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If you've come here having recently created a page which has just been marked to say it may soon be deleted, then please understand that we mean no harm in deleting your page. In fact, welcome to Wikipedia. We're delighted to have you, but the page you created seemed to be something other than an encyclopedia article. If it was a test, congratulations – you succeeded in creating a page. Please use the sandbox for further testing, or create yourself a user page.

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If your article was not a test, you may have created a page that met the criteria for speedy deletion. If so, please see our guidelines on writing perfect stubs to see how you could improve the page to something that will not be instantly deletable.

For more information, please read our deletion policy.

Using this page

For articles that need deletion, add {{deletebecause|Reason.}} or {{db|Reason.}} to the top of the page. You should not wipe out the contents as it helps to check the contents to be deleted without having to look at the page history. This expands to:

This page meets Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. The given reason is: Reason.

If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. If this page obviously does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice, but do not remove this notice from articles that you have created yourself.

Administrators, remember to check if anything links here and the page history (last edit) before deleting.

Replace Reason with the reason why the page should be deleted under the speedy deletion criteria.

Other templates available that give a reason include {{nonsense}} and {{db-bio}}. They may be used where appropriate.

(You can also use {{delete}} or {{d}} if you prefer not to provide a reason, but it is generally a good idea to provide a reason, even where it seems "obvious" to you.)

Note that if you just replace the content with {{db|reason}} the prior content will not be automatically added to the deletion log summary when the page is deleted.

See below for instructions regarding the deletion of personal subpages.

For articles that do not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, please use Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Please do not list pages here that are already listed there.

Advice for administrators

  • Review our admin deletion guidelines
  • Use Category:Candidates for speedy deletion for a list of pages
  • Use What links here for Template:Delete (This is an older method superseded by categorisation, but temporarily still in use until full switch is possible.)
  • Check talk pages, page history, what links here (especially for potentially controversial user pages), etc. If there is a dispute over whether the page should be deleted, consider first listing it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
  • If the page to be deleted is directly related to a specific user or that user's activities, consider moving the page to that user's personal userspace (and deleting the redirect) instead of deleting it outright.
  • Don't worry too much [1] — new pages patrol is unpleasant, and people will make mistakes. Wikipedia:Speedy deletion patrol goes through the deletion logs to catch stuff that shouldn't have been speedied, without rancor or excessive red tape. Feel free to be efficient!

Deletion of personal pages

Unless you are a sysop, it is not possible to delete your own user pages and subpages, so they must be listed here. If you are a sysop, it is recommended that you also list your pages here so they can be deleted by another sysop. For your main user or talk pages, you must list them here, not delete them yourself, to avoid the appearance that sysops can delete to hide negative comments, while others can't.

Only post pages from your own personal page, and only if you have a genuine reason for requesting a personal page of yours be deleted, please list it here.

Please see Wikipedia:User page for further instructions, and Wikipedia talk:Personal subpages to be deleted for past discussion on this issue.

