD

The Articles for Deletion procedure applies to every page in the Main, Wikipedia, and User namespaces, and talk pages thereof. That means that any page in those namespaces may, technically, be nominated for deletion. Of course, that doesn't usually mean that it's a good idea to delete those pages - indeed, an attempt to delete the main page or an important guideline is extremely likely to get a plethora of 'keep'-votes, and citations of WP:POINT. The community is far more lenient towards what happens in the Wikipedia and User namespaces, allowing for such things as chess competitions in the former, and extreme POV in the latter. You should not nominate pages from either namespace unless you have a very strong case.

Scope of this guide

Is this intended to cover both AFD and MD? A single guide for both seems to be the intention at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion. If so, it needs some work yet. Uncle G 11:58:12, 2005-09-08 (UTC)

• I missed that. I had been assuming that this would be narrowly focused on AFD. Rossami (talk) 12:50, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
  • If I have the opportunity tomorrow, I'll give you a hand extending the scope to cover both. We can see whether it's a workable approach. Uncle G 00:47:23, 2005-09-09 (UTC)