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March 2021
- File:This shows the bond of Silicon Oxide using the Bohr model.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified $200inaire (talk · contribs) 18:04, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Inaccurate molecular model: The individual molecule is linear and exists only under extreme conditions. There are 2 valence electrons too many.
- Icarus Interstellar: nominated at AfD; notified Kflong (talk · contribs) 11:14, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This topic was brought up at Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard#Spacedrives along with their project about an antimatter rocket, the latter of which was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vacuum to Antimatter-Rocket. It was noticed that this article is written like a PR and has flimsy, WP:PROFRINGE sources. Upon analysis of the sources, there was at most one usable item for notability. List of sources:# [1]: Primary source.# [2]: Dead link to and Alaska government website, possibly with regards to its registration status as a nonprofit.# [3]: Primarily an interview.# [4]: Primary source.# [5]: Dead link, presumably a primary source.# Duplicate of 1# [6]: Paywalled, can't tell.# Duplicate of 3# [7]: Primarily about their Project Persephone, not Icarus; almost entirely based on the members' own comments.# [8]: Dead link# [9]: Primarily about Project Persephone; seems rather pro-fringe.# [10]: Dead link?# [11]: Passing mention; primarily about Eric Davies.# [12]: Scheduale for a conference organized by Icarus.# [13]: PR-like article describing the the conference; I don't think this is encyclopedic.# [14]: PR.# [15]: Dead link.# [16]: Primary source.The previous nomination in 2014 did not adequately scrutinize the sources found, and may have been held to lower standards than current WP:FRINGE guidelines. The article claims that no updates on their projects have been published since 2015, suggesting that the project went inactive not long after the last AfD; thus, I have not attempted WP:BEFORE. It may also be worth investigating the articles about their specific projects.
- Suprercalafragalasticespealadoshes: nominated at RfD; Target: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (notified); notified Kakashi77 (talk · contribs) 04:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This is the only that contains a misspelling within the first morpheme. It is also the second farthest from the correct spelling in edit distance (11), behind only Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus (12).
- Supercadrafristicexpealodocious: nominated at RfD; Target: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (notified); notified Bloodymary2 (talk · contribs) 04:04, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This is the only misspelling redirect that botches -cal-, as well as one of only two (out of 45) where f is not followed by r. It has the third largest edit distance from the correct spelling (8).
- Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus: nominated at RfD; Target: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (notified); notified Fabiform (talk · contribs) 04:09, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason': At an edit distance of 12, this is the absolute least accurate spelling. It is also one of only 2 where f is not followed by r; and the only one containing either k or two js.
- Supercalafregalisticexpialadociious: nominated at RfD; Target: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (notified); notified WikiRules~enwiki (talk · contribs) 04:15, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This is the only misspelling redirect containing either ii or fr followed by e.
- Supercalifragilisticoespialidoso: nominated at RfD; Target: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (notified); notified Luisete (talk · contribs) 04:20, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This is the only misspelling redirect not ending in s. It is also the only one where -fragilistic- is followed by o.
- Supercalafragilisticexpiealadoscious: nominated at RfD; Target: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (notified); notified Androo123 (talk · contribs) 04:37, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The only remaining misspelling redirect containing ie or -doscious. One of three remaining redirects with 4 spelling errors.
- Corporate media: nominated at RfD; Target: Concentration of media ownership (notified); notified Trey Stone (talk · contribs) 04:37, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: User Neutrality (talk · contribs) recently redirected this article, which had serious sourcing, WP:POV, WP:UNDUE, and WP:SYNTH issues. But I don't think that "mass media production, distribution, ownership, and funding dominated by corporations and their CEOs" is something that should have been redirected to an article about "a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media". Given the severity of the issue at hand, I think the article should have been brought to AfD instead of being uilaterally redirected. The precise term is not mentioned in the article text at target. More background at Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#"Corporate_media"_has_glaring_bias_issue.
April 2021
- Taper ratio: nominated at RfD; Target: Chord (aeronautics) (notified); notified TarunBJain (talk · contribs) 16:23, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The quantity is mentioned only in passing in the target, and is also mentioned in a totally different context in Space elevator. The original article was an unsourced, 2-sentence stub that fails WP:DICDEF and lacked context.
- Category:Hypothetical nuclei: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Hypothetical composite particles; notified V1adis1av (talk · contribs) 18:30, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Only 2 entries, one of which is a redirect. WP:SMALLCAT and mostly redudant with other categories like Category:Isotopes of helium and Category:Neutron for the respective pages in the category. Category:Hypothetical chemical elements covers almost everything else that would belong here.
- Event symmetry: nominated at AfD; notified Weburbia (talk · contribs) 18:10, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per Talk:Event symmetry, this is an incoherent WP:SYNTH of unrelated topics that is overwhelmingly background information and does not clearly or accurately explain what this topic is. Summary:* Nonsense that is mostly background information and gives a nonsensical conclusion that the equations governing the laws of physics must be unchanged when transformed by any permutation of spacetime events — which means that all scalar fields are uniform. Uses a soap bubble analogy in an unencyclopedic manner and ends by making an OR connection between the article topic and John Stachel's proposed principle of maximal permutability that equivalent objects of the same kind are exchangeable.* A non-notable fringe theory of quantum gravity, which is cited entirely to primary sources, along with similarly non-notable theories absed on random graphs.* A poorly explained notion of diffeomorphism invariance applied to a matrix model of M-theory. This section incorrectly juxtaposes D0-branes, instantons, and events.* A misinterpretation of something in a sci-fi novel Permutation City.
- Rhotacism (speech impediment): nominated at RM; New name: De-rhotacism 14:47, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The proposed new title was suggested along with De-rhotacization or De-rhotacisation, since that term is more accurate and NPOV, more common in speech pathology literature, and eliminates the need for a disambiguator. See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Linguistics#Rhotacism_(speech_impediment), where you may leave comments not related to moving this page.
- Hanna-Barbera's Cartoon Corral: nominated at RfD; Target: Hanna-Barbera (notified); notified 4.241.30.203 (talk · contribs) 04:14, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Non-notable compilation series redirected unilaterally in 2005, and no longer mentioned at target.
