Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Aborted WikiProject proposals

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: Archive. (non-admin closure) --Trialpears (talk) 13:28, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Aborted WikiProject proposals

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to go through Category:Open WikiProject proposals and clear out stale proposals (i.e. move them to Category:Archived WikiProject proposals). In that process, I've come across about 30 proposals that were started with {{WikiProject Proposal}} but never filled in, listed, or discussed. Archiving these would just clutter up the archived proposals category (and would be a bit misleading, since they were hardly proposed). So I think deletion is the way to go. Happy to hear the thoughts of others. Ajpolino (talk) 03:16, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

• Archive all. Blank first, including remove categories, to avoid the "clutter up the archived proposals category", or categorize separately. Cluttering up maintenance categories is a very poor reason to delete, but a reason to improve the maintenance categorization. You can do this by making a new custom "blanked and archived WikiProject proposal" template for this purpose. Reasons to not delete include: Needless hiding of users' contribution history that can sometimes be helpful for something; the need to carefully double check what you are doing because it is virtually irreversible. If you archive, we welcome you doing it unilaterally and efficiently. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:18, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
• Archive all and blank per SmokeyJoe. I do agree they should be separate from the normal archived proposals. Maybe as a subcategory of that, perhaps called something like "Archived incomplete WikiProject proposals". -Crossroads- (talk) 05:19, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
• Fair enough, I'll put them in Category:Abandoned WikiProject proposals. Thanks all for your comments! Feel free to close this at anyone's earliest convenience. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 19:58, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

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