Project talk:Deletion

What is acceptable on user pages
Moved from Project:Current issues.

The Project:About page is pretty clear about what is allowed and what is not allowed on the site, but we need to have a policy about what is allowed on User pages, and how we deal with things that are not 'allowed'. This policy may be a 'hands off, anything goes' approach, or a much tighter 'only stuff relevant to the project', but either way we should have a policy. Should we delete, warn about or ignore bad user pages? --HappyDog 13:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Define "bad user page" for this purpose. Offensive, advertising or downright unrelated to MediaWiki? Just delete them. 86.134.116.228 14:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Obvious junk (spam, vandalism, offensive material) is easy to spot and to delete. But there are many user pages created by users whose sole contribution is to create a user page, which points to their Wikipedia user page.  Is this acceptable?  What about users who give a bit of biography that does not seem relevant to MW, but is otherwise inoffensive?  What about anon user pages, or users who create a page and then blank it?
 * I don't necessarily have strong opinions about these, but I think a set of guidelines is useful. I have given up checking new user pages as I was too often faced with the dillema of not knowing whether a page should be deleted, the user should be advised that the content needs fixing, or the page is acceptable on the site. --HappyDog 23:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

"Pages that just link to their equivalent user page on another WMF wiki", "Pages that just link to their equivalent user page on another non-WMF wiki" ... I would have thought these were the obvious thing to put on a user page here to show who you are and where you're from ... I suppose the real rule is of course "Don't be a dick", but anyway ... - David Gerard 19:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)