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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Eclecticology (talk | contribs) at 20:25, 14 July 2002 (Vote by Eclecticology for Talk:Academy Awards/Best Picture). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below (or use the Vote feature) so an admin can find them, check to see that they are indeed not legitimate pages, and delete them. If the content of a page-to-be-deleted exists on some different page, please indicate that, somehow, on the page-to-be-deleted (either by redirecting it to the correctly titled page, or, better for our purposes, putting in a link to it). To facilitate checking that a "page title to be deleted" really ought to be deleted, please don't redirect such pages to page titles to be deleted.

Please review Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages before adding to this page. In the past, about half of the titles added to this page were not deleted. In particular, do not add article names to this list that might in the future become articles. There's no reason to delete those. Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page. E.g., a page called Hume can be easily and sensibly redirected to David Hume; presidant (a misspelling) can be redirected to president; etc. (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!) Similarly, pages in the wrong namespace (for example, user pages in the main namespace), can be redirected and should not be deleted if there are still old links to them.

Discussion about the merits of deleting a page listed here should take place on wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion.

NOTE to Wiki Administrators: Simply deleting a page does not automatically delete its talk page or any subpages. Please delete these pages first, and then the main page. Also, if you delete a page, remove if from this list as well.

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  • Anti Security
    • Marj Tiefert June 27, 2002, because : no content - delete or write content
  • Other Logical Fallacies
    • jheijmans June 27, 2002, because : now empty orphan
      • Toby Bartels, Friday, June 28, 2002 : I redirected this to Logical_fallacy, which has (or links to) its old content, in case it's been included in search engines.
  • Noyes
    • jheijmans June 28, 2002, because : wikipedia is not a genealogy index
      • Toby Bartels, Friday, June 28, 2002 : I can see arguments for keeping it, but not strongly enough to make them. However, if somebody else does and we do keep this, then all of the alternative spellings should redirect to this article, not be linked from it!
  • Maryam Jameelah
    • jheijmans June 28, 2002, because : this doesn't seem to be an encyclopedia article - orphan
  • World War II/The Battle of Crete
    • Stephen Gilbert June 29, 2002, because : there are no links to this page, and no content. A redirect is unnecessary.
  • Espewranto
    • Eclecticology July 3, 2002, because : This mis-spelling is likely the result of a typo from hitting e and w at same time on keyboard; not every unsuccesful search merits an entry.
      • Toby Bartels, Wednesday, July 3, 2002 : I'm not sure that I agree. If a typo occurs once, then that strikes me as evidence that it will probably occur again. If storage capacity is not an issue to Wikipedia (and I don't know about that one way or another), then I would argue that every typo encountered in nature does merit a redirect.
    • Eclecticology July 6, 2002 : This is really a question of how much hand holding we can do. At some point the searcher has to accept responsibility for his own errors. I would make this distinction: In a spelling mistake the person simply does not know the correct spelling of a word, and, at least with some of the more predictable misspellings or illiterate usages such as irrevalent the user can probably benefit from a little help. In a typo the user likely knows the right spelling, but simply hit a wrong key on his keyboard. We all do that. We probably all soon recognize this error when it gives no results. "Espewranto" gave me a single hit on Google, and that was from a long portuguese language list of books for sale from a spiritist shop in Curitiba, Brazil where it could very well also have been a typo. In a bigger picture, by setting this kind of article that can be found with an internet search engine, we are giving these typos a presence and a life that they would otherwise never have had.
      • Toby Bartels, Saturday, July 6, 2002 : That's a reasonable point.
  • Pedulla
    • maveric149 July 6, 2002, because : unless somebody writes an article on the guitar company, this page needs to be deleted
  • Fab
    • Karen Johnson July 8, 2002, because : I could find nothing on google about a 'fab' computer factory.
      • It's a common term in the computer industry, short for "fabrication" where chips are made, but I don't know that it needs an article.Ortolan88, Monday, July 8, 2002
        • From a google search there are a LOT of companies named 'Fab' - I found a fabric manufacturer, plumbing supply, a couple of computer-related places and others... IMO the term doesn't need an entry, like they say 'wikipedia is not a dictionary'
  • Robin Hood Enginering Ltd
    • Enchanter July 10, 2002, because : 1) The name is spelt wrongly 2) the article is no more than an ad
  • I'll Be Home For Christmas
    • Andre Engels July 10, 2002, because : orphan, no real useful information IMO
  • Dreaming doubt
    • Andre Engels July 10, 2002, because : It's wordly copying several pages of text from the only page linking to it; this should be at one place only
  • Social media
    • Gianfranco July 10, 2002, because : orphan, not really useful, not likely to be implemented (IMHO)
  • What Is Mathematics Really
    • Marj Tiefert July 10, 2002, because : circular link-pair with WhatIsMathematicsReally
  • Battle of the Tchernaya
    • maveric149 July 11, 2002, because : newbie experiment
    • There really was such a battle in the Crimean War; I'm redirecting it to the more current tranmsliteration for Russian names. Eclecticology, Thursday, July 11, 2002
      • I wasn't doubting the existance of the subject - problem is that the above page is blank and the page it redirects to doesn't yet exist. --maveric149
  • Mont Serrat
  • Colleges and universities/OldList
    • Eclecticology July 11, 2002, because : I've checked, and all the data on this page has been integrated in the more recent pages
  • Prueba
    • Brion VIBBER July 11, 2002, because : Not an article, just somebody's test page (en Español). To top it off, it contains a broken link. ;)
      • Toby Bartels, Thursday, July 11, 2002 : I have translated it (possibly not perfectly) into English, if anybody cares to see what the content is. It should be clear that this is indeed deletable.
  • Bacau
    • Andre Engels July 12, 2002, because : obsolete orphan
      • Toby Bartels, Friday, July 12, 2002 : No longer obsolete, nor an orphan. Still just a stub, however.
  • Palestinian terrorism
  • Progroms
    • Eclecticology July 12, 2002, because : This entry was based on an unsuccessful serch; who's to say that the searcher didn't mean "pogroms"
  • Talk:Asmara, Ethiopia
    • Enchanter July 12, 2002, because : Asmara isn't in ethiopia....
  • Serbian monarch
    • Karen Johnson July 13, 2002, because : it's empty and unlinked to
  • List of Serbian monarch
    • Karen Johnson July 13, 2002, because : there is no list here and it links only to another empty page
  • Idoigo Ardza
    • Vicki Rosenzweig July 13, 2002, because : it's a phrase from a nonexistent language, and there isn't even an article on Enochian
  • Maiden name
  • Tradetalk
    • Karen Johnson July 13, 2002, because : This should be either extended into a real article or deleted - why does this fanzine deserve a wikipedia entry above the several thousand others in existence?
  • Ba-Kwiri
    • Karen Johnson July 13, 2002, because : the only references to the Ba-Kwiri people in Google are in direct quotes from the 1911 Britannica... the entry is archaiac and I doubt there is any more modern information to substitute
      • Toby Bartels, Sunday, July 14, 2002 : There are 468 links on Google — if you use the modern spelling: Bakweri.
  • Talk:Academy Awards/Best Picture
    • Eclecticology July 14, 2002, because : <i>obsolete contents deleted; underlying article gone</i>
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