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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. ‑Scottywong| [soliloquize] || 16:39, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/The abominable Wiki troll

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Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/The abominable Wiki troll (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) ToThAc (talk) 20:50, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is absolutely no value in having this page about a highly disruptive LTA and it should be deleted per WP:DENY. Praxidicae (talk) 23:51, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose based on weak arguments. Further elaboration is required. ElectricBurst(Electron firings)(Zaps) 23:52, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That's not how this works. WP:DENY is plenty reason and there is no added value into describing all the doings of LTAs who crave attention, which is exactly what these pages do. Praxidicae (talk) 23:53, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - the page is pointless. A simple search of ANI and SPI gives the same results (maybe more.) Sergecross73 msg me 00:24, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Keep - As long as there is a class of LTA pages and this troll is a Long-Term Abuser, there doesn't seem to be a policy reason to delete. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:47, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - I think this is warranted because of this: List of music considered the worst. For almost a year, and heavily for the last six months, there has a been a continuous, often heated, discussion about the inclusion of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album). The entry was added by a suspected sockpuppet IP of TAWT, then re-added by other suspected sockpuppet IPs and confirmed sockpuppet accounts multiple times after attempts to remove it, with the rational being a consensus is needed to remove it. Several months ago an RFC was started to reach such a consensus on its removal, with TAWT being one of the chief proponent's of its inclusion through his various sockpuppet accounts (which ironically includes him insinuating multiple remove votes are from sockpuppets), and after two months it was finally closed with "no consensus" [1]. Since it's close there has been continued discussions to improve the article by creating a criteria stronger than the one that allowed its addition, but it is moving below a snail's pace (after four months, it is now in its third "pre-RFC" discussion), and in that time it has been discovered that TAWT is architect behind this whole mess. However, even after discovering this, his trolling of the entry has been allowed to continue. Earlier today, before making the LTA, Electricburst attempted implementing DENY and preemptively remove the trolling (the multiple pre-RFC discussions are all leaning extremely heavily to criteria that will see the album removed), only to be reverted [2] and told DENY does not apply and TAWT's troll entry must remain. So how do you DENY when you're not allowed to DENY? It's not a very strong anti-trolling message WP is sending when obvious trolling is allowed to continue so long as you use sockpuppets to get people to parrot "Consensus! Consensus!" An LTA may not be the best route to take when dealing with a troll, but then again it should not be this difficult to remove trolling. 2600:1700:B280:B1C0:895A:7F9:59E0:50B6 (talk) 01:14, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, great. An anonymous editor comes out of nowhere to parrot the same argument of this page’s creator, that somehow this needs to be kept because of some content dispute. Nothing fishy here... Sergecross73 msg me 01:32, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have absolutely nothing to do with that IP address. ElectricBurst(Electron firings)(Zaps) 02:35, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, I'm the IP who for months have been one of the people trying to improve the Worst Music list by getting entries that don't belong (i.e. Sgt. Pepper) removed [3] [4]. And as I said when I brought news of the dispute to WP:NPOVN (which at the very least got something to happen to the then never ending RFC) I'd be happy to provide you with a list of every IP I've ended up posting under. 2600:1700:B280:B1C0:895A:7F9:59E0:50B6 (talk) 07:50, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I think it's time to clarify which action has the best outcome: following WP:DENY, or catering to those who wish to know about TAWT's behavioral patterns, as these are the only viable arguments for the "delete" and "keep" sides, respectively.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ToThAc (talk) 20:50, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blank.
WP:DENY is already broken by listing the page here. WP:DENY is not a reason for deletion. If no speed deletion criteria apply, not g3, g5, g10, nor any other, then there is no driving need to delete, and to create a long running, many participant MfD discussion is the exact opposite of DENY. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:16, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Do you think this page has any useful information (apart from what can be better achieved with this search)? Does keeping this page (which was created on 22 August 2019) help Wikipedia? Blanking the page tells the LTA that they have to try harder if they want full glory. Johnuniq (talk) 05:07, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, it is useless troll food. Blanking the page gives the troll far less giggles than the waste of time that has been this MfD discussion.
My long considered position, having considered these questions for a long time here at MfD, is that LTA subpages, like SPI subpages, should be speediable by SPI clerks, and should not be run through MfD.
This time I tried ignoring the MfD, and I don't think it is my fault that this discussion has achieved 15 editors and 380 pageviews. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:39, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • SPI wasn't notified, I have taken care of that. In this case I suggest deletion: while LTA pages can be useful, this one in particular seems to be lacking in relevant information for abuse management. It ends up just being a monument to past disruption, and in that case it's better to not have the page in the first place. As a side note, if the content is merged to the SPI, a clerk will remove it, that is not how we do things and consensus here will not override our processes. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:19, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
One other note: SPI subpages are not speediable by clerks, unless some other CSD applies. G6 is common because we do a lot of page-moves, and we occasionally get G3s, but that's about it. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:21, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
SPI and LTA subpages could be made speediable by SPI clerks. I think that would be a good idea, because MfD is not generally competent to make decisions on LTA or SPI matters. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:16, 5 September 2019 (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.


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