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Add links to unwanted page titles to the list below so one of the Wikipedia:Administrators can find them and check whether or not they should be deleted. Please review our policy on permanent deletion before adding to this page.

Please sign any suggestion for deletion (use four tildes, ~~~~, to sign with your user name and the current date).

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Don't list here...

  • page titles of stubs that at least have a decent definition and might in the future become articles. There's no reason to delete those - see Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub
  • pages that need editing - see Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
  • pages that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page. E.g., a page called Hume can be redirected to David Hume; presidant (a misspelling) can be redirected to president; etc. Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!
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  • If another solution has been found for some of these pages than deletion, leave them listed for a short while, so the original poster can see why it wasn't deleted, and what did happen to it. This will prevent reposting of the same item.

See also:

  • Image:IMac.jpg
    • This is byte-for-byte the image at http://www.apple.com/imac/. Apple Legal doesn't like that at all. Hephaestos 01:47 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)
    • How does fair use apply in this situation? Does it apply at all? -- Minesweeper 03:03 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
      • Apple's very hard-core about it, from what I've seen in the past. Their guidelines are here [1]. There's an address to send requests to, but I've never heard of a request actually being granted. - Hephaestos (used to work there)
  • Quote Schrödinger cat
    • I would still vote for deletion even if this article wasn't badly titled and consisting entirely of a copyrighted quote in German, because Wikipedia is not a place for source text. Tuf-Kat
  • Vate
    • Possible copyvio. --mav 21:36 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)
    • Talk page there says it was posted by the original author. - Hephaestos 02:37 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
  • Studiolink - advertising disguised as an article. -- Zoe
    • I'll second that, naturally. -- John Owens 23:40 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)
    • I . . . em . . . third (?) it. naturally! ÉÍREman 23:58 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)
    • I think the article was well-intended, just worded wrong to sound like an advert. LittleDan 02:36 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)

It's a bit hard to assess the consensus here. I'm going to put an X next to all the articles that apparently by consensus don't need to be deleted, and can be removed from the list without anyone complaining. Can the contributors involved in this debate edit my markings please? If there's any active debate on on the entry, leave the X off. Please don't just change the marks to indicate your POV. -- Tim Starling 04:09 Apr 28, 2003 (UTC)

Unless there is a stub (or a beautiful article) on them of course could you please delete

