User:HouseBlaster/XfD log
This is a log of all deletion discussion nominations made by this user using Twinkle's XfD module.
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2022
[edit]January 2022
[edit]- File:English-slf2.PNG: (log) nominated at FfD; notified LiquidFire (talk · contribs) 21:42, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Delete. Unused/orphaned raster image that does not appear to have been used as a source to create a vector image that contains the same information. In other words, it is not needed for attribution purposes.
- File:2021 Warisan Party flag-01.svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Sumberjaya2014 (talk · contribs) 21:43, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Does not seem to be appear to be simple enough to qualify as {{PD-text}}, support relicensing.
February 2022
[edit]- File:RomanianPassportVisaFree.PNG: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Groubani (talk · contribs) 00:54, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion: unused raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes
- File:SQ-RBF graph no range.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Rrshier (talk · contribs) 04:10, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned, and was created with WolframAlpha which claims copyright over anything it creates. From its terms of use, "The specific images, such as plots, typeset formulas, and tables, as well as the general page layouts, are all copyrighted by Wolfram|Alpha at the time Wolfram|Alpha generates them. A great deal of scholarship and innovation is included in the results generated and displayed by Wolfram|Alpha, including the presentations, collections, and juxtapositions of data, and the choices involved in formulating and composing mathematical results; these are also protected by copyright."
- File:ReferendumAgeScatter.JPG: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Lilac Soul (talk · contribs) 16:41, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - unused raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes
- File:Iraq CPA.PNG: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Dn9ahx (talk · contribs) 17:25, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes.
- File:Plutonian-system-size.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Hurricane Devon (talk · contribs) 13:17, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - unused raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes
- File:MICR numerals and control characters.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Scott Sanchez (talk · contribs) 18:16, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - unused raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes
March 2022
[edit]- File:Stirling's Approximation.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Usurper~enwiki (talk · contribs) 19:38, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned raster image not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes.
- File:Otagoflag.gif: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Grutness (talk · contribs) 03:55, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes, this time nominated at the correct place.
- File:Optillusionsci.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Latitude0116 (talk · contribs) 13:54, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned raster image not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes.
- File:Pencil manufacture.png: (log) nominated at FfD 15:13, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes.
- File:Italian Colonial Empire.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified VoodooIsland (talk · contribs) 00:42, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes.
- File:PershingWWIRibs.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Husnock (talk · contribs) 15:21, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - Orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes
April 2022
[edit]- File:Dot af.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Bluedisk (talk · contribs) 16:15, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: This file was a revision of File:Dotaf.png. As this file was overwritten by a completely different file, it was split into a seperate file. At first glance, to me it appeared pixelated enough that it is not {{PD-textlogo}}, and thus should be deleted per WP:F5. However, after performing the HISTSPLIT, Graeme Bartlett suggested that this image might qualify for {{PD-textlogo}}, and now I am undecided if the image is nonfree or not. Nominating this here to seek consensus as to if it should be deleted. It is orphaned, so if nonfree, it needs to be deleted.
- File:FAMET ensign.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Ebnz~enwiki (talk · contribs) 20:01, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned raster image that was not used as a source for the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes.
May 2022
[edit]- File:IBMbuckling.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Verdatum (talk · contribs) 15:55, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes. The vector image is based off of the patent drawing, not this image.
- File:CameronMcKay.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Burlingtondude (talk · contribs) 00:09, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned, no obvious use as the article on Cameron McKay was deleted.
- File:Raid 0+1.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Paulish (talk · contribs) 13:22, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes (note that the svg file was uploaded before this raster version).
- File:Staggered EclipsedS.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Chem540grp7f08 (talk · contribs) 14:10, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes.
- File:The O2 (London) logo.svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified BaldBoris (talk · contribs) 18:29, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - dePROD'd as "this is not the O2 logo, but the O2 Arena logo." However, the source for this file is a dead link, and the archived link does not contain a copy of this image—I was unable to find this version of the logo anywhere online. This image is orphaned and redundant to this image of the actual O2 arena logo.
June 2022
[edit]- File:Hess' cycle.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Wolfmankurd (talk · contribs) 23:54, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion - orphaned, redundant to File:Hess' cycle2.png.
- Abadan, Farhangian sector: nominated at AfD; notified محمد سلطانی1 (talk · contribs) 17:24, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: A BEFORE search does not turn up any coverage, let alone significant coverage. There are some sources in the Persian Wikipedia version of the article, but they did not appear to meet SIGCOV. As a populated place without legal recognition, it is not presumed notable under WP:GEOLAND.
- File:ChrKaufmannFührerbuch.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified P.dreher (talk · contribs) 00:38, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Image was dePROD'd because the
Document’s author is 80 years old {{PD-old-80}} applies
. I do not disagree. However, this is a 3D picture, and there is no evidence that the photograph (of the public domain book) is released under a free license. Because this photo depicts something 3D it does not qualify for {{PD-art}}.
- Reason: Image was dePROD'd because the
- File:AEW Blackpool.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Vjmlhds (talk · contribs) 00:47, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion—uploader has tagged this image as {{PD-textlogo}}. I do not believe that the image is below the threshold of originality. Orphaned, so would fail WP:F5 if relicensed to nonfree.
July 2022
[edit]- William Palmer (sculptor): nominated at AfD; notified Stephencdickson (talk · contribs) 20:37, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Does not appear to be notable per WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO, or WP:CREATIVE. A WP:BEFORE search did not turn up any more SIGCOV sources. Given the only source is the single source currently in the article, there are not "multiple sources" as required by the aforementioned guidelines.
- Jupiter Station: nominated at AfD; notified SN495 (talk · contribs) 00:01, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: A BEFORE search did not turn up anything beyond the job listings/database records/etc. that you always find for companies. Fails GNG and NORG.
- List of Filipino representatives at international male beauty pageants: nominated at AfD; notified Garcia.rock97 (talk · contribs) 00:27, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Per WP:NOT#Non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations, we do not host
"people from ethnic / cultural / religious group X employed by organization Y"
. No evidence that this is a"culturally significant phenomenon"
.
- Reason: Per WP:NOT#Non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations, we do not host
September 2022
[edit]- File:Particle chart Log.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD 17:03, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned raster image redundant to the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes (they were created by the same author, so there are no copyright issues. In any case, this is not listed as a source on the vector image's description page).
- New Testament translations with the name of God: nominated at AfD; notified Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco (talk · contribs) 15:44, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: While this topic appears to be notable, I believe that this list does not comply with WP:NOTDIRECTORY. I do not believe that this should be merged with Names and titles of God in the New Testament, because it would still violate NOTDIRECTORY.
- Zenith Canada Pathways Fellowship: nominated at AfD; notified RabidTuberculosis (talk · contribs) 15:07, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- File:Platform Side2e.JPG: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Djm1279 (talk · contribs) 23:49, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned raster image that was not used to create the corresponding vector image and thus is not needed for attribution purposes.
- The 6 non-parishable foods of the Oregon Trail: nominated at RfD; Target: Oregon Trail (notified) 22:38, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: User:BobKilcoyne tagged this for speedy deletion, which was converted into a PROD by User:BangJan1999. However, PROD does not apply to redirects, so I am bringing this here. I support BobKilcoyne's rationale for deletion:
"the original article/comments appears to lack any sensible purpose, it is an extremely unlikely search term to be used, it incorporates the destination redirect title within the redirect and includes a spelling error"
.
- Reason: User:BobKilcoyne tagged this for speedy deletion, which was converted into a PROD by User:BangJan1999. However, PROD does not apply to redirects, so I am bringing this here. I support BobKilcoyne's rationale for deletion:
- File:CT-WEX-0030.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Xiong (talk · contribs) 17:27, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Appears to have been uploaded for use in a tutorial, but we are not a guide. Orphaned with no foreseeable encyclopedic use.
