RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Template:Mikeysock

Template:Mikeysock | Result: Deleted

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Delete

 * 1) Gives undue attention to a troll who is looking for it. Also has the inadvertent effect of creating a greatest hits of said troll. Just use the sock template if its really needed, but seriously, mikemikev is obvious enough for this to be unwarranted. 17:59, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 2) Not worth the bother. 18:03, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 3) I explained my reasoning in more detail at Template talk:Mikeysock a while ago. This template should go, and every page which exists solely to transclude it should be deleted. Christopher (talk) 18:19, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 4) Whoever created this seems to be ignorant of troll behaviour. Furthermore, this recent obsession with templates screams of "fuck all else to do".  —Commit it to the flame!— Leucippus Talk 18:47, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 5) From orbit. Helena Bonham Carter (talk) 18:51, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 6) Per WP:DENY, which kinda applies here too - do not give extra attention. Gale5050 (talk) 21:55, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 7) 𝒮𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝑒   talk  21:58, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 8) --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 22:26, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Keep

 * 1) It's useful to tag Michael Coombs' socks since he impersonates and blames his accounts onto innocent people.2001:BF0:666:0:0:0:0:666 (talk) 18:29, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Don't be absurd. Simply revert or delete, block, and move on, same as with any other troll. 18:32, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Problem solved
I've turned the template into a redirect to Template:Banned. This means that we no longer give undue attention to this troll by giving him his own template but don't have to remove the template from all the pages it's on already. Spud (talk) 23:19, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I really think you should've asked the community about that decision. I want those userpages deleted, and it was expressed in another afd that a bot can easily mass delete those. 00:21, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Link to the other AfD. If Sirius goes ahead with the bot, it seems like the bot will rock RW's socks off. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 01:01, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * This was definitely closed prematurely. Christopher (talk) 07:29, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I didn't realize that you wanted all the user pages deletes as well. I have now deleted all the pages that the Mikeysock template was on and I have deletes the template itself. Spud (talk) 13:03, 11 May 2021 (UTC)