Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Wimpy Kid (2nd nomination)

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 Boldly redirected. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:23, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Wimpy Kid

No discussion ever occurred on the talk page. I count 13 articles in the project's scope, which is way too few for a WikiProject. No one seems to be actively editing the series' articles, and I don't even see a membership list anywhere. Suggest deletion or upmerge to Wikipedia:WikiProject Books. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Membership List: Follow List of particpants to Wikipedia:WikiProject Wimpy Kid/Participants.

I agree 100%. This seems WAY too small for its own project. Jeancey (talk) 22:55, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Coordination can easily happen on the Article's talk pages. Achowat (talk) 00:26, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A WikiProject that doesn't actually seem to have done anything in the almost four years of its existence. JIP | Talk 10:58, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I have been actively invovled with this and it is a notable part of wikipedia. If not, place it as a task force for wikiproject books.Greg Heffley 15:15, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment- I have read Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion#Before_nominating_a_page_for_deletion and it seems that all you really have to do is tag this Wikiproject as inactive.Greg Heffley 15:26, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Still, WP:NENAW. There are 13 articles under the scope of this project, which according to precedent is way too small. There's no point in tagging as inactive when it was never active to begin with, nor is there any point in having a whole wikiproject for such a small number of articles. The books wikiproject will be more than sufficient. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 17:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature, a larger, encompassing active WikiProject. Anyone interested in a small WikiProject on a children's literature series should first explore that target. Little point tagging inactive because it wasn't previously active, and revival seems unlikely. No need for deletion. MfD doesn't need to be filled with busywork. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:35, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per SmokeyJoe. This is the appropriate WP to redirect to. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:12, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't want this to be abandonded. Can someone at least make a task force in WP:CL?Greg Heffley 21:28, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Greg. If you'd like to make it a taskforce, and watch over it, that would be fantastic. While small WikiProjects often would be better as a taskforce, I think we at MfD think that it is not appropriate to create taskforces in unsuspecting WikiProjects, thus leaving behind and orphaned taskforce for which no one has a real continuing interest. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:24, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Userfy or task force - Best we move this positive attempt to improve a segment of Wikipedia despite its size to User:Gregory Heffley/Wimpy Kid Workgroup and simply delete the banners and other project tagging if need be. eg. In 2009 User:Volcanoguy/Volcanism of Canada Workgroup was formed and has been keeping track and organizing its topic well. If Greg is willing - I see no harm in him using hes own namespace pages for this positive effort. I am not a fan of deletion in these type of cases... Why are we telling our editors they cant have use of pages for organizing and for there collaboration efforts in improving Wikipedia? - no harm - no malice intent - no need to save space on our servers - let them work and not spend time defending there positive efforts.Moxy (talk) 18:21, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Userfy- per MoxyGreg Heffley 18:30, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Greg, why not start the Userfication process now, at say User:Gregory Heffley/Wimpy Kid Workgroup to ease the transition? Achowat (talk) 16:08, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Task force into Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:25, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
So are we actually going to DO anything here, or are we just going to keep !voting back and forth until the Second Coming? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:20, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Sounds like fun! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 05:15, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- TenPoundHammer, seeing as it looks like its mot to be deleted, and as it's your nomination, I don't think anyone would get really upset if you boldly converted it to a redirect, whether to Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature as a few have suggested, or to Wikipedia:WikiProject Books, which you not-unreasonably suggested in the nom, leaving it to the initiative of User:Gregory Heffley or anyone else to taskify or userfy afterwards if they are so inclined. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:23, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I've helped in turning wikiprojects to task forces/work groups in the past, so if a consensus is determined on the target parent wikiproject, I'll happily help with the changeover. - jc37 12:33, 22 May 2012 (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.