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:
- Kept
- Deleted per the deletion policy
- Sent to cleanup
- Merged and/or redirected to an existing article
- Transwikied (moved to another Wikimedia project, such as Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, or Wiktionary)
Things to consider:
- It is important to read and understand the Wikipedia deletion policy which states which problems form valid grounds for deletion before adding comments to this page.
- Use the "what links here" link which appears in the sidebar of the actual article page, to get a sense how the page is being used and referenced within Wikipedia.
- Please familiarize yourself with some frequently cited guidelines, in particular WP:BIO, WP:FICT, WP:MUSIC and WP:COI.
AfD etiquette:
- Please be familiar with the policies of not biting the newcomers, Wikiquette, no personal attacks, and civility before adding a comment.
- Sign any listing or vote you add, by adding this after your comment: ~~~~.
- If you are the primary author or otherwise have a vested interest in the article, say so openly, clearly base your vote on the deletion policy, and vote only once, like everyone else.
- Your opinion will be given the most weight if you are logged in with an account that already existed when the nomination was made. Anonymous and new users are welcome to contribute to the discussion, but their votes may be discounted, especially if they seem to be made in bad faith.
- Please vote only once. If there is evidence that someone is using sock puppets (multiple accounts belonging to the same person) to vote more than once, those votes will not be counted.
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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)
- MediaWiki:VfD-Translation articles - school project, in the process of contacting the professor/other users.
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
- Animal names in Papiamento and related articles - deletion debate
- Declaration of Paris - deletion debate
- How to learn a language - deletion debate
May 13
Template:VfD-Vista Ridge Estates in Horning Mills Horing Mills Ontario
Template:VfD-German CiC Submarines
Template:VfD-Debate DiscussIT org
Template:VfD-Branch target buffer
Template:VfD-List of popular music terms
May 14
Template:VfD-Cypress Semiconductor
Template:VfD-Star of County Down
Template:VfD-John H Chapman Space Station
Template:VfD-Tulsa Linux Users Group
Template:VfD-Quantum-perception-creation
Template:VfD-The Dagger of Amon Ra
Template:VfD-The Conqueror Worm
Template:VfD-Oranjestad Sint Eustatius
Template:VfD-MediaWiki Chinese Municipalities
Template:VfD-Semi direct democracy
Template:VfD-Debate Access attempt
Template:VfD-Alpine butterfly loop
Template:VfD-The Culture Politic
May 15
May 16
Template:VfD-List of flags with one color
Template:VfD-Employs a different mental model
Template:VfD-King street wharf
Template:VfD-Michael Anissimov
Template:VfD-Immortality Institute
Template:VfD-Russian military doctrine
Template:VfD-Little known facts about Hinton novels
Template:VfD-Benjamin Thomas Minton
Template:VfD-Student Superhero
Template:VfD-Structure of German grammar
Template:VfD-Debate Wooriginal
Template:VfD-Winston Churchill Quotes
May 17
Template:VfD-The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences
Template:VfD-Debate mirror coat
Template:VfD-Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party
Template:VfD-List of British Columbia Regional Districts
Template:VfD-Abiotic petroleum
Template:VfD-SignedSealedandDeliveredHighlightsoftheMillerRecord
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May 18
Template:VfD-The Athenian Oath
Template:VfD-List of online poker sites
Template:VfD-Debate When the geese fly backwards quacking
Template:VfD-Critical geography
Template:VfD-Debate French Region
Template:VfD-Xian Jiaotong University
Template:VfD-Roxen Internet Software
Template:VfD-The Internet Indidels
Template:VfD-MatthewRichardson
Template:VfD-List of U S state capitals and states that have the same first letter
A proposed conlang masquerading as a real language. RickK 22:28, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
Agreed - and the conlang hasn't even been designed yet! Delete. - Mustafaa 22:38, 18 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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