Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Special Cases/Invisible Cabal
- 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 Delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:15, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
This page does nothing but encourage people to waste time and disrupt wikipedia by mass adding a semi-invisible logo to other peoples' userpages. Access Denied [FATAL ERROR] 00:47, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
- Delete It's kind of inappropriate to encourage people to "infect" other people's userpages with this. Delete the actual transcluded logo as well. Gigs (talk) 02:37, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Keep
PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE'S SERIOUS PEOPLE! WHAT NEXT???? DELETE ALL HUMOUR?? YOU KNOW WHAT? WIKIPEDIA IS LIKE FACSISM. YEP. Special Cases LOOK, A TALK PAGE!!!! 07:14, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
- There is a distinction between humorous pages and social-networking ones. This page falls in the latter category. Cunard (talk) 10:52, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
- The above user has blocked indefinitely for disruptive editing and is a sockpuppet. Cunard (talk) 09:49, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
- Delete This page contains the content:
| “ | Welcome to the Invisible Cabal! Together, we shall conquer other cabals and userpages by placing {{User:Lights/Invisible Cabal/Logo}}, an invisible tag on their userpage. If you want to become a part of the revolution, sign invisibly | ” |
Delete per the arguments for deletion provided at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Hi878/Earth Cabal. Because this page violates WP:NOTMYSPACE, it should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 10:52, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
- SmokeyJoe's attempt at "fix[ing] the humor" merely makes the cabal appear more elitist and more violative of the policy WP:NOTMYSPACE. Cunard (talk) 10:52, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
- Really? I thought it just made it funnier. I don't think "funnier", without project-relevance, gives it more reason to be kept. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:05, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
- The invisible list of signatures makes the page more like a game than it formerly was. I can see how humor can be found in that change but to me, it wasn't very funny (likely due to the fact that I've seen this done numerous times). A humorless, useless social-networking page should not be retained due to a slightly funny addition. Cunard (talk) 09:49, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
- Delete both I have nothing against humorous essays, etc., to help wind down. Doing invisible edits to other people's userpages is just annoying, though; the joke would work just as well without "conquering" pages. And as what happened to Wikipedia:Esperanza shows, "cabals" aren't really welcome unless they actually accomplish something useful; in Esperanza's case, the problem was that the levels of management grew to levels of bureaucracy far above what was actually necessary (probably unintentionally); in this case, the problem is that a relatively lightweight management structure has grown up to manage something that really shouldn't be happening at all. --ais523 16:57, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
- Delete per nom and Gigs. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- Delete as it doesn't help Wikipedia and per WP:SNOW --Chemicalinterest (talk) 15:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
- Delete. We wonder why Wikipedia is having trouble attracting new editors and forget how intimidating the community can be at times. This kind of stuff doesn't help. Kansan (talk) 20:16, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
- Delete No. What kind of cabal is this? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 06:55, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
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