  • X Agroecology
  • X Rural lifestyle
  • X Urban economy
  • X Greywater
  • X Product lifecycle
  • X Toxic waste
  • Geophysiology
  • X Public opinion
  • X Biodegradable
  • X waste
  • X waste water
  • X industrial waste
  • Gaea Theories
  • X chemical waste
  • Nitrogen balance method
  • farming practices
  • X Protein engineering
  • X Genetically modified food
  • Integrated fertilizer management
  • X Conservation agriculture
  • Farming system
  • Natural order
    • (User:Anthere added those) Apart from biodegradable and Gaea Theories (which redirect to alternative spellings/forms of the title) and Conservation agriculture (which is a decent stub), I tend to agree that these can be deleted (they were redirects to non-equivalent things, like waste redirecting to sewage treatment, which doesn't seem appropriate to me). That's pending more stubs being made at these titles, of course. --Camembert 19:27 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
    • (later) Looking at Gaea Theories again, it's not clear whether it should redirect to Gaia Theory or Gaia theory, it is an orphan (apart from a user page) and gets exactly no hits on Google, so I think that could be deleted as well without any practical loss (not that I'm mad enough to really care about it, though). --Camembert 19:33 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
      • There are not such things as Gaia Theories (or Gaea Theories). There is "one" Theory, and several theories (here in singular in the article for the sake of convention). Gaia Theories is a nono, for either redirections to theory (because of the big T) and Theory (because of the plural) would be wrong. It is then logical there are no hits on google. Why keeping a page on a title which gets no hit, and for which redirections would be trouble ? As you mentionned, these pages will never be linked as they are "wrong". It will likely stay linked to only *one* user page. So, there is no point except trouble to keep them. User:anthere
        • I've made Gaea Theories into a disambiguation page - please keep it. Martin 01:19 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)
          • There is nothing to disambiguate. And this page is linked by no other page than budda's page
  • I disagree. We can put a stub for them in some time. -- Taku 19:51 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
    • thanks for your stubs Taku. anthere
    • As I said, of course they shouldn't be deleted if they're made into stubs - the pages should be left here for a week in any case before deletion, so we'll see what happens to them in that time. But if they're still blank or inappropriate redirects at the end of that time, they should go (in my opinion). --Camembert 23:23 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
      • perfectly suit me. If there are stubs, good. No stub, please delete. It is better to see an empty link than a blank page, and better an empty link that a bad redirection which will kill people desire to fill the page anthere
    • greywater and waste water look like valid redirects to wastewater - please keep. Martin 12:06 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)
  • Image:Carcinogen.jpg should go, because it is probably not what it says, and also it is duplicated. See image for full story. -- Egil 10:27 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)
    • Let's not get into a biology discussion. The fact that's it's duplicated is reason enough for me. I vote to delete. -- Tim Starling 06:10 Apr 28, 2003 (UTC)
    • duplicated is sufficient reason Martin 00:44 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Johnny Rebel -- possibly a NPOV article could be written about the racist segregationist singer, but User:Zog certainly can't be expected to do so. Given their track record, probably everything by this user should be deleted or reverted? -- Infrogmation 18:26 Apr 28, 2003 (UTC)
    • Delete immediately! It is a disgrace to Wikipedia to have such blatant racism. And while we're at it, Thats how a nigger goes goes too. Danny
    • I agree with Danny. Tannin 00:25 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
    • I've made some changes to Zog's article - I hope people will review the current state and consider whether it can be kept - my feeling is that it's sufficient as a stub. Martin 00:44 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Fisting -- Do we really want to have an article about something like this? If so be advised that it will open up a whole slew of similar things. (206.156.242.36)
    • It may not be an attractive concept, but it exists so yes, we should have it here. ÉÍREman
    • Presumably, we should delete all sex-related entries except for missionary position? Martin 00:03 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Image:Circumcenter.bmp -- size of bmp image is 400+ kilobyte! I've made a png version which was 2+ kilobyte! I've replaced the bmp with the png in the Circumcenter article, so the BMP version should go. Perhaps an idea to look for other excessive BMP images, too? -- Egil 04:45 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
    • (Paul A) the image search at Special:Imagelist finds six bmp files, all orphans:
    • Comment: BMP should not be an allowable image format... -- Anon.
        • Hi anon. Sorry for putting this comment here. But hopefully you will see it here. If you really want to stay anonymous you should log in. You don't need to give you real name,any personal details or you email address. By not loggin in you expose your ip address as 217.158.106.64, a quick dns lookup shows you to be online with claranet, in europe{ probably the uk) and connected via adsl. I could telnet to 217.158.106.64 and really start digging, but I've already made my point. If you log in, you log in nick will show instead of your ip address and you will be truly anonymous. Theresa knott 08:40 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
      • Officially, it isn't. The Wikipedia guidelines specify that all images should be JPG or PNG, as appropriate. (Note that most of the above six files are orphans because the image is also available in JPG or PNG format.) Alas, some people apparently don't know or care about such things as "guidelines" and "appropriate". -- Paul A 07:31 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Food quality, currently "Food quality is the quality of food - see agriculture". There has been quite a bit of editing and blanking.
  • B.G. DeSylva
    • Reads like a mock up. E.g.:He was born in China at the age of 14. -- JeLuF 20:06 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Ultraviolet catastrophe
    • Currently empty, previous version seems nonsense to me. -- JeLuF 20:17 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
    • it's not nonsense, just a rather badly written stub.I vote it should stay. Theresa knott 20:30 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Harar
    • possible copyright violation -- JeLuF 20:52 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
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