- Template:GFDL-tutorialCT: nominated at TfD; notified Xiong (talk · contribs) 21:42, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: Created to tag pictures for Wikipedia:Graphics in two modes, which was deleted a decade ago. Redundant to {{GFDL-with-disclaimers}}, and an implausible redirect.
October 2022
[edit]- Luis López (footballer, born 2001): nominated at AfD; notified OwainAFC (talk · contribs) 15:54, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: BEFORE does not turn up any SIGCOV, results such as this are about a different person with the same name. Furthermore, this article does not meet the fifth bullet point of WP:SPORTBASIC, as it is a database entry.
- World Neighbors: nominated at AfD; notified Worldneighbors (talk · contribs) 22:30, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- Reason: I was unable to find any SIGCOV in non-routine sources, and the current article is a massive advertisement. Does not appear to meet GNG or NCORP.
December 2022
[edit]2023
[edit]January 2023
[edit]- Template:Lan: nominated at TfD; notified Ultraexactzz (talk · contribs) 23:32, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Another Neelix-specific template. No reason to autofill a delete rationale with a repealed CSD criterion.
- Archangelia: nominated at RfD; Target: Pteridinium (notified); notified Rugoconites Tenuirugosus (talk · contribs) 20:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: No mention at target, and a google search for the name says it is either a girl's name or an herb. I could not find any English sources relating "Archangelia" to Pteridinium. As such, recommend retargeting to angelica archangelica, as that appears to be the more common meaning in English. I could also see dabifying, given that one of the two incoming links appears to have a Russian source that would support the current target (I do not consider this source above because it does contribute to the English WP:COMMONNAME).
February 2023
[edit]- Gridiron Heights: nominated at AfD; notified Ghost Arcade official (talk · contribs) 03:03, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Does not appear to be notable. The only independent/non-trivial mention I could find in a BEFORE search was [3]. While this is not a trivial mention, it does not confirm much about the show other than its existence and the release schedule.
- United Britain Party: nominated at AfD; notified Natean (talk · contribs) 18:31, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Not seeing any coverage (let alone significant coverage). Googling
"United Britain Party" -wikipedia
literally returnsNo results found for "United Britain Party" -wikipedia.
. The only mention I can find is their own (Google Sites!) website, which obviously is not helpful for GNG purposes.
- Reason: Not seeing any coverage (let alone significant coverage). Googling
- File:The Saturday Press.gif: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Postdlf (talk · contribs) 23:53, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Low-quality, cropped version of File:A Direct Challenge to Police Chief Brunskill.jpg. Orphaned and a .gif. I support deletion as obsolete.
- Talk:São Paulo/Arch nosig: nominated at MfD; notified SanJuanBlackED45458 (talk · contribs) 03:31, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: I have moved these three sections to Talk:São Paulo/Archive 1 (and added the appropriate {{unsigned}} to all of them); there is no reason to archive unsigned posts separately.
March 2023
[edit]- Rodshir Dailë: nominated at AfD; notified Marcelus.arnault (talk · contribs) 19:05, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
April 2023
[edit]- File:Gwinnett County Seal.svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Gujamin (talk · contribs) 20:51, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: The copyright tag on this image is only valid for works by the US Federal Government, not from individual states (such as Georgia). I also believe it is slightly above TOO, so I support deletion.
- Talk:Bethesda Lutheran Communities/Archive 2: nominated at MfD; notified David morstad (talk · contribs) 00:13, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: This is essentially a talkpage of an old version of AbleLight (see this comparison; note that one of the differences is the "See Also" section is duplicated). Very unlikely search term, so no reason to redirect it. Finally, we do not need to keep this for historical purposes: we already have page history to keep old versions of pages.
- Talk:Childcare/merge: nominated at MfD; notified Seraphimblade (talk · contribs) 20:44, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Content was meant to be merged into Child care, but never was as it describes a specific, niche
evidence-based curriculum
. I see no reason to keep it around as an archive of old content.
- Reason: Content was meant to be merged into Child care, but never was as it describes a specific, niche
- Talk:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1/Old cast list with references: nominated at MfD; notified Tony Sidaway (talk · contribs) 22:10, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: This was created as an archive of an old cast list in the main article that was largely removed in this edit. However, we already have an archive of the old cast list in the form of page history. I believe this should be deleted by the same logic that underlies WP:COPIES: having forked content lying around is a slight net negative to the encyclopedia, which is easily overcome by the fork having some use, no matter how remote. This one does not, and thus should be deleted.
May 2023
[edit]- Talk:Australian ghost shark/Temp: nominated at MfD 19:50, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Was initially created as vandalism, and was never used to rewrite the article.
June 2023
[edit]- Proposed expungements of the impeachments of Donald Trump: nominated at AfD; notified SecretName101 (talk · contribs) 22:52, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: A mixture of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:NOTCRYSTAL. The second point in NOTNEWS states that
"routine news coverage of announcements... while sometimes useful, is not by itself a sufficient basis for inclusion of the subject of that coverage"
. I would consider all of the reporting in reliable sources I could locate about this effort to be coverage of the latest antics of MTG and the divisions between House Republicans. If it turns out to be a nothingburger, which appears likely, it certainly will not pass the WP:10YT. I can see a case for draftifying the article, to be moved back to mainspace if the proposed expungement actually takes place.
- Reason: A mixture of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:NOTCRYSTAL. The second point in NOTNEWS states that
July 2023
[edit]- File:19872961-DeadEarth-Players-Handbook-Illustrated.pdf: (log) nominated at FfD 01:36, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Support deletion – only available under the GFDL, which is no longer an acceptable license per WP:NOMOREGFDL. Note: F3 does not apply to GFDL v1.3 (for some reason?), otherwise I would have nominated it there.
August 2023
[edit]- File:Crop5.JPG: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Mrdjsk (talk · contribs) 03:42, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Putting this up for discussion rather than PROD in the hopes this gets more attention – a source has been specified, but it is a permanently dead link (archive.org only has this dead archive link, and I was unable to find anything else relevant). No way to tell that it was released under the given license, but maybe someone will be able to successfully find the source in some corner of the internet?
- File:PowerPoint logo (tattoo on lower leg).jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified DeKalb (talk · contribs) 03:40, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned personal photo; WP:NOTFILESTORAGE.
September 2023
[edit]- Category:Wikipedia article talk pages incorporating the backwardscopy template: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Wikipedia article talk pages incorporating the backwards copy template 22:29, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: consistency with longstanding (six years) title of Template:backwards copy.
- Category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Candidates for technical speedy deletion; notified HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs) 21:52, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: All speedy deletion is supposed to be "uncontroversial", so the category name as it currently stands is both redundant and undescriptive. "Technical deletion" is what G6 is called over at WP:G6, but I would be open to other names if someone has a better idea.
October 2023
[edit]- Rossella Cardone: nominated at AfD; notified Michele Califano (talk · contribs) 20:27, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: While there appear to be more sources in Italian than English, I am not convinced that this woman meets NBIO or the GNG. Sources in the article are either her LinkedIn profile or just contain statements she gave to the press (e.g. [7][8]). I was able to find an interview and other trivial mentions (e.g. [9][10]), but not SIGCOV.
- Preemptive services: nominated at AfD; notified Michele Califano (talk · contribs) 20:34, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: I am not entirely sure what this article is. Most of it is an essay (especially #Preemptive vs predictive). There is also a little bit of a WP:DICTDEF (especially in the lead).
- Category:Articles using Template:Background color with invalid colour combination: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Articles using Template:Background color with invalid color combination 20:44, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Per the name of the template, use American English.
November 2023
[edit]- List of Filipino representatives at international male beauty pageants: nominated at AfD; notified Garcia.rock97 (talk · contribs) 16:07, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Note: Wikishovel (ping) left me a note on my talk page that this article was recreated. Given I previously nominated this article for deletion, I consider this appropriate notification per WP:APPNOTE as
Editors who have participated in previous discussions on the same topic (or closely related topics)
.With that out of the way, my reasoning for deletion is the same as it was a year ago (it was soft deleted at said discussion):Per WP:NOT#Non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations, we do not host
people from ethnic / cultural / religious group X employed by organization Y
. No evidence that this is aculturally significant phenomenon
.
