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 Rename. The main objection is to the page name making it a sub-page of WP:AN, and even some of the "keep" comments suggest renaming it. I'm initially moving it (without redirect) to Wikipedia:ANI sucks the life out of you, but if others have a more appropriate name in mind they are welcome to move it again (within all the usual move and naming guidelines). Note: I'm not deleting the other shortcuts to it, which don't appear as subpages of AN. --RL0919 (talk) 20:53, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:AN/ISUCKSTHELIFEOUTOFYOU[edit]

I guess this is meant to be funny and make a valuable point but it fails badly on both counts. I discovered it as I typed 'WP:AN/I' in the search box, so seems intended to attract/distract/annoy anyone going to WP:AN/I by that route. Belongs in userspace without the shortcuts I think. JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 18:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: Though possibly rename. I don't think having an extra entry in the drop-down search suggestion list is a reasonable reason to delete a page. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:22, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep There is no accounting for tastes, perhaps, but the essay does not obviously violate any policy or guideline. Collect (talk) 20:39, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• comment the policy that suggested to me it should be userfied is at WP:ESSAYS: "Essays that the author does not want others to edit, or that are found to contradict widespread consensus, belong in the user namespace", and it seems to be saying that AN/I is bad, though it's not clear if it's meant seriously.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 21:01, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• question, has the author indicated a desire to keep others from editing it? And does it contradict widespread consensus? I can see the point of the thing, and I laughed. --Nuujinn (talk) 22:10, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: seems like a reasonable essay to me. I know that our essay policy has been growing more restrictive on what's allowed in Wikipedia space, but I think this is reasonable enough. I highly doubt that the intention was to have this show up in the box when people search WP:ANI; the title seems quite natural given the content, and I think it's quite reasonable that the title start with "AN/I". Buddy431 (talk) 23:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - per above. → ROUX ₪ 23:54, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - well written essay, the current title would be more redirect appropriate. —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 11:06am • 00:06, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep With a rename and little copyedit to the article itself. The actual essay discusses good points. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 02:56, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment, from original editor: I don't have strong feelings about this. Do with it what the community decides to do with it. Someone made a redlink in the middle of 'teh dramaz' to WP:AN/ISUCKSTHELIFEOUTOFYOU. Someone else commented that page really should exist. To tell the truth, I might have been, shall we say, somewhat intoxicated and decided to oblige them. At the time I would have sworn to you it was the funniest thing ever committed to writing since our primitive ancestors learned to scratch in the dirt. However, of a more sober mind I see it's really only worth a chuckle or two. -- ۩ Mask 05:50, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Valid opinion related to the project. Has educational value. Suggest removing reference to living persons. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:21, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• No problem with it looking like a subpage of the page it speaks to. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:49, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete—essays and so-called humour should not be housed in subpages of important Wikipedia procedural pages. ╟─TreasuryTag►Captain-Regent─╢ 13:24, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename -- agree with TT that it shouldn't look like a subpage of AN. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:37, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename. I agree with Fetchcomms and SmokeyJoe: the essay discusses good points and it has educational value, but it shouldn't look like a subpage of AN. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 16:45, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Move -- Too long. It needs to be shortened and it makes it look un convincing. I.P. (talk) 05:09, 29 October 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.