Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron – Rescue list/Archive 2
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February 2012
Corey Smith (artist) – AfD discussion closed as No Consensus. |
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I saw this at AfD, but I'm not sure about this one, so I thought that I would toss it this way in case someone felt it could be worked on. The subject appears to have been a professional snowboarder, so WP:ATHLETE might have applied, but there is no evidence that I've seen to say what level of competition he competed in. Otherwise, there are sources online and in the article, but they need to be evaluated. The author is trying hard in the AfD, but doesn't really seem comfortable with the process, and I'm not in a position to help at the moment one way or the other. It could do with different eyes. - Bilby (talk) 04:50, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
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Aziz Shavershian – AfD discussion closed as No Consensus. |
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Hello, Is it possible for someone to assist me in improving this article ~ to avoid deletion? The subject is a bodybuilder and internet personality who is dead (has been for half a year) and has been nominated for deletion under WP:BLP1E. The subject has had coverage prior and post death - has published a book - casted in a upcoming series - has own protein line - viral videos - a "cult following" (as says in a source). The subject passes WP:GNG. Please assist, thank you, -- MST☆R (Chat Me!) 05:04, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
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It Must be Nice – AfD discussion closed as Delete. |
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Hi. I believe another user Dennis Brown has used vexation as a reason to submit this article for deletion, as he "got tired" of discussing the article on the article's talk page. Prior to submitting the article, the user had made statements on the talk page inferring that the article was worth improving and outright admitting that it was worth keeping or he would have submitted it for Afd previously. Here is the quote: "As for the tags, it was tagged to encourage others to find more references, not to get it deleted. If I wanted to send it to AFD I would have. Once the movie comes out, there is a chance that better references will come along, and the tag is there to tell people they need to be added." Then he proceeded to strip the article down to a stub and then submit it for deletion as a stub without references. This was because he claims he "got tired" of discussing it on the talk page and after not even remotely trying to reach any kind of compromise on his scorched earth, delete everything mentality. He and one other user (Ckatz) have questioned the article's notability, even though the article has met that criteria on many levels, in that the filmmaker is a recent Academy Award winner and an Academy Award nominee and other notable actors are in the film, including a famous cult film actor. The article also had several independent sources. The sources were all independent media interviews and or print articles on the filmmakers and cast in which the film was discussed. The article has met all the criteria for inclusion both in film notability per WP:ENT and general notability as well as all requirements for for inclusion as an "upcoming film" (where the bar is set at having two independent sources and evidence that the film is past the stage of "principal photography"). Furthermore, after Dennis Brown and Ckatz together stripped the article down to a stub and removed all the references, and then one submitted it for deletion (to hide the evidence)... after I tried to restore the souces so Afd users would see the source, user Dennis Brown then reverted those sources again stating that the sources were deleted because they "were not there when it was submitted by him for Afd" and therefore should not be there, inferring that the article is "frozen" once submitted to Afd. One of the people commenting on the Afd said that it was wrong for him to say that. I think it is more than wrong. I think it is malicious. I think it proves the point that this user and the other one who wrangled him into doing this Ckatz are working as a tag team who are using vexation as a reason for deletion and not common sense or good faith. They are creating false levels of notability and false levels of criteria's for inclusion which simply don't exist and which no film could meet. If a filmmaker being a recent Academy Award winner is not enough notability, I don't know what is. If they want to rewrite the standards for notability for film and exclude Academy Award winners then they should be consistent and not just attack one article. Delete all the films that are made by Academy Award winners then. That would make sense. ; ) - Catpowerzzz (talk) 00:41, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
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Dispute about Jesus' execution method
Dispute about Jesus' execution method – AfD discussion closed as Keep. |
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The subject of the article is notable, there is no question in that and no one even denies the notability on the Afd page. The rationale in the Afd nomination was to "delete some of the content" because it may be POV! But the quality of content is no reason for deletion, given the notability. If a user wants to delete content he should build consensus for deletion using proper Wikipedia policies, not use an Afd as a "means for content deletion". Afd is not for dispute resolution over content. The article needs to be rescued, given its undisputed notability. History2007 (talk) 09:01, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
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Fair-Value Accounting's Role in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis – AfD discussion closed as No Consensus. (Article moved to The role of fair value accounting in the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008.) |
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As I said, I don't have the time for a Kerrrzappp! of this one. If you want to pick up the baton, I recommend (Martinez 2009, pp. 281–283) as a good starting point, since it gives a overview of the history, albeit a one-sided one. Some of the others, such as (Wesbury 2009, pp. 87–99, 115–116) , give the other side's view, which you'll of course need to cover. I omitted the Linsmeier 2011 citation, which is the first obvious fix. So here is the wikitext for it, above. Uncle G (talk) 09:19, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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Qilin in popular culture – AfD discussion closed as Merge to Qilin. |
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It survived its previous AFD. The AFD has been extended to get more input. The creature has been mentioned in popular culture for thousands of years, appearing about. Did someone perhaps do a study and publish a book on things like this? If anyone knows where to find such a thing, or other sources, please participate. Dream Focus 21:21, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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Police officers charged criminally in Canada – AfD discussion closed as Delete. |