- Reason: Note: Wikishovel (ping) left me a note on my talk page that this article was recreated. Given I previously nominated this article for deletion, I consider this appropriate notification per WP:APPNOTE as
- Template:Fair use candidate from Commons: nominated at TfD 05:14, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Appears to have been created by a now-SanFranBanned user in 2011 for a bot task which was never approved. No transclusions.
- Category:People educated at Licensed Victuallers' School: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:People educated at LVS Ascot; notified Timrollpickering (talk · contribs) 19:49, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Procedural nomination on behalf of User:Uhooep for a category that was listed at CfD but not properly tagged. Their rationale was as follows:
LVS Ascot is the current name of the school which was formerly known as formerly known as Licensed Victuallers' School. I erroneously thought that doing a manual transfer across followed by a redirect would be ok - apologies.
- Reason: Procedural nomination on behalf of User:Uhooep for a category that was listed at CfD but not properly tagged. Their rationale was as follows:
December 2023
[edit]- Template:Cc-sa: nominated at TfD; notified MartinHarper (talk · contribs) 23:13, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: (I realize that this template has been nominated for deletion previously, but I believe I have a new argument and it has been five years since the last nomination.)This license template is currently unused, and that is a good thing. It only permits reuse under the terms of this exact license, which was deprecated after 1.5 years of existence in May 2004. Not only has it been deprecated for close to 20 years now, but it was deprecated for lack of use. The small (and I mean very small) number of files that are truly licensed under CC SA can be uploaded at Commons and tagged with Commons:Template:Cc-sa-1.0. But hosting a local version does much more harm than good: we should not be encouraging people to use this license, and eliminated a potential source of confusion is also a good thing (I would consider myself fairly well-versed in CC/copyright stuff, and I was certainly confused when I saw this in Category:Creative Commons copyright templates). Finally, I would note that there are plenty of other more recent examples of CC licenses we do not host a local template for; we have 27 CC license templates against Commons' 213. Examples: c:Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0-fr (23,904 uses at Commons), c:Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0-es (42,266 uses at Commons), c:Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0-de (566,804 uses at Commons). For comparison, {{cc-sa}} is used zero (0) times locally and 4,449 times at Commons.
- Category:Wikipedia essays (arts): nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Wikipedia essays about works of art; notified Gonnym (talk · contribs) 03:39, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: This seems to be the only subcat of Category:Wikipedia essays to use a parenthetical descriptor. Most (but not all) are titled
Category:Wikipedia essays about foobar
. However, I would be open to other names (which is why I am bringing this here as opposed to WP:C2C).
- Reason: This seems to be the only subcat of Category:Wikipedia essays to use a parenthetical descriptor. Most (but not all) are titled
- Category:Afromorus: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Cs california (talk · contribs) 17:03, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Procedural nomination after this category was listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 November 15#Category:Afromorus without being tagged. The nomination statement was as follows:
Consensus was reached at said discussion to delete; courtesy pings to participants: @LaundryPizza03 and Cryptic.rat.The genus is monotypic and goes against Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Categorization#Taxonomic categories
- Reason: Procedural nomination after this category was listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 November 15#Category:Afromorus without being tagged. The nomination statement was as follows:
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria: nominated at RM; New name: Franz Ferdinand 01:32, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SOVEREIGN says that
Article titles are not normally prefixed with "King", "Queen", "Emperor" or equivalent
andOnly use a territorial designation (e.g. country) when disambiguation is needed
.
- Reason: WP:SOVEREIGN says that
- Category:Fair use vehicle images: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free vehicle images 20:36, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of art: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of art 20:39, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of event posters: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of event posters 20:41, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of rocket launch posters: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of rocket launch posters 20:41, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of the International Chopin Piano Competition posters: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of the International Chopin Piano Competition posters 20:42, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of film festival posters: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Non-free images of film festival posters 20:43, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of sports posters: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of sports posters 20:45, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of film posters: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of film posters 20:47, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of Disney theme park attraction posters: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Non-free images of Disney theme park attraction posters 20:48, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of theatre posters: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Non-free images of theatre posters 20:49, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of three-dimensional art: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Non-free images of three-dimensional art 20:49, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of television program posters: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of television program posters 20:50, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images used with permission: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images used with permission 20:54, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use aircraft images: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free aircraft images 20:55, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use watercraft images: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free watercraft images 20:56, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- File:The Guardian al-Qaeda recruitment.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Ottre (talk · contribs) 21:03, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use newspaper covers: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free newspaper covers 04:51, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: per Category:Wikipedia non-free images.
- Template:FoP-NL: nominated at TfD; notified Alexis Jazz (talk · contribs) 04:59, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned bespoke restriction tag. I believe User:Alexis Jazz created this tag to avoid posting on Commons, but now that the relevant image has been moved to Commons I see no reason to keep a local copy (which only discourages uploading free files to Commons).
- Category:Wikipedia files moved to Wikimedia Commons which could not be deleted: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Wikipedia files moved to Wikimedia Commons which should not be deleted; notified Stifle (talk · contribs) 12:50, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: The files in this category could be deleted, it is just that they shouldn't be deleted.
- Category:Fair use images of book covers: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of book covers 16:12, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: per Category:Wikipedia non-free images
- Category:Fair use images that should be in SVG format: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images that should be in SVG format 16:14, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use character artwork: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free character artwork 16:15, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Category:Wikipedia non-free images.
- Category:FairuseND: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Non-free with ND; notified ViperSnake151 (talk · contribs) 16:18, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Empty duplicate of Category:Non-free with ND. Merge or delete, whichever term you fancy.
- Template:R from category navigation: nominated at TfD (merge); Other template: Template:Category redirect; notified Tom.Reding (talk · contribs) 14:53, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Having two seperate banners on a category (e.g. Category:2000s establishments in Yugoslavia) seems unnecessarily duplicative. I think modifying {{category redirect}} so it can function like a mini-{{rcat shell}} makes the most sense, but would not oppose something like
|navigation=yes
.
- Reason: Having two seperate banners on a category (e.g. Category:2000s establishments in Yugoslavia) seems unnecessarily duplicative. I think modifying {{category redirect}} so it can function like a mini-{{rcat shell}} makes the most sense, but would not oppose something like
- Category:Images that survived replaceablity discussions: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Images that survived replaceability discussions 17:57, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Typo in "replaceablity" (missing an "i" between the "b" and "l").
- Category:American socialists by state: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:American socialists by state or territory 20:46, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use symbols: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free symbols 22:20, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Category:Wikipedia non-free images.
- Category:Fair use stamp images: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free stamp images 22:21, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use magazine covers: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free magazine covers 22:22, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use magazine covers by title: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free magazine covers by title 22:47, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use The Atlantic magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free The Atlantic magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Black Mask magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Black Mask magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Dragon magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Dragon magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Dungeon magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Dungeon magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use The Economist magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free The Economist magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Entertainment Weekly magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Entertainment Weekly magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Esquire magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Esquire magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Fantastic Universe magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Fantastic Universe magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Far Eastern Economic Review magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Far Eastern Economic Review magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Fortune magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Fortune magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use GQ magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free GQ magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Ladies' Home Journal magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Ladies' Home Journal magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Life magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Life magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Maclean's magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Maclean's magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Mad magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Mad magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Men's Health magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Men's Health magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Mystery Scene magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Mystery Scene magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use National Geographic magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free National Geographic magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use The New York Times Magazine magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free The New York Times Magazine magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use The New Yorker magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free The New Yorker magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Newsweek magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Newsweek magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Penthouse magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Penthouse magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use People magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free People magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Playbill magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Playbill magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Playboy magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Playboy magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Popular Electronics magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Popular Electronics magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Radio Times magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Radio Times magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Redbook magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Redbook magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Rolling Stone magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Rolling Stone magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use The Saturday Evening Post magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free The Saturday Evening Post magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use The Shadow magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free The Shadow magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Sports Illustrated magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Sports Illustrated magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use The Strand Magazine magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free The Strand Magazine magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Time magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Time magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use TV Guide magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free TV Guide magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Vanity Fair magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Vanity Fair magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Vogue magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Vogue magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use Wired magazine covers: Nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free Wired magazine covers 23:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use sheet music: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free sheet music 23:43, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: per Category:Wikipedia non-free images
- Category:Fair use mascots: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free mascots 23:44, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Category:Fair use images of mug shots: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Non-free images of mug shots 23:45, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Category:Wikipedia non-free images.
