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 debate was keep. While the nomination is correct that private copies of pages being used solely for archival purposes are subject to deletion, this does not seem to be the case with the page under consideration. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 19:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:AndyJones/Triceratops in popular culture[edit]

This has been sitting with no edits since October of last year. Per Wikipedia:User page#Copies of other pages: Private copies of pages that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion. RobJ1981 (talk) 17:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. AndyJones has gone through a variety of these "in popular culture" articles that were AfDed and I have helped go through some of them with him as you can see at User:AndyJones/Deleted trivia, where you'll also notice we have not yet made it that far down the list. As Wikipedia does not have a deadline, I request additional time to finish going through those pages. Also, please note that the AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Popular dinosaurs) which resulted in the article being userfied and thus deleted from main space was marred by participation from banned editor User:Eyrian who had used socks in various "in popular culture" related discussions. The article itself contains a discrminate and verifiable list. Also, if you have not yet done so, please do notify User:AndyJones. Finally, if nothing else, I see no reason why we couldn't just move the article back to mainspace and then redirect to either Cultural depictions of dinosaurs or Triceratops#Depiction in recent popular media or merging that prose section to a restored article on Triceratops in popular culture. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 18:14, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep by evidence above that this is not being used merely for archival purposes. –Pomte 18:44, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Wikipedia has a tradition of Sandboxes/Draft pages, which are now all the more important due to people applying stricter criteria from the outset. Some editors may be sidelined with other activities, either in WP or in Real Life. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:49, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Per Le Grand and Pomte. It seems a merge with Cultural depictions of dinosaurs would be useful as well. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 20:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Given that the user is using his user page to do actual work, not solely as a place to archive deleted material (see User:AndyJones/Deleted_trivia), some assumption of good faith is warranted.--Father Goose (talk) 21:49, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per Father Goose. This page is not being used as an article substitute, and the user is improving it. McJeff (talk) 08:32, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I'm surprised RobJ has learned nothing from his previous nomination Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AndyJones/Toupees in popular culture also of AndyJones' draft subpages, which was also kept with near total support. AndyJones is good about this: he'll request deletion for the cases that aren't going anywhere. Mangojuice^talk 16:52, 14 April 2008 (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.