Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:CrazyMinecart88/user zalgo

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: delete. ✗plicit 12:31, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:CrazyMinecart88/user zalgo

When used, this template can interfere with the interface by overrunning other elements, such as the control bars. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:13, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This user box, which uses zalgo text, absolutely violates WP:SMI. We do not allow any kind of code, content, characters, styles, scripts, or other kinds of data that causes interference with the MediaWiki interface, or the page's content, links, or their normal purposes. This text overwrites the interface, other content and links, and is really just a nuisance that doesn't belong here. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:33, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Purely disruptive and wildly outside Wikipedia's purpose. Johnuniq (talk) 03:30, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Xaosflux: Somewhat surprised that an admin has not heard of this thing called WP:G2 and WP:G3,(joke) which clearly applies here...(not a joke) (speedy delete if it wasn't clear enough) RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 03:40, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

G2 clearly doesn't apply as the page is in the creater's userspace. And I doubt I could call this page blatant vandalism. 93.172.232.172 (talk) 06:04, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@RandomCanadian I am generally very tolerant of experiments in userspace. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:59, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Userboxen should not be used for disruptive text that breaks the interface of a page. Hog Farm _Talk 03:42, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. The text in the userbox obstructs the MFD banner, which is a violation of SMI. ~ Matthewrb ^{Talk to me · Changes I've made} 05:56, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, these sorts of characters can also disrupt screen readers like the one I use (see this technical village pump thread I started). This example doesn't have much effect on my computer unlike the one cited in that thread (because the latter example had much more text), but it still makes absolutely no sense to me and I definitely don't think it should be a userbox. Graham87 06:15, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Graham87 - Thanks for the link to that discussion. Those two revisions on that user page are now RD3'd. ;-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 08:08, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Purely disruptive and especially damaging to blind readers and editors. Cullen328 (talk) 17:23, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete because of the screen-reader disruption. Miniapolis 22:48, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment this kind of thing is de rigeur on April Fools; since this discussing can only deal with the deletion of an individual page, perhaps a broader discussion need take place. Disruption is, after all, disruption, regardless of the calendar. SN54129 10:06, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Serial Number 54129 my nomination of this is atomic, being that it is created for use as a template by others and is actually being used by others - if this was some sort of one-day experiment or some sort of sandbox test I wouldn't have nominated. I don't think this discussion should equate to a ban on any occurrence of zalgo text in any situation. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:41, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think this discussion should equate to a ban on any occurrence of zalgo text in any situation: of course not; as I said, it couldn't. 🙄 SN54129 10:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. User pages which block, or animate objects on the screen should be deleted. At best they are distracting, at worse they block UI elements. If users want to create their own Geocities page, then there are other places they can do that. Gonnym (talk) 16:10, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Purely disruptive. I concur with previous comments. I learned what zalgo is, and sort of wish I hadn't, because it is a nuisance. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:01, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - as disruptive. I think the text is really inventive here, but unfortunately it tends to make things buggy. Best to leave this thing outside of Wikipedia. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:30, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.