- User:ScenicAutumn2981/sandbox: nominated at MfD; notified ScenicAutumn2981 (talk · contribs) 04:02, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:COPIES problem (c.f. 2019 Portuguese legislative election). User has not edited since April 2022.
- Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles.css: nominated at TfD (merge); Other template: Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles2.css; notified Bawolff (talk · contribs) 19:30, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: This page has been deprecated for almost two years, and it is used only on the relevant /doc subpage. I think the time has come to merge the two templates.
- Category:Pages using Infobox NRHP in need of attention: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Droll (talk · contribs) 03:05, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Reason: Does not appear to be used by {{Infobox NRHP}} (or any other template). See also Template talk:Infobox NRHP § Category:Pages using Infobox NRHP in need of attention.
2024
[edit]January 2024
[edit]- Sikander Bizenjo: nominated at AfD; notified Inthejungle32 (talk · contribs) 00:09, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: I am sensitive to WP:SYSTEMICBIAS and take no pleasure in nominating this page for deletion. However, I am just not finding SIGCOV; I was unable to find any sources of note not already in the article. I also am suspicious of an article with this "awards and recognitions" section. There are two alumni awards, but schools love to hype up their alumni accomplishments. The
Global Gurus
do not have a Wikipedia page.
- Reason: I am sensitive to WP:SYSTEMICBIAS and take no pleasure in nominating this page for deletion. However, I am just not finding SIGCOV; I was unable to find any sources of note not already in the article. I also am suspicious of an article with this "awards and recognitions" section. There are two alumni awards, but schools love to hype up their alumni accomplishments. The
- Balochistan Youth Action Committee: nominated at AfD; notified Tribal Explorer (talk · contribs) 00:39, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the article about the committee's co-founder, I am not seeing SIGCOV. There is one promising source in the article, which turns out to have this line at the bottom:
Mujtaba Javaid is a freelance writer. All information and facts provided are the sole responsibility of the writer
. Hardly a RS. I recognize there could be some WP:SYSTEMICBIAS going on here, I am always skeptical of promotionally-worded articles about organizations.
- Reason: Like the article about the committee's co-founder, I am not seeing SIGCOV. There is one promising source in the article, which turns out to have this line at the bottom:
- Template:Static row numbers no rank: nominated at TfD; notified The RedBurn (talk · contribs) 01:03, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: At this talk page discussion (that is, the talk page of a related template), User:Jroberson108 aptly called this template like
someone buying pre-peeled, repackaged bananas
. It contains the following wikitext:class="static-row-numbers-norank " style=""
. It has no transclusions, and would not save any time if it were used.
- Reason: At this talk page discussion (that is, the talk page of a related template), User:Jroberson108 aptly called this template like
- Justin Dunnavant: nominated at AfD; notified MagalyGS (talk · contribs) 22:05, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Not seeing significant coverage from reliable sources which are independent of the subject. The sources in the article Some trivial mentions (e.g. [11][12]), and he certainly is covered in non-independent sources (e.g. [13][14][15]). There is one source from NatGeo (which is explained in Justin Dunnavant § National Geographic) which appears to check all the boxes, but we need multiple sources for notability.I will also note that this article was created with WP:WIKIED – to the creator, please let me know if anything in this nomination is not clear and I would be more than happy to assist!
- Category:Nobility from Japan: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Japanese nobility; notified 田中まさこ (talk · contribs) 02:02, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Not sure what the difference between these two categories is?
- Nicholas II of Russia: nominated at RM; New name: Nicholas II 23:04, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SOVEREIGN says we should
only use a territorial designation (e.g. country) when disambiguation is needed
. I do not think there is any dispute that this is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for Nicholas II; it has been a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT since 2007. Opening an RM because there was a previous RM for this page (which took place before the recent RfC at NCROY endorsing shorter titles).
- Reason: WP:SOVEREIGN says we should
- Mary II of England: nominated at RM; New name: Mary II 03:07, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SOVEREIGN says we should avoid the "of England" dab if it is not needed, and it is fairly clear she is the primary topic for the term. I am on the fifth page of Google results before I get anything other than her.
- Sneha Club: nominated at AfD; notified Hunkinghunk (talk · contribs) 02:42, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Not finding any SIGCOV whatsoever. During a WP:BEFORE search, I was able to find its own website, and this website which literally asked me for my phone number (!) (it took a great deal of willpower to resist responding with 867-5309); neither of these are helpful.
- Circular RNA databases and resources: nominated at AfD; notified Zhxq09 (talk · contribs) 02:56, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: An egregious WP:NOTREPOSITORY violation. At best a WP:MADRENAME to a new external links section in circular RNA, but this would be a WP:COSTLY redirect per WP:PANDORA: we shouldn't have the expectation that REPOSITORY-esque redirects exist to the "external links" section of a given article.
February 2024
[edit]- Category:Songs from television series: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Songs written for television series; notified Jerry Pepsi (talk · contribs) 01:07, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:C2C for parent category Category:Songs written for works; sibling categories Category:Songs written for video games and Category:Songs written for films. However, I am listing this for a full CfD because it would entail purging the category of songs which were not defined by being for a TV series.
- Category:GA-Class vital articles in Biology: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Bearcat (talk · contribs) 02:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Given the target category literally begins with the title of this page, I am not seeing how this is a useful category redirect?
- W43BR: nominated at AfD; notified Toast72yes (talk · contribs) 04:00, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Not finding SIGCOV of any type for this page. This dispute is the only non-database information I could find on the subject, and one FCC filing is not helpful for WP:N purposes.
- Template:Sorting row: nominated at TfD; notified Guarapiranga (talk · contribs) 02:29, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Redundant to {{Sort under}}. They work in different ways, so a redirect is not possible. However, this version just has fewer features.
- Category:Songs from films: nominated at CfD (CfD) 01:00, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: The target category (Category:Songs written for films) has a very different scope, to the point that I think this redirect is problematic. Namely, people might reasonably put a song in this category because it was in some film at one point, only for it to be recategorized as if it was written for the film.
March 2024
[edit]- Talk:Neural network (machine learning): nominated at RM; New name: Artificial neural network 23:31, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This is a procedural nomination following Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 March 1#Category:Artificial neural networks. For the closer: I have no opinion on whether this move should actually happen or not. Pinging participants at the CfD (@Aidan721, Glenn, and Justinkunimune) and at the discussion at Talk:Neural network (biology)#Merge? (again) which resulted in the rename (@Toomuchcuriosity, Justinkunimune, Tryptofish, and SamuelRiv).
- Template:Import-blanktable: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Row hover highlight (notified); notified Krinkle (talk · contribs) 16:09, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This template was merged to {{row hover highlight}} after Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 July 4#Template:Import-blanktable. During the course of the merger, consensus was reached (discussion) to no longer support the class name used by this template as it was unintuitive (these templates work by enabling a css class to be used on a table). Therefore, I see this as a costly redirect given that the functionality previously provided by this template no longer works, and it is not a likely search term (did you guess that "import-blanktable" has anything to do with cursor highlights?). Nothing was actually merged from this template to the new one, so it is not needed for attribution purposes.