- Category:Federal buildings in the United States: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Buildings of the United States government; notified Doncram (talk · contribs) 00:11, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Duplicate category? Name of target category needs to be harmonized with wherever the two categories in Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_April_17#Category:Federal_buildings_in_Canada will be merged. Some items can be placed in a subcategory of the latter.
- Enhancement or quenching of QD, Q-wire and QW radiations: nominated at AfD; notified Stnhead (talk · contribs) 00:51, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Previous AfD closed as no consensus in 2009. There is no sourced content about the general topic, failing WP:SYNTH, and all non-lead content is about specific studies of zinc oxide nanoparticles; the title also reads like a scientific paper. Sourced content should be merged to Zinc oxide, Quantum dot, Quantum wire, and Quantum well. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Physics#Cleaning_Category:Physics_articles_needing_expert_attention
- Category:Acoustics articles needing expert attention: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Iceblock (talk · contribs) 16:18, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Empty and unlikely to be used, now that their parent Category:Physics articles needing expert attention has been cleaned. Contested C1.
- Cultural depictions of Philadelphia: nominated at AfD; notified Boothy443 (talk · contribs) 16:54, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE.
- Trucking industry in popular culture (United States): nominated at RM; New name: Trucking industry in American culture 16:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Odd disambiguator without a base title.
- Hoover Dam in popular culture: nominated at AfD; notified SamHolt6 (talk · contribs) 17:00, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE.
- Orange County, California, in popular culture: nominated at AfD; notified Barryjjoyce (talk · contribs) 19:00, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE.
- San Francisco in popular culture: nominated at AfD; notified DaveOinSF (talk · contribs) 19:06, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE. Even if this topic meets WP:GNG, there is no encyclopedic content worth keeping (cf. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Far future in fiction, on a similar list that got replaced by an encyclopedic overview), not least because the Category:San Francisco in fiction tree contains hundreds of articles.
- Tallahassee in popular culture: nominated at AfD; notified Noles1984 (talk · contribs) 19:08, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE.
- Mobile, Alabama, in popular culture: nominated at AfD; notified Вasil (talk · contribs) 19:10, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE.
- Savannah, Georgia, in popular culture: nominated at AfD; notified Absolon (talk · contribs) 19:13, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE. Despite the seemingly impressive number of sources, the vast majority are to IMDb, and there are none that are about the actual topic.
- Palm Springs in popular culture: nominated at AfD; notified Srich32977 (talk · contribs) 19:19, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE. Aside from that, the title fails MOS:USPLACE (should be Palm Springs, California), and the article is largely written as a catalog with a ridiculous load of external links.
- List of references to Miami in popular culture: nominated at AfD; notified SeminoleNation (talk · contribs) 19:26, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE. Even if the topic is notable, there is no encyclopedic content and the title should be Miami in popular culture.
- Pseudoscience in Pakistan: nominated at RfD; Target: Superstition in Pakistan (notified); notified Mar4d (talk · contribs) 01:02, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Non-neutral redirect. Pseudoscience is not discussed at the target, and frustrates users looking for, say, Pervez Hoodbhoy. This is the only redirect beginning with
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- Reason: Non-neutral redirect. Pseudoscience is not discussed at the target, and frustrates users looking for, say, Pervez Hoodbhoy. This is the only redirect beginning with
- Tyrium: nominated at RfD; Target: Neodymium (notified); notified Spangineer (talk · contribs) 17:45, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Not mentoned anywhere on Wikipedia.
- Astateen: nominated at RfD; Target: Astatine (notified); notified DudeWithAFeud (talk · contribs) 17:49, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Implausible misspelling. Has gained only 85 pageviews between July 2015 and March 2021, compared to 1680316 for the target.
- Astitene: nominated at RfD; Target: Astatine (notified); notified DudeWithAFeud (talk · contribs) 17:50, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Implausible misspelling. Has gained only 100 pageviews between July 2015 and March 2021, compared to 1680316 for the target.
- Pseudoscience (physics): nominated at AfD; notified 204.56.7.1 (talk · contribs) 04:34, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Article was redirected to Pseudoscience in December 2020 following discussion on the talk page, arguing that this is a redundant case study with no notability on its own — in other words, this is just the concept of pseudoscience as applied to physics. It was previously called Pseudophysics, but was unilaterally renamed in October 2020 as an apparently made-up neologism. The new title is not a plausible redirect.
- Category:Pseudophysics: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Pseudoscientific physics; notified Linas (talk · contribs) 04:36, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The former main article was moved to Pseudoscience (physics), then redirected to Pseudoscience as an apparently made-up neologism. That article is now at AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pseudoscience (physics). The proposed name also matches the subcategory Category:Pseudoscientific physicists.
- Alternative theories of quantum evolution: nominated at RM; New name: Quantum evolution (pseudoscience) 04:43, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Topic is unrelated to mainstream quantum evolution, which is a theory about transitional forms that does not involve quantum mechanics.
- Alternative theories of quantum evolution: nominated at AfD; notified Mchavez (talk · contribs) 04:44, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: {{priorxfd|Quantum evolution (alternative)}}It was noted during the current RM that this pseudoscientific hypothesis fails WP:GNG, with the only source not by proponents Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili being a rebuttal that is an arXiv preprint. The article subject is unrelated to the theory more commonly known as quantum evolution, which does not involve quantum mechanics.
- Talk:Minimal polynomial of 2cos(2pi/n): nominated at RM; New name: Real parts of roots of unity 13:14, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Implausible search term. See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Minimal_polynomial_of_2_cos(2π/n). Merger was considered, but we first need a better title at which to store the merged content for attribution.
- European Medical Command: nominated at RM; New name: Multinational Medical Coordination Centre/European Medical Command 13:40, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
- Template:Tc:: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Title case (notified); notified JsfasdF252 (talk · contribs) 17:37, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Potentially ambiguous abbreviation, and has a stray colon. One of many questionable pages created by this user.
- Template:Filename: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Samp (notified); notified JsfasdF252 (talk · contribs) 17:38, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Confusing, since the target template does not concern Wikipedia files. One of many questionable pages created by this user.
