Wikipedia:Archived articles for deletion discussions
Delete debates
The following debates took place on wikipedia, on or off the main Votes for deletion page.
For discussions that have not been regularly archived, the page history of the VfD page has to be used as a contingency archive. For a deleted page one can look in the Deletion log to obtain date and time of a deletion. One can look in the page history of VfD near that time to see which edit regards the unlisting of the page, and take the previous version.
For this purpose, always give a good edit summary when editing the VfD page, especially when unlisting a page.
If you find any other pages which contained detailed debates on whether or not to delete an article, please link them here.
The following paragraph is disputed - see Talk.
- If a page is to be deleted and it was debated on the talk page, move the debate to a separate page called [[Talk:NAME OF ARTICLE/deletion]] and store that delete debate record here to preserve a record of past wiki debates. Having copies may prove useful if and when at some stage in the future a history of wikipedia is compiled and historians need to know how wikipedia reached decisions and for what reason.
An alternative version:
- Normally, when deleting a page also delete the talk page. However, if the discussion on either the talk page, or on VfD, might be useful to you or someone else, instead keep it (and list it here). The same applies to generic deletion discussion on the village pump, for example, that's worth preserving. Use your judgement. Where there is a good deal of deletion-related talk, and also a good deal of talk unrelated to deletion, consider seperating the deletion-related talk on a separate page called [[Talk:NAME OF ARTICLE/deletion]]
See also: wikipedia talk:deletion policy, wikipedia talk:votes for deletion, wikipedia talk:deletion policy/redirect,
Boilerplate text
To avoid confusion and votes being added to an archived debate page, the following boilerplate text must be added to the top of the page:
- '''This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of a page entitled [[PAGE NAME]].'''
- '''Further comments should be made on the [[Talk:PAGE NAME|talk page]] rather than here as this page is kept as an historic record.'''
- '''The result of the debate was RESULT.'''
and this part to the bottom of the page:
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- This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate up to the point of deletion and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the new method of assessing voting, should be placed on other relevant 'live' pages. '''Please do not edit this page'''.
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July 2003
August 2003
September 2003
- Talk:List of heterosexuals
- Talk:List of black people/white people/Delete
- Talk:Md. Ahiduzzaman Liton
- Talk:Jimmy James and the Blue Flames
- Talk:Engelsism
- User talk:Rambot/Delete
- Talk:List of nicknames for George W. Bush
- Talk:Militant Islam/Delete
- Talk:Misconceptions and disputed facts/Delete
- Talk:Islamism/Delete
- Talk:Library of Sir Thomas Browne/Delete
October 2003
- Talk:Lists of postal and ZIP codes of the world/Delete
- Talk:List of people who have publicly denied being gay/Delete
- Talk:List of schools in the United States/Delete
- Wikipedia talk:Cleanup process/Delete
- Talk:Slogan 'Jesus is Lord'/Delete
- Talk:London E17/Delete
- Talk:Santorum/delete
- Talk:Critique on South African Sesotho/delete
- Talk:List of Queer composers/delete
- Talk:List of caucasian people/delete
- Talk:List of multiracial people#deletion
November 2003
- Talk:Prime Minister of the United States/Delete
- Talk:Bill Gates/Criminal record/Delete
- Talk:Silesian language/Delete
- Talk:Bush family conspiracy theory/Delete
- Talk:Gen. 2:17/delete
- Talk:Easter Bradford/delete
- Talk:Reptilian humanoid/Delete
- Talk:AKFD/November 2003
- Talk:Michal Arkusz/Delete
- Talk:Santorum/delete
- Talk:Rachel_Scott#Deletion_debate
- Talk:Gregor Brand/delete
- Talk:Hansraj Morarji Public School
- Talk:Rick Mercer's Monday Report/Delete
- Talk:Lake Clifton Eastern High School/Delete
- Talk:Sunset High School/Delete
- Talk:Sunset High School (Portland)/Delete
- Talk:French alphabet/deletion
- List of 'years in Canada'
December 2003
- Talk:Captain Submarine/delete
- Talk:Bonnie/Delete
- Talk:Assessment of Adolf Hitler/Delete
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Free Energy/Delete
- User talk:Louis Kyu Won Ryu/Craig Hubley
- Talk:Banana-Spirulina Pancakes/Delete
- Talk:Timeline of Quebec history/Delete
- Talk:Student Pugwash USA/Delete
- Talk:Atlas Shrugged/Delete
- Talk:Acting Sheriff/Delete
- Talk:Ambition/Delete
- Talk:Killographic/Delete
- Talk:Most popular names/Delete
- Talk:Pelastration/Delete
January 2004
- Talk:Indo-European Dravidian words
- Talk:List of people known as war heroes/delete
- Talk:How to adjust brakes
- Talk:The Money Masters
- Talk:Predicted effects of invading Iraq
- Talk:M.R.M. Parrott
- Talk:Initial-stress-derived noun/Delete
- Talk:Morissettian irony/Delete
- Talk:The Best Page in the Universe/Delete
- Talk:Medical Scientism/Delete
- Talk:Easter Bradford/delete (again)
- Talk:Fair market
- Talk:Mother I'd Like To Fuck
February 2004
- Talk:Time Cube/Delete
- Talk:List of English words with frequent misuse/Delete
- Talk:Eberite/Delete
- Talk:Atlantium/Delete
- Talk:Wilfredo G. Santa
- Talk:Red China Magazine/Delete
- Talk:Christian demonology/deletion
- Talk:Alchemigram/Delete
- Talk:Public concern over the Internet
- Talk:History of heterosexuality
- Talk:List of porn stars who died from AIDS
- Talk:Diamond theory
- Talk:ONW
- Talk:George Francis Cruickshank
March 2004
- Talk:List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories/Delete
- Talk:William Hill Kelly Jr.
- Talk:Customer experience management
- Talk:Torah Cosmos
- Neilie Casey (debate as shown is complete, article and talk page are deleted)
- Talk:Discovery Institute/Delete
- Talk:Pentadimensional Theory/Delete
- Talk:Nazism and socialism/Delete
- Talk:Deng Xiaoping/temp