Wiktionary:Votes/2025-04/Deletion of user talk pages
Deletion of user talk pages
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Voting on:
Disallowing the deletion of a user's own User talk: page simply because "the user wants it deleted".
As WT:DELETE is not a voted policy, we're not strictly voting on exact, immutable text to be added there, but I would add something along the following lines if the vote passes:
- Things to keep
- User talk pages: These are preserved as a record of discussions the user has been involved in – warts and all. The community has expressed the view that, as a matter of transparency, a user's main talk page (
User talk:USERNAME) is not to be deleted. Individual edits can be deleted for the usual reasons (privacy violations, vandalism, ...). This principle doesn't apply to IP users' talk pages, where discretion can be used as to whether to keep or delete the page.
Users who want a "clean start" ought to create a fresh account for themselves: m:Clean start.
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- Vote created: This, that and the other (talk) 10:40, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
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Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2024/June § User talk:Equinox- Wiktionary talk:Votes/2025-04/Deletion of user talk pages
