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Allegations of American apartheid

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Overturn - I question the qualification of ChrisO (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) to take an admin action because of his clearly one-sided activism ~~on the page in question and~~ in related discussions. Also, I don't see how the discussion and the vote at the AFD page warrant the deletion. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 23:15, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Endorse closure. - At the closing time, a clear majority of contributors had proposed the deletion of this article. Humus is of course wrong to claim "one-sided activism" given that I've never edited the article in question, nor did I take part in the deletion debate (unlike Humus, who has both edited and !voted). I've never even commented on the article prior to the AfD closure and I've only very rarely edited articles on US politics, which makes claims of "activism" all the more misplaced. The grounds for the decision are straightforward and based on well-understood policies. As I explained in my closing note ([1]), the notability of the subject was not sufficiently established and the article was an unnecessary fork from another article. Several editors, including Humus, made arguments on the lines of "you must keep this article if article X exists" ([2]). As I said in closing, WP:ALLORNOTHING and WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS are literally canonical examples of arguments to avoid in deletion discussions and should be avoided; to quote that page, "arguments based from side issues ... are not relevant to the issue of whether or not a page on Wikipedia should be deleted". A number of other editors expressed a preference to merge the article but gave no reasons why. To quote WP:AFD, "The debate is not a vote; please make recommendations on the course of action to be taken, sustained by arguments." If no arguments are given, the closing admin is given no reasons to justify taking the course of action recommended by an editor. This is not a show of hands; we have to decide on the basis of arguments put forward, so if you don't put any arguments forward, you're not giving us anything to go on. -- ChrisO 23:35, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. My only edit in the article was a 2-line mention of a book Medical Apartheid. The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. Why would this be a less scholarly & notable than, say, Jimmy Carter's opus on Israel/Palestine? For the record, I do support the proposal at Wikipedia talk:Words to avoid#Apartheid and invite others to participate at the discussion there. This would improve the climate at WP, because certain WP users insist on applying political epithets selectively. In particular, ChrisO's POV shines through in Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Apartheid and other related pages. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 01:08, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Endorse closure. Please, let's not resuscitate this nonsense. CJCurrie 23:42, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse closure Consensus was very clear.--Victor falk 23:49, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse closure consensus was clear. As a further note, only slightly off topic, it is also about time that we consider "apartheid" in the same vein as "cult" as a WP:WTA, even if a notable someone or lots of notable someones uses the term to describe the event, we don't need to adopt the alleger's words as a title in the article, unless we want to have articles such as this or Allegations that you-know-who is the worst president, Allegations that guess-who is the most overrated celebrity, etc., for which several notable people could be found to have made such accusations. Carlossuarez46 00:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I should point out that "allegations" is also already covered by WP:WTA, though this wasn't a factor in the closure decision. -- ChrisO 00:42, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Endorse closure as properly taken. Further endorse Carlossuarez46's proposal that apartheid should be a taboo word on the order of cult or terrorism and used only in the context of specific attribution. The choice of word is clearly POV and intended to evoke particular images that may have no appropriate analog in context. --Dhartung | Talk 00:31, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Overturn. This was a terrible abuse of process on a couple of levels. First, User:ChrisO has been a highly involved editor in these articles, from the original Apartheid Arbitration case, in which he was admonished, to his more recent activism (e.g. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] ) on the Central apartheid discussion page, to his attempts to get similar articles deleted (e.g. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] )to his arbitrary re-naming of Apartheid articles [19] and abuse of his admin tools in forcing articles to stay at the names he preferred.