Wikipedia:Speedy deletions

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Administrators: check links, talk, history (last), and logs before deletion. Consider checking Google.
This page was last edited by Robin Williams (contribs | logs) at 22:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC) (18 years ago)[reply]

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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:

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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
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

Mehrsprachigkeit and Mehrsprachig - Author requests deletion due to confusion between german and english Wikipedia. Author wrote german article in english wikipedia (sorry)
Image:Nucleosome.jpg - Outdated, new version in commons (Author requesting deletion) - --The Human Spellchecker 04:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Image:Apollo 8 - Earthrise.jpg Author requests deletion (Redundant). Palm_Dogg 08:26, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
#Image:BikeOfCopenhagen.jpg Author requests deletion
Image:Stadtwappen_Stolberg_(Rhld.).jpg Already uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons before (Author requests deletion)

Questioned speedy deletions

User:Wimvandorst/mypdaskin

Please delete this page, as I'll solve my skin problem for my PDA differently (this decated .css file doesnt work). Wim van Dorst (Talk) 22:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Image:DaredevilV246.png

The uploader previously uploaded this image as Image:Typhoid Mary46.jpg, which went through the deletion process and was removed as a copyvio and also because it was replaced with the more accurate image Image:TyphoidMary46.JPG, which became the cover and can be used under Fair Use guidelines. The uploader then reuploaded the deleted image to the same name, which was then speedily deleted as recreation of previously deleted image. The uploader still insisted upon using it so uploaded it under the new name of Image:DaredevilV246.png and now removes the speedy deletion notice whenever I put it on it. I am leaving this notice here so hopefully it can be deleted even if he removes the notice. Also, it'd be nice if the anon IPs who removed the notice the latest time and who edit war on the article Typhoid Mary were checked to see if it belongs to User:DrBat so that he can be blocked for violating 3RR. I believe he also has or had som ArbCom sanctions against him for edit warring on comic book articles in the past. DreamGuy 18:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Hinge

Following the addition of whitedust.net I expanded by adding a page for one of its founders who as the bio shows has a number of notable achievements including recognition from the INFOSEC community for a number of papers let alone Whitedust.net itself. Was also marked for deletion by someone with not a single INFOSEC related post - I don’t know any great geographers because that is not my interest, I am interested in INFOSEC I know of Mark Hinge's work and have done for a while - it is linked from the wiki page for hacker for starters.

Marianne Curan

Incompetent as the article is, the subject is legitimately notable and the article therefore should not be speedied. [2] [3] Monicasdude 22:50, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Morgan Shevett

the entry is for a site that has been referenced many times on the opie and anthony show on xm. it is also linked through in the opie and anthony wikipedia entry. it is not an advertisement for the site as the site does not charge for membership nor sell any goods or services. it is merely an historical reference to a site that is part of the opie and anthony radio show. i have added a link to the opie and anthony wikipedia article that contains a link to the site.I also refer to this wikipedia entry as precedent for the article- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackbag.com 16:00 5 February 2006 Morgansh

Jeffrey Badger

Although the article is written by its subject, it contains a reasonable, good faith assertion of notability. The subject appears to be a regularly published expert on a significant industrial process, and while this may not be as significant to many editors as, say, a Pokemon card, a woman who pretends to marry a dolphin, or Kadee Strickland, industrial processes and experts on them certainly meet Wikipedia criteria for notability. If Badger's status as an expert is disputed, that should be the subject of substantive discussion in a standard AFD. Monicasdude 14:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fly_(artist)

Inexplicably listed as an A7 deletion even though (among other things) the article reports publication of an art book by the subject through an undeniably notable [4] small press. Artist appears to be critically well-regarded (preface to book written by Trina Robbins, a more than notable figure in the pre-Internet underground/ground-level comics movement. Shouldn't even be the subject of an AFD. Monicasdude 03:08, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged this version of the article for speedy deletion and maintain that it was right at the time. The current version is now fine. Stifle 12:00, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would not think that tagging an article for speedy deletion nine minutes after it was created, while the original author was still writing it up, should be characterized as "right at the time"; instead, "premature" and "inappropriate" would seem to be more accurate. Monicasdude 14:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of movie posters with lamps in them

If Wikipedia is not the media for exploring the relationship between the promotional aspect of the movie industry and lamps, then what is? Lampman 02:27, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It is of informational value, and it is not patent nonsense. There is no reason to delete. Nick 03:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the support. Furthermore, the nomination was made before essential additions had been added to the page. Lampman 11:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you serious? Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 14:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spira's Final Hope

An anonymously created, few-lined article about a message board that no longer exists. ~ Hibana 02:21, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tommy Macione

I added additional information about the notability of this individual. He was a well known local New Mexico artist in the era before the web, while not as widely well know as someone like Georgia O'Keefe. The fact that there's not much about him on the web may be because he died just around the time the web was getting off the ground. The explanation of speedy deletion seems unclear to me on the question of whether I should remove the hangon tag. It looked like I'm supposed to remove it after adding to the talk page, so I did. I'm hoping the removal of the hangon tag is not interpreted as meaning I want the article deleted. The article is admittedly incomplete. I don't know the dates for Tommy Macione, but am hoping another Wikipedian will know and will edit and improve the article.

Satellite Anatomy

Sattelite Anatomy Although poor as this article may be, it's subject matter is totally valid, therefore I believe this article should not be deleted, merely edited by whoever sees fit. posted by 82.112.132.130

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