I hope this is an uncontroversial addition because we have basically been speedily deleting broken redirects for obvious reasons in the past. However, I hope the wording I added was okay because blindly deleting every page on Special:BrokenRedirects is a bad idea due to MediaWiki's technical shortcomings – does the wording come across clearly? --shb (t | c | m) 07:39, 1 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

There is an ongoing discussion relevant to this policy: Wikivoyage talk:Don't tout#When should promotional user pages be deleted? It will probably lead to changes to this policy. Please check the discussion and share your view. –LPfi (talk) 09:39, 17 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Swept in from the pub

There is a discussion in Wikivoyage talk:Don't tout#When should promotional user pages be deleted?.

It seems that we have a practice of speedy deleting user pages of touts, which isn't documented is Wikivoyage:Deletion policy#Speedy deletions. I assume that means that the policy should be amended. The question is whether any user page with promotional content can be speedily deleted at sight, or whether there needs to be some consideration of the specifics of the user page content or the user's contributions. If there is admin discretion involved, we should probably have some guidance.

At the moment, the discussion is about whether preserving a user page can be required for attribution purposes, or whether attributing the username itself suffices legally (in cases where the user's contributions are copyrightable, and we thus need to respect the licence).

Other issues should also be discussed.

Please share your insights and opinions in the linked thread.

–LPfi (talk) 08:26, 18 April 2025 (UTC)Reply