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  • Lilo & Stitch
    • The article reads like it was copied from another location. I've asked Zanimum twice now to let us know where he/she got the information from, but Zanimum hasn't bothered to reply. -- Zoe
    • Is a slightly reworded version of [http://starbulletin.com/2002/06/23/features/story4.html].
    • Zanimum here-- I am planning to add on to my article, but I have since responded to Zoe's query. It is a compilation of about six articles worth of information, but in my own words, nethertheless. I can go at it some more to change it, but just let me expand it to it's full size before you consider the possiblities.
  • Gearhead
  • Lamer
  • Handle
  • Wahlau
  • Westie
  • and most of the other stuff found when searching for "slang"
  • It's mostly geek dictionary entries plus some weirder stuff. Zocky 02:54 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
    • I disagree about some of this - 'dick' is a word with multiple uses and a history all of its own that deserves to be properly written up just as much as some of the other slang terms in the wikipedia do. KJ
    • 'dick' is a word with multiple uses and a history all of its own - exactly. So is every other word in any language. But is it an object, person, idea, concept that needs an encyclopaedic article? So far the article includes: 1. short for Richard, 2. slang for penis and 3. slang for private investigator. Do we also need articles on "Ricky", "John-Thomas" and "P.I." ? Zocky 09:49 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
        • Cryptid is worth keeping and expanding. Dick is better dealt with as a paragraph in a more general article on slang, and the rest of them are utter junk. Cryptid aside, delete the lot of them. Tannin 09:16 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
    • An article on dicks is fine. They are a subject of fascination, there are non-fiction books and museums devoted to them. I have a book with an extensive documentation of the multiple uses and history of the word ‘dick’: it's called the Oxford English Dictionary. the librarian
      • That seems to be about the word dick, which in my opinion belongs in a dictionary (like wiktionary), not an encyclopedia. The subject dicks is indeed something that should be in Wikipedia, but we already have it - as penis. Andre Engels 17:27 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
    • If it's an English word, I'd like to be able to find it here. Even if you can't write some great long story about it. So if it ends up under a slang category, I'm okay with that. As long as I can find it and any other dirty and decent word I want. We do want the Wikipedia to be complete right! And if a horny adolescent needs some dirty info, it might be good if he finds something that is actually educational. (Nico)
  • Obtuse nature
    • Psychological disorders and space aliens. A real head-scratcher. If "obtuse nature" is a technical term in either psychology or exobiology a definition of some sort might be needed before this data made sense. --Ihcoyc (Feb 6, 2003)
I believe that this page is trying to educate the reader about the pre-origins of Israel as mandated by the League of Nations in 1922. If the primary text cited as The Palestine Mandate : The Council of the League of Nations: July 24, 1922 was accurate, I think there should be a page refering to that document. Afterall, we have articles on the Declaration of independence and the Emancipation Proclamation. Why not this? This article could be saved (and informative) if someone summarized and described this 1922 League of Nations document and its purposes. That would seem perfectly legitimate to me, although I probably agree that it's inappropriate to cite the entire document. Arthur 00:38 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)
  • Alcott Lousia and related pages
    • Supposedly a band with a eight or nine albums under their belt, yet no database nor a google search confirms their existence. Even the smallest indie labels have a website that should list the bands and albums, at least for one that's been around so long -- I dunno what this is, but I don't think we need it. Tokerboy
  • Iamblichus
    • possible copyright infringement -- JeLuF 10:17 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)


