Thread:Love Robin/@comment-24074199-20131217202245/@comment-366087-20131218053547

BTW, please stop Removing/Deleting Forum threads. Just because *YOU* got your answer(s) does not mean the thread cannot be of use for *others* seeking the same information. Just like you probably could have found older ones by searching.

If I may a word of *personally learned* advice: You're an Admin. Part of that is recognizing that removing the *Words of Others* is considered rude and in poor form. Consider this advice from Help:Talk_pages (bold is mine): "It is recommended that you do not attempt to archive another user's talk page. These are not subject to the recommendations on this page, and each user may choose alternate means of archiving their own talk page, including choosing not to archive at all, but to instead remove old messages. Although, since those messages are other users' contributions, this is generally rude to do and in bad taste, with archival being more polite and considerate of what others say." People might tend to think a thread "belongs" to them because they opened it, but that is not fully true. The posts *others* make belongs to them, and simply deleting their contributions is not only rude, but in some cases will "steal" from them by negating edit-counts.

Understanding and embracing subtle things like this can make all the difference in how contributors on your wiki(s) view you as an Admin/bureaucrat: Okay-or-less, or Great.

So unless Vulgar and otherwise violating TOU, leaving the words of others is the polite and considerate thing to do.