- Template:OW: nominated at RM (technical); New name: Template:Older warnings 22:09, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Expand template name per WP:TPN. Thanks,
- Category:Former ice hockey venues: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Defunct ice hockey venues 17:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per Category:Defunct sports venues.
- Category:Former ice hockey venues by league: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Defunct ice hockey venues by league 17:43, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per Category:Defunct sports venues (and subcategory Category:Defunct National Hockey League venues).
- Category:Former ice hockey venues in Canada: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Defunct ice hockey venues in Canada 17:44, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per Category:Defunct sports venues and subcategory Category:Defunct indoor ice hockey venues in Canada.
- Category:Former ice hockey venues in the United States: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Defunct ice hockey venues in the United States 17:46, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per Category:Defunct sports venues and subcategories Category:Defunct indoor ice hockey venues in the United States, Category:Defunct ice hockey venues in Ohio.
- Category:Former ice hockey venues in Sweden: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Defunct ice hockey venues in Sweden 17:52, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per Category:Defunct sports venues in Sweden.
April 2024
[edit]- Wikipedia:Voting for busy beavers: nominated at MfD; notified Incnis Mrsi (talk · contribs) 02:42, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: I don't even remember how I came across this essay, but I am a little dumbfounded by it. It advocates for keeping a list of trusted contributors (called the "White List") and a group of not trusted contributors (called the "Black List"). It then calls for !voting on RfAs/RfBs/RfCs based on how they were supported by people on the "White List"/"Black List", without considering the merits of the candidate/issue. If you are so busy that you cannot consider a proposal/candidate on the merits, ignore the discussion. Don't !vote a certain way because of how people on your "White List"/"Black List" !voted.I don't necessarily think this needs deletion, but it certainly needs userfication.
- Category:Pointers to NRHP tools: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Pointers to National Register of Historic Places tools 21:36, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Expand name per Category:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places.
- Category:People with acquired Guyanese citizenship: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified MonFrontieres (talk · contribs) 23:39, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: I don't think any of the articles in this category actually belong here. They all appear to be birthright citizens (per Guyanese nationality law#Acquiring Guyanese nationality, having a parent with Guyanese citizenship is enough for citizenship regardless of one's place of birth). Upmerging is not needed, because they are all already in subcategories of Category:Guyanese people.
- Template:DetailsLink: nominated at RM (technical); New name: Template:Details link 15:06, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Use proper English capitalization per WP:TPN
- Category:Citizens of Hungary through descent: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:People with acquired Hungarian citizenship; notified Crowsus (talk · contribs) 16:10, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Manual purge/merge per precedent at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 17#Category:Citizens through descent.
- Category:Categories needing manual work before deletion: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Categories needing manual work after a discussion; notified Armbrust (talk · contribs) 20:35, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: not all categories here will be deleted; some are just being purged.
- Category:Citizens of Indonesia through descent: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:People with acquired Indonesian citizenship; notified KiDont508 (talk · contribs) 20:38, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Category:Disney animation songs: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Disney songs; notified Kanghuitari (talk · contribs) 17:51, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Only contains one redirect (Der Fuehrer's Face (song)). Upmerge for now; unhelpful for navigation. I have purposefully left out the other two parent categories as merge targets: Der Fuehrer's Face (a cartoon that I would highly recommend you watch!) is not really a series (and thus the song does not belong in Category:Songs from animated series) and the song itself has no animation.
- Category:Songs from animated series: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Songs written for animated series; notified Mike Selinker (talk · contribs) 17:52, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per precedent at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 1#Category:Songs from television series, rename and purge.
- Template:Hlist1: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Hlist (notified); notified CFCF (talk · contribs) 02:02, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:William John Titus Bishop: nominated at MfD; notified Topg1985 (talk · contribs) 20:55, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Note: this reason was overly long and messed with the formatting of this page—it included multiple paragraphs and a {{source assess table}}, neither of which Twinkle handled particularly well—so I have removed it from this log. To view the rationale, please see my initial comment at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:William John Titus Bishop.
- Category:Bridges completed in 1179: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1179; notified Nedim Ardoğa (talk · contribs) 23:05, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Previously nominated at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 April 6#Category:Bridges completed in 1192, but not tagged. Merge with no prejudice against recreation if the category can be appropriately populated.
- Template:CatAutoTOC: nominated at RM; New name: Template:Automatic category TOC 18:25, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: For consistency with the names of everything listed at Template:CatAutoTOC/doc#See also, including {{Category TOC}} and {{Large category TOC}}. Additionally, per WP:TPN, template names should use standard English spacing.A previous WP:BOLDMOVE by Mclay1 was reverted by BrownHairedGirl, so I am bringing this to a full RM.
May 2024
[edit]- Category:Film controversies in Malaysia: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Mr. G. Price (talk · contribs) 02:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3#Subcategories of Category:Film controversies by country: I don't see a future for this category in its current state. Most of the articles in this category are controversial films, not articles about film controversies. What stopped me from including it in the mass nomination is 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, which seems does not seem to belong here, either. Even if we grant that it does belong here, after purging the articles about films this would be a single-member category. Delete this category; discussion of the categorization of 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal can take place at Talk:1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.
- Category:Film controversies in South Africa: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Gng1999 (talk · contribs) 02:14, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3#Subcategories of Category:Film controversies by country: I don't see a future for this category in its current state. Most of the articles in this category are controversial films, not articles about film controversies. What stopped me from including it in the mass nomination is Films and Publications Act, 1996, which seems does not seem to belong here, either. Even if we grant that it does belong here, after purging the articles about films this would be a single-member category. Delete this category; discussion of the categorization of Films and Publications Act, 1996 can take place at Talk:Films and Publications Act, 1996
- Category:Wikipedia CatAutoTOC: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Wikipedia Automatic category TOC 20:44, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per {{Automatic category TOC}} following Template talk:Automatic category TOC#Requested move 28 April 2024.
- Category:CatAutoTOC tracking categories: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Automatic category TOC tracking categories 21:33, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per {{Automatic category TOC}} following Template talk:Automatic category TOC#Requested move 28 April 2024.
- Template:Musicalyr: nominated at RM (technical); New name: Template:Musical year 17:46, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per WP:TPN, use standard English spacing.
- Template:Filmyr: nominated at RM (technical); New name: Template:Film year category 17:49, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Category:Pages with Nazism left wing editnotice: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Pages with Nazism is not left wing editnotice 20:45, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: per Template:Nazism is not left wing editnotice.
- Category:Film controversies in France: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Gng1999 (talk · contribs) 23:46, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Not viable as a category after purging: only two subcategories and zero articles. Merging is not needed imo; both subcategories are already in the category trees they need to be in.
- Category:Sex scandals in French cinema: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Guallendra (talk · contribs) 00:10, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: I would say that this needs to be purged of individual films (and people, who are for some reason in this category) à la Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3#Subcategories of Category:Film controversies by country, but that would leave this as a single-member category (containing Roman Polanski sexual abuse case). Delete, and manually add Roman Polanski sexual abuse case to Category:Sexual-related controversies in film.
- Category:Template Category TOC on category with over 1200 pages: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Categories which use Category TOC without Automatic category TOC; notified BrownHairedGirl (talk · contribs) 15:24, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Following up on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 23#Category:Categories without CatAutoTOC and friends, I think that this category makes the most sense as part of Category:Categories which use Category TOC without Automatic category TOC. (If a category does use {{Automatic category TOC}} and has more than 1200 pages, it will automatically use {{Large category TOC}}. Therefore, any category with more than 1200 pages with {{Category TOC}} does not use {{Automatic category TOC}}.) This merge will also allow for a massive simplification to the code of Template:Category TOC/tracking.
- Template:FMQ: nominated at TfD; notified Radiojon (talk · contribs) 00:46, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This template links to a broken database. Replace all transclusions with {{FCC-LMS-Facility}} (which links to a functional database) and delete. (No need for a redirect; a merge is impossible and this is an implausible search term.)
