Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Fumitaka Furuoka
- 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 speedy deleted as blatant advertising (WP:CSD#G11). ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 08:06, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
This isn't a user page, so much as it is an article that has been hosted in user space for over three years. The user made exactly two edits to Wikipedia: to this page. Per Wikipedia:User page, "Your userpage is for anything that is compatible with the Wikipedia project. It is a mistake to think of it as a homepage: Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site." If this professor meets Wikipedia:Notability (academics), he should have an article; but a faux article in user space is inappropriate. Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:47, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- Just blank these promotional pages on sight, or probably edit back to just the first sentence. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:56, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- What's the point, though, of maintaining a user page for a user who hasn't edited since November 2006 and only ever edited the page? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:13, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- Almost none. Some very small chance that in removing the promotion the person will return and take a proper interest. If it is blanked, and never looked at again, then it is as good as deleted, with less fuss. Now that we're here, we may as well delete, but how many such pages are there? Better, I think, to encourage ordinary editors deal with such pages with ordinary methods. Come then to MfD if there's a problem. I don't think such pages should be speedied because the rare overzealous speedy does more harm than all the other pages combined, although in this case few would complain if you G11'ed. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:44, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
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