Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Historical outline of France
- 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 delete WP:CSD#G7. JohnCD (talk) 19:35, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
This has been around since 2009 and until I moved it to draftspace, it was sitting somewhere in the Outlines Wikiproject since 2011. I don't see the purpose of a "historical outline" of France that isn't just a fork of History of France. The other historical outlines are all just redirects to their outline pages so this would similarly become a redirect to Outline of France in mainspace. Ricky81682 (talk) 20:08, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose. Move back to within WP:Wikiproject Outlines. The purpose and future of Wikiproject Outlines needs to be discussed yes, but not by ad hoc page by page gutting of their records. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:51, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
- So we can't review any outline at all? It's been literally the same prose on the page since 2009 with no changes. Before I commented at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines this month, the project hadn't been active since November. Is this another case of "stop all activity until I get the 'right' people organized together and we decide what happens"? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:30, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Keep(given comments below) - These are outlines created by an active editor who created them many years ago and edited them most recently last year. I'd encourage The Transhumanist to think about whether these are actually going to go anywhere, and to CSD if not, but I see no reason to delete a draft started by an active editor that isn't actively harmful. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:03, 26 June 2016 (UTC)- Delete, or merge into the History of France – this isn't an outline (short for "hierarchical outline"). It's prose. An outline is a type of list. Also, this one is misnamed. All outline articles start with "Outline of". Get rid of this non-outline please, or merge it into the History of France. The Transhumanist 00:35, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Since you started this and it's almost entirely your work, do you want to just G7 it? I can at least live with the other outlines but this is more of a fundamental issue of being against what looks more like content forking than anything else. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:37, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- That would be fine. It looks like it was split off from the Outline of France in order to remove it from there, as this is all prose, which is inappropriate for an outline which is intended to be entirely in list format. So yes, please speedy delete. The Transhumanist 00:48, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Since you started this and it's almost entirely your work, do you want to just G7 it? I can at least live with the other outlines but this is more of a fundamental issue of being against what looks more like content forking than anything else. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:37, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
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