User talk:Copysan/Xu Lanting

Note to Admins or Editors

This page was originally created in mainspace by some class mates of mine. The subject is that of some made up mythology about our Mandarin teacher who is aware of this page and takes it all in great stride. (She is a teacher that gets close to her students and while in class it may be a student-teacher relationship, outside of class, it is a friendship.) It was originally rightfully deleted as a unamusing hoax. I asked an admin for an undelete to save the article, as you can see in the deletion log. I then moved the article to my Userspace, see this diff. I know that WP:NOT#WEBSPACE, but I also know that a lot more leeway is allowed in userspace subpages (WP:SUBPAGES). It is for this reason that I have placed this page here.

It is also hoped that by creating a page like this, editors seeking to create a Xu Lanting page in mainspace will instead redirect their efforts here, thus keeping vandalism off of the main site. You may think that this is bad precedent and I do agree, but precedent and legalistic decrees without human judgment is not justice, but rather an injustice. (I think law is created to serve human beings, not the other way around.)

That being said, I will police this page myself. While your help is appreciated in reverting vandalism, it is not needed. If I find that I do not have the time to revert vandalism on this page, I will request a deletion so as not to provide a secondary instance of WP:SANDBOX.

Therefore, before you delete or revert any edits to this page, I ask that you at least consider what I have said above. If you still believe this page is detrimental to Wikipedia, then we can discuss it further. Copysan (talk) 22:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)