Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Unisouth/The Secret Page Challenge

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. Courcelles 19:04, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Unisouth/The Secret Page Challenge

The following page is included in the nomination:

The arguments for deleting secret pages are summarized in the essay

amusement, but rather providing a foundation for effective collaboration."

To the creator: in a July/August 2010 policy discussion (at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/Archive 34#Does WP:NOTMYSPACE apply to secret pages?), community consensus was that the policy Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not does prohibit secret pages. The deletion of this page is not a reflection on you; instead, it is a reflection of the changing community consensus that secret pages set an inappropriate ethos at Wikipedia. In that policy discussion, I wrote here

about why all secret pages should be treated equally; whether a user social networks or does not social network on Wikipedia has no bearing on the fact that all secret pages should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 01:53, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete both, not appropriate userspace pages. Nyttend (talk) 02:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete clearly being used as a game,
WP:NOT#MYSPACE Secret ^account 04:20, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Delete Since consensus appears to be against these now. ~~ Hi878 ^{(Come shout at me!)} 04:27, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.