- Enclosure: nominated at RM; New name: Enclosure of land 21:03, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: A simple search engine query shows that there is no primary topic for this title.
- Template:StarKid Productions Cast: nominated at TfD; notified Eladkse (talk · contribs) 12:09, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Unused, highly specific templates.
- Category:Methyl indoles: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Methylindoles 16:26, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per main article Methylindole. The old title can be left as a redirect.
- Vinyl iodide: nominated at RfD; Target: Vinyl iodide functional group (notified); notified Awkwafaba (talk · contribs) 16:31, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: There is no article about the base compound. Should this redirect be deleted per WP:REDLINK, or should the target be moved over this redirect or to another title?
May 2021
- Category:Brindabani Sarang: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified ShubhanTelang (talk · contribs) 19:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: One article, which is already in the parent category. That article is Sarang (family of ragas); Brindabani Sarang is already in Category:Hindustani ragas.
- Kepler-155c: nominated at AfD; notified Jtadesse (talk · contribs) 06:43, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Fails WP:NASTRO, no significant coverage outside of comprehensive databases like the such as the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. One of many non-notable exoplanet articles created by Jtadesse (talk · contribs). Article deprodded by creator without improvement, who did not understand why comprhensive databases do not count toward notability per WP:ROUTINE. The host star Kepler 155 is also nominated at AfD.
- Kepler-1632b: nominated at AfD; notified Jtadesse (talk · contribs) 06:45, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Fails WP:NASTRO, no significant coverage outside of comprehensive databases like the such as the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. One of many non-notable exoplanet articles created by Jtadesse (talk · contribs). Article deprodded by creator without improvement, who did not understand why comprhensive databases do not count toward notability per WP:ROUTINE.
- Kepler-533: nominated at AfD; notified Jtadesse (talk · contribs) 06:45, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Fails WP:NASTRO, no significant coverage outside of comprehensive databases like the such as the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. One of many non-notable exoplanet articles created by Jtadesse (talk · contribs). Article deprodded by creator without improvement, who did not understand why comprhensive databases do not count toward notability per WP:ROUTINE.
- Category:Articles using template 'Track gauge' with unrecognized input: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Articles using Template:Track gauge with unrecognized input 12:36, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- DACAPO: nominated at AfD; notified 80.164.200.77 (talk · contribs) 13:20, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- Category:Several complex variables: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Functions of several complex variables 14:53, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per main article Function of several complex variables.
- Category:Philosophy/Science articles needing expert attention: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Renamed user 7hq09uwypo226qfc (talk · contribs) 15:14, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Sole article was Philosophy of color, where the {{Expert needed}} tag was tag-bombed based on a misunderstanding of modern color science.
- Colorfulness: nominated at RM; New name: Colorfulness, chroma, and saturation 15:18, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Lead claims that this article is about three slightly different, but overlapping, topics, with topics defined by the International Commission on Illumination.
- Category:Color articles needing expert attention: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Iceblock (talk · contribs) 15:23, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This category contained two articles, but is now empty. The tag on Colorfulness seems to be based on an issue that the lead had in 2011, which may already have been resolved. The tag on HCL color space lacked a reason or talk parameter, but has been replaced by {{Unfocused}} based on the talk page.
- Category:Blu-ray articles needing expert attention: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Iceblock (talk · contribs) 15:35, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Already overly specific, the tag on the sole article BD+ was removed for being unclear and likely having been resolved since its addition in 2008.
- Category:Bear idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to bears 04:13, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Cat idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to cats 04:14, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Cattle idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to cattle 04:15, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Dog idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to dogs 04:15, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Fish idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to fish 04:16, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Horse idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to horses 04:16, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Monkey idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to monkeys 04:17, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Pig idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to pigs 04:18, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Sheep and goat idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to sheep or goats 04:19, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Snake idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to snakes 04:19, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Tiger idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to tigers 04:20, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Wolf idioms: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Metaphors referring to wolves 04:20, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals.
- Category:Group 4 silicides: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Transition metal silicides; notified Plasmic Physics (talk · contribs) 22:13, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SMALLCAT: Only 2 articles, one of which is a heavier congener of the other.
- Category:Never-built Disney attractions: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Unbuilt Disney attractions 02:56, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Part of the Category:Unbuilt buildings and structures category tree.
- Category:Articles using template 'Track gauge' with unrecognized input: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Articles using Template:Track gauge with unrecognized input; notified DePiep (talk · contribs) 15:28, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: To match other tracking categories whose name refer to a specific template, such as Category:Articles using Template:Episode table with invalid colour combination. Contested CFDS (permalink).
- Pseudophysics: nominated at RfD; Target: Pseudoscience (notified); notified Footlessmouse (talk · contribs) 19:51, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This was the original title of an article Pseudoscience (physics) about a non-notable neologism defined as pseudoscience in the domain of physics. After a convoluted process, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pseudoscience (physics) (2nd nomination) resolved to delete the article and redirect to List of topics characterized as pseudoscience#Physics.
- Category:Mythological cosmologies: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Religious cosmologies 22:26, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Not distinct enough, as evidenced by their contents and especially their subcategories. Main article is titled Religious cosmology.
- Existential threats: nominated at RfD; Target: Global catastrophic risk (notified); notified Gwern (talk · contribs) 05:26, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The singular form, Existential threat, was deleted in a January RfD because it is too vague.
- List of regimes: nominated at AfD; notified Hanteng (talk · contribs) 02:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: I can't make any sense of this article, not least because the countries are indexed in a confusing manner; it looks like the article is poorly titled as well as it seems instead to be a list of countries by current regime — in 2008! The article is based entirely on a comparison of the Democracy-Dictatorship Index, Polity data series, and MaxRange index in 2008, already well out of date at time of creation in 2014. The two indices with their own articles already include the full list of countries there.
June 2021
- User talk:Aravindreddydorla: nominated at MfD; notified Aravindreddydorla (talk · contribs) 00:42, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Abandoned talk-space WP:FAKEARTICLE of a user whose only edit ever was creating this page. Probably redundant to Dubbaka, with out of date information; Telangana was split from Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
- Category:Racemate: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Racemic mixtures; notified Magnoffiq (talk · contribs) 08:31, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per would-be main article Racemic mixture. Article is also not plural.