[20]. Second, in the actual discussion only 50% of the votes were "Delete". Even if ChrisO were an uninvolved editor (and he clearly is not), his decision was inconsistent with the discussion on the AfD page. Poorly done and abusive all round. Jayjg ^(talk) 01:49, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Overturn. Only 50% of the votes were to delete, and he is an involved editor as demonstrated above. --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 02:12, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse deletion and consider sanctions on the cliche that created these articles, violating WP:NOT#BATTLEGROUND by creating them. When articles are admittedly created by a faction of pro-Israeli editors to antagonize others. This constitutes a user conduct pattern that should lead to blocks. That the battle continued in the AFD is even worse and possibly also sanctionable, ChrisO correctly read the policy based arguments for this discussion and deleted the article. Redirection to Racial segregation in the United States would have been reasonable, but I note that Jayjg wrongly reverted such a redirection with the edit summary of rvv (it was not vandalism), so that would clearly not have been a satisfactory conclusion to the pro-Israel faction. I have also added {{afd-anons}}, as the history of discussions involving the pro/ant-Israel factions has been one with far too much canvassing. GRBerry 02:16, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- As has been pointed out, Sefringle's "admission" is meaningless, since he neither created nor edited these articles. You, too, could "admit" that they had been created "to antagonize others", and it would be equally meaningless. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:25, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - As anyone with a couple minutes to look can find out on their own, Sefringle has been part of the factional battle about these articles. He has many contributions to the centralized discussion and was the nominator for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of Israeli apartheid (6th nomination). When we have a faction that acts as a faction that regularly communicates about how to handle a dispute, I am willing to believe that a member of that faction has adequate evidence for their statements about the reasons for a faction's behavior. GRBerry 02:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - You keep going on about a "faction", as if it were something that actually existed. Sefringle is not part of any "faction" that I am part of, he's an independent editor. Please avoid further factually false conspiracy mongering. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:46, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- There is actually a further problem in if I have pasred that that dif correctly it is a comment about how to make things NPOV across a collection of articles, not an attempt to antagonize editors. JoshuaZ 02:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
overturn, close as no consensus In addition to the concerns raised by Jayjg, I note that Chris had not closed an AfD since July 4, almost a full month ago. I'd like to assume good faith here, but given the difs and other details provided by Jayjg as well as this seeming to be a close completely out of the blue, I'm having a lot of trouble assuming good faith here. At minimum, Chris should have realized how bad this would look. I might have closed it the same way given the structure of the discussion(I'm not sure, I would likely have closed it as no consensus if I were closing), but Chris should have realized how bad this would look. Admins must be careful not only to be impartial but to appear impartial and in this case I have trouble seeing Chris as having done either. All of that said, GRBerry makes some good points and I think that both pro and anti Israel editors do need to remember that Wikipedia is not a battleground but a collobrative attempt to build an encyclopedia. Heck, the fact that so many editors feel a need to think of themselves as pro or anti is part of the problem, and it would be helpful if people could do a better job of divorcing their prejudices from their Wikipedia editing. If not, please go edit other articles. JoshuaZ 02:23, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse closure This does look bad, as Chris has been involved in the other debates. He should not have closed, knowing how it would look. However, consensus was clearly for deletion in this case, by my estimation; his intention has no bearing on this. What was it that Jayjg said about appeals to motive in AfDs?--Cúchullain ^t/c 02:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I fail to see how pointing out that Chriso was both heavily involved in the "apartheid" dispute and wrongly claimed that "no consensus" was actually a consensus to delete is an "appeal to motive". I haven't talked about his motives at all. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:43, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Overturn as no consensus - I think JayJG is being overdramatic and borderline not asumign goof faith, however, the result is obviously no consensus. Delete 11, Keep 5, Keep or Merge 2, Delete or Merge 1, Merge 7.

