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. Bencherlite^Talk 23:07, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jodywhitesides[edit]

User:Jodywhitesides (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User page that looks like an article in violation of WP:FAKEARTICLE, editor has not edited in over a year. TransporterMan (TALK) 13:18, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Probably a long forgotten userspace draft.-- Obsidi♠n^Soul 13:23, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, (ec) although I don't 100% agree it's a "fake article"..."pages that look like articles, old revisions, or deleted content, or your preferred version of disputed content"...none of which apply, the fact that the user hasn't edited in over a year, causes me to think delete is best. CTJF83 13:23, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. --Viennese Waltz 13:26, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and move, not a fake (see http://jodywhitesides.com/), but move it to a proper user subpage where it will not do any harm should the user wish to return to it. – ukexpat (talk) 13:36, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • The user's website doesn't show WP:NOTABILITY CTJF83 13:57, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • But it does show that the article is not a fake. And so what if the subject isn't notable -- there must be hundreds of drafts in user subpages about subjects whose notability is in doubt, but that's the purpose of a userspace draft - for drafts in progress. Unless it's a copyvio or blatant advertising, there is no harm in the draft being moved to a proper user subpage. – ukexpat (talk) 14:12, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • the harm is that for non-notable bios, wikipedia can be misused as a tool for promotion, and that perverts the project. We need to be firm against misuse for promotion. I note that this userpage scores highly in a google search for "jody whitesides". --SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:18, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • Also, as the nominator points out, the page has not been touched for over a year. It's not, therefore, a draft in progress. Moving it to a subpage is unnecessary. I strongly doubt the author would miss the page if it is deleted, but if it is, he can always ask for a copy I guess. --Viennese Waltz 14:24, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yes, like Viennese said. CTJF83 21:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Not a fakearticle, but a genuine draft intended for mainspace. Consider whether the subject meets WP:BIO. Having looked at references appearing to show notablity (#2, #12, #13) and google, I think not. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete-- WP:STALEDRAFT. Also, as the user's username is Jodywhitesides, they probably have a WP:COI and should not be writing this article anyway. --E♴(talk) 14:45, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strongly discouraged, not "prohibited" per WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. – ukexpat (talk) 15:14, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: My nomination was not, at all, on the basis that the page is "fake" in the sense of being false, misleading, or fraudulent. Nor was it on the basis that it is autobiographical in nature, which is certainly allowed on user pages with liberal limits and is strongly discouraged but not prohibited in mainspace. It was nominated on the basis that it is in the form of an article and appears to be an abandoned userspace draft, both of which are prohibited by the poorly-named WP:FAKEARTICLE guideline. I would oppose it being moved to a subpage, but if that happens it certainly needs to be tagged with {{noindex}}. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 15:47, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to mainspace and optionally AfD . There are references that might show notability , and it should be discussed in the usual place. It would help if someone knowledgable did some editing first. DGG ( talk ) 15:44, 10 June 2011 (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.