- Category:Peptidase: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Proteases; notified Alexbateman (talk · contribs) 18:56, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per main article Protease, is a set category.
- Names of the Basque Country (in Spanish): nominated at RM; New name: Spanish names of the Basque Country 10:51, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Misuse of disambiguator.
- List of Calgary Transit bus routes: nominated at AfD; notified Billscottbob (talk · contribs) 14:21, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: AN IP user 24.64.238.121 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) PRODded this article for being extremely outdated with references dating to 2011 or earlier, which is not a valid reason for deletion. However, the references are few, and I'd like to ask if this list of bus routes is encyclopedic per WP:NOTTRAVEL.
- Ferrocenium: nominated at RfD; Target: Ferrocenium tetrafluoroborate (notified); notified Rifleman 82 (talk · contribs) 16:55, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: We also have Ferrocenium hexafluorophosphate, but only the main Ferrocene article discusses the ion itself.
- Category:Zincblende crystal structure: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Materials with the sphalerite crystal stucture; notified Forbes72 (talk · contribs) 17:17, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The article about the structure and titular mineral is Sphalerite. Also, this is mainly about materials, so the title should clearly state this.
- Category:NaCl structure: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Materials with the halite structure; notified Forbes72 (talk · contribs) 17:20, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Should not use an abbreviation, but am uncertain whether it should instead refer to "sodium chloride", "halite", or "rock salt".
- Hokkaido Ainu langauge: nominated at RfD; Target: Ainu language (notified); notified Kwamikagami (talk · contribs) 23:06, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- Beryllate: nominated at RfD; Target: wiktionary:Special:Search/beryllate (notified); notified Saga City (talk · contribs) 23:08, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: We are doing a disservice by directing readers to Wiktionary instead of having an article about the topic.
- Category:Kingdoms of old Sri Lanka: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Abhilasha Will (talk · contribs) 23:34, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Duplicate of Category:Kingdoms of Sri Lanka.
- Category:Sylheti dialects: nominated at CfDS (C2F); New name: Category:Sylheti language 19:38, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: One eponymous article, which is already in the larger category.
- Category:Sylheti writing system: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Slake000 (talk · contribs) 19:40, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Only 3 pages, one of which is proposed for deletion and all of which are already in Category:Sylheti language. Fails WP:SMALLCAT.
- Bilingual Sylheti Speakers: nominated at AfD; notified Slake000 (talk · contribs) 21:58, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The article contains no sources showing that the topic itself is notable, only passing statements that most Sylheti-speaking people are bilingual, failing WP:SYNTH; not sure yet if content can be merged to Sylheti language. One of several problematic articles created by Slake000 (talk · contribs) in this topic area; more details at ANI.
- Sylheti Braille: nominated at AfD; notified Slake000 (talk · contribs) 23:44, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: I PRODded this article because it was immediately obvious from search that there are no non-mirror references from anyone except the creator of this script. It was deprodded by the creator, who demanded "further review" and pulled up a reference in their edit summary ([18] from The Hindu) that does not mention the Sylheti language. That user, Slake000 (talk · contribs), has a history of problematic edits in this topic area; see ANI for details.
- Category:Thiometallates: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Sulfur ions; notified Benjah-bmm27 (talk · contribs) 00:57, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: I don't see any other metal sulfide anions anywhere on Wikipedia. Fails WP:SMALLCAT.
- Category:Boron-nitrogen compounds: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Boron–nitrogen compounds 01:02, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:ENDASH.
- Bolsovirus: nominated at RfD; Target: Jair Bolsonaro (notified); notified CaradhrasAiguo (talk · contribs) 01:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Non-neutral term not mentioned in the target, or anywhere else. Possible attack page.
- Category:Sulphur mining: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Sulfur mining 06:34, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Sulfur, as well as all other non-geo-specific categories in the Category:Sulfur tree, use the IUPAC spelling.
- Malalasekara Dictionary: nominated at AfD; notified Abhilasha Will (talk · contribs) 19:24, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Deprodded by the creator, Abhilasha Will (talk · contribs), without explanation or improvement. The original concern, by Dan arndt (talk · contribs), read: Fails WP:NBOOK, lacks any reliable secondary sources. The creator has had several problematic pages deleted or nominated for deletion, including an article about the same topic that was speedy deleted as a copyright violation.
- Category:Anti–death penalty laws: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Anti-death penalty laws 10:25, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:Anti–death penalty treaties: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Anti-death penalty treaties 10:27, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- List of domes: nominated at RfD; Target: List of largest domes (notified); notified Citynoise (talk · contribs) 19:37, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:XY. We also have List of tallest domes, List of domes in France, List of Roman domes, and List of Ottoman domes. Recommend creating a list of lists in place at Lists of domes.
- Category:Anti–death penalty activists: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Anti-death penalty activists 20:29, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:Anti–death penalty activists by nationality: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Anti-death penalty activists by nationality 20:29, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:American anti–death penalty activists: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:American anti-death penalty activists 20:30, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:British anti–death penalty activists: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:British anti–death penalty activists 20:31, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:Canadian anti–death penalty activists: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Canadian anti–death penalty activists 20:31, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:French anti–death penalty activists: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:French anti-death penalty activists 20:32, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:Iranian anti–death penalty activists: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Iranian anti-death penalty activists 20:33, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:Japanese anti–death penalty activists: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Japanese anti-death penalty activists 20:34, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:Anti–death penalty organizations: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Anti-death penalty organizations 20:34, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:Anti–death penalty organizations in the United States: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Anti-death penalty organizations in the United States 20:35, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:HYPHEN
- Category:Near-Mars objects: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified DH85868993 (talk · contribs) 20:50, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Main article Near-Mars object is proposed for deletion as a neologism not supported by the sources.
- Template:Naftalan: nominated at TfD; notified Carlossuarez46 (talk · contribs) 02:55, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Empty navbox for a single town of about 10,000 people.