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Hi, would you please help me to save and improve the article Police officers charged criminally in Canada. It is currently under a Speedy Deletion +Tag. In addition, a previous editor made a slash and burn edit. It seems the article content is sensitive to some people; however, the article meets the guidelines of Wikipedia, to the best of my knowledge. Thank you for your help. JunoBeach (talk) 22:01, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
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Amabile Choirs of London, Canada – Discussion regarding proposed deletion of the article. |
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The Amabile Choirs of London, Canada has the purpose of bringing together young singers from London, Ontario and surrounding areas. This family of choirs began in 1985 and has since grown to eight choirs under the direction of seven conductors. The proposed deletion says Doesn't give evidence of notability. Only has one (primary) source; likely doesn't pass wp:GNG Reliable sources are easy to find. For example, The Canadian Encyclopedia has an article on this organization. There are enough sources that the notability issue may also be overcome. For example, one youth choir won a Canadian award in 1985. This is a proposed deletion, not an AfD, but since I objected to the deletion, an AfD may follow, unless the article is improved, at least with some reliable sources. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:23, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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Amal Jyothi College – Discussion regarding AfD discussion. |
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Already speedily deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amal Jyothi College but this appears to be a notable college that deserves to have an article. See google cache here [3]. Why this needed to be speedily deleted, instead of improved during a seven day AfD, is beyond my understanding.--Milowent • hasspoken 03:00, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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Kenneth Parcell – AfD discussion closed as Keep. |
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Emmy nominated character (2009) from 30 Rock. If an Emmy nomination isn't a good enough reason to keep an article on a fictional television character, I'm not sure what is. Article is relatively bad at the moment, could clearly use refocusing off of plot and onto real world impact. Jclemens (talk) 06:55, 20 February 2012 (UTC) |
SEPTA Route C – Discussion. |
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Article about SEPTA Route C in Philadelphia, but part of a pattern to remove mention of particular SEPTA transit routes, and articles about SEPTA routes. I objected to the immediate deletion, but an AfD may follow. What is the practice in other cities? This is a policy issue, not just notability for a particular bus route. --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:15, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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Patricia Kernighan – AfD discussion closed as No Consensus. |
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Article about an Oakland city council member. There's disagreement about whether or not the sources currently in the article meet the GNG, but it seems likely to me that there are more sources available - if hard to find - that would clearly push it over the threshold. Kevin (talk) 01:17, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
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Institute for International Research – AfD discussion closed as Keep. |
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Article is clearly WP:N (simple search on Google News gets dozens of results), but is also currently a horrible WP:ADVERTISING mess. Very severe cleanup is necessary, but IMHO it can be salvaged. Ipsign (talk) 09:46, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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Avatar (Ultima) – Discussion. |
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Discussion on the talk page was that like every other Wikiproject out there, we can discuss redirects as well as deletes and whatnot. When I Google for "Ultima" and "Avatar" I get 26 million results. Kind of hard to sort through all of that, or even the 2,440,000 results from a search of what the Video game Wikiproject has for their custom search of approved reliable sources. [4] If anyone can think of any better search criteria to narrow it down, I'd appreciate it. There was never any real consensus to eliminate this article and replace it with a redirect. Seven people were against any mergers, one said only the companions(not the Avatar but his companions) articles should merge, and four said merge them all. [5] Some opinions please. Also, if anyone finds any additional reliable sources covering the character, please add them in. See the history of it here [6]. In addition to existing sources in it, I found a recent article titled Ultima: Most. Important. Game Series. Ever. [7] which says Ultima IV had no villain, and the world of Britannia was in a moral crisis, and only savable by embodying the world's new eight virtues and becoming the Avatar. That term became the default for a player character within a video game. Seems like its important since that term then began being used elsewhere. The article even shows how other notable games had parodies of the Avatar in them. As a final note, Ultima was one of the first games to have you control one specific character, the Avatar, which you create. The other characters already exist with pre-determined roles and personalities, and can be engaged for conversation. This has become the default mode for party-based games these days, but it was rare in that era, where you rolled an entire party yourself, or occasionally played pre-determined characters. Once again, the character did it first, and now everyone does it based on him. Dream Focus 16:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Zindagi Games – AfD discussion closed as Delete. |
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The afd is at [9]. This company has only made two games so far, both of which are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles, they getting ample coverage. Using the video game Wikiproject's custom search I find a large number of results for this company. [10] That's a lot to sort through. Some help please. Dream Focus 13:00, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Clear Books – AfD discussion closed as Delete. |
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It survived its previous AFD and was immediately put up for deletion a second time by the same person. It is cloud based accounting software (i.e. accessible from the Internet) as opposed to desktop based software. This is a technological change and advance in the delivery method of accounting software. Without Clear Books listed in Wikipedia, Wikipedia is missing knowledge about the new cloud based softwares that are out there. The article is written by the founder, however, it does reference reliable, independent third party sources.--TimFouracre (talk) 07:32, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
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Modo (software) – AfD discussion closed as Keep. |
