Commons:Deletion requests/Commons:Attack page
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This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.
This is a transposition of an English Wikipedia policy (en:WP:ATTACK) with minor adaptations, in the Commons namespace complete with a COM: shortcut, and name and shortcut equivalent to the English Wikipedia versions. This is inappropriate for an essay. Users who wish to propose a policy should do so. As it stands, this should be deleted. Rd232 (talk) 14:27, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Keep by author. The page clearly notes that it is an essay about the concept of an "attack page" and even repeats, "...this is just an essay offering advice" while noting there is a related page, as a policy, on the English Wikipedia. Essays of this form are typical, as the first step to offer advice, later being proposed as a formal guideline, or even later as an official policy. The fact that the concept of an "attack page" on Wikimedia Commons is similar to the enwiki page, on English Wikipedia, should not be seen as a problem, but rather as a benefit that the related pages are similar, and users familiar with either Commons or enwiki would be better prepared to defend against such pages. On Commons, an attack page is not just limited to an image file, but could be any "attack page" including a user-page, a user-talk rant, a "Category" used as a rant, or even a gallery page which collects insulting photos to disparage a subject. Keep this essay as a place to quickly explain the problem of attack pages, and what should be done about them, as thoughtful advice to other users. -Wikid77 (talk) 18:49, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- en:WP:TLDR: it is a page that claims to be an essay. But it isn't, because it's a transposition of a policy, with minor adaptations. For example, it relies on COM:CSD (because the en.wp version relies on WP:CSD), but COM:CSD is a proposed policy (and most people would consider the proposal failed, I think). It also claims "If the subject of the page is notable..." - "notability" not being a concept known on Commmons. An essay on attack pages may be a useful thing - but this is not it. Rd232 (talk) 02:23, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Delete - per nom; as I already noted on the talk page, this is not policy. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 07:03, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Keep "There's a wikipedia page by that name" is not a reason for deletion. There is no policy stating that only policy pages are allowed, and if somebody would propose such a policy it's likely to be shot to pieces on the spot. VolodyA! V Anarhist Beta_M (converse) 04:12, 28 February 2012 (UTC)- Keep although I'd encourage further adaptions to Commons. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 15:53, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Kept: No consensus to delete FASTILY (TALK) 05:26, 12 September 2012 (UTC)