Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Math-drafts

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. I've moved all of the non-redirect subpages to the Draft namespace, and then deleted all remaining subpages of User:Math-drafts and User talk:Math-drafts. (I also inadvertently listed the wrong MfD in the edit summaries for all of the page moves and deletions, sorry about that. Hopefully that doesn't cause a major problem, it doesn't seem to be an easily fixable mistake.) New pages in the Draft namespace are:

—⁠ScottyWong⁠— 17:10, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:Math-drafts

There's no reason for there to be a "community" user draft space, and certainly not one specifically for math; that's what the Draft namespace is for. Users who are working on drafts themselves can keep them under their own accounts. I have tagged all the subpages with {{userspace draft}} so presumably they will end up there eventually. (Or if there is consensus, perhaps they can just be draftified now?) I have also tagged all of the subpages (other than redirects) so that they Category:Draft-Class mathematics articles. Note the creator of this account has a topic ban on the Draft namespace and related discussions according to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive292#Topic Ban for TakuyaMurata and this was brought up again at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive314#Topic_Ban_Request: TakuyaMurata. -- Beland (talk) 07:32, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

*Abstain: Some context: this page exists for historical reasons: some community members wished to move math draft pages out of the draft space (see the discussion in the second link above). I do prefer drafts to be placed in the draft space; this page was born out of compromise. —- Taku (talk) 13:11, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

- Keep for a moment: I agree with the original poster (User:Beland)'s argument that the user page is redundant given there is the draftspace. But the outright deletion seems a bit disruptive in that there are subpages. I suggest we gradually non-disruptively move the subpages to the draftspace; once that is done, the user page can be safely deleted, redirected or etc. --- Taku (talk) 11:17, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Move the subpages and delete this page works for me. -- Beland (talk) 18:11, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral - As User:TakuyaMurata notes, this page exists for historical reasons. I never fully understood the nature of the quarrel, but there was a quarrel about the use of draft space by Taku that resulted in the topic-ban. The other editors of whom I was aware being involved in the quarrel wished to keep draft space clean, and apparently to avoid polluting it with what I thought was draft-like stuff, but I never understood the issue. One was User:Hasteur, who tragically died of covid, and one was User:Legacypac, whose indef has become a de facto ban. I think that the least complicated thing to do at this point would be to go to WP:AN and have the topic-ban lifted, but I never understood what the issue was. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:05, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I have already started the appeal at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Topic_ban_appeal. (I didn't know Hasteur passed away; I certainly disliked him but didn't have to be gone out of our world.) -- Taku (talk) 16:07, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Back files * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:27, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Clarification: does the deletion of this user page mean the deletion of subpages as well? It seems to me the original poster User:Beland is suggesting the draft pages be moved to the draft space not deleted. — Taku (talk) 01:59, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Move the subpages and delete this page works for me. -- Beland (talk) 18:11, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Beland and TakuyaMurata: In order to execute Beland's suggestion, I think we need to replace the username (User:Math-drafts) with a random string first. (For the method, see Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing) --SilverMatsu (talk) 15:20, 10 March 2022 (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.