Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/archive May 2004
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Decisions in progress
Note that listings more than five days old should now be moved to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Old.
Ongoing discussions
- Wikipedia:Possible abuse of User namespace
- Wikipedia talk:Do lists of postal codes belong on Wikipedia?
- All recipes proposed for deletion should be discussed at Talk:List of recipes/Delete (see also Wikien-l)
- Unsolved problems in biology See Talk:Unsolved problems in biology
- List of Europeans & List of EU people, see Talk:List of Europeans & Talk:List of EU people
- Add insult to injury : Deletion cannot be the right answer, as if the idiom content is removed it should simply be a redirect to the band, but that feels wrong too. Talk continues at Talk:Add insult to injury. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:14, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Images of Athens : Consensus is that the page should be deleted if and only if the missing images are not going to be restored. See talk. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:19, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Needing Transwiki
- Serous - deletion debate
- International Meridian Conference - deletion debate
- Penultimate - deletion debate
- Wahlau - deletion debate
- Wiki cookbook - deletion debate
- Urban walks in Melbourne - deletion debate - to Wikibooks or Wikitravel if legal
- Oregon Legislative Councel's opinion on gay marriage - deletion debate
- Jonas Martin Panik - deletion debate
- Georgine Rose Corrigan - deletion debate
- Deborah Jacobs Welsh - deletion debate
April 18
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- *No Apparent reason for an article about this school. Exploding Boy 11:08, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
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Apparently not a character in classical mythology but a modern creation in the Xena: Warrior Princess TV show. I have no problem with articles on fictional characters but the context should be made clear. This article is confusing, spells the subject's name two different ways, etc. Delete until some Xena fan does a proper article. JamesMLane 12:20, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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Self-promotion, irrelevent, etc. Snowspinner 22:07 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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April 19
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April 20
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- Devious - one of these days some people are going to create a complete universe of falsehood and we won't know where to start unravelling. This one's easy - Delete. Pteron 02:41, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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Tattinger Family
Please delete : Tattinger family and The Tattinger family ? both incorrectly spell the family name. I made a new page Taittinger family. JillandJack 15:13, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Why did you do that instead of using the Move Page function? Delete Taittinger family, and move Tattinger family to the correct spelling before it accumulates changes. -- Cyrius|✎ 16:49, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC)
This article reads like a personal essay that attempts to support an undergrad's original research by referring to Buddhist philosophy. The essence of this page is a table of concepts apparently original to ScottPerry that claims to be "An overlay of the Buddhist model of addiction onto the most commonly accepted Western world-view". The overlay incorrectly represents "the most commonly accepted Western world-view", especially in the context of addiction medicine, and misrepresents by omission how Buddhist philosophy has significantly influenced western behavioral medicine. The article does not support claims that anything is "the" Bhuddist definition. If the article cited some published sources that are used in actual Buddhist schools of teaching (not Buddhists schools of "thought"), it would begin to be an accurate assessment. Otherwise, it is one person's point of view about how their individual understanding of Buddhism offers what they see as a better approach to the idea of addiction than does their perception of "western" approaches. The sole source cited to support this essay is another on-line personal essay, the author of which admits was written "partly for my own pleasure". In as much as the article accurately summarizes Buddhist approaches, it could stand as a subsection of the addiction article. Whatever is not rooted in other Buddhist sources can be published in a forum more suited for personal essays. Torrid 17:56, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete Torrid 17:56, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Merge with addiction and/or Buddhism and delete. Postdlf 22:23 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: original research, so don't merge w/ Buddhism or addiction. BTW the "add to this debate" link above is broken. Wile E. Heresiarch 21:06, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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April 21
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- keep as is, seems OK now ping 07:45, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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April 22
This page looks like complete rubbish at first site. On closer inspection I expect it to be a transcript of a Japanese or Chinese joke. Unlikely to turn into article. Wrong language anyway -- MGM
- Delete, support own suggestion. - MGM 20:08, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)
- delete that puppy. Lefty 23:08, 2004 Apr 22 (UTC)
- delete: The whole idea seems inherently POV Lefty 18:44, 2004 Apr 22 (UTC)
Vote: Delete. Agreed. Mat-C 23:07, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- delete: The whole idea seems inherently POV Lefty 18:44, 2004 Apr 22 (UTC)
Vote: delete: Agreed, seems a silly term to me...... even "alternative" is bad enough.Mat-C 23:04, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
1 sentence quote, unlikely to become an article. Maximus Rex 03:06, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Can't seem to find any reference to the Shaw behind Shaw's law. My guess is that some enterprising sort appended it to an early chain letter. Rhymeless 04:40, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Another thing Wikipedia is not - a collection of witty sayings. Delete. SWAdair | Talk 07:17, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Neutral, but it has been floating around for some time. I heard this in the 80s or earlier. -- Jmabel 09:10, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- One (POV) line of text, two large paragrahps of quotes, and one see also link. RickK 04:59, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Exploding Boy 08:11, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Expand. I've heard of him. He's an interesting enough kook to merit an article. -- Jmabel 09:13, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Template:VfD-Black-out Cyrius changed it to a re-direct before I could. *sigh* Guy30082 06:05, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Keep as redir. Andrewa 06:31, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
A waste of wikipedia resources. Its presence means that it has bypassed the grounds by which it was defeated. Arno 12:23, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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