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**Disagree. The only proof offered so far proves it's a list of editors the user has interacted with, which Sally Season flat out stated. Where is there any evidence this is more than that? What litmus test do we hold it up to declare it an enemies list or any kind of attack? [[User:Insomesia|Insomesia]] ([[User talk:Insomesia|talk]]) 01:29, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
**Disagree. The only proof offered so far proves it's a list of editors the user has interacted with, which Sally Season flat out stated. Where is there any evidence this is more than that? What litmus test do we hold it up to declare it an enemies list or any kind of attack? [[User:Insomesia|Insomesia]] ([[User talk:Insomesia|talk]]) 01:29, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
:::I saw this page about a week ago, and it sure looked like an enemies list to me. Apparently a lot of other editors agree. If SS were to clean this page up and state it's purpose, or even state on the page it is NOT an enemies list, then I would strike my !vote. The fact that he won't do this is disruptive.&nbsp;&nbsp;[[User:Little_green_rosetta|<font color="blue">little</font> <font color="green">green rosetta</font>]]{{SubSup||[[Special:Contributions/Little_green_rosetta|central scrutinizer]]|[[User talk:Little green rosetta|(talk)]]}} 04:34, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
:::I saw this page about a week ago, and it sure looked like an enemies list to me. Apparently a lot of other editors agree. If SS were to clean this page up and state it's purpose, or even state on the page it is NOT an enemies list, then I would strike my !vote. The fact that he won't do this is disruptive.&nbsp;&nbsp;[[User:Little_green_rosetta|<font color="blue">little</font> <font color="green">green rosetta</font>]]{{SubSup||[[Special:Contributions/Little_green_rosetta|central scrutinizer]]|[[User talk:Little green rosetta|(talk)]]}} 04:34, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' Sally has provided an explanation for at least some of the details of the list a little bit above for those who want some understanding. Honestly, I think it does need to be made clear on the page what the notes mean, but the explanation Sally gives seems reasonable enough.--[[User:The Devil&#39;s Advocate|The Devil&#39;s Advocate]] ([[User talk:The Devil&#39;s Advocate|talk]]) 07:20, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