All said and done, 14 for keeping content in some shape or form, 11 for complete delete, and one I split among the two (delete or merge). Clearly no consensus by any measure.

Not only no consensus but the admin action went against the spirit of the majority opinion (keeping content). How this was deemed a delete remains a puzzle.

Someone really should have thought things over before acting... One would thing that being on the receiving end of the Flaming Keyboard of Wikipedia would be enough deterrent to act sloppy, but apparently it isn't. Thanks! --Cerejota 02:36, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Overturn per Humus sapiens and Jayjg. This was a clear abuse of administrative powers. Overturning the deletion should be only the first of the repercussions. 6SJ7 02:48, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rachelle Waterman

I nominate to undelete because it's more than a temporary come-and-go-again "meme," which was the reason it was deleted. I recently saw a TV documentary about it, even though this event happened years ago. Chantessy 12:11, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reluctant endorse. I don't like the BLP rationale used by the delete side (and "not convicted?" neither was OJ) and would have been happy had this been decided the other way. Unfortunately, the result is not a violation of the discussion's consensus. Also, unless you can be more specific about what documentary you saw, we can't know if you saw a new documentary or a rerun. --Groggy Dice T | C 13:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suburban Secrets, 2007. Chantessy 13:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

endorse per identical logic to that of Groggy Dice. If on the other hand sources can be produced indicating that the case was either discussed well after the matter was over or that the case had some form of long-term effects(say a new law passing or a substantial alteration to police procedures), then we will have grounds for overturning. JoshuaZ 14:44, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've never done an undelete before, so what are you guys "endorsing" here? Chantessy 17:29, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When someone says "endorse" they are endorsing the last decision made - in this case the decision to delete. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 17:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Endorse deletion per valid AfD. A common crime with one unusual feature--that the accused had a LiveJournal. At this point, seems unlikely to remain a part of either criminal history or internet history. While the fact that she wasn't convicted is not in itself compelling reason to delete this, it does add weight to the already-solid reasoning against this having its own article. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:22, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Overturn and relist Deleted against policy. There were many more unusual features, as a start, it was hardly a "common" crime: she was accused of killing her mother. Unreasonable following of consensus as opposed to policy is a reason to overturn. DGG (talk) 20:39, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, it's normal to follow consensus instead of policy, that's one of our most basic foundations (see Wikipedia:Five pillars). Besides, no policy states we *must* have an article on this anyway: murdering a family member is unfortunatly not all that rare, and in any case she was aquitted even of that. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Overturn there was really no consensus either way in the AFD... closer just based his close on a rather extreme interpretation of BLP, which I don't feel was called for. --W.marsh 00:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse closure. If we count votes, which we don't, there was just enough to show a 2:1 preponderance in favor of deletion, so the closure was in line with nominal consensus. If we count arguments, there was more consistency of argument among the delete voters, so the closure was in line with strength of argument consensus as well. --Dhartung | Talk 00:36, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse Deletion Nobody brought up any points to say why this had "historic notability" per WP:NOT Corpx 02:00, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moonpod

Sufficient notability evidence exists (print articles) although was not cited in article. Speedy page deletion appears not to have been proposed by admin, so deletion review should be first port of call. Flumpaphone 11:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment to nominator I don't quite understand your reasoning. The admin may not have proposed speedy deletion, but he carreid it out, and thereby approved it. The usual procedure is to attempt discussion with the deleting admin first -- it appears you didn't even notify the deleting admin. I have done so. I might add that I have found the particular deleting admin in this case to be receptive to discussing and reconsidering deletion decisions, although I have disagreed with him in at least some instances. DES ^(talk) 15:39, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Mistake on my part - confused nominator with admin. Thanks for the correction. - Flumpaphone

