Welcome to User:Back files
This isn't a real user, it is a place to store articles that are not ready for the main space. It may contain:
- Articles about people who aren't yet notable enough for a mainspace article. However, when someone does enter the limelight, the article can be moved from this user space to the mainspace.
- Articles seen as being a collection of trivia. One person's trivia may be the subject of another persons PhD dissertation.
- Articles that are in bad condition, but contain useful information. If they improve, they can be moved back to the mainspace.
Articles meeting criteria for speedy deletion should not be moved here, they should be deleted. Everything else can be moved either here or to user spaces for Wikilists, Directories and Glossaries
- Wikilists is for community lists of information that might have sourcing problems, but the information is either self-evident or questionable. These lists may fall short in meeting the standards for Original research and Verifiability yet still be useful. An example of this is List of songs with numbers in the title
- Directories are web directories.
- Glossaries are any lists of definitions that are deemed unsuitable to the mainspace or Wiktionary. They are often community generated lists of terms that are unsourced (like lists of slang).
The idea is that instead of deleting an article, it can be moved to this collectively maintained user-space. Someone looking for the original article will be redirected to the article in its new location. This will be much less upsetting to the person/people who worked on creating the page. There will be no need to discuss deletion of many of the articles that are currently at AfD. They can be moved here as part of a pure wiki process. To move them back to their original location in the mainspace will require an administrators assistance and the consensus of those working on the page. Hopefully the level of discussion about moving pages will be much lower than the current amount of discussion about deleting pages.
- Moving articles to this space
Any articles moved to this space should be renamed as "User:Back files/XXXXX" where XXXXX is replaced with the original name of the article. After moving the article, it should be edited and the template {{Back file}} should be added to the top of the page. The template explains that the page is not meet the normal standards of Wikipedia.
These pages can be categorized in the Category:User Back pages hierarchy and sub-categories can be linked to other relevant categories. The categories should all be labeled with an explanation that explains that the pages do not meet the standards for inclusion in the mainspace.
These user spaces are accounts belonging to User:Sam. They are not sock-puppet accounts, because they are not used for editing. They should not be usurped. --☑ SamuelWantman 09:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC)