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*[[Aleatory]], a spirited newby experiment on an English adjective, [[User:Zocky|Zocky]] 19:58 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)
*[[Aleatory]], a spirited newby experiment on an English adjective, [[User:Zocky|Zocky]] 19:58 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)

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*[[Samoyed]] -- it's about derogatory terms, not about "Samoyeds", and it's inaccurate about what's derogatory, too. -- [[User:Isis|isis]] 02:54 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)

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  • Images Elpsfoci.JPG/gif, Elpsmajr.JPG/gif and Elpsminr.JPG/gif (6 in all). I've replaced them with PNG images CliffTaylor 08:30 Jan 29, 2003 (CST)
  • NirvanA (CamelCase leftover) and Nirvana (disambiguation) are more useless redirects to Nirvana (which itself contains the brief disambiguation info). This means three of the five top searches for 'Nirvana' point to the same page. - Tzaquiel 03:53 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Naked and petrified and Page widening
    • Actually, I think that the whole Slashdot trolling phenomena page should be deleted, because it's not really encyclopaedic material, but these are really "slashdot geek dictionary" entries and should definitely be deleted, especially as they're already discussed on the trolling page. Zocky 12:44 Jan 22, 2003 (UTC)
      • Well, I'm hesitant to advocate deleting these pages. They document a cultural phenomena, and I think that's reason enough to maintain them. If they were specific vanity stories, thats something else entirely; but they're not. These stories don't seem (to my perhaps already warped mind) to be harmful to the project, and give wikipedia a leg up on other online encyclopedias. my $0.02 Atorpen 04:38 Jan 23, 2003 (UTC)
        • I'll second that. If anything's going to be done, these pages should probably just be slowly merged into a more general page, such as, well, trolling (which is a bit overloaded - I think I see a project). They are significant in some small way, and I have reservations about just dumping them wholesale. - Tzaquiel 23:26 Jan 28, 2003 (UTC)
  • Anonymous Coward entry reads "An Anonymous Coward is usually refered to as an anonymous poster on Slashdot. This name is also sometimes used by trolls. "- is this an articel or just someone letting off steam (anonymously)? quercus robur 20:52 Jan 10, 2003 (UTC)
The sentence seems to be backwards. It's true that an anonymous post on slashdot is automatically attributed to "anonymous coward". But the sentence doesn't make much sense to me as written. Sannse 21:14 Jan 10, 2003 (UTC)
  • United States of America/OldPage
    • Jeronimo 00:26 Aug 27, 2002 (PDT)
      • Before it is deleted some version control needs to take place -- that page and the various CIA pages were being edited at the same time by different people. In some places the "old" page is more currently edited and in others the former CIA subpages are. --mav
  • Image:Enigma.png - This appears to be taken from www.gcsb.govt.nz/infhist.htm - according to their copyright disclaimer, the image can be used but the source and copyright status must be acknowledged.
  • JewWatch not an encyclopedia entry. --Elian
    • With another sentence or two it could qualify as a stub. Perhaps someone was planning on adding encyclopedic content? You'll note that some web sites do get an entire article. See Hot Or Not. --Ryguasu
  • File:5WPhilosophy.txt
    • Text files should not be hosted here. Also, part of the Fifth World vanity project
    • Junk, let it go Tannin 10:04 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
  • image:5thworld.jpg
    • Another bit of the Fifth World vanity project
    • Junk, let it go. Nothing links to it Tannin 10:04 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
  • [[it:Quinto Mondo]] [[es:Quinto Mundo]] [[pt:Quinto Mundo]] [[fr:Cinquième Monde]] [[de:Fünfte Welt]] [[ja:%E7%AC%AC5_%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C]]
these appear to be multi-lingual vanity pages, part of the Fifth World vanity project
  • Image:Van.gif
    • Animated GIF; orphaned; only contibution by User:Van; no guarantee as to copyright status; am I missing something?
    • Nope, it's junk. Nothing links to it Tannin 10:04 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
  • 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.
  • Whites
    • I don't believe this article is necessary, especially with this title, and it's hardly NPOV. -- Zoe
  • Ottoman Reform Efforts under Selim III and Mahmoud II
    • Looks like someone's data dump of a term paper. --mav 07:39 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • The material currently being entered en masse by Pedreco from the list of micronations page is of no intrinsic value. Many of the listed micronations are defunct, and a significant proportion of the data being included in articles for those that are not is complete and utter fantasy. Wikipedia is not a work of fiction; these are fictional listings and should therefore be deleted. There *are* a tiny handful of micronations that have an extensive documented history (ie not just a badly-designed geocities web page) and some form of existence in the "real world" but they are either already dealt with in the "micronation" article, or have their own separate articles.
See this mail to WikiEN-l for a reorg suggestion. --Eloquence
  • Jabad
    • This is not the Spanish language Wikipedia. -- Zoe
  • [[Maraj%F3_micronation]]
    • Not encyclopedic, essentially orphaned
      • Started as a copyright violation/info dump, now empty, and this is the only page linking to it. As orphaned as they come. - Tzaquiel 16:23 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
  • Listing of noted Pagans
    • Very biased intro and list full of lesbians, sounds like pulpit raging. Not a useful page.
    • I don't get that sound. The intro can be changed if necessary. The lesbian bias may well have come from a user with a background in Dianic Wicca Martin
      • My concern is that the term 'pagan' is too poorly defined for a list to be useful. Just check out the various definitions in pagan. I'll just add a note there to attempt to prevent this. Your points about agnostics are good though. -- Hotlorp
  • Listing of noted agnostics
    • Useless page, very biased intro.
    • The intro can be changed. Example of uses: person wondering about key agnostic philosophers, or looking for common features in the lives of agnostics, or wanting not to be alone. Martin
  • Cottage Cheese Eggs
    • All recipes added with Brand name ingredients presumably copied from some other website, but all un-encylopaedic. Mintguy
      • They're all by the same muppet and should be deleted- Lisiate
    • Brand-name references are gone ; linked to from the Wikipedia Cookbook. Worth keeping. - Tzaquiel 16:23 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
  • Thing -- 1982, nothing uses it. Likewise The Thing -- 1982 is pointed to from only one place and could likely be removed as well.
    • I agree. Nothing it redirects to even has anything to do with 1982. -- Zoe
      • As mentioned in The Thing a remake of the 1951 movie has been published in 1982. -- JeLuF 23:01 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
      • Exactly, so why have a link to it from an article that no one will use? No one is going to look up "The Thing" by typing in "Thing (1982)". They'll type in "The Thing" and go right where they want to
          • I have just corrected the one page (excluding this one) that did link to The Thing -- 1982, so both that and Thing -- 1982 are now unused redirects. Do unused redirects bother people? I'm not sure if there's a policy on them. -- Oliver PEREIRA 20:11 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
  • Medicine (shamanism)
    • most of the content is on the talk page and reads in part like an ad. for someon'es books; questions as to why this should be an article when we already have one on shamanism. -- Slrubenstein 21:04 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
  • Basic facts on Sweden
    • all of this information is already in the main sweden article, with the exception of the big list of memberships of dubious need.
  • Futurology
    • Just a definition "Futurology is the study of the future" and a list of lots of external links. Tokerboy
      • I am now working on this article: hopefully it will be a better article by the time you read this...
  • 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
  • In fact most of the stuff added by [213.38.124.94]. He's been inputting external link-only articles over and over again. I'm currently trying to communicate with him.