Overturn and list -- Speedy delete WP:CSD#A7 importance or significance of Moonpod established with the statement in the article that, "Their first release, Starscape, won the coveted Game Tunnel 'Independent Game of the Year' award 2003." The Moonpod article has been around since 18 February 2006. AfD might be a better option. I don't think it should survive AfD's since the topic's lack of independent reliable sources makes it not notable. The only thing I could find on Moonpod (company) was Nava, Ahmed Kamal. (April 21, 2003) New Straits Times. Escape from alien's world. Page 21. (discussing Moonpod's game Starscape). There is something called Neff's Moonpods (2002), which I believe is artwork. The hallucinogenic/lethal seeds of the night-blooming moonflower are called "moonpods." In any event, the article should be given a five day review at AfD. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 12:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Overturn. Have partly maintained this article so have some vested interest. However believe should have time to respond to the 'significance' and 'notability' requirements with evidence that needs adding to the article before a permanent delete decision is reached. There is plenty of circumstantial (though outside WP notability guidelines) evidence available by googling 'Moonpod' and the general fact of the number of indie games companies on WP (reason which prompted article creation) - unless of course they are considered for deletion based on notability. Though there are plenty of 'hard copy' articles that fit wikipedia's guidlelines: Edge Magazine quoting company founder Mark Featherstone (sorry, cannot find issue yet), Mr. Robot featuring in PC Format 2007 awards. (relatively) high scores (8-9) of Moonpod's games in print publications. - Flumpaphone
Overturn As Jreferee says, the award mention alone was clearly an assertion of significance sufficient that an A7 speedy deelte was improper. What might happen at an AfD and how the article might be edited during an AfD is hard to predict, and DRV shouldn't try. I don't understand why an admin speedy deleted this in this state. DES ^(talk) 15:33, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I will restore it, although the editor who brought it here never even bothered to notify me, so these further sources can be added, but (a) the "award" is a red-link (not apparently notable enough), and (b) how this meets WP:CORP was and is not discussed, such as ghits etc. of non WP:RSes, but this can happen at Afd just as easily. Carlossuarez46 19:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have no idea if this awared is truly notable or not, but I cautuion that it is risky to asume that anything that is a redslink is therefore established to be non-notable. Lots of notable topics we haven't gotten to yet. DES ^(talk) 20:29, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Agreed, but the awarding organization is red-linked, so an award from an unknown and not obvious bestower is hardly an assertion of notability. Carlossuarez46 00:02, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Straight pride shirt.JPG

I uploaded an image and provided source, licensing information, and detailed fair use rationale. The reasons given for immediate deletion of the image were AP photos are blatant copyvio and AP photos are not fair-use. The article in which the image was used now is at AfD and the admin who deleted the image has participated significantly in that AfD. I do not believe that immediate deletion of the image was appropriate, particularly in view of the detailed fair use rationale provided for the image's use. I would like a review of this matter. Since the image may affect the AfD, I ask for a speedy restoration of the image while this DRV is going on if that is an appropriate action. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 11:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Endorse deletion and deny temp. restoration. While it isn't necessarily true that AP photos are always copyright violations, this photo should extremely easy to replace. Buy one of the t-shirts and take a picture of it. Of course, the photo of the student is less easy to replicate, but that is not the primary focus of the fair use claim for the deleted image. By focusing the fair use rationale primarily on a t-shirt, an inanimate object easily photographed, the up-loader made a mistake. The fact that the article is headed for deletion -- for reasons of sourcing, not lack of image -- doesn't help the request. Xoloz 13:40, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Although your !Vote does not support overturning the deletion, your reasoning supports my request that the fair use claim for the deleted image should be reviewed at IfD, not speedy deletion. Since the image is delete, it does not allow editors to verify your statement that the fair use rationale focused primarily on a t-shirt, which would not be a basis for speedy deletion even if true. The argument that a photo of the specific T-shirt and person wearing the T-shirt who both were the subject of the Federal lawsuit taken seven years ago at a time when the Federal law suit was ongoing is a replaceable image at seven years after the event is something that should be addressed at IfD, not through speedy deletion. Also, the deletion of the Straight pride article after a three day AfD and a one day review of the significant sourced changes to that article should not play into whether it was correct to speedy delete the image, especially since there are hundreds of reliable source material from which to develop the Straight pride article. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 20:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have a point regarding the "straight pride" article -- you should definitely consider a DRV nomination for it. However, at this point, I don't see much of argument for restoring the image to satisfy process requirements. Any IfD on this image that begins within the next five days would be distracted by the question of whether the parent article should exist. Contrary to your final assertion, I see no reasonable encyclopedic use for this image outside of the "straight pride" context. The image's utility to WP depends on the article's existence. Xoloz 22:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
endorse deletion per Xoloz. JoshuaZ 14:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Someone really should have thought things over before acting... One would thing that being on the receiving end of the '''[[User:Jayjg|Flaming Keyboard of Wikipedia]]''' would be enough deterrent to act sloppy, but apparently it isn't. Thanks! --[[User:Cerejota|Cerejota]] 02:36, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
+* '''Overturn''' per Humus sapiens and Jayjg.  This was a clear abuse of administrative powers.  Overturning the deletion should be only the first of the repercussions.  [[User:6SJ7|6SJ7]] 02:48, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
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