- File:StarComesToEarthFlamingMewni.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified OmegaFallon (talk · contribs) 19:57, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: There is consensus against using a screenshot to illustrate an episode infobox unless something in the screenshot is the subject of sourced critical commentary. I.e., fails WP:NFCC#8.
- Abigail Cowen: nominated at RfD; Target: Fate: The Winx Saga (notified); notified AngusWOOF (talk · contribs) 06:51, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
- Absolute hot: nominated at AfD; notified Remember (talk · contribs) 20:11, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: PRODded by Quondum (talk · contribs) as a neologism originating in a NOVA epsiode that fails WP:NEO, and does not appear elsewhere. The deprodder, Jackattack1597 (talk · contribs), did not provide any sources that prove notability. See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Physics#Absolute_hot.The content is entirely about two different topics (Planck temperature and Hagedorn temperature) discussed separately, so it may fail WP:SYNTH as well.
- OgTs₄: nominated at AfD; notified Cyberixae (talk · contribs) 21:46, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Deprodded while providing only a primary source for this predicted compound of two elements too unstable to conduct chemical experiments.
July 2021
- Category:Holocaust denial in Japan: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Antisemitism in Japan; notified Paleontologist99 (talk · contribs) 21:35, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SMALLCAT, only article is Shūkanshi.
- Category:Silatranes: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Atranes; notified Zakblade2000 (talk · contribs) 21:57, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Not enough content to justify a. Can't be merged further because the atranes don't fit anywhere but in Category:Heterocyclic compounds (3 rings).
- Talk:Anti-schooling activism: nominated at RM; New name: Criticism of schooling 17:55, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The article, as currently written, contains minimal content about an actual movement, instead focusing entirely on their arguments. (There may be a better title than the one I proposed.)
- Quantum Engineering: nominated at RM (technical); New name: Quantum engineering 19:37, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Not a proper noun.
- Sans (character): nominated at RM; New name: Sans (Undertale) 15:59, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Fictional elements are disambiguated by work or franchise of origin.
- 2 1/2D: nominated at RM; New name: 2 1/2-dimensional manufacturing 04:27, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- List of people barred or excluded from the United States: nominated at RM; New name: List of people banned from entering the United States 21:53, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:CONSISTENCY with List of people banned from entering Australia and the similar lists for Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
- List of people declared personae non gratae in Azerbaijan: nominated at RM; New name: List of people banned from entering Azerbaijan 21:54, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:CONSISTENCY with List of people banned from entering Australia and the similar lists for Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
- Dead Ringers (comedy): nominated at RM; New name: Dead Ringers (radio and TV programme) 15:16, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: "Comedy" is not a standard disambiguator for media. If this radio and TV programme should be classified as a series, then the correct disambiguator is Dead Ringers (radio and TV series). Or should "TV" be listed first?
- The Girl With The Louding Voice: nominated at RM (technical); New name: The Girl with the Louding Voice 16:18, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Capitalization of prepositions
- File:Jeremiah Ogbodo.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Nkemonwudiwe (talk · contribs) 16:42, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Almost identical to File:Photo of Jeremiah Ogbodo.jpg, which is what is actually used in Jeremiah Ogbodo.
- Pesaha Appam: nominated at RM (technical); New name: Pesaha appam 18:59, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Not a proper noun
- DC Admission Act: nominated at RM; New name: D.C. Admission Act 02:37, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Should articles use DC or D.C. every time the District of Columbia is abbreviated? MOS:ABBR does not yet address this acronym.
- Category:L-type supergiants: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:L-type stars; notified StringTheory11 (talk · contribs) 16:18, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Possible WP:SMALLCAT, only entry is V838 Monocerotis.
- Category:L-type subdwarfs: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:L-type stars; notified StringTheory11 (talk · contribs) 16:20, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SMALLCAT, 2MASS J05325346+8246465 is the only known object of its kind.
- Arsonic acids: nominated at RM; New name: Arsonic acid (functional group) 22:59, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Singular is preferred for functional groups, per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Chemistry/Compound classes.
- Category:Arsine oxides: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Organoarsenic compounds; notified Zakblade2000 (talk · contribs) 23:01, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SMALLCAT, only article is Phenylarsine oxide. Also inaccurate, as this compound is not an arsenic analog of a phosphine oxide.
- Biodynamic: nominated at AfD; notified Apers0n (talk · contribs) 15:09, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: 3 WP:PTM's, one of which does not even mention this word. Deprodded without explanation or improvement.
- Category:Teen Titans Go! (TV series): nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Teen Titans Go! 06:05, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Main article was recently renamed to Teen Titans Go!.
- Category:Teen Titans Go! (TV series) episode redirects to lists: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Teen Titans Go! episode redirects to lists 06:06, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Main article was recently renamed to Teen Titans Go!.
- Category:Teen Titans Go! (TV series) images: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Teen Titans Go! images 06:07, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Main article was renamed to simply Teen Titans Go!.
- Category:Romanian people convicted of the international crime of aggression: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:People convicted of the international crime of aggression; notified Good Olfactory (talk · contribs) 06:13, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SMALLCAT, only 2 entries. Notably, the proposed merge target contains only a subcat layer by nationality.
- Template:Uw-islamhon1: nominated at RM; New name: Template:Uw-islamhon 17:00, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: A recent TfD voted to convert this to a single-issue warning; levels 2 and 3 now redirect to the {{uw-mos1}} series.
- Category:10th millennium: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Le Deluge (talk · contribs) 23:39, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SMALLCAT, contains only Clock of the Long Now and is highly unlikely to be expanded. I'm not sure where else in Category:Future that article should go, apart from Category:Long Now Foundation where it is already included.
- Category:Television series set in the 5th millennium: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Fiction set in the 5th millennium; notified Le Deluge (talk · contribs) 23:43, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SMALLCAT, only article is Wayward Pines and I don't think there are any more TV series in the target category.
- Category:Arses (genus): nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Arses (bird) 05:44, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Main article moved unilaterally on March 29, per accepted naming conventions for genera.
