Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/archive May 2004
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Articles for Deletion (AfD) is where Wikipedians decide what should be done with an article. Items sent here usually wait seven days or so; afterward the following actions can be taken on an article as a result of community consensus:
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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 peoplePete/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
- International Meridian Conference - deletion debate
- Urban walks in Melbourne - deletion debate - to Wikibooks or Wikitravel if legal
- Oregon Legislative Councel's opinion on gay marriage - deletion debate
May 1
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Template:VfD-Shelia the Kangaroo
Template:VfD-WP Government and Erosion
Template:VfD-Sample Preferential Ballot
Template:VfD-Michael Howards response to Blair
Template:VfD-To separate the flesh from the bones
Template:VfD-Declaration of Paris
May 2
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May 3
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Template:VfD-Kent Labour Students
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Template:VfD-Dominican Revolutionary Party
May 4
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Template:VfD-Grobermans Choice
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Template:VfD-synthetic consciousness
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- Keep. I think it is a quite valid topic and worthy of further attention. Don't merge it IMO. Marcika 05:40, May 6, 2004 (UTC)
Template:VFD-Colonialism in philosophy
Template:VfD-Copenhagen Free University
May 5
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Selected translation articles
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However, this article does need a fair bit of work - the cap links should be lower case to work, some of the species links need fixing, and the Japanese text question needs sorting. I've rewritten list of Japanese birds, but the Korea article uses a different taxonomic system, even more radical than the American one. jimfbleak 18:25, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
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May 6
Template:VfD-Myths about East Germany
A whole bunch of Xena articles
Keep it.
Template:VfD-List of countries by IQ
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Template:VfD-Requests for commentRichardchilton
Obscure website. --Wik 20:21, May 6, 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. This website is not obscure. The Language Construction Kit, for example, is a very important and popular document in the conlanging community. -Branddobbe 20:57, May 6, 2004 (UTC)
- OK, I tried to find value in the site, but until Mr. Rosenfelder becomes a famous creator of conlangs, a nationally syndicated columnist, or president of his own micronation, this is vanity. Delete. Alcarillo 20:59, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
VfD Footer section
This section describes how to list articles and their associated talk pages for deletion. For pages that are not articles, list them at other appropriate deletion venues or use copyright violation where applicable. As well, note that deletion may not be needed for problems such as pages written in foreign languages, duplicate pages, and other cases. Use Wikipedia:Proposed mergers for discussion of mergers.
Only a registered, logged-in user can complete steps II and III. (Autoconfirmed registered users can also use the Twinkle tool to make nominations.) If you are unregistered, you should complete step I, note the justification for deletion on the article's talk page, then post a message at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion requesting that someone else complete the process.
You must sign in to nominate pages for deletion. If you do not sign-in, or you edit anonymously, you will get stuck part way through the nomination procedure.
- To nominate multiple related pages for deletion, follow the multi-page deletion nomination procedure.
- To nominate a single page for deletion, you can use Twinkle, or follow these three steps:
I – Put the deletion tag on the article.
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II – Create the article's deletion discussion page.
The resulting AfD box at the top of the article should contain a link to "Preloaded debate" in the AfD page. Click that link to open the article's deletion discussion page for editing. Some text and instructions will appear. You can do it manually as well:
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III – Notify users who monitor AfD discussions.
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