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The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn by filer. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:11, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Drbogdan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)​

This user was recently CBANned for abuse of editing privileges, in particular promotional editing. Three of the user subpages created by this user have been removed via MfD already, and the content one of those pages (Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Drbogdan/NytComments-Search) still exists on the userpage as the main content and this userpage has served as a locus of the WP:PROMO content, namely directing offsite users routinely to the userpage which contains a lot of promotional material (see the ANI). Note that a lot of the promotional material is collapsed but when expanded is about half the page.

Like many users involved in that ANI, I hope that the user can return productively, but in the meantime this page is still way too cut-and-dry WP:PROMO and recreates material already removed for violating policies. If left up it still serves a promotional purpose. I don’t intend this to be WP:GRAVEDANCING, I just really don’t believe that leaving up the page that people are being directed to which represents some of the major WP:PROMO that resulted in a CBAN up is serving Wikipedia in any way, and if the user in question is to return they’d likely need to rewrite a majority of this in any case. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 15:25, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have no opinion on what should be done. But one option to consider would be replacing the user page with {{Banned}} rather than deleting it. That would keep the history accessible and is a somewhat common thing to do in the case of WP:CBANs. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:46, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Novem Linguae I actually was unaware that's an option, and that feels like a better option here, actually, considering the possibility the user comes back (and certainly they'd want to recreate some of the less promotional material). Can I rescind an MfD? It's never actually come up before... Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 21:59, 21 July 2024 (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.