Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan (2nd nomination)

Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan

There's a couple of problems with this page.

First, it is masquerading as an article, which has confused a number of people. See the WP:FAKEARTICLE rationale.

Secondly, the utility of this page is dubious and the contentiousness of this page is obvious to those who have been following the controversies surrounding this particular attempt to make a mascot for Wikipedia. As has been pointed out, this is not the mascot of Wikipedia, so it's a bit strange that we would have a part of project-space devoted to this.

One possible solution to this issue might be to simply reorganize this as subpages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga. This is a Wikiproject which has adopted this character as their mascot and, indeed, most of the instances of this character are associated with this group of fans.

Aside from the controversial nature of this page as it stands, the problem with keeping this page as a separate Wikipedia project is that it has historically encouraged problematic project content in the form of the recently deleted: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Think of Wikipe-tan!‎. The particular issues surround the culture of moe in anime circles. Please read this section of the article. Now, I'm not going to take an explicit side in whether these criticisms are justified or not, but it seems to me that is pretty clear that this criticism will necessarily continue to play themselves out if this page is kept as a part of Wikipedia Project space and users are encouraged to "work" on Wikipe-tan for continued inclusion of images of her in project space and articles. If individual Wikipedia projects want to deal with individual images, I think this is fine, but this centralization of the character is problematic from the perspective of inclusiveness and, for example, the situations where certain depictions in the gallery of images are likely to drive good-faith contributors away who will see misogynistic or even lolicon implications in them.

I'm not recommending here a wholesale deletion of every instance of this character. I'm simply arguing that, as a part of "project space", this image should not have a dedicated page as it is too problematic and a distraction from WP:ENC.

IvoryMeerkat (talk) 03:08, 28 February 2011 (UTC)