- List of largest nebulae: nominated at AfD; notified Asyulus (talk · contribs) 18:30, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Deprodded in January 2021 by Andrew Davidson (talk · contribs) without explanation or improvement, 2 hours before it was eligible for deletion. The PRODder, SkyFlubbler (talk · contribs), was concerned that this list is woefully incomplete to the point of being inaccurate, is based entirely on WP:SYNTH, mixes different size metrics for non-compact objects, and fails WP:LISTN. There are also concerns that it inappropriately lumps together Lyman-alpha blobs and high-velocity clouds with other types that are much smaller. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of largest galaxies, a similar AfD from 2018.
- Category:Quantum Lattice models: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Quantum lattice models 06:07, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Miscapitalized.
- Category:Barnwal: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Raaj Tilak (talk · contribs) 19:51, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:SMALLCAT: Not enough content to expand the categories, aside from Baranwal itself and Modi (surname).
- Category:Wormhole theory: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Wormholes; notified ErkDemon (talk · contribs) 06:32, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
- Category:Dying Earth subgenre: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Dying Earth genre 09:07, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
- The Dying of the Light (WFRP): nominated at RM; New name: The Dying of the Light (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay) 09:14, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Expand abbreviation
- Heisenberg model (quantum): nominated at RM; New name: Quantum Heisenberg model 09:48, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Consistent with Classical Heisenberg model, WP:NATURALDIS.
- Prime decomposition (3-manifold): nominated at RM; New name: Prime decomposition of 3-manifolds 10:35, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:NATURALDIS, weird disambiguator choice.
- Category:2.82812 hyperbolic volume knots and links: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Hyacinth (talk · contribs) 12:06, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: There are finitely many knots for any given hyperbolic volume, so this category possibly fails WP:SMALLCAT. This is the only category of its kind, despite the existence of a parent category.
- Category:Non-hyperbolic knots and links: nominated at CfD (CfD) 12:16, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: We typically don't categorize things by what they are not, i.e. Category:Hyperbolic knots and links. In this case, the category is redundant to the disjoint union of Category:Satellite knots and links and Category:Torus knots and links because all knots and links can be cleanly classified as either torus, satellite, or hyperbolic (Thurston 1980).Note that if this category and the one immediately beneath are deleted, then Category:Knots and links by hyperbolic volume will be empty.
- File:SimpsonsCards.jpg: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Wimpyguy (talk · contribs) 06:33, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: There is no sourced commentary on the fictional film Cards in the "Mommie Beerest" article. You are welcome to improve the coverage if you wish.
August 2021
- Monturaqui crater: nominated at RM (technical); New name: Monturaqui 00:10, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Unnecessary disambiguation, only topic with this name.
- Three-torus: nominated at RM; New name: 3-torus 02:22, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Most results I'm seeing in Google Scholar are about the 3-dimensional torus T3, not the orientable surface with genus 3. The search term "3-torus" gives 8,350 results, vs. 2,730 for "three-torus".
- Generic object of dark energy: nominated at AfD; notified Drbogdan (talk · contribs) 20:35, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Fails WP:NEO: While there may be a notable topic being described here (possibly the same as Dark-energy star), there is no significant usage of the term independent of K. S. Croker (Kcroker (talk · contribs)) aside from churnalism-type coverage. Possible WP:SYNTH issues as well.
- Category:Dark concepts: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified PlanetStar (talk · contribs) 22:39, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Apparent WP:SHAREDNAME — this category includes everything from Dark chocolate to Category:Dark web. Its subcategory is a bit more coherent, but it may fail SHAREDNAME as well.
- Category:Negative concepts: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified PlanetStar (talk · contribs) 22:57, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This category contains some coherent clumps of related topics, such as negative number-related topics, but has largely become a WP:SHAREDNAME of various things called "negative X" — for example, Negative space is an artistic technique. About one-third of the contents are redirects that specifically contain the word (e.g. Negative proton → Antiproton).
- HD 24496 Ab: nominated at RfD; Target: HD 24496 (notified); notified Kepler-1229b (talk · contribs) 23:03, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Previously deleted by PROD due to lack of evidence of existence, but was then recreated as a redirect after it had been scrubbed from the host star's article.
- Category:Double torus knots: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Double torus knots and links 23:21, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Not specific to knots — double torus links are possible as well.
- Water retention on mathematical surfaces: nominated at RM; New name: Water retention on random surfaces 20:42, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The title of this article does not accurately reflect the article scope, which focuses entirely on grids with squares of varying height. After removing some WP:SPS-based magic square fancruft putting undue emphasis on a highly specific problem from a single programming contest, the only remaining content is entirely on a model consisting of a grid with squares of random height.
- Category:Non-habitable Mega-Earths: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Jtadesse (talk · contribs) 04:28, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Very few Mega-Earths are known, and the category is also defined in the negative for habitability. Both members are already in the sole parent, Category:Mega-Earths.
- Category:Disproven exoplanets: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Disproved exoplanets; notified Kepler-1229b (talk · contribs) 05:16, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: A rename proposal for Category:Disproved conjectures to Category:Disproven conjectures was rejected, so it makes sense to rename this page for consistency. No other category names begin with Disproved or Disproven, so C2C does not apply.
- Aluminium monohydroxide: nominated at RM; New name: Aluminium(I) hydroxide 23:46, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This is the only member of Category:Hydroxides that uses a prefix in front of hydroxide, and rare oxidation state variants such as aluminium(I) oxide are typically disambiguated using stock nomenclature.
- Denmark at major beauty pageants: nominated at AfD; notified T4mb4y 22 (talk · contribs) 06:40, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Additional articles::Dominican Republic at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views):Ecuador at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views):Egypt at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views):El Salvador at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views):England at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views):Estonia at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views):Ethiopia at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views):Fiji at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views):Finland at major beauty pageants (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)This is the fourth batch nomination of 10 articles in the "X country at major beauty pageants" series in Category:Nations at beauty pageants (see User:Asartea/Pageants AFD for the full list). Like the pilot article deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belize at major beauty pageants, these lists are entirely WP:IINFO, and also WP:SYNTH due to containing no sources about all the Big Four international beauty pageants. We'd better move faster, since there will be 9 more batches like this and Albania at major beauty pageants and Brazil at major beauty pageants were recreated after deletion.In the last AfD there was a proposal to initiate an ANI report about the creation of these articles by several different users, with reference to the WP:COLOUR-related one that led to these AfDs.
