Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Mornington Crescent Championship (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: Move to Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Wikipedia:Mornington Crescent Championship. Consensus appears to be that there is no harm in retaining it. (non-admin closure) silviaASH (inquire within) 09:22, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Do we still need this page? Inside joke of 2 decades ago. Proposal for a game that never actually took place. See also Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikington Crescent Championship. Polygnotus (talk) 04:48, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- Move to Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Wikipedia:Mornington Crescent Championship. The subject of the page appears not to be Wikipedia related, but, read WP:FUN. It’s sad that Wikipedians no longer value fun, and pages like this will probably be rapidly delete at WP:NOTWEBHOSTING, but this was not the case then, especially where Wikipedia pioneers were collectively involved. Keep as a record of the past culture of Wikipedia.
Add anKeep the current appropriate and sufficient archived tag. SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:08, 27 January 2025 (UTC)- How is it fun to store all failed attempts to have fun for decades? There is literally nothing fun about the page. And this is just an old signup page, the real thing is supposedly at Wikipedia:Wikington Crescent Championship but that has already been deleted. Polygnotus (talk) 08:58, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- Fun is subjective. What do you do for fun? SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:42, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- @SmokeyJoe: I annoy my wife. Polygnotus (talk) 21:41, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- I think you should try to be more fun, more fun than seeking deletion of old attempts at fun. SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- SmokeyJoe, the old attempt at fun, as you describe it, has already been deleted, see Wikipedia:Wikington Crescent Championship. If the consensus, for some reason, is to never clean up useless old trash then I am happy to accept that. But if that is the case then no one has mentioned that to me yet. — Polygnotus (talk) 02:30, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- I don’t believe in using deletion to clean up old things. I think archiving, including by redirection, is preferable, and that deletion should be reserved for things that should never have been created.
- This page is on the edge. By todays Wikipedia culture, it would be deleted, but in the early years, it was ok, tolerated. The early Wikipedians were much more tolerant. SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:02, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- SmokeyJoe, the old attempt at fun, as you describe it, has already been deleted, see Wikipedia:Wikington Crescent Championship. If the consensus, for some reason, is to never clean up useless old trash then I am happy to accept that. But if that is the case then no one has mentioned that to me yet. — Polygnotus (talk) 02:30, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- I think you should try to be more fun, more fun than seeking deletion of old attempts at fun. SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- @SmokeyJoe: I annoy my wife. Polygnotus (talk) 21:41, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- Fun is subjective. What do you do for fun? SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:42, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- How is it fun to store all failed attempts to have fun for decades? There is literally nothing fun about the page. And this is just an old signup page, the real thing is supposedly at Wikipedia:Wikington Crescent Championship but that has already been deleted. Polygnotus (talk) 08:58, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- Weak Keep - An MFD nomination requires volunteer time to review it. Before nominating anything useless for MFD, please consider whether any harm is done by keeping it, and whether the cost of getting rid of it exceeds any harm that is done by keeping it. This has already been tagged as historical. If the nominator can identify any reason to delete this expired game, we can consider the tradeoff of cost. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:27, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- Question - User:SmokeyJoe says to add an archived tag. What does that mean? Does that mean to mark it as historical? This page has been marked as historical since September 2006, when a PROD tag was mistakenly applied to it and then the PROD tag was removed. Is there some other sort of "archived tag", or does this mean that User:SmokeyJoe replied before giving it a second more detailed reading? If the latter, an overly quick comment, then it also illustrates that nominating archaic stuff that is already tagged as historical is a waste of reviewer time. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:41, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- The mfd tag caused me partial hatnote blindness. SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:36, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete Irrelevant noise. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:35, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- Keep and move. These sorts of pages have historical value for researchers of (the history of) online collaboration and wiki communities. One man's irrelevant noise is another's cultural artifact. voorts (talk/contributions) 03:39, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
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