- Template:AMQ: nominated at TfD; notified Radiojon (talk · contribs) 00:47, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This template links to a broken database. Replace all transclusions with {{FCC-LMS-Facility}} (which links to a functional database) and delete. (No need for a redirect; a merge is impossible and this is an implausible search term.)
- Category:Images that survived replaceability discussions: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Files that survived replaceability discussions; notified Alex Bakharev (talk · contribs) 00:26, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: The category is for all types of files (including e.g. videos), not just images.
- Template:SSC: nominated at TfD; notified Raheempunnad (talk · contribs) 00:14, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Navbox based on Sunni Students Council, which was deleted after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunni Students Council.
- Template:THL: nominated at TfD; notified Malo95 (talk · contribs) 00:32, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This navbox is supposed to be for Team Handball League (yes, that is a red link), but is more red than blue by a mile. New York City THC is linked four times, New York Athletic Club (a generic athletic club with one section on handball) is linked once, and there is a link to Handball#Rules. Finally, it is not used anywhere in mainspace.
- Category:Wikipedia formatting and function templates: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Wikipedia utility templates; notified Sardanaphalus (talk · contribs) 02:12, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: From the hatnote,
If you do not find what you are looking for in here, try the parent category Category:Wikipedia utility templates or one of its other subcategories. The distinction between these categories is unclear, and this one may need to up-merge.
Either they need to merge (which is probably the easiest), or we need to come up with a clear distinction between the two (which will be a pain to put into effect, unless there is some preexisting distinction that is not clear to me).
- Reason: From the hatnote,
- Category:Stakhanov, Ukraine: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Kadiivka 01:14, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: align with Kadiivka; see also my IAR closure of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 21#Category:Stakhanov, Ukraine.
June 2024
[edit]- Template:GFDL-OpenGeoDB: nominated at TfD; notified MarkSweep (talk · contribs) 17:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Transclusionless template which is both out of date and very unlikely to be helpful if brought up to date. It is meant for images from OpenGeoDB, but that database is currently placed in the public domain. However, it is vanishingly unlikely that this template will be needed in the future: the last edit appears to be from February 2020. If someone needs to upload a one-off image from the database, Commons is the place for that (they have their own c:Template:GFDL-OpenGeoDB). Or, if you really must upload it locally for some reason, you can use a generic
{{PD-because|released into the public domain by OpenGeoDB}}
.
- Reason: Transclusionless template which is both out of date and very unlikely to be helpful if brought up to date. It is meant for images from OpenGeoDB, but that database is currently placed in the public domain. However, it is vanishingly unlikely that this template will be needed in the future: the last edit appears to be from February 2020. If someone needs to upload a one-off image from the database, Commons is the place for that (they have their own c:Template:GFDL-OpenGeoDB). Or, if you really must upload it locally for some reason, you can use a generic
- Template:Mfc: nominated at TfD; notified Fl (talk · contribs) 20:30, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned template stating that something is the current subject of Mediation, but WP:MEDCOM was shut down in 2018.
- Category:Sexuality-related controversies in film: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Obscenity controversies in film, Category:Film controversies; notified Jgp1999 (talk · contribs) 00:14, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: After purging, there is a single member of the category (Roman Polanski sexual abuse case). Upmerge to parents for now without prejudice against recreation if it can be appropriately populated.
July 2024
[edit]- Template:Cat: nominated at TfD (merge); Other template: Template:Category link; notified Croquant (talk · contribs) 00:11, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: {{Cat}} has the option for a "category:" prefix (i.e.
{{cat|stubs}}
and{{cat|Category:stubs}}
have the same output: Category:Stubs), but otherwise this template just has fewer features than {{Category link}}. {{Category link}} does not accept the category prefix ({{Category link|Category:Stubs}}
becomes Category:Stubs), but does allow for various options. They should be combined.
- Reason: {{Cat}} has the option for a "category:" prefix (i.e.
- File:Freebsd logo.svg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Sav vas (talk · contribs) 00:33, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Note: I do NOT support deleting this file.I am not exactly sure that it is clear that this is actually licensed under the BSD license? If it is under the BSD license, I would expect it to be under the two-clause BSD license, because that is the license the software uses. But I am not finding anywhere on the website where it indicates the logo itself is licensed under any of the BSD licenses. Therefore, I support relicensing as non-free for use in FreeBSD.
- Category:Eiei-year — used with year parameter(s) equals year in page title: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Educational institutions establishment category by year — used with year parameter(s) equals year in page title 21:26, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: per {{Educational institutions establishment category by year}}.
- Category:Eiei-year — used on page without a year in the page title: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Educational institutions establishment category by year — used on page without a year in the page title 21:27, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: per {{Educational institutions establishment category by year}}.
- Category:Eiei-year — used with year parameter(s) ≠ year in page title: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Educational institutions establishment category by year — used with year parameter(s) ≠ year in page title 21:29, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: per {{Educational institutions establishment category by year}}.
- Category:Year by category — used with year parameter(s) ≠ year in page title: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Year by category — used with year parameter(s) does not equal year in page title 02:48, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: I feel like spelling out "does not equal" would be helpful; do you know how to type the "does not equal" sign?
- Category:Year by category — used with year parameter(s) equals year in page title: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Year by category — used with year parameter(s) matching year in page title; notified BrownHairedGirl (talk · contribs) 01:47, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Better grammar; see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 13#Category:Year by category — used with year parameter(s) ≠ year in page title. Courtesy pings to @Fayenatic london and LaundryPizza03.
- Category:Pages using new version of Template EstcatCountry: nominated at CfD (CfD) 00:52, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: No longer necessary: all pages use the new version of {{EstcatCountry}}.
- Category:Reginar Brussels: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified JhowieNitnek (talk · contribs) 02:20, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Procedural nomination of a category which was discussed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 16#History of Brussels by period but was never tagged; I have no opinion on whether this should happen or not. Pinging Marcocapelle.
- Category:Pages using FM station data without facility ID: nominated at CfD (CfD) 22:23, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: No longer used by {{FM station data}} now that the cleanup has been completed.
- Category:Pages using AM station data without facility ID: nominated at CfD (CfD) 22:27, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: No longer used by {{AM station data}} after the cleanup was completed.
- Category:Pages using LPFM station data without facility ID: nominated at CfD (CfD) 01:39, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: No longer used in {{LPFM station data}} after the cleanup was completed.
August 2024
[edit]- Category:2022 establishment in Venezuela: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:2022 establishments in Venezuela; notified Thomson Walt (talk · contribs) 12:53, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Obvious duplicate categories.
- Category:2022 establishment in Venezuela: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:2022 establishments in Venezuela 17:13, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Obvious duplicate categories, and plural establishments is standard on Wikipedia.
- Category:Kingdom Hearts character redirects to lists: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Kingdom Hearts original characters redirects to lists 17:21, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Parent category was moved after Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 24#Category:Kingdom Hearts original characters; rename to march parent.
- Category:1820s disasters in Germany: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:1820s disasters in the German Confederation 01:41, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per Category:1820s in the German Confederation.
- Category:1825 disasters in Germany: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:1825 disasters in the German Confederation 01:43, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per Category:1825 in the German Confederation.
- File:Nutshell-talk.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified David Levy (talk · contribs) 22:49, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Redundant to higher-quality File:Walnut.png; there is no need to have a version which is a lower-quality version for use on talk pages. Delete this local file and create a redirect on Commons from c:File:Nutshell-talk.png to File:Walnut.png.
- Template:Cc-by-sa: nominated at TfD; notified BDD (talk · contribs) 02:09, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Deprecated transclusionless template, and should thus be deleted. If kept, this could become a disambiguation page for the various CC BY-SA licenses. But I think a disambiguation page is worse than useless: There is no way to know what license the author intended to use for their work, so only the author can fix the error caused by using this template. A template which can literally only be an unfixable problem when used should be deleted. A link in the deletion summary to Category:Creative Commons copyright templates should be a nice way of ensuring people can find the template they are looking for while preventing problematic transclusions.
- Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond Wikipedia: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond the English Wikipedia; notified Equazcion (talk · contribs) 01:45, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Better reflect what this category is for: Files useful on other language Wikipedias should still be moved to Commons (and thus do not belong in this category, which indicates that the file should not be moved to Commons).
- Template:Cc-by: nominated at TfD; notified BDD (talk · contribs) 14:18, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Same rationale as Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 August 16#Template:Cc-by-sa – transclusionless template which causes an error only fixable by the person who placed the template (because other editors cannot divine what license the uploaded meant to use). Therefore, a dab is worse than useless.
- Category:YearInCountryPortalBox with no existing country portal: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Year in country portal box with no existing country portal 22:30, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Rename in the spirit of WP:C2D per {{Year in country portal box}}. It does not qualify for CFDS because it I only renamed earlier today per WP:TPN (which says we should use standard English spacing for template names), so I am bringing this to a full CFD.
- Template:Year by category: nominated at TfD; notified Plastikspork (talk · contribs) 05:23, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: After trying to rewrite this template to remove the need for passing the year as a parameter in favor of simply using {{title year}}, I have come to the conclusion that this template is like a Self-Operating Napkin: Too fancy for its own good. It does zero computations based on its input (besides the basic "don't use this functionality if not given the necessary parameters").Compare these two versions of Category:1862 in the American Civil War: without using this template and with using this template. I think the without version is much easier to understand and therefore more sustainable.
- Category:Education scandals and controversies: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Lquilter (talk · contribs) 18:25, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: In the spirit of WP:XY, I do not see how this is a helpful redirect (which currently targets two categories). Delete it; I do not see how this would be a helpful {{category disambiguation}} page, per the aforementioned WP:XY.
- Portal:Schleswig-Holstein: nominated at MfD; notified Bermicourt (talk · contribs) 04:33, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Consensus was reached at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Schleswig-Holstein (2nd nomination) to move this to Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Schleswig-Holstein, but was moved back by its creator in 2022 after zero substantive changes were made to the portal. If this was 2022, I would revert this unilateral move against the MFD consensus. But this is almost two years later and WP:SILENCE is consensus, so I am back at MFD seeking consensus for deletion from portalspace for the same reasons – primarily because
This subject is arguably not broad enough to exist as a standard portal
. No objection to projectspace-fying, if the WikiProject wishes to keep it around.
- Reason: Consensus was reached at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Schleswig-Holstein (2nd nomination) to move this to Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Schleswig-Holstein, but was moved back by its creator in 2022 after zero substantive changes were made to the portal. If this was 2022, I would revert this unilateral move against the MFD consensus. But this is almost two years later and WP:SILENCE is consensus, so I am back at MFD seeking consensus for deletion from portalspace for the same reasons – primarily because
- Category:Fictional Bengali Hindus: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified BengaliHindu (talk · contribs) 22:05, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per WP:XY, this is an unhelpful category redirect.
- Category:Prejudice and discrimination in fiction: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Atvica (talk · contribs) 22:08, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per WP:XY, this is an unhelpful multi-target category redirect.
- Category:LGBT: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:LGBTQ 05:40, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This one is probably important enough to do manually...
September 2024
[edit]- Category:Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning in South Korea: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified CherryPie94 (talk · contribs) 02:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Another WP:XY category redirect with two targets which should be deleted.
- Category:BBC Micro and Acorn Electron game covers: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified BrownHairedGirl (talk · contribs) 02:25, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Another WP:XY category redirect which should be deleted.
- Category:LGBT YouTube celebrities: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified AusLondonder (talk · contribs) 02:48, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Not a helpful redirect, considering that the start of both this category and its target is "LGBT YouTube". Delete it.
- Category:British jazz radio programs: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:British jazz radio programmes 19:47, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: British category should use British English. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 August 27#Category:British jazz radio programs, which reached consensus to rename the category even though it was never tagged.
- Template:Env: nominated at TfD; notified Gurch (talk · contribs) 23:33, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Not seeing how this is a helpful template. It does two things. It lists all magic words, but we already have WP:MAGIC for that. It also shows what all magic words evaluate to on a given page, but that does not help anyone with anything. If you need to see what a given magic word evaluates to, you can just use that magic word directly (in preview, of course). Subst both uses and delete.
- Template:ZZZ: nominated at TfD; notified Feedback (talk · contribs) 00:41, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: We don't need a template for every single emoticon under the sun. Subst this template's single use and delete.
- Template:Z80: nominated at TfD; notified Crotalus horridus (talk · contribs) 00:51, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned in mainspace, and future use seems unlikely: See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 October 14#Template:AY-3-8910. Subst and delete.
- Category:Interwiki link templates - inline: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Inline interwiki link templates; notified W like wiki (talk · contribs) 17:59, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: I was going to suggest a rename to fix the MOS:DASH error, but I think this name flows better.
- Template:In': nominated at TfD; notified HTGS (talk · contribs) 18:05, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This template exists only to help people violate MOS:CURLY:
This template surrounds parameter text with two curly single quote marks for users who cannot easily type the ‘curly’ characters in place of the 'straight' characters
. Update to use straight quotes, then subst, then delete.
- Reason: This template exists only to help people violate MOS:CURLY:
- Template:In": nominated at TfD; notified HTGS (talk · contribs) 18:05, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This template exists only to help people violate MOS:CURLY:
This template surrounds parameter text with two curly single quote marks for users who cannot easily type the ‘curly’ characters in place of the 'straight' characters
. Update to use straight quotes, then subst, then delete.
- Reason: This template exists only to help people violate MOS:CURLY:
- Template:Spf: nominated at TfD; notified Xover (talk · contribs) 19:49, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Except for a demonstration at Template talk:Sfn/Archive 4#Arbitrary break for the obligatory unchewed idea, this is a transclusionless broken template which does not seem to have caught on. I think we can safely
<nowiki>...</nowiki>
the use and delete the template.
- Reason: Except for a demonstration at Template talk:Sfn/Archive 4#Arbitrary break for the obligatory unchewed idea, this is a transclusionless broken template which does not seem to have caught on. I think we can safely
- Category:Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning in Japan: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Fixer88 (talk · contribs) 17:26, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Another WP:XY redirect which should be deleted.
- Template:Image template notice1: nominated at TfD (merge); Other template: Template:File template notice; notified Hillrhpc (talk · contribs) 20:09, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Both of these templates do the same thing, except that {{Image template notice1}} requires a second unnamed parameter but {{File template notice}} has no such parameter. We can make use of {{#if}} to combine the two templates.
- Template:Su2: nominated at TfD; notified SkyLined (talk · contribs) 01:59, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Transclusionless duplicate of {{su}}. Not a plausible search term, so we shouldn't create a redirect.
- Template:ToC: nominated at TfD; notified Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs) 03:56, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 April 25#Template:Table of contents where an identical template was deleted. In short, this is redundant to simply adding
__TOC__
and should be substituted and deleted.Beyond that TfD, there are other reasons to substitute and delete this template. {{TOC}} exists and points to the separate {{Compact TOC}}. Given that {{ToC}} is barely function these days – it has zero effect on Vector 2022, the default skin – this title is better used as a redirect to the Vector 2022-compatible {{Compact TOC}} as a{{R avoiding double redirect|Template:TOC}}
.
- Reason: See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 April 25#Template:Table of contents where an identical template was deleted. In short, this is redundant to simply adding
- Category:Fictional witches and wizards: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified AHI-3000 (talk · contribs) 14:15, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:XY redirect which should be deleted.
- Category:Enpun: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Immanuelle (talk · contribs) 14:18, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Not clear how this is a helpful redirect. Delete it.
- Category:Shintoist superheroes: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Wahspsneh (talk · contribs) 17:05, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Pointless category redirect with two targets.
