Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/archive May 2004

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• Right Back
• Long Beach Dub Allstars
  • Controversial - see Talk:Right Back - please do not delete, or remove from VfD, without reviewing this conversation.

• The Theo Wade Brown article was made about a month after he died. Google only picks up one hit on his name.....and that one hit is Theo Wade Brown. If Theo is significant, the article needs to explain how and why. Otherwise, it should be considered for deletion. Kingturtle 03:59 26 May 2003 (UTC)
  • If he's not important, then perhaps the reference to him in Computer Film Company (which was added by the author of Theo Wade Brown) should be removed. -- Tim Starling 07:12 27 May 2003 (UTC)

• James Anthony was marked as a copyright violation long ago, but seems to have slipped through the cracks until now. -- John Owens 14:17 26 May 2003 (UTC)
  • The author, 152.163.xx.xx and 64.12.96.xx, seems to have taken it upon him/herself to restore the page content with the following on the talk page:

    Please note that some of the text on this page is the same as posted on the website http://www.paulstillarockin.com/bushpilot. That website is The James Anthony Band website, owned by the band's drummer, Paul McKinnon. The text shown is James Anthony's musical biography & Mr. Anthony has given Mr. McKinnon permission to use it for publication. His biography has been published worldwide for promotional purposes.

It doesn't seem to me that giving Mr. McKinnon permission implies giving us permission in any way. And "publish[ing] worldwide for promotional purposes" doesn't mean it's in the public domain, or GFDLed. Also, this brings up the issue of Paul McKinnon page itself, as well, with a similar note in place on the talk page. I don't want to be too heavy-handed, so if I'm right here, could someone restore the boilerplate, and perhaps add it to the latter? -- John Owens 15:28 27 May 2003 (UTC)

P.S. Forgot to mention, I did not, however, find any copyright notice on the external site above, for what it's worth. -- John Owens 15:33 27 May 2003 (UTC)

• Norteños
  • has been blanked, apparently some Northern California Gang -- JeLuF 07:57 29 May 2003 (UTC)
  • The original contributor un-blanked it. My knowledge of gangs is rather small -- does this pass the "5000 people affected" test? -- Tim Starling 00:06 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Majulah Singapura
  • Singapore's National Anthem, original material only, no text. Wikiepdia is not Sourceberg. -- JeLuF 08:00 29 May 2003 (UTC)

• Dick Butkus - probably copyvio. Page it originated at contains a copyright notice. Evercat 13:49 30 May 2003 (UTC)

• 14 precepts and Tiep Hien - text from website with copyright notice. andy 14:44 30 May 2003 (UTC)

• Evolutionary tree/Animalia
• Evolutionary tree/Chordata
• Evolutionary tree/Sarcoptergii
• Tree of life/Animalia
  • The tree of life articles have evolved (ha ha) away from the old design embodied by these pages, and they're now orphans. I've blanked them, but might as well scrub the database. Stan 16:37 30 May 2003 (UTC)

• Aeschelminthe - a redir for an odd spelling that is long gone from wikipedia and seen nowhere else on the net. Stan 17:47 30 May 2003 (UTC)

• Orphaned Image of ca-ab.gif - flag of Alberta (other exists and is being used).
• Orphaned Image of ca-pq.gif - flag of Quebec (other exists and is being used).
• Orphaned Image of Gm-map.jpg - map of Germany (png version exists and is being used).

• PQF filter parameter....is what I see in this article some sort of code? Does it make sense to the experts out there? Kingturtle 22:21 30 May 2003 (UTC)
  • It might also be a copyvio, if the parameters are from a copyrighted work. In any case, Wikipedia is not a source document repository, so it should be deleted. The Anome 17:20 31 May 2003 (UTC)

• Pimms Cup, possible copyright violations. Kingturtle 22:30 30 May 2003 (UTC)

• Michalis Frangos...google search retrieves one citation. Article might be self-agrandizing? Kingturtle 03:19 31 May 2003 (UTC)

• Anthony Hancock Paintings and Sculptures: A Retrospective Exhibition is purely lifted from a website. It also doesn't make clearl that this is a Tony Hancock joke. But basically, it's just lifted. JHK

