Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:EssayFavorsKeeping
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the discussion was keep, with thanks to Bosstopher for fixing the links at GOODARG. JohnCD (talk) 12:55, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Username is used fictionally on WP:GOODARG. User is blocked. Username would be blue on the page, so we are feeding the trolls by keeping this. Especially since that looks like it was the main goal. Mr. Guye (talk) 03:09, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
- Comment: It appears that banned user User:Crouch, Swale is associated with this username. Also, the SUL is globally locked. J u n k c o p s (want to talk?|my log) 18:22, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Keep and change the link at GOODARG. If this becomes a habit or pattern I'd be more concerned about feeding the trolls, but just as things stand right now, it's more important to mark a sockpuppet account than to obscure that for essentially cosmetic reasons. The link could be replaced with User:EssaySupportsKeeping, or even piped so that "EssayFavorsKeeping" displays while the link is to User:Link kept red for aesthetic purposes or something. --BDD (talk) 18:43, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
- Keep - the page itself is fine; if the links at GOODARG are trollbait then we should change them. Perhaps
{{red link|WP:POINT|EssayFavorsKeeping}}which produces {{red link}}? (or pipe to Redlink which is create-protected) Ivanvector (talk) 21:49, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Oh, nice. How did I not know about {{red link}}? That's a good idea. --BDD (talk) 15:53, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- Or maybe they should just be unlinked red text so as not to encourage misbehaviour. Or unlinked blue text, for that matter. Ivanvector (talk) 16:44, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- Oh, nice. How did I not know about {{red link}}? That's a good idea. --BDD (talk) 15:53, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- Keep Per User:Ivanvector's suggestion I've changed all the usernames on the essay page to unlinked blue text, and also added (talk) at the end of each username to make it more realistic. No need to delete the userpage.Bosstopher (talk) 12:36, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
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