  • Talk:Laws of anime
    • Talk of deleted article, but keep it for a while for the newbie to read it. -- JeLuF 17:10 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)
  • 2002 State of the Union Address
    • Currently just a redirect, but this article has no links to it. The one remaining link was removed recently because it just redirects. This page has the actual text of the address sitting in the history taking up space. This redirect serves no purpose since it's orphaned.
  • SocceR - Orphaned redirect, nothing links to it. I'm not sure who would wiki this word with this capitalization.
    • This is an old CamelCase link. Articles had to be named like this in the early days of wikipedia. Keep it. There might be links out there in the internet pointing to this page -- JeLuF 21:58 Jan 28, 2003 (UTC)
      • Not according to Google, but if it must be so, then it must be so.
  • The Catholic crusade against the imagination
    • Intrinsically POV -- Zoe 20:49 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
    • not so intrisically POV, but the title is not well-chosen. If there really was a "fight" of the catholic church against imagination at some time in history (as the article claims), it deserves an article, so I vote against deletion (but in favour of renaming). (Unless of course there's never be such a fight). --FvdP 20:59 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Rana. Would someone who understands this language (Swedish ? Dutch ?) maybe see to its worthiness and move it or dump it as appropriate ? - Tzaquiel 23:12 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • ChesS
    • CamelCase leftover. Nothing links here. Eric119 05:53 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
    • Why not keep it in case someone once added it to their favourites, or linked to it on their website? Martin
  • Ice crystal Entire contents: An Ice crystal is precipitation consisting of small, slowly falling crystals of ice. plus an external link to the same sentence. Tannin 07:15 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
  • AmericaN
    • CamelCase leftover. No links. - sannse 09:44 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
    • Why not keep it in case someone once added it to their favourites, or linked to it on their website? Martin
  • Walter Camp
    • Blank. Was a fairly big article, but the original poster wiped it. - Tzaquiel 21:28 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
  • Totò
    • Complete contents : a dog in the wizard of oz. - Tzaquiel 21:28 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
  • James Baldwin
    • Possible copyright violation. --mav 03:06 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)
      • Please don't delete that; I just stubbed it. Only slightly better than nothing, and it needs attention from someone with more knowledge of him & more time to write about him (and more than one crappy set of old notes to write it from) but he certainly deserves an article. Koyaanis Qatsi
  • EcheloN
    • More CamelCase goodness. No links.
    • Why not keep it in case someone once added it to their favourites, or linked to it on their website? Martin

I would like to remind folks who actually delete a page to remove the request entry on this page. This will keep the length of this page manageable. Thanks! David

The entry should stay for a little time to document the discussion leading to the deletion. -- JeLuF 20:11 Jan 23, 2003 (UTC)

Of course, that is true. However, look at the length of this page! It makes no sense. If most of these pages have been deleted, the corresponding entries on this page should be deleted. But the world doesn't always work in the way that I think is obvious. David 17:21 Jan 28, 2003 (UTC)

  • Aleatory, a spirited newby experiment on an English adjective, Zocky 19:58 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)
  • Samoyed -- it's about derogatory terms, not about "Samoyeds", and it's inaccurate about what's derogatory, too. -- isis 02:54 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)
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