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User:Sally Season (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Repeatedly blanked and restored during ANI, which was closed with page blanked.  Concern that this may be a prohibited list per WP:UP#POLEMIC (editor at ANI suggested possible conflicts list).  Taking to MFD in an attempt to settle more permanently the appropriateness of this list. Nouniquenames 07:26, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - my conclusion of the ANI discussion, which I participated in briefly, is that this is a list of editors that Sally Season has had negative interactions with - there appears to be evidence that names were added to the list after such interactions. The user page should be deleted, and the user warned about a) having the list in the first place and b) lying about it at ANI. GiantSnowman 08:51, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete This is where things should have gone the first time rather than an ANI thread and then an edit war on the userpage. I'm not sure if it's an "enemies list" or just a list of editors Sally has interacted with (assuming good faith I'll go with the latter). It's still inappropriate to have it, so it should go. If Sally wishes to maintain a list of editors she/he has interacted with that can be kept off wiki. IRWolfie- (talk) 09:04, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. WP:UP#POLEMIC wouldn't seem to apply here as this is, As Sally has stated, directly related to their editing on Wikipedia. I find a lot of what editors do with their home pages, comments and signatures to be extremely offensive and disruptive but I also don't dwell on those things. Where's the cutoff of what one person finds offensive another finds empowering? Perhaps there is no easy answer here but I don't think this case rises to any disruption except by those wishing Sally wasn't here at all, and that seems to be based along party lines so likely will ebb a bit after the election season has passed. I can't help but feel this is a bit of a waste of time and making something more of what it actually is. Sally has stated this isn't an enemies list and frankly who's looking at it anyway? Is it really prohibited to have a list of editors? Perhaps that's a proposal that needs scrutiny. Insomesia (talk) 09:18, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • A more appropriate series of actions would involve a series of trouts being issued to the various uninvolved editors involved in this ridiculous hounding and a long block for Baseball Bugs for making a habit of the same. Is the list entirely innocent? Perhaps not. Does it fall foul of WP:POLEMIC? Don't be daft. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep.  The arguments presented by the "Delete" !voters so far are neither persuasive nor grounded in any policy I am aware of.  I rebut them as follows:
"WP:UP#POLEMIC applies."
WP:UP#POLEMIC applies only to "material not related to encyclopedia editing".  Notes on and used for on-wiki collaboration are clearly related to encyclopedia editing.
"This is a list of users with whom Sally Season has had negative interactions."
There is no direct evidence of this.  This is merely a list of user names with neutral, single-word annotations.
"Lists of users with whom one has had negative interactions are against the rules."
Wikipedia is replete with lists of users with whom people have had negative interactions.  Some of these are "official" pages in project space (e.g., WP:LTA), and others are in user space (see User:Psychonaut/User watchlists for a partial and very outdated list).  So far no one has been able to point to any policy explicitly stating that such lists are prohibited, nor defining these lists in such a way as to make it clear whether or not Sally Season's is one of them.  Previous attempts to delete such lists have not achieved any consensus.  (The arguments presented at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Psychonaut/User watchlist may be instructive.)
Given that Sally Season's page is by no means unique, and that no policy specifically addresses such lists, this discussion can by no means "settle more permanently the appropriateness of this list".  Editors who are interested in settling the matter need to use the usual channels to create a policy specifically treating such lists.  —Psychonaut (talk) 09:59, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Arthur Rubin seems to be a Libertarian. In any case, "Rep" could stand for almost anything, but assuming it is "Republican", in what way is that negative? Joefromrandb (talk) 13:07, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
How do you know it's "Republican"?  Why not "reputable" or "reported" or "reprimanded"?  Even if it is "Republican", it doesn't necessarily mean that Sally Season thinks he is a Republican.  Perhaps it's a note that Rubin has been editing Republican-related articles. —Psychonaut (talk) 13:13, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A little more common sense and a little less white-knighting for an obvious single-purpose-account would probably help you see that "Republican" is the far more likely of any of the above choices, given that this user's brief history consists entirely of anti-conservative editing. Tarc (talk) 13:45, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't equate "common sense" with "a thorough examination of the user's editing history".  I have not performed the latter, and don't think it's even particularly relevant to this discussion.  POV-pushing concerns should be dealt with at the appropriate venue, not here. —Psychonaut (talk) 13:56, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The two are quite equitable, and if you'd done a bit of homework before jumping to an SPA's defense without the facts, we'd all have been better off.  You're making ridiculous claims that "rep" could mean things like "reputable", when a simple perusal of Special:Contributions/Sally_Season show why that is clearly not the case.  Tarc (talk) 14:04, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy keep. Neither from the page itself nor from the so-called 'evidence' can it be concluded that this is a list of personal attacks or that there are any other breaches of rules and guidelines. I agree that this has been handled very poorly: the very first step, if any, should have come from the people listed there, not from a totally uninvolved editor. My advice to Sally Season to avoid future drama of this kind would be to put the list on a subpage like User:Sally Season/notes where it is less obviously displayed. De728631 (talk) 13:41, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • KEEP. Per User:Dennis Brown and many others here. No one has provided a credible reason for deleting this, and the drama board and its denizens seem keen to waste everyone's time with this rather than making an encyclopedia. One can also easily argue the other side of the silly arguments they make: Sally is a new user, so in keeping track of interactions s/he might become a better editor. Perhaps this editor wants to make note of people who are knowledgeable (especially after a revert, since that might indicate to a new user that they've inadvertently introduced bad edits) such that they might learn from them. Baseball bugs and so on seem to be forgetting about WP:AGF. Note: I was invited here on my talk page T. trichiura Infect me 14:12, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Psychonaut and Dennis Brown. JohnCD (talk) 14:26, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • [ec with JohnCD: John, it's always nice to see you.] I'm not really interested in this page and have no opinion one way or the other. I'd like to know why I'm on it, I guess, since I'm no policy buff--I suppose this is meant in irony or sarcasm, but I can't be bothered to care. I am stepping in as an admin here to fully protect the page for the duration of the MfD. As it happens, it's the unblanked version, which is the wrong version of course (but it always is); if anyone wants the list blanked while this MfD is running, I guess they can email ArbCom or file an Arbitration Request. Or get the president to intervene, claiming that national security is at stake. Or maybe an admin can speedily delete it for being divisive. ;) Good luck to everyone here, Drmies (talk) 14:27, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I think putting question marks or exclamation marks next to an editor's name inherently draws suspicion that there is something negative being stated or implied and Sally has not been willing to offer an explanation for the list, despite repeated civil requests. The circumstances that led to Arthur being listed, which Snowman notes above, make me suspect that this list is not simply a constructive log of interactions. Unless Sally offers a plausible and respectable explanation, it should be deleted. Surely, Sally can take notes about editors off-wiki without any difficulty and no one has to be left guessing as to the editor's intentions.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 14:34, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per above arguments, especially The Devil's Advocate and OP. Very suspicious. User's stubborn attitude does not help. – Richard BB 14:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete.  Per policy (WP:Attack): "keeping a 'list of enemies' ...on your user space is neither constructive nor appropriate." Sprinkling in a couple friends  (at the end) does not help.  The first five listed people (of the seven total) are obviously listed as a result of having reverted, or been reverted by, the list-keeper earlier this month.Anythingyouwant (talk) 15:09, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Insomesia.--В и к и T 15:46, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - There is nothing the slightest disruptive about the user page maintained by the user himself. The disruption is the witchhunt against the user and his page by people that need to butt out. This is nothing more than an aid to memory for a user about wikipedia interactions. Nobody is accused of anything yet the page has been repeatedly blanked, as if messing with the user pages of others is standard operating procedure and there is something inherently and obviously wrong with the page's content. There isn't. Shameful that this is even being brought up for deletion... Carrite (talk) 16:02, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete  People on the list have asked why they are on it.  These questions have been evaded.  It does not take bad faith to then assume that it is a list of 'perceived flaws' as per the user page policy.  This should be removed without the need for this MFD.  But since we are here... Arkon (talk) 16:47, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep This is a disgraceful witch hunt, with people just making things up. What is so wrong with Sally Season keeping a reference list of names on one of his or her user pages? It may well be a list of users Sally Season has had disagreements with. So what. Where are the "attacks"? People in this thread are just making attacks up, and are themselves making the only real attacks here. Such strange times. I even agree with Thumperward and Arthur Rubin. As Chris says, don't be daft. Surely the current silly season has exhausted itself by now. --Epipelagic (talk) 18:17, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    All of your sentences that ended with '?' are answered by many people above. What's disgraceful is your lack of reading what's been said. Arkon (talk) 19:23, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Removing someones personal page opens to many flood gates for reasons to delate others personal page for the same flawed reasons. --216.81.81.81 (talk) 18:58, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
In debate or rhetoric, a slippery slope is a classic form of argument, arguably an informal fallacy. – Richard BB 19:56, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've been advised to avoid this mass absurdity and let it die down, but some people have crossed the line with their fabrications and insults of me, so here I am again, for better or worse. Put on your thinking caps for a moment and consider the following questions. I won't answer them for you (again!), I'll leave that up to you.

