Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2 Base Encoding
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This is why I nominated {{underconstruction}} for deletion. This quite clearly meets WP:CSD#A3, yet due to the existence of this template which I think serves only to fill Wikipedia up with junk like this, I'm discouraged from nominating it for deletion. The "show preview" button is there for a reason. Is it likely that the author will come back and transform this into an encyclopedic article? I think not. h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 22:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
- Move to user subpage, such as User:Hashtpa9/2 Base Encoding. It is clear that the article as it is should not be in the main namespace, however I'm rather surprised the nominator did not WP:AGF upon seeing the template. The page history shows that the author is continuing to work on the article (albeit in small degrees), and the author's contributions show that this is their first article and they are not likely to completely know what to do. Rather than delete this and really scare him off, I propose we allow him to continue to work on the article in an area where he doesn't have to worry about getting things deleted. Hersfold (t/a/c) 00:28, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
- close as premature The author had been working on it so far for exactly 2 hours and 27 minutes before the AfD tag was placed, with a series of edits continuing into the present. I've had a previous discussion on my talk page with the nominator. This does in fact seem to be a substantial method in molecular biology--see the reference posted on the initial version. It is permitted to build articles on-wiki in article space. Myself, I regard this as a good example of what the underconstruction tag is intended for. If the article in a week is no further along, then the author should be reminded about it--or if one wished to be impersonal, the article nominated for deletion. DGG (talk) 00:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)