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 as redundant. Guy (Help!) 14:30, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User:Summerprince/Hitlerdraft (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Userspace draft from 2005 of Adolf Hitler. Ricky81682 (talk) 05:26, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Unlikely needed considering everything. SwisterTwister talk 04:55, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Adolf Hitler - Redirection is less potentially disruptive and aggravating for the user than deletion and more clearly sends the message that the user should work on the mainspace version, not their userspace copy. Also, all things being equal, not deleting saves admin time. "Unlikely needed" is not and has never been a reason to delete drafts, much less drafts in someone's userspace. A2soup (talk) 15:51, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to mainspace article. This is the standard way to deal with a duplication in userspace. Please read the instructions at the top of the "Miscellany for deletion" page (the page you are looking at now): "Note that we do not delete user subpages merely to "clean up" userspace. Please only nominate pages that are problematic under our guidelines." And under WP:STALE, stale drafts should only be deleted if "problematic even if blanked," which is not true here.Fagles (talk) 13:23, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Now, you've said this in numerous discussion but can you point to any policy that would encourage creating cross-namespace redirects? WP:FAKEARTICLE only says they aren't permitted. It seems illogical for that to be policy when Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects is clear that they shouldn't be done except for history preservation reasons. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:27, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete or merge - We already have an article on Adolf Hitler. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:11, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Are we really being serious here? The draft was made in 2005, by an IP, not even the signed in owner of that space. The account Summerprince has not edited since July 3, 2005. There is nothing there to merge and redirecting would be pointless as the person is not coming back. Come on now, lets have some common sense here. --Majora (talk) 04:42, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Majora review the current set of MFD discussions. There's two more Hitler drafts below, one on his mom and others that are similar. All being opposed for deletion for similar reasons in favor of Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects regardless of that policy. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:27, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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