- Ror (disambiguation): nominated at RM; New name: ROR 15:37, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The majority of items on this list are acronyms, hence the title fails MOS:DABNAME. Moved unilaterally by Grant65 (talk · contribs) in December 2018.
- Raja Dhaj: nominated at AfD; notified Rorkadian (talk · contribs) 16:33, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: I just blanked almost the entire article because it couldn't tell fact from fiction and contained a a substantial amount of content that was about the folktale Sorath Rai Diyach instead of this ruler. Everything else was entirely based on WP:SPS. It is unclear if this is actually the same person as Rai Diyach in Sorath Rai Diyach, but I think this guy (who allegedly founded the Ror Dynasty, according to the only remaining source) fails WP:GNG.
- France at major beauty pageants: nominated at AfD; notified Mrdhimas (talk · contribs) 06:02, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason:
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At the advice of Dream Focus (talk · contribs) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denmark at major beauty pageants, there is no real point in nominating these articles in batches anymore — the contents are pretty much identical (side-by-side presentation of data on participants at the Big Four international beauty pageants, even with identical formatting and all) consensus is pretty much rock solid for deleting them as WP:IINFO and WP:SYNTH, and due to the User:Asartea/Pageants AFD, 129 countries and territories will be covered by G4 should they get recreated. So goes 88 more articles as presented here. Big WP:AWBREQ excercise coming up.
- Reason:
- List of premiers of British Crown Colony of Burma: nominated at RM; New name: List of premiers of the Burma Office 09:21, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The title is missing an article the, but I'm not familiar enough with this topic area to decide on what the title should be. The timeframe in this article coincides with the Burma Office.
- Kitty Empire: nominated at AfD; notified Lifebonzza (talk · contribs) 07:17, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: PRODded twice after the last AfD in December 2010, once in October 2018 and again today. Was redirected unilaterally in July 2014 for lack of secondary sources, but was restored at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2015_January_14#Kitty_Empire.
- Grant County (Karin Slaughter): nominated at AfD; notified WebmasterBeth (talk · contribs) 08:43, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The article has zero references and only the barest of real-world information, and is written in an entirely in-universe style, to the point that I had to move it from Grant County, Georgia. The novel series named under this title is likely notable from GScholar search, but the fictional location is not, and the article would need to be rewritten from scratch to be encyclopedic.
- List of Indian singers: nominated at RfD; Target: List of Indian playback singers (notified); notified 3xzafar (talk · contribs) 09:16, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Redirect is too broad in scope for the target, which is only for playback singers.
- Ongar, Sindh: nominated at RfD; Target: History of Sindh (notified); notified Lupin (talk · contribs) 21:01, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: No longer mentioned in article. This was an unreferenced stub that was redirected in 2012 as an unattributed copy of content added to the target, then the content at the target was removed in 2016 for the same reason.
- Dodo Bin Khafef Soomro III: nominated at RfD; Target: Soomra dynasty (notified); notified Wasimawan (talk · contribs) 21:51, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Redirected unilaterally to a page that no longer mentions this person, allegedly one of its rulers.
- Khafif: nominated at RfD; Target: Soomra dynasty (notified); notified Intothefire (talk · contribs) 21:53, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Yet another article unilaterally redirected by TrangaBellam (talk · contribs) to a target that no longer mentioned this subject, allegedly the founder of the Soomra dynasty.
- Category:Mechanics articles needing expert attention: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Bbanerje (talk · contribs) 12:39, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Only article has has its tag removed for being unclear, and this category does not correspond to any WikiProject.
- Daniel Chong (animator): nominated at RM; New name: Daniel Chong 04:49, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: This article consistently receives around 5 times the pageviews of Incarceration of Daniel Chong; views for the redirect Daniel Chong to that page are almost nonexistent. Search engine test was inconclusive since there are many other people with the same name.
- Intersection form (4-manifold): nominated at RM; New name: Intersection form of a 4-manifold 05:27, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:NATURALDIS, and not a distinct concept from the kind defined in Intersection theory. I'd prefer that 4-manifold be plural, but it proved too awkward to square with the singular form required for the head of the noun phrase. If moved, the disambiguation page Intersection form will be redirected to Intersection_theory#Topological_intersection_form.
- Kate Ambush: nominated at RfD; Target: Clarence Thomas (notified); notified 68.165.213.66 (talk · contribs) 09:26, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Not mentioned at the target. Short-lived BLP microstub allegedly about a former wife of Thomas.
- Template:Lists of presidents of India: nominated at TfD; notified Ganeshk (talk · contribs) 16:58, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Mostly redlinks; 2 of the 3 bluelinked articles other than main List of presidents of India are currently nominated for deletion, and the remaining List of presidents of India by previous experience is questionable as well.
- Societal views on patents: nominated at RM; New name: Criticism of patents 18:24, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The article focuses exclusively on one side of the debate. Also aligns with related articles such as Criticism of copyright.
- List of product failures: nominated at RfD; Target: Failure (notified); notified Mydogategodshat (talk · contribs) 03:15, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: No list at the target. Was merged in 2003 into an article which would eventually be renamed to List of miscellaneous commercial failures, and then deleted by AfD in 2007. This redirect survived because a bot corrected a double-redirect to Flop, and then Deathphoenix (talk · contribs) changed the target to its current location.
- Category:Rail transport in fiction: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Fiction about rail transport; notified AmosWolfe (talk · contribs) 04:50, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: As with several similar categories, to ensure that entries have this subject matter as a defining trait_ which, from the titles alone, most of them do.
September 2021
- Phantom vehicle: nominated at AfD; notified 164.106.201.50 (talk · contribs) 02:17, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: WP:PROFRINGE article that consists solely of a WP:SYNTH of anecdotes and urban legends of mysterious incidents involving cars that allegedly vanished or operated without drivers. See also Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Phantom_vehicle.