  • Alluvium
    • Copied from 1911 encyclopedia, full of OCR errors, and is it still up to date? -- JeLuF
  • Korean claiming against Japan
    • I don't understand what this is. Call me stupid, but it doesn't look like an article to me. -- JeLuF
    • Because it makes no sense. There may be worthwhile information there, but it's hidden in a sea of poor English. Tokerboy
This page, now amusingly redirected to Korean anti-Japanism is about a real and ongoing dispute between Korea and Japan. (An American in Korea says, "You know you've been in Korea too long when you hate everyone Japanese for no apparent reason.") There are reasons though, mostly due to the colonial period that ended when WWII ended. This page makes perfect sense although it's entirely from one POV. Koreans want the "Sea of Japan" (European name for it but offensive to Koreans) to be renamed the "East Sea" (traditional Korean for it) in addition to all that Corea vs Korea cited in the article. I would like to see an article that discusses this topic. (Foreign relations of <Enter Country Here> seems to be the current venue, but some of these issues are issues of the people and not of the governments.) Neither of the titles so far used is NPOV, but they both indicate ongoing disputes between these countries. Arthur 00:38 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)
The page now appears to be a stub -Scipius 22:22 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)
I think this was once used as a humorous contribution to a talk page on one the Middle East pages. If no-one can find a use for then it can probably be deleted. -Scipius 22:22 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)
It was a jpeg on 172's talk page of 700kb, and someone thought it would be a good idea to convert it to a .png (that came in at 400kb) and change the link, I compressed the original jpeg down to 150k or soand linked it back to the jpg. Mintguy
  • The List of Dictators
    • Badly named and written. Also a gross violation of NPOV (one of the dictators are accused of drinking the blood of babies!) --mav 22:56 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)
    • a ridiculous POV page. Bin it. JTD 00:33 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
    • redirected to dictator
  • Deeper Than Schmigit and all related articles about band members and albumbs etc... "Deeper Than Schmigit" - produces no hits on google[1]. Even if they exist they are not worthy of an article here. Mintguy
  • cargo cult business, cargo cult investment, musical chair finance and founder's fever
    • can find no reference to these terms on Google. Mintguy 03:06 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
    • all four appear to be bogus terms made up by the anonymous contributor Mintguy
    • I'm not sure that I've heard any of these terms before either (though founder's fever rings a faint bell), but these terms are very apt for the business concepts they describe. If these concepts don't have a name, these are good ones. Stephen C. Carlson
    • Wikipedia is not a place to coin new terms for existing concepts however apt they may be, if no one actually uses them they are non-encylopaedic. Mintguy 01:12 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)
  • Queef - "colloquial term..." - Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and this page is an orphan.
    • I listed this here before, but the page didn't get removed and was removed from this page without any discussion. Mintguy 17:59 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
    • Valid content, should be expanded or moved to flatulence and redirected there. --Eloquence 03:11 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
  • "passage meditation" and Eknath Easwaran
    • Contained copied and pasted information without wikis, or any special tags at all. -- Goatasaur
      • Deleted the meditation one already: extensive book excerpt, blatant copyright violation, not an article, and with Microsoft's stupid "smart quotes" embedded in link. Will now look at the other one. Koyaanis Qatsi
      • The Eknath Easwaran one was a slack-jawed appreciation of the man, but *could* potentially be an article at that title. Currently, it's just a POV copyright violation. Koyaanis Qatsi 01:52 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
  • Jamnalal Bajaj Institute Of Management Studies,JBIMS and Philosophy of social sciences
    • Former is junk title, latter is a junk entry. -- Goatasaur 18:11 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
    • The JBIMS article should be okay. A bad title is not sufficient reason to request deletion: there is a "Move this page" option on every page. -- Oliver P. 18:53 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
      • I am aware of that, but why bother? The page was created less than a day ago, and the title *looks* bad; it's not an encyclopedic entry. Camelcase entries are being removed, so why not horribly garbled titles? -- Goatasaur 19:58 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
        • It's an encyclopaedic entry which formerly had a bad title. It's now been moved to a more sensible title. The destruction of CamelCase is deletion of redirects, not articles. There is no need to delete an article just because it is titled badly. -- Oliver P. 20:05 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
  • Syncreticism misspelled word -redirect page to Syncretism BF 01:59 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
    • It's a reasonably common mispelling, so general policy is to keep it to catch future links and searches from people who don't know the correct spelling. Tuf-Kat