Requested pages

Questioned speedy deletions

  • Hell.com - please see its talk page before taking action.
  • Wikipedia:Dewey_Decimal_System and subpages. OCLC does not allow free use of DDC. They may tolerate DDC use in Wikipedia but you cannot use DDC under terms of GFDL so we have to remove it or Wikipedia becomes non-free. By the way I asked them half a year ago if the first three digits are free. They are not. OCLC just tolerates the use in some cases. This is not open content. Sorry. -- Nichtich 08:57, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cloud Starchaser I do not believe this page to be a candidate for speedy deletion, and certainly not because it is nonsense, as it is clearly not undecipherable text but instead is an article.
  • Anonymous editor 71.111.51.95 has added my uploaded images "Redcly1666.jpg", "Redcly167.jpg" and "Redcly168.jpg" the speedy deletion page. As mentioned in the talk page, I have received permission to use these images from the owners at Glasgow Digital Library and Gallagher Memorial Library. So please remove these images from the list of those for speedy deletion.Camillustalk|contribs 11:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The policy on "non-commercial" images has been explained to me by User:DESiegel. These are not for "speedy deletion", but go under WP:PUI.Camillustalk|contribs 23:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • User CJCurry's edit wars have led me to the conclusion that my article(s) are untenable on Wikipedia. The article on Gregory Lauder-Frost, the bulk of which I wrote, I believe was a fair and reasonable potted biography of him. CJCurry's attempts to demonise him and change the article I wrote with very old half-truths lifted from known left-wing newspapers with axes to grind against Lauder-Frost goes against all Wikipedia's ideals. The media rarely report the full facts. It is my belief that CJCurry at least (he has directed others to his 'reseach') will not give up in his efforts and that therefore the article should be taken down. Robert I 11:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Having read the article, I can see why Mr. Curry has been trying to correct the record. GLF is apparently an ultra-conservative prick a few degrees to the left of Hitler. --Cjmarsicano 05:16, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hamedah Hasan - This article may indeed be a non-notable bio, if you only consider the person involved. But it describes something much more important : a justice system that may seem no longer just. I didn't know about this case, but a search on Google seems to confirm the facts in this bio. All this, make this bio important enough to keep, or even to be expanded. JoJan 20:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • larvatus - The party making the request for speedy deletion of the larvatus article is Tim Pierce, publicly identified as an adversary of Net.legends [2]. However, Mr Pierce is himself a notable Usenet personality boasting his own listing ([3]) on the Net.Legends.FAQ (Noticeable Phenomena Of UseNet) in the category of Lesser Lights, halfway down from the listing dedicated to the subject of this article ([4]), memorialized therein since its origins ([5]). Having participated in numerous public altercations with the subject of this article ([6], [7], [8], [9], [10], etc.), Mr Pierce appears to motivate his instant request for speedy deletion by sheer vindictiveness. Usenet culture and its prominent participants ([11], [12]) richly deserve to be commemorated, nowhere more so than in this illustrious venue. Accordingly, far from reciprocating Mr Pierce's malice, I am inagurating a Wikipedia article in his honor. I urge all Wikipedia editors to follow suit by creating additional articles dedicated to notable Usenet personalities and phenomena. Larvatus 05:34, 14 December 2005 (UTC)larvatus[reply]
  • Alcohol and Teenage Brains This article is not a personal essay but a summary of existing knowledge based on research. Nor is it a copyright violation because I hold the copyright to the source "Alcohol Damages Teenage Brains." I have sought unsuccessfully to obtain suggestions from the Wikipedian who deleted it regarding how I could make it meet his expectations. Perhaps he is on vacation or is otherwise unavailable. In any case, I look forward to any advice that anyone might provide. Thank you in advance for your help.David Justin 04:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alcohol_and_Teenage_Brains"

  • Alt.sex.stories I was surprised to see a Speedy Deletion tag posted, ostensibly because of "notability" and "illegal material." Let me address each one:

First, lack of notability is a criteria for deletion, not speedy deletion. The Usenet hierarchy alt.sex.stories is critical to an understanding of the growth of the internet into its present form. Usenet predates the Worldwide Web by well over a decade. Many people who are not familiar with the history and background that gave rise to the internet tend to think of the Web as the internet. That's simply not true, it is only one aspect of the Internet and only the most recent.

Before there was a Web, there was Usenet. And one of the most important portions of Usenet that drove the popularity of the web were the stories told through the alt.sex.stories hierarchies. This was an important factor in drawing people to the internet in the first place. As detailed by the article itself, understanding the alt.sex.stories hierarchy is critical to understanding how the internet was born. To say it lacks notability is absurd.

As to "illegal" materials, there is no "alt.sex.stories.pedo" as claimed in the article as far as I can tell. If one was created in the past (and a Usenet group is easy to create), there is no indication that it in any way has ever been propogated. My Usenet service is among the most comprehensive, with over 120,000 Usenet groups. There's no "pedo" subgroup. If any such group is out there, it is certainly not being distributed. Nonetheless, even if it was out there, it would still be protected under U.S. law; written materials --even involving minors -- are protected by the First Amendment.[13] There's no such thing as an "illegal" textual description of a sexual act.

I believe this nomination was made in bad faith and without any checking of notability or legality. Therefore, I will be removing the tag after a period to allow responses. Jtmichcock 12:35, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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