• • Badly named, orphan, not in English, HTML hell. --mav 07:43 31 May 2003 (UTC)
    • And damn hard to link to, I've fixed it so at least it doesn't appear as an interlanguage link for the VfD page, and can even be followed. -- John Owens 08:03 31 May 2003 (UTC)
    • I've furthered perfected it so that it doesn't look like an external link. Eric119 22:12 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• 666 and the movie 2001 A joke, maybe? some set of mental acrobatics to "explain" irrelevancies and coincidences? Koyaanis Qatsi 16:19 31 May 2003 (UTC)
  • It was originally added to the 2001: A Space Odyssey article itself, and I was just about to simply revert it there as useless nonsense when Mav beat me to it and chopped it off into its own article. I'll happily second a deletion. -- John Owens 18:52 31 May 2003 (UTC)
    • I would have reverted it myself but I'm getting soft in my old age. Check out this odd addition to my talk page by the same person. I vote for deletion too. --mav
      • Agreed. The problem is you can do this with just about any subject. There are always weird co-incidences if you look hard enough. Evercat 21:38 31 May 2003 (UTC)
        • From an agnostic point of view, it would be hilarious if it weren't so disheartening. From a logical point of view, the theory holds as much water as the colander in my kitchen. I could as easily come up with a [[42 and the movie 2001]] page. Koyaanis Qatsi 21:46 31 May 2003 (UTC)
          • Totally pathetic. There is some real gematry in Kubricks works, but this is not it. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick 22:02 31 May 2003 (UTC)
          • I just wanted to say the article was informative, but here is a question: Would an article about, say, ghost appearances, for example, be encyclopedic? Besides, many movies do little things that we only notice when we watch again on purpose. -- Antonio Shake it baby, shake it! Martin

• OffByOne - text lifted from page with clear copyright notice -- Infrogmation 23:42 31 May 2003 (UTC)

• Paradoxism - possible copyvio. Evercat 00:00 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Please restore back the paradoxism article in the Wikipedia encyclopedia. I am the holder of the copyright, Charles T. Le, contact me at charlestle@yahoo.com, thank you.

• Chiang Ching-kuo is the correct Wade-Giles Romanization of what currently is Chiang Ching-Kuo, which is a name with irregular capitalization, unfound in Wade-Giles. I can't move the pages to rectify the mistake because of the redirect. --Menchi 11:23 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Taken care of. -- Infrogmation 21:08 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • Thanks. --Menchi 05:19 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Chaumes cheese I've stripped the advertising, but looks like copyright violation as well. See http://www.thecheeseshop.com jimfbleak 17:20 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I refactored it a bit. Anthere

• Gorman bechard (yes, with a lowercase 'b'). Possible copyright infringement, taken verbatim from another site, or simply advertising (since it was posted by User:GormanBechard, either a big fan or the person himself; in either case, qualified to write a real stub rather than plagiarizing). -- Wapcaplet 21:47 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Image:PatriotsLogotype.jpg, Image:AFLLogotype.jpg, Image:BroncosLogotype.jpg, Image:Buffalo_bills_logo.jpg - copyrighted sports logos. -- Zoe 22:21 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Copyrighted, or trademarked, or both? This may be a bit more of a grey area. :-\ -- John Owens 11:01 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• user:Viking
• user talk:Viking
• user talk:Viking/ban) Martin 00:28 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • please delete - chief viking Viking 00:42 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • From the wikipedia:village pump
    • What's the consensus on User talk:Viking/ban? Should it be undeleted? --Dante Alighieri 20:40 31 May 2003 (UTC)
    • User:Viking has morphed to User:Vikings so the debate on banning viking is moot. User:Kils , who is associated with the group has stated that they will not be vandalising any more pages, but will try a different tactic. Never the less User:Vikings needs to be monitored and I think the ban page should be undeleted so that there is a history that can be checked Theresa knott 22:44 31 May 2003 (UTC)
    • Done. --Brion 00:35 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • I strongly believe that the page User talk:Viking/ban is unacceptable and demeaning. Each time someone makes it appear on the Recent Changes page it is a negative message about someone who has not been convicted of anything. There is a proper procedure in place for an annoying user or banning. To me, this type of action appears to be in clear violation of the legal rights of User:Viking, the consequences of which could jeopardize the future of Wikipedia, and it most certainly violates Article 7. of User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles. Triton 00:50 31 May 2003 (UTC)
  • I thought this was the proper procedure. Anyway, I'm sceptical that it violates anyone's legal rights. As for the message it sends, all it says is that there is discussion of a ban. In fact, as this is an important discussion, there's an argument for making it well known that there's such a discussion. Evercat 02:49 31 May 2003 (UTC)
• I would like to state here that user:Vikings and user:kils(who is associated with user:viking) have behaved so well in the last few days, apologising, being polite and cooperative and learning from their past mistakes, they have caused me to reverse my position as stated on the village pump a couple of days ago. I now say, let's forgive and forget. Get rid of all three pages, so that viking under their new user name of vikings can have a fresh start. Theresa knott 08:12 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
• I concur: deleting these pages seems perfectly reasonable, since vikings have requested :) Martin 10:34 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
• I concur: we have behaved very uncivilized, please delete the vikings on the English, German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sites. Also the viking on the English site. Also please delete the user:kils from all of these sites. I will stil endorse wikipedia and offer oceanography content also in the future, but under a new username - best wishes and again please appologize - Uwe Kils Kils 15:03 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Conflict (band) (btw, pls move this discussion to user talk:Michael/ban rather than deleting, when a decision is made)
  • It's been suggested that this should be deleted, and then Quercus should recreate the article, thus erasing Michael's name from the edit history. Discuss? Martin 01:10 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • If that's what people want to spend their time doing, then I'm not going to stop them, but it certainly isn't a process that should be required. Michael's name - along with the name of other banned users - is in the history of hundreds of articles. Removing them from the history doesn't acheive anything. The article can stay as it is - time is better spent on other things. --Camembert
  • I know the "consensus" is that this Michael character is the Devil incarnate and that in order for us all to escape eternal damnation every trace of him must be erased from the face of the Earth, but I still think articles should be judged by their content not by their authors. GrahamN 15:15 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • Indeed, articles should be judged by their content. One of (alas, not the only) problem with Michael is that he's been a wealth of misinformation, bad dates, etc. Any Michael article that has been checked for accuracy by someone else with knowledge of the subject or takes the time to look up appropriate references is fine. I don't think it's a matter of erasing all reference to Michael's name from the face of the earth so much as Michael's dreadful error rate that motivates the movement to revert anything he does. As many have said before, if you want to follow along after him with the considerable job of cleaning up his messes, do so, as that seems to be what his articles need. -- Infrogmation 20:19 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Pete Liddle - Content ripped from www.flamenco.com with the name Miguelita replaced by 'Pete Liddle'. Someone's little joke, I think.