    • Had some weird text in it, which I dutifully removed. If someone wants to post a bio of Khan Noonien Singh perhaps that would be the place. ;) -- Goatasaur
    • I put some stubbish content. (Ghengis Khan and Kublai Khan are a bit more important than Khan Noonien Singh, but I'm sure somebody will make a biography of him too)
      • They may be more important to you! -- Goatasaur
  • image:Peter1tiara.jpg please delete. I downloaded it having been assured it was not copyrighted. However there is a question-mark over whether someone does own copyright. To be safe I have removed it from the article and replaced it with a new image. This can be deleted. JTD 07:03 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
  • Woodstock Weather
    • Interesting, but not encyclopedic. Maybe it should be moved to Project Sourceberg or something. Tuf-Kat


  • FootBall
    • I suspect the author is the only person to have ever written the word like that. Bagpuss
    • It's a valid redirect - keep Martin
  • Cops
    • Better keep it, new links could be coming up any time. Andre Engels 17:34 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)
  • 'Anti-Pope' Gregory XVII
  • Anti-Pope Gregory XVII Please remove these two. Made a balls of doing re-directs. (That's the last time I'll try doing redirects when this tired!!!) No links, and proper redirects in place so these can be safely and enthusiastically zapped to oblivion. JTD 07:25 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)
    • redirected - no need to delete these Martin
    • we already have Antipope Gregory XVII as a redirect. Do we need to keep 3 versions, two of them spelt wrong? JTD 00:52 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)
    • There's no reason not to - if they've been spelled incorrectly once, they can be spelled incorrectly again. Here's a possible scenario: 1) we delete Anti-Pope Gregory XVII; 2) somebody makes a (misspelled) link to Anti-Pope Gregory XVII in an article; 3) somebody sees that link, sees there's no article there, and so starts it. And, voila, we've got two articles on the same thing. Better to keep the redirect. --Camembert 01:00 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)
  • Vocal fold nodules
    • Possible copyright violation. --mav
      • Please hold. Contacting source to get release for information. --w1k1m4n
        • No response received. Entry rewritten in own words. Please consider removal of the watch from this page. --w1k1m4n
  • Image:BApics.bmp unlinked pictures of a handful of girls.. Seems irrelevant to everything. -- SGB
  • Sideral day: created by me, spelling error --Looxix
    • redirected to the correct spelling - keep (read the policy at the top of this page) Martin
  • Hons Florine I misspelled "Hans" resulting in this erroneous page.
    • wikipedia policy is not to delete these pages, but to redirect them, which I've done. Martin
No, we do have a policy of keeping pages with common misspellings, but if the misspelling is not common and just caused by a typo it's OK to delete. This misspelt title is of no conceivable use to anyone. Enchanter
  • [[What_can_be_learnt_from_Thomson_%26_Thompson%92s_costumes%3F]] What is this? -- SGB
  • Irish sea
    • I created this page not realising that there was already an article called Irish Sea with a capital 'S'. there's not much point in keeping it.User:G-Man
    • I've redirected it to Irish Sea - it can stay. --Camembert 18:35 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)
  • AWOL - I've already emptied it SGBailey 22:14 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)
    • Now stub. There's stuff that can be added about how AWOL soldiers can't get proper jobs in the interim, their punishment, how some soldiers are AWOL for years, etc, etc - keep Martin
  • East-coast liberal -- Possibly this just needs attention instead, but it looks irredeemable to me -- sannse 22:36 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)
  • Dave Walker - This may not need deletion, but just some attention from someone who knows something about this guy. This article contains one BIG block of unformatted text. --Minesweeper 02:53 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)
I agree that it needs a whole lot of attention, but that this guy's bio cuts a pretty wide swath through the music industry, so should probably be kept around. I've broken it up at sentences, gotten rid of the (not-so-)smart quotes, done a bit of copy-editting, and some wikification, but, I have no knowledge about this individual, or much of his work, so I can't offer any actual insight into this bio. --Ducker 05:12 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)
  • Katie McCaskey, Sugarducky and Retro martini glasses. These are all advertisements and self puffery. -- Zoe
    • Agreed -- Tarquin 11:02 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)
    • Ms. McCaskey decided to send me abusive email. Obviously she's not here to be cooperative. It's time to take her advertisements down. -- Zoe

