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*23:09, 8 January 2015 Koavf (Talk | contribs) deleted page [[WikiIndex:Vanity wiki]] (Not wanted/needed: content was: "A '''vanity wiki''' is a wiki used as a personal vanity press for advertising (including self-promotion), self-deprecation, or attempts to become an Inter..." (and the only contributor was "[[Special:Contributions/Leuco...) | *23:09, 8 January 2015 Koavf (Talk | contribs) deleted page [[WikiIndex:Vanity wiki]] (Not wanted/needed: content was: "A '''vanity wiki''' is a wiki used as a personal vanity press for advertising (including self-promotion), self-deprecation, or attempts to become an Inter..." (and the only contributor was "[[Special:Contributions/Leuco...) | ||
::Generally, following Wikipedia policy, Project subspace pages should not be deleted even if inappropriate, unless grossly inappropriate. An apparent policy page, if that is what this was, should be deprecated to rejected or proposed policy, not deleted. There should be, in fact, a policy about "vanity wikis," even if it is to say that they are acceptable, or to restrict them in some way. The term "vanity wiki" was used to justify certain deletions. So it could be important to resolve this. --[[User:Abd|Abd]] ([[User talk:Abd|talk]]) 01:03, 9 January 2015 (UTC) | ::Generally, following Wikipedia policy, Project subspace pages should not be deleted even if inappropriate, unless grossly inappropriate. An apparent policy page, if that is what this was, should be deprecated to rejected or proposed policy, not deleted. There should be, in fact, a policy about "vanity wikis," even if it is to say that they are acceptable, or to restrict them in some way. The term "vanity wiki" was used to justify certain deletions. So it could be important to resolve this. --[[User:Abd|Abd]] ([[User talk:Abd|talk]]) 01:03, 9 January 2015 (UTC) | ||
:::'''Policy''' There are two pages that were created on [[Vanity wiki]]s and [[WikiIndex:Vanity wiki]]s. Why? A glossary entry would be reasonable if I had ever seen this term anywhere other than here in a recent discussion. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 01:11, 9 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
*03:56, 25 December 2014 Koavf (Talk | contribs) deleted page [[Ben Weiss]] (content before blanking was: "<nowiki>{{User infobox |name = Ben Weiss |image = http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1393077475/common/avatars/thumb/1/14/5436510.png/150px-5436510.png.jpg |gender = {{tag|Male Wiki People|Male}} |mother tongue = {{language|en|N...")</nowiki> | *03:56, 25 December 2014 Koavf (Talk | contribs) deleted page [[Ben Weiss]] (content before blanking was: "<nowiki>{{User infobox |name = Ben Weiss |image = http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1393077475/common/avatars/thumb/1/14/5436510.png/150px-5436510.png.jpg |gender = {{tag|Male Wiki People|Male}} |mother tongue = {{language|en|N...")</nowiki> | ||
::This was apparently a bio of an asserted wikiperson. Policy on this is unclear. --[[User:Abd|Abd]] ([[User talk:Abd|talk]]) 01:03, 9 January 2015 (UTC) | ::This was apparently a bio of an asserted wikiperson. Policy on this is unclear. --[[User:Abd|Abd]] ([[User talk:Abd|talk]]) 01:03, 9 January 2015 (UTC) | ||