• Inter-breeding - It's a poor one-sentence stub about inbreeding, which is the exact opposite. Vicki Rosenzweig 14:39 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Not even accurate. He meant to write about inbreeding. I second the deletion vote. Tannin

• Protein (band) created by Michael see contributions MB 14:51 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Dragon Metal - Quite a proportion of it just rubbish, I can't find anything on the net to verify any of the rest of it either. -- Ams80 16:20 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Toronto Arenas Created by Michael, stub. MB 19:07 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Hipparchos - duplicated article: forked from Hipparchus.
  • common spelling mistake (difference), merge, and make it a redirect. MB 23:16 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • It's not a spelling error; it's a delibarate fork of the article (cut & paste) made by, in my opinion, a aggresive/arrogant contributor not interrested to collaborate with others (cfr Talk:Hipparchus). Looxix 10:44 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Talk:Keshavianistic oligarchy and Talk:Keshavianistic Oligarchy
  • The former is the talk page of a deleted article; the latter is a redirect to the former. I did delete both without putting them on here, but my conscience is clearly in an overactive state tonight: I've undeleted them and I'm listing them on here, just in case anyone thinks I was doing anything underhand. :) I can't find anything on the deletion of talk pages of deleted articles in the policy pages. -- Oliver P. 01:44 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Madge Oberholtzer - well, it is an interesting story ... -- Zoe 03:15 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • It's not as obscure as it looks at first, it's been in a TV movie<G>... Let me try and edit it a bit. -- Someone else 03:20 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Institutional Purge in the Publishing Industry - seems to be some sort of personal essay. It is User:CP James's only contribution. -- Minesweeper 06:10 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• PackBits/C source - subpage that only contains source code. -- Minesweeper 06:56 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Trudy LeCaine zero relevant Google hits, large chunk of {acknowledged copyright material attached. Should go asap imho. jimfbleak 16:56 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Talk:Ian Charmical Talk page with no body. Mintguy 17:10 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• User:Kils please delete, I behaved uncivilized and resign, please apologize Kils 19:23 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• User:Viking please delete, behavior was uncivilized, please apologize Viking 19:25 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• User:Vikings please delete, behavior was very uncivilized, please apologize Vikings 19:27 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Image:Tickle_Fight.txt - uh, advice on tickling and sex. At the very least, shouldn't be listed as an image (it's a text file). If it was legit, it could go on a normal page. Evercat 21:04 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Damn, you beat me to it. Seconded. -- John Owens 21:06 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • Yeah, I don't think we need to wait to delete this one. I'm deleting it now, this isn't sexywikiGuide. I'll save it on my computer just in case ;). MB 21:47 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
      • Who uploaded it? Did anyone drop a note on hir talk page explaining it? I'd find out, but the upload log is broken for me at the mo.
        • Upload log is fixed now, it was just too big, I archived a big chunk of it. -- John Owens 08:46 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)
        • And can now see that it was User:QuestionMarc, the same text is in the history of the User: page. -- John Owens 09:02 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• TeXmacs
  • possible copyvio Eric119 21:51 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
    • I seriously doubt that this is copyright, it is GNU, most likely copyleft. But it does need to be re-written. MB 22:00 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
      • I was thinking kind of the same, but the page (the homepage of the software) does indeed say "Copyright 1999, 2000" on it, so that's that, then. -- John Owens 22:07 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)