These images are all resizings of pictures which are also on wikipedia and have been made opsolete by superior resizings (see my talk page for details on why resizing was done - if you're interested that is): (the superior ones have a 'U' infront of them and the first two letters capitalised (except for the first one)) --snoyes 04:34 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

Please, when replacing an image, just upload the new one with the same name as the original one. This way the revision history stays usable. You don't write a new article if you find a mistake in another article and request the deletion of the original article afterwards, do you? -- JeLuF 21:17 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

(among others) If we're going to allow stuff like this, we may as well go the whole hog and import electoral registers directly into the 'pedia. - Khendon 12:15 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)

I Agree - the S11 victim stuff is tasteless and pointless

They are neither tasteless nor pointless, but they are not encyclopedic. They should be transferred to http://sep11.wikipedia.org/ before being deleted here. The Anome 12:47 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)

I think it might be considered tasteless in that we don't highlight the victims of other terrorist incidents, the bomb in Bali springs to mind, or perhaps a different kind of incident on a similar scale the victims of the Titanic disaster, unless noteworthy for other reasons. Mintguy


There is a much more complete listing of people who might need to be moved here: Talk:September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Memorial wiki pages Martin

Can someone delete Hirohito to rename the article to Hirohito? -- Taku 21:22 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)

AIDS Kills Fags Dead -- subject covered on hate speech, inherently inflamatory title should be deleted. -- Infrogmation 23:20 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)

The information contained in that article was removed rather than moved to hate speech. It is not covered anywhere right now. It should either be moved to hate speech, or a better article title should be found. Are quotes around the phrase acceptible? AxelBoldt 23:27 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)
I had already moved it, but an anonymous user reverted the move. --Eloquence 23:34 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)
I've reverted to your version. (That's until our anonymous user decides to revert things yet again!) JTD 23:54 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)
Ok, if it fits better at hate speech, that's fine with me. AxelBoldt 23:41 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)
Duh, Axel. Quite unprofessional. -'Vert

Delete Hirohito to rename the article Emperor Showa of Japan to Hirohito and image:Hirohito.png, which has become an orphan. Thanks. -Takuya

Takuya, first of all, copy the style so make link to page you talk about. OK?? - leave Alone! Second. This isnt a candidate for deletion - just a redirect... no big deal... -'Vert

Huh? I can't move the article to rename it because there is already Hirohito and in my understanding there is no objection to rename the article Emperor Showa of Japan to Hirohito. Besides, the title of article is a big deal. -- Taku 07:29 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Taku, your move worked fine, the article is now at Hirohito and Emperor Showa of Japan is just a redirect. I think you were confused by the redirect and 'Vert was confused because the pages are as you want them already (unless I've missed the point of course :) -- sannse 08:36 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)
  • MikePeck now empty, used to contain " ilike to eat eat eat apples and bananas..." -- SGB
  • Canada State says, in full, "Do you hate Canada: A: Yes B: Yes"
  • Canadian_State says, in full, "The nation of Canada consists of states and territories," which is false; the article is otherwise useless. Montréalais 18:36 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)
Delete. Since reversion of a vandalized page, no pages link to it. -- Infrogmation

Nathaniel Branden - Vanity page, text has been removed. -- Goatasaur

But he's had lots of books published! Doesn't that make him notable? Bomis has a Nathaniel Branden Ring, so he must be good! (Actually, I have no idea what it takes to have a "Ring" on Bomis, but it looks impressive...) And can people not blank out pages that are up for discussion? If we're supposed to be judging the worth of the page, we have to be able to read it, and going through the history is a pain... -- Oliver P. 23:08 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)
Yeah, sorry about blanking it out. Force of habit. I am fine with the page staying on wiki after reading his website. -- Goatasaur
Branden is certainly notable enough to merit a Wikipedia article. Google his name if you're in doubt. -- Infrogmation
  • ECO
    • Content: "Economic Cooperation Organization No. 1 Goulbou Alley, Kamraniyeh, P.O. Box 14155-6176, Teheran, Iran Islamic Republic" --Eloquence
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