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User:DCFan101/Secret Page Challenge

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The Secret Pages MfD was closed recommending that the worst cases (specifically fake secret pages) can be deleted outright. In this case, I believe all the "fake" pages either have been deleted or never existed. However, the MfD stated that other pages could be examined on a case-by-case basis. I am putting these up for such a review. Secret Pages provide no useful construction to the project as a whole. Wikipedia is not a webhost, it is an encyclopedia. Pages such as this detract from editor's time spent on constructive work. The main nominated page advertises the "Hard" difficulty as taking hours - to be fair, I found the correct link in about 10 seconds, however an editor that is spending hours on frivolous pursuits such as this can quite easily be spending those same hours getting an article up to FA status. Furthermore, using multiple accounts in this manner is not permitted according to WP:SOCK#LEGIT, which lists five potentially allowable uses of alternate accounts. Playing games is not among them.

Yes, I am aware of WP:Editors matter. I am fully aware that we are not only all people, but all volunteers, even those of us who do the often thankless tasks of wielding the mop. However, we are here, above all else, to build an encyclopedia. That is what we all volunteered to do when we created an account here. Those who are here to play games have found the wrong website. We should be rewarding each other for outstanding contributions to the project, not for "who can find a link to some random page fastest" contests. It is an inappropriate use of this site, and pulls those users who have shown themselves to be excellent contributors (as DCFan101 clearly is, especially in Disney articles) away from the common purpose we are all here to work toward. Hersfold (t/a/c) 04:50, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'm leaving that up to this discussion (you'll notice they're all listed above). If another admin comes by and chooses to nuke all of those, that's their decision, but I'll leave them there for the time being. Hersfold (t/a/c) 16:17, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete- not to save server space or to purge useless userpages, but instead to reinforce the principle that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and is neither primarily a social networking site or a replacement for the World Wide Web. To quote MZMcBride:

"The web is a very big place with literally thousands of venues for this kind of thing. A sense of community is great, and should be encouraged. On the other hand, there are entire sites devoted to social networking. Have some fun? Sure, absolutely. Waste time, energy, and resources for crap like this? No way."

There's also the fact that the whole point of "secret" pages is nullified by Special:Prefixindex and CTRL+F... Black Falcon (Talk) 05:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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