        • The text is GFDL, and I've restored it - see edit history -- Jim Regan 22:20 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Kraftwerk/Tone Float, Kraftwerk/Kraftwerk 2, Kraftwerk/Kraftwerk, Kraftwerk/Ralf Und Florian - copied from [1] -- Jim Regan 22:20 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Esophageal cancer - copyright. -- Minesweeper 06:52 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Archibald Menzies - copyright. -- Rotem Dan 07:13 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Anderson Cooper - copyright. -- Karada 07:32 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Gaston Julia - copyright. -- andy 10:05 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Pepi I Meryre - copyright, probably copy-and-pasted from various websites, I found one for sure. andy 10:51 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Space Force - junk. -- ²¹² 12:26 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Kim Il-sung & Kim Jong-il - They are redirects of the correct McCune-Reischauer Romanization of what they currently point to, which are names with irregular capitalization/punctuation/spacing, unfound in regular transliteration. I can't move the pages to rectify the mistake because of the redirect. --Menchi 14:57 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Newton's Apple - copyright. MB 15:53 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Paul Stacey - fawning article about some unknown person in a band that's only recorded a demo. Not encyclopaedic -- Jim Regan 22:51 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Neutrosophy and related pages: This terminology seems to be used by Florentin Smarandache, who posted it, and (almost?) no one else. A Google search for Neutrosophy gets 676 hits: a search for occurrence
  • I am concerned that so much nonsense seems to accumulate here. Among this cluster: Florentin Smarandache, smarandache logic, paradoxism, paradoxist distich, dualistic distich, paradoxist distich, outer-art, neutrosophic set, and pretty much everything in the history of everyone who's made significant contributions to them. I suppose word has gotten out that we're an easy mark for pataphysicians. -- Someone else 02:42 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Wassily Leontief, James Meade, Tjalling Koopmans - the articles contain nothing but links to other articles. -- Zoe 01:32 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
  • Seconded, immediate deletion is fine with me. -- Tim Starling 02:01 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• User:195.92.67.66 has made useful contributions. But the following articles contain no substance and only wiki-links to other articles: A. Michael Spence, James Mirrlees, John Harsanyi, Douglas North, Robert Fogel, Merton Miller, William Sharpe, Harry Markowitz, Trygve Haavelmo, Maurice Allais, Richard Stone, Gerard Debreu, George Stigler, Theodore Schultz, Arthur Lewis, James Meade, Tjalling Koopmans, Gunnar Myrdal, Wassily Leontief, Simon Kuznets. Kingturtle 02:19 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Albert Szent-Györgyi - biography copied from nobel.se, probably copyright problem andy 12:30 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Already resolved - article was replaced with a new version witzhout copyright problems andy 12:55 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Content disclaimer - due to my silliness, I put an article here that should have gone into the Wikipedia namespace (namely, Wikipedia:Content disclaimer. Don't need to keep this one. -- Wapcaplet 17:06 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Crass/Trapeze can an admin please delete this ridiculous redirect page. There never has been any connection between Crass and Trapeze apart from the fact that they both had a person in called Pete Wright who were NOT the same person. quercus robur 17:09 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Done jimfbleak

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Albert Camus/the Absurd I have asked anon user to confirm copyright status. If he is not Bob Lane, this will have to go. jimfbleak 17:16 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Paradoxist distich
• Tautological distich
• dualistic distich
  • ideosyncratic definitions - virtually no google hits. Martin 18:39 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Gaia Theory (homeorhic) probably unncessary now
• Gaia Theory (Lynn Margulis) similarAnthere 23:58 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Paul Stacey is the creation of User:195.218.116.8. It appears to be pure garbage, which the user keeps trying to re-insert. Jim Regan moved its contents to the bad jokes page. John Owens has had to revert to Jim's version when 195 . . . tried to put his/her 'funny' garbage back in. I have protected the page stop 195 . . . inserting his 'humourous' gibberish again, so to allow us to decide what to do with this page and to stop people having constantly to do reverts. Should this page be simply removed or is there someone out there who can salvage it? Is there a real Paul Stacey who could be written about? Though it looked like pure bullshit I did not want to delete it but get people's advice first. FearÉIREANN 23:35 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• Romanica - sample texts and associated pages Civilization et lingua universal, Genesis - Capitulo 1, Mattheo - capitulo 1, declaration universal de los derelectos humanos. These shouldn't be here, surely? They're samples of the Romanica language. Evercat 00:31 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)