User talk:Aparuthi
Contested deletion
[edit]This page should not be speedily deleted because it does not "blatantly" use Wikipedia as a web-host.
- Wikipedia is not a social network. The reason your userpage is being tagged as being a misuse is because you have no other contributions to the encyclopedia than just creating a vanity page for yourself. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 02:33, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you croak for providing explanation. This page belongs to a student in my course on Social Computing which is part of the Wikipedia Education program as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_Pittsburgh/Social_Computing_%28Fall_2014%29). The first part of their assignment is to create an account on Wikipedia and create their user page as well. The later parts of their assignment includes contribution to Wikipedia pages which will be closely monitored by me as the instructor of the course as well. I do appreciate if you could help reviving this page or provide instructions on what should be done in this case. I appreciate your help. Rostaf (talk) 23:49, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
- @Rostaf: We delete a few dozen userpages every day because people create vanity pages and never contribute anything to the encyclopedia. Which is technically why we're all here. So understandably enough, Aparuthi's looked no different to the editor who tagged it for deletion. Usually what we weigh is the number of edits to date, plus external links to Facebook, personal sites, blogs, twitter, etc. So Aparuthi scored rather low. That's as far as reasoning behind the repeated deletion - I have no problem with re-creation of their userpage given your explanation. Perhaps omitting the link to their website for now would be preferable, at least to avoid another page patroller from tagging it without seeing this discussion first. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 00:41, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
- @FreeRangeFrog: thank you for your response. I do appreciate if you could re-create the page and I will make sure that the link to the personal page is removed for now. Rostaf (talk) 12:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
- Restored. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 19:08, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
- @FreeRangeFrog: thank you for your response. I do appreciate if you could re-create the page and I will make sure that the link to the personal page is removed for now. Rostaf (talk) 12:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
- @Rostaf: We delete a few dozen userpages every day because people create vanity pages and never contribute anything to the encyclopedia. Which is technically why we're all here. So understandably enough, Aparuthi's looked no different to the editor who tagged it for deletion. Usually what we weigh is the number of edits to date, plus external links to Facebook, personal sites, blogs, twitter, etc. So Aparuthi scored rather low. That's as far as reasoning behind the repeated deletion - I have no problem with re-creation of their userpage given your explanation. Perhaps omitting the link to their website for now would be preferable, at least to avoid another page patroller from tagging it without seeing this discussion first. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 00:41, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you croak for providing explanation. This page belongs to a student in my course on Social Computing which is part of the Wikipedia Education program as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_Pittsburgh/Social_Computing_%28Fall_2014%29). The first part of their assignment is to create an account on Wikipedia and create their user page as well. The later parts of their assignment includes contribution to Wikipedia pages which will be closely monitored by me as the instructor of the course as well. I do appreciate if you could help reviving this page or provide instructions on what should be done in this case. I appreciate your help. Rostaf (talk) 23:49, 27 September 2014 (UTC)