- Template:Wcl: nominated at TfD; notified CyberSkull (talk · contribs) 20:55, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Template created for the sole purpose of being used at the obsolete Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Webcomics work group/Expand. It is an inferior duplicate of various pagelinks templates. Subst and delete.
- Category:Forestry researcher stubs: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Academic biography stubs; notified DASonnenfeld (talk · contribs) 20:19, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Stub category with fewer than 60 members; upmerge to Category:Academic biography stubs per WP:WPSS procedure.
- Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Non-empty soft redirected categories; notified Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs) 03:28, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: See discussion at Template talk:Category redirect#Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories which are double redirects – the Wikipedia prefix is not needed here and renaming promotes consistency with Category:Non-empty disambiguation categories.
- Template:BlueButton: nominated at TfD; notified ManosHacker (talk · contribs) 18:42, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Two transclusion template which is redundant to
{{mw button|class=progressive}}
. Convert the two uses to use{{mw button}}
and then redirect to the different {{blue button}}.
- Reason: Two transclusion template which is redundant to
- Template:PPR: nominated at TfD; notified Gimmetrow (talk · contribs) 23:36, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Template used for linking to the long-obsolete Wikipedia:Portal peer review. As a template for an inactive process, it should be deleted.
- Template:Rej: nominated at TfD; notified Smaug123 (talk · contribs) 03:08, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: I am not even sure what process this could be for on Wikipedia. The only place on Wikipedia we do straight-up votes is at WP:ARBCOM, and speaking as a (trainee) clerk I had never even heard of this template. Delete them.
- Category:Natural Monuments of Nepal: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Natural monuments of Nepal; notified Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs) 19:07, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Capitalization fix; C2D per List of natural monuments in Nepal. It was sort of opposed as CFDS, so I am bringing this to a full CFD to be safe. Pinging @Hey man im josh, Omnis Scientia, and RadioKAOS for their thoughts.
- Category:National Parks in Indiana: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:National parks in Indiana; notified Acroterion (talk · contribs) 19:34, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: De-caps per everything else in the tree of Category:National parks of the United States by state. It was possibly opposed at CFDS, so I am starting a full discussion.
- Category:National Monuments in Guyana: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:National monuments in Guyana; notified KittenKlub (talk · contribs) 19:44, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: De-caps per WP:C2A. It was possibly opposed at CFDS (see the other discussions on today's log), so I am bringing this to a full discussion.
- Category:National Monuments of Colombia: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:National monuments of Colombia; notified Staticshakedown (talk · contribs) 19:45, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: De-caps per WP:C2A. It was possibly opposed at CFDS (see the other discussions on today's log), so I am bringing this to a full discussion.
- Template:7thC-document-stub: nominated at CfD (SfD); notified Not0nshoree (talk · contribs) 01:17, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned stub template with no associated category.
- Template:Appalachia-stub: nominated at CfD (SfD); notified Dionysius Miller (talk · contribs) 01:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Stub template which populates the WikiProject category Category:Stub-Class Appalachia articles. Fewer than 60 members and Category:United States stubs is a very full tree, so unlikely to be helpful as either a stub category or a stub container category. Delete the template and re-sort the contents.
- Category:Lists of retailers: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Lists of retail companies 02:39, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: per Category:Retail companies
- Category:Wikipedia categories named after retailers: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Wikipedia categories named after retail companies 02:40, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: per Category:Retail companies
- Category:American writers about The Holocaust: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:American writers about the Holocaust 03:39, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Category:Writers about the Holocaust.
- Template:Year parameter usage check: nominated at TfD; notified BrownHairedGirl (talk · contribs) 18:08, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Now that {{Year by category}} is gone, this template is now transclusionless. We don't want to encourage creating templates which do not make use of {{title year}} (or similar), so we should delete the template.
- Category:14th-century German LGBT people: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:14th-century German people; notified Bearcat (talk · contribs) 22:42, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: If not merged, rename to Category:14th-century German LGBTQ people per Category:LGBTQ. But this is a three-member category, all of which are redirects. Better to merge to its parents as unhelpful for navigation.
- Category:Wikipedians interested in LGBT issues: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Wikipedians interested in LGBTQ issues; notified Photouploaded (talk · contribs) 13:45, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Ipr: nominated at TfD; notified MZMcBride (talk · contribs) 05:34, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: This template is literally identical to {{1x}} – it just returns its first unnamed parameter. For some reason, this was used at the now-historical Wikipedia:Database reports/Range blocks. There is no reason that historical page's IPs need to be wrapped in this template, so subst and delete. No need to redirect; this is a very unlikely search term.
- Template:S-s: nominated at TfD; notified Ral315 (talk · contribs) 20:38, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Obsolete template which is redundant to the more feature-rich {{signpost/item}}. Just redirecting causes lint errors, so we need to add a pipe before the templates before redirecting (example edit).
October 2024
[edit]- Template:Cc-by-3.0-sg: nominated at TfD; notified Majora (talk · contribs) 20:07, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Orphaned licensing template. Singapore's freedom of panorama is more permissive than the US, so there will not be any derivative works which need this license that must be uploaded locally. Such files can and should be uploaded to Commons and tagged with c:Template:Cc-by-3.0-sg.
- File:Exetercourts.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Chris Harris (talk · contribs) 23:30, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Licensed under the GFDL per {{Assumed license}}, but the original uploader gave it the description
This digital photo was taken on May 18th by Chris Harris and is available for fair use
(emphasis added). I do not think that sounds like an implicit GFDL license – I think that sounds like an attempted non-free image. The building still exists, so this would fail WP:NFCC1 and should therefore be deleted.
- Reason: Licensed under the GFDL per {{Assumed license}}, but the original uploader gave it the description
- Category:User-specific file copyright templates: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified WOSlinker (talk · contribs) 19:52, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Single-member category for an unused userspace template. Delete it.
- Wikipedia:JDELANOY: nominated at RfD; Target: User:J.delanoy (notified); notified Jake Wartenberg (talk · contribs) 02:33, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: We shouldn't open the WP:PANDORA's box of creating shortcuts to people's base user pages. I get that some subpages work as shortcuts (e.g. WP:LUPIN points to User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool), but this feels very different. See also Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 12#Wikipedia:JZG for deletion of a similar redirect (this one to the user's talk page).
- File:Loch 4.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Nup~enwiki (talk · contribs) 16:11, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Low-quality image replaceable with numerous higher-quality images at c:Category:Jovibarba globifera. This one also has questionable licensing – it is attributed to "Manuel Werner, Nürtingen, Germany", but there is no evidence that this is the uploader.In particular, the use at Hen and chicken plant can be replaced with File:Jovibarba globifera x 01.JPG. The use at Hen and chicks can be replaced with File:Hens and Chicks growing amid other succulents.jpg (which is already on the page in the gallery section). The use at Jovibarba can be replaced with File:Hen & Chicks (succulent plant).jpg. Best,
- Category:2024-25 Big Sky Conference men's basketball season: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:2024–25 Big Sky Conference men's basketball season 20:47, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Category:Open ArbCom Cases: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Wikipedia open arbitration cases 17:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: and C2C with Category:Wikipedia arbitration cases.
- Category:Lists of concert tours of South Korean artists: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Lists of concerts and performances of South Korean artists 23:05, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Text to image: nominated at TfD; notified ZxxZxxZ (talk · contribs) 16:48, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Using plaintext is more accessible than using images, because it is easily readable by screen readers. Plaintext is also easier to copy/paste and is more readable wikitext. Delete after converting its sole use to plaintext.
November 2024
[edit]- Category:Pre-1876 life peers: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Life peers created before 1876; notified Craigy144 (talk · contribs) 00:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Opposed at speedy. This rename aligns with the subcategories and is generally more clear.
- Category:1800s disestablishments in Alta California: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:1800s disestablishments in Nueva California 16:58, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Reason: Per parent Category:1800s in Nueva California, subcategory Category:1804 disestablishments in Nueva California.