1- I've been accused of creating an "enemy list" or "attack page". I say that I don't have any enemies yet (definitely some disagreements though!), and that my page contains no attacks, and that it is instead a notepad of interactions (good, bad, stupid, whatever) and to-do notes. Look at the actual evidence and compare it to the lies and conspiracy theories and answer: which is it?

2- It's been suggested that "Rep" on my notepad means "Republican", and it has also been suggested that astronauts never landed on the moon, but instead landed in Hollywood. Speaking only to the first suggestion, that isn't what it means. It's shorthand for "representation", and is a note to me that something isn't right about how something was represented, probably wording from a source, or the sorce itself. The characters ? or ! usually indicate I plan to question for more information, or I plan to make a statement on it. I have no way to know if someone is a Republican, nor do I care. And why, in the name of internet gods would I note a stranger's political voting registration designation on my page? Really?

3- It's been suggested that me being reverted by someone, or me reverting someone, makes me and that someone "enemies", and therefore listing that someone on a notepad creates an enemies list. I say that people making that suggestion are wrong in the head, and they need to grow thicker skin and not consider "disagreements=enemies", and they need to seriously practice their deductive reasoning skills. Now look at the evidence and answer: Do names get on my list because a revert has been done, or because there has been more general interaction that concerns me. Don't struggle too hard with this one!

4- It has been stated that I have "refused" to explain, or "evaded" explanation of my notes to myself. I say that these idiots making these statements give themselves away by not citing even one such refusal, and that I did explain on my talk page that it was just notes of interaction, and any further pressing for more detailed information of my notes was an invasion of my personal business. By the by, only Advocate has pushed for more details on what is not his business, and even with him I didn't refuse, but instead suggested a trade of dialog. So which is reality? Sally Season (talk) 20:59, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thank you for providing a cogent explanation. Please understand that people are not going to be immediately familiar with your note-taking process so when you use a shorthand it can confuse people as to the meaning of the notes. I would suggest you take De728631's advice and move this list to a sub-page. Explaining the significance of the notes more clearly would also be important to prevent people from thinking that there is any ill intent.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 22:19, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • (edit conflict) Delete per WP:NOTHOST. I'm not too concerned whether it's an attack page or not (I tried adding my own address, but the page is protected). Wikipedia pages are supposed to only be used for encyclopedic purposes. We're usually pretty loose about user page contents, but if a page has been questioned by multiple other users as this one has, it's incumbent on the page author to explain the page's encyclopedic purpose when asked. "It's not your concern" is not a valid answer in a collaborative project where users don't own pages (including user pages). "Your personal business" is not a legitimate use of Wikipedia pages (consider getting a pen and some paper if you don't want to use external hosting). "There is no rule against it" is also never a valid justification for anything. Since Sally Season has repeatedly refused to supply a clear and believable explanation of how this page helps the project, the page should go. 67.119.3.105 (talk) 22:33, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I use it for wiki business. Try reading again.Sally Season (talk) 00:54, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You have not explained the wiki business with enough clarity, so people aren't convinced, and in this situation the onus is on you rather than them to show that the use is productive. The page is basically pointy disruption by now. I'm not currently calling for a block against you, but maybe it will come to that. 67.119.3.105 (talk) 01:21, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Point out just 1 attack.Sally Season (talk) 00:54, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I saw this page about a week ago, and it sure looked like an enemies list to me. Apparently a lot of other editors agree. If SS were to clean this page up and state it's purpose, or even state on the page it is NOT an enemies list, then I would strike my !vote. The fact that he won't do this is disruptive.  little green rosetta(talk)
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04:34, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Sally has provided an explanation for at least some of the details of the list a little bit above for those who want some understanding. Honestly, I think it does need to be made clear on the page what the notes mean, but the explanation Sally gives seems reasonable enough.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 07:20, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]