Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:ANNAfoxlover/Autographs/Best Signatures

User:ANNAfoxlover/Autographs/Best Signatures and User:ANNAfoxlover/Autographs/Best Signature March 2007

This "contest" for "best" (i.e. most outrageously colourful and excessive monstrosity of a signature) is linked to from Wikipedia:Department_of_Fun and already has several customers. Loud signatures are distracting and annoying, and Wikipedia is not a competition or a social networking site. I advocate deletion.

Note: I'm not nominating the user's "autographs book", just the "Best Signatures" page. kingboyk

Delete with prejudice.--cj | talk 00:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete per nom. Majorly _{(o rly?)} 00:20, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete, not a speedy deletion candidate, but definitely crosses a line here. Wikipedia isn't a social networking site, and these are completely useless to the project. --Core desat 00:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep for the following reasons
First, this is not a speedy deletion case, see WP:CSD.

Second, this is user space.

Third, if burdensome sigs are such a problem, then we should have a policy limiting the number of characters that can be used in a sig, and banning templated sigs.

Fourth, putting a sig like this on a user page does not mean the editor is using that signature throughout Wikipedia in general.

Fifth, these kinds of pages help to develop and sustain a community of people who will continue to contribute to the encyclopedia.

Sixth, this particular exercise encourages Wikipedians to develop knowledge of font and color uses, which have numerous applications in articles.
Cheers! bd2412 T 00:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]