Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Education Program:Main

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 close, wrong venue. An MFD on a page that doesn't exist, with the intention to delete a namespace when that's beyond the power of any administrator (for obvious reasons), in an attempt to overcome an earlier RFC that was closed as showing consensus for the namespace to be activated? No. Bencherlite ^Talk 12:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Education Program talk:Main

Education Program:Main is a new namespace implemented some time in fall 2012.[1] At present, use of the Education Program:Main namespace is "limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, Course coordinators, Course online volunteers, Course campus volunteers, Course instructor" according to what is shown at present when you go to the Education Program:Main page. This namespace should be terminated and any pages within the namespace deleted (or moved to Wikipedia namespace). Having a namespace just for Education Program lacks consensus, is secondary to writing an encyclopedia, and sends us down the wrong path of creating namespaces for WikiProjects. The Education Program effort can be handled in Wikipedia:WikiProject Education Program. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:19, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Close; wrong venue. To begin with, the page you have nominated doesn't exist; secondly, MFD doesn't have the power to delete namespaces; and thirdly, I encourage you to read Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Education Program extension, which was publicised via WP:CENT and other means at the time of discussion. — This, that, and the other (talk) 00:10, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia data structure
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Namespaces
Subject namespaces		Talk namespaces
0	(Main/Article)	Talk	1
2	User	User talk	3
4	Wikipedia	Wikipedia talk	5
6	File	File talk	7
8	MediaWiki	MediaWiki talk	9
10	Template	Template talk	11
12	Help	Help talk	13
14	Category	Category talk	15
100	Portal	Portal talk	101
118	Draft	Draft talk	119
126	MOS	MOS talk	127
710	TimedText	TimedText talk	711
828	Module	Module talk	829
1728	Event	Event talk	1729
Former namespaces
108	Book	Book talk	109
442	Course	Course talk	443
444	Institution	Institution talk	445
446	Education Program	Education Program talk	447
2300	Gadget	Gadget talk	2301
2302	Gadget definition	Gadget definition talk	2303
2600	Topic		2601
Virtual namespaces
-1	Special
-2	Media
Current list

*User namespace * Wikipedia namespace * Main/Article namespace * Education Program WikiProject namespace *. Three of these things belong together; one of these things just doesn't belong. Take a look at {{namespaces}} to the right of this post and you will see that Education Program:Main namespace just does not fit in with the other namespaces. Giving such significant, special treatment to a WikiProject sets a bias precedent. The poorly attended, obtuse discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Education Program extension does not justify creating this member's only namespace to be used for purposes other than writing an encyclopedia. As for the MfD, the namespace exists and MfD is the place to discuss whether to terminate it. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 11:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, not really. A better place would be WP:VPT, I think. — This, that, and the other (talk) 01:35, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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