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Opinion needed

Hello all. Are these pages out of scope? --Minorax (talk) 09:04, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Ideally this should be at WM:RFD but well this is okay for me. I am also unsure so I tagged rather than delete striaght, rationale being they are drafts of the competition which after reading the instructions of the competition, they are to write articles at their respective wikipedia versions, not on meta. Meta isn't wikipedia, so I am inclined to delete as out of scope. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:21, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

How about exporting them to his WP userspace? I'm not sure what this competition is that you are mentioning, but it seems a shame to lose the work they've put effort into—and also reduce future admin work when he inevitably asked for the contents to be emailed to him later :) ——SerialNumber54129 11:01, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129: True, I am intending to delete in main and then give them a copy in their userspace if they wants (via supress-redirect move maybe), the competition I referring to is Wiki4Women, apparently to encourage creation of women related biographies (which we lacks everywhere). Thanks for the viewpoint, appreciate it. :) Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 11:25, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure whether I can post my perspective here, so feel free to remove this if that's not fine. However, I'd ask the original author to move those pages to other sister projects' draft namespace where it should be, and then delete them per that reason. --Hamish 11:04, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Stick the into their user namespace. That puts them out of the way, and still able to be worked upon.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:06, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Billinghurst idea seems the best, although I can export the zh ones (via transwiki import) to zhwp userspace if deemed suitable. They are in scope if it's userspace drafts, not per mainspace pages. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 11:23, 27 May 2020 (UTC)