Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Main Page

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: redirect to Wikipedia:Main Page/sandbox. The unanimous consensus is that this page shouldn't be kept, and that some amount of protection should be installed to prevent easy recreation of the page. In this sense, deletion and redirecting are functionally similar. bibliomaniac 1 5 04:50, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Main Page

Unnecessary duplicate. Perhaps time to salt this (and only unsalt it when an actual effort for a redesign is happening here)? Fram (talk) 07:11, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, not much to see here, created by vandal IP. I'm disappointed, I was hoping something notable called "Main Page" that would finally force us to add disambiguators to the Main Page, or at least to stop pretending the Main Page is an article. —Kusma (talk) 12:46, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nominator, not so much vandalism as a useless test edito. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:32, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
ECP Salt - There is no reason why an unregistered editor or new editor needs to create something called Draft:Main Page. If there is a main page redesign being considered, it will be considered by extended-confirmed editors. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:32, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per obvious. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
delete per nom. Oppose salting beyond salting policy. Draft space, especially. There is no disruption. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:07, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as an insincere creation from a vandal that isn't G3'able. — csc^-1 00:29, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, do not salt, useless, but not necessary to salt.Jackattack1597 (talk) 21:48, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe redirect to Wikipedia:Main Page/sandbox? --Yair rand (talk) 18:14, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Wikipedia:Main Page/sandbox and apply an appropriate amount of protection so we likely do not have to discuss this title again in the future. This may serve well as a navigational aid for anyone potentially looking for a "draft" of our main page. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 09:03, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Wikipedia:Main Page/sandbox. This will require a bit of explanation. Usually WP:SRE dictates that we redirect duplicates to the mainspace page, however the principle behind that guideline is to get editors where they need to go. Usually that invoves redirecting e.g. Draft:Red link example to Red link example so they can contribute to the existing article. However it's clear that in this case people are attempting to experiment with main page design; hence, while we could redirect to the Main Page editors will be better served by redirecting to the sandbox where they can continue to experiment. I would probably wait on the semi, it's fairly rare for these redirects to be tinkered with as the people they are assisting are not usually aware how to do so. So I'd be inclined to wait and see.
As a side note Fram, to save everyone time and keep mfd unclutterred it's usually best to just boldly redirect any duplicates yourself. MFD is really only needed in the rare event that one is challenged, in which case we can admittedly dispense with them here fairly quickly per SRE. Regards, 81.177.3.8 (talk) 16:54, 15 September 2021 (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.