Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/(long form)

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 mark historical . Nominator withdrawn (subsequent comment in favor of marking historical), no argument left in favor of deletion (WP:SK #1). (non-admin closure) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 20:03, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/(long form)

This seems like a page that has outlived its usefulness due to not being used anymore. It looks like it may have been utilized as sort of a substituted template in the past. Steel1943 (talk) 22:31, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mark as Historical in the absence of some explanation of either how this is still useful or how this is harmful. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:53, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Archive as historical and ban nominations based on “seems like”. You should have enough understanding of what you are nominating to have a firm opinion, and a deletion rationale stronger than the counter point WP:ATD. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:23, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator comment/addition: My rationale is that since this page is a subpage of an old discussion forum, it has the potential to break templates that utilized the parent page of this subpage. But, if consensus is just to mark it historical, so be it. Steel1943 (talk) 04:04, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- So ... yep, mark as historical since this page has a considerable amount of edit history ... that I missed prior to nomination this. (I failed to do WP:BEFORE...) Steel1943 (talk) 15:09, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep/mark historical – I actually remember what this was for, from back in the days when I mostly lurked on the site. The articles for deletion page (then known as votes for deletion/VFD) used to list all the discussions from the past week on the main AFD/VFD page. This was changed in May 2005 to this format as mentioned at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Archive 26#Simplified structure, so "Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/(long form)" was created for people who liked it the old way. (The archive page I linked is linked to from the "Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/(long form)" page, allbeit from a redirect). Graham87 12:47, 6 January 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.