2015-02-21 16:21 GMT+01:00 MZMcBride <[email protected]>: > Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: > >It seems so. In my case, I created years ago a lot of redirects to my > >English userpage from many Wikipedia languages, and now I have to request > >the deletion for all them. Not very useful. > > "Not very useful" is a slightly rude comment to make, in my opinion. You > specifically and intentionally created local user pages on various > Wikipedias. I imagine you and others would be rightfully upset if > someone came along and simply overwrote your local user pages with a > global user page without your knowledge or consent. > > >Can we get a special bot task in meta to request userpage deletion in > >batches? > > There's discussion on Meta-Wiki about Synchbot deleting local user pages > on a per-user, opt-in basis. I'm personally of the view that users seeking > to un-spam the dozens or hundreds of wikis where they have created a local > user page and done nothing more ought to clean up the "mess" themselves. > > I edited/added images and managed bots (generating edit rankings and other) in many Wikipedias. I didn't spammed anything, just had to create the redirect userpages years ago because MediaWiki didn't offered anything better.
If you don't know about the case, shut up. > Instead of deletion, blanking the user page might be a neat way of > triggering the global user page to re-appear (a version of pure wiki > deletion). Though, of course, some users might want a 0-byte user page. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