- Jack Angel (SHC): nominated at RM 09:29, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: The acronym (for spontaneous human combustion) is undesirable, especially since this is an alleged SHC victim rather than an SHC, but I'm not sure what else to replace it with.
- Silq: nominated at AfD; notified Trinity112233 (talk · contribs) 07:14, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: New quantum programming language that likely fails WP:GNG. Based entirely on primary and PR-like sources. WP:BEFORE mostly shows the same, plus unrelated topics with the same name.
- Employees' Provident Fund (Sri Lanka)): nominated at RfD; Target: Employees' Provident Fund (Sri Lanka) (notified); notified Obi2canibe (talk · contribs) 21:27, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
October 2021
- Songololo: nominated at RM; New name: Songololo, Democratic Republic of the Congo 18:35, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Most English-language search results for this name seem to be about a South African English name for millipedes, or something else entirely. The spelling variant Shongololo already redirects to Millipede.
- High-density: nominated at RfD; Target: Disk density (notified); notified Matthiaspaul (talk · contribs) 18:58, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Overly generic redirect, see also intitle:high-density.
- Category:Celebrity doctors: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified QuackGuru (talk · contribs) 19:02, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Does this category for medical professionals with "extensive media exposure" (per main article Celebrity doctor) fail WP:SUBJECTIVECAT? For example, Ruth Westheimer is described as a sex therapist and media personality, but not as a "celebrity doctor".
November 2021
- Hypothetical chemical compound: nominated at AfD; notified A876 (talk · contribs) 21:31, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Appears to be a dictionary definition with few sources and a good chunk of original research; not much evidence of discussion as a general, standalone topic, as opposed to methods such as the Born–Haber cycle for predicting compounds. The only sources are one about a claimed observation of ethylene dione, and a book that discusses a lot of theoretical chemistry in the context of crystallography, but also does not discuss hypothetical compounds by themselves. Not every category needs a main article.
- Category:Crowd crushes in 2021: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Human stampedes in 2021; notified WWGB (talk · contribs) 22:07, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Duplicate category without any parents.
- Category:NPOV disputes: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes; notified Eequor (talk · contribs) 22:21, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Expand abbreviation, match higher Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view.
- Template:POV check: nominated at TfD (merge); Other template: Template:POV; notified Poccil (talk · contribs) 22:55, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: We don't conventionally segregate maintenance into "this is a known or likely problem" and "we think there may be a problem, but we're not sure" because we cannot trust other Wikipedians to check the article for claimed issues. I discussed this in 2019 at Template_talk:POV_check/Archive_1#RfC:_Regarding_usefulness_and_effectiveness, and what little discussion it achieved indicated that people consider this category to be redundant. Here's an updated graph of the number of articles in the respective maintenance categories, Category:Articles needing POV-check and Category:NPOV disputes, broken down by month.:
Despite being populated by other templates, it is clear that these two templates are used in essentially the same manner, and the backlog for Template:POV check is more poorly maintained, perhaps due to its relative obscurity. As per SMcCandlish (talk · contribs), "The tide has shifted [since the previous merge proposal in 2005], and [Template:POV check] no longer seems to serve a distinct purpose."Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
- Reason: We don't conventionally segregate maintenance into "this is a known or likely problem" and "we think there may be a problem, but we're not sure" because we cannot trust other Wikipedians to check the article for claimed issues. I discussed this in 2019 at Template_talk:POV_check/Archive_1#RfC:_Regarding_usefulness_and_effectiveness, and what little discussion it achieved indicated that people consider this category to be redundant. Here's an updated graph of the number of articles in the respective maintenance categories, Category:Articles needing POV-check and Category:NPOV disputes, broken down by month.:
- List of largest megalopolises: nominated at AfD; notified RealIK17 (talk · contribs) 23:17, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Deprodded without explanation, although the original PROD rationale (
Duplicates existing articles: List_of_largest_cities, List_of_largest_cities_by_area, List_of_countries_by_largest_and_second_largest_cities
) was a bit off. My concern is that the article fails WP:LISTN, WP:NOTSTATS, and WP:OR: All the data are unreferenced, and the only two references are in the lead about the term megalopolis. Worse yet, the creator claimed that all the data came from other Wikipedia articles. I could foresee a List of megalopolises that has better sourcing than the one in the Megalopolis article, but not this.
- Reason: Deprodded without explanation, although the original PROD rationale (
- Strange but true: nominated at AfD; notified Eep² (talk · contribs) 23:29, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: PRODded per WP:DICDEF, then deprodded by recently topic-banned Andrew Davidson (talk · contribs) without explanation. Just a dictionary definition without any encyclopedic information.
- List of Algonquin Chiefs: nominated at AfD; notified CJLippert (talk · contribs) 00:52, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Prodded by IronGargoyle (talk · contribs) with concern
Almost completely unreferenced list of non-notable individuals
, but deprodded without explanation by Andrew Davidson (talk · contribs). The article is grossly incomplete, the only bluelink is William Commanda, and the only source is a primary reference about one of the listed First Nations.
- Reason: Prodded by IronGargoyle (talk · contribs) with concern
- Bill French: nominated at RM; New name: Bill French (baseball) 06:10, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: No reason why this stub could be any more notable than Bill French (footballer), both having played a long time ago. Bill French is also the real name of Bill Warner (writer).
- Halloween solar storms, 2003: nominated at RM; New name: Halloween solar storms 07:43, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Unnecessary disambiguation, possibly, but definitely matches an outdated naming convention for elections; suggest Solar storm of 2003 as an alternative.
- Silver oxide: nominated at RM; New name: Silver(I) oxide 08:20, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Although silver is predominantly monovalent, there is also a silver(I,III) oxide that is important. That's the same reason Silver(I) fluoride is disambiguated from Silver(II) fluoride and two other silver fluorides.
- 2032 in sports: nominated at AfD; notified Mwiqdoh (talk · contribs) 08:26, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Per WP:TOOSOON, only listed events are the Olympics and Paralympics. 2029 in sports, 2030 in sports, and 2034 in sports are currently up for WP:PROD and I will bring those to AfD if that fails.