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Made by Luxology and a lot of news results. Digging through some of them now. Dream Focus 22:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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Luxology – AfD discussion closed as Keep. |
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I nominated the above article for deletion, as it presently appears to lack significant non-trivial coverage in reliable third party sources. With that said, the more I am looking through the sources listed on google news, the more it is looking like the article might meet the notability guidelines. If possible, I would really like an outside opinion. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 21:40, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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Radio Amateurs of Canada – AfD discussion closed as Keep. |
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A 2004 created article. Not clear (to me) what the motive is for deletion nomination. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:25, 21 February 2012 (UTC) |
2013 BCS National Championship Game – AfD closed as Delete all. |
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There is not 1 good wikipedia reason given here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2013 BCS National Championship Game to delete anything from the 2012 or 2013 football seasons here at all. There is verifiable information from independent sources." of "encyclopedic worth to have an article about on all of the 2012 and 2013 season pages. Yes there is not much on the 2014 or 2015 seasons yet and they could be deleted but Wikipedia is a work in progress and Wikipedia:DDH deletion does not help. Theworm777 (talk) 20:09, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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List of community organizers – AfD closed as delete.. |
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Everyone on this list has their own Wikipedia article. The news media and book search shows they are referred to as "community organizers". Some help with the article would be appreciated. I'm going to start searching for each name and the phrase "community organizer" and adding in references to reliable sources. Dream Focus 14:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Edgeborough School – AfD closed as Keep. |
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Historical prep school, with several notable former pupils. We're having difficulties finding online sources which cover it in depth, however - most GoogleBooks hits are snippets. --He to Hecuba (talk) 14:23, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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Pennsylvania Land Trust Association – AfD closed as speedy delete. The article has been recreated; see Pennsylvania Land Trust Association. |
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It is easy to determine that the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association is an important and notable organization in Pennsylvania politics, but this article has numerous problems, probably including copyright violations. However, perhaps the article can be trimmed down to eliminate the copyright issues and allow for future expansion in the usual Wikipedia manner. --DThomsen8 (talk) 22:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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Micromechanical flying insect – AfD closed as Snow Keep. |
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Topic which is clearly notable due to the wide range of sources available on GoogleScholar. Improvements to the article by editors familiar with robotics/engineering would probably increase its chance of surviving AFD. --He to Hecuba (talk) 20:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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Candace Gingrich-Jones – AfD closed as Snow Keep. |
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There is no question in my mind that this will be kept at AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Candace Gingrich-Jones, but the article really could use improvement, which would erase the doubt of any good faith editor.--Milowent • hasspoken 18:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Leopard (newspaper) – AfD closed as merge to Goldsmiths, University of London |
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A London university student newspaper with a well done article, but lacking independent third party sources. Can we do better? --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:24, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
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Sal's Pizza (Dallas) – AfD closed as Delete. |
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A simple article about an Italian restaurant in Dallas, Texas. WP:GNG is met. The nomination for deletion is based in part upon the sources being local in nature, and as such are considered unsatisfactory per the nominator's rationale. However, Dallas' population is 1,197,816, and as a major metropolitan area in the United States the sources in the article are likely valid as trustworthy and reliable. Can others provide more reliable sources to better qualify this topic's notability? Northamerica1000(talk) 11:30, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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Gigi Causey – AfD closed as Keep |
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A biography of a living person article that appears to just meet WP:GNG. Perhaps source searchers can find more reliable sources to further qualify the topic's notability and improve the article. Here's the sources I cited in the article's AfD discussion. The first article listed below constitutes significant coverage, in which Causey herself is mentioned numerous times. The second article is very short.
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Keerthi sagathia – AfD closed as Keep |
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I do not know much about the subject however I saw it was contributed by a new Wikipedian who was immediately bombarded with all kinds of deletion canned notices - a sure way to chase away a newbie from a part of the world we should be encouraging to join Wikipedia.
Off my podium :-) Ottawahitech (talk) 02:43, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hacker Time – AfD closed as Keep |
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This is a CBBC show. The AfD discussion is basically boiling down to WP:GNG vs. WP:IAR, and possibly WP:TVSHOW, the former of course being the prevailing argument for deletion. I did a source hunt of my own and came up empty beyond the usual hits from bloggers and primary sources. It'd be fantastic if any of you source-hunters could find anything better to give a bit more weight to arguments for the article's inclusion, because I have a strong feeling this article will be deleted as it currently stands. I don't think additional keep votes without sourcing backup are going to help. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 19:09, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
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Process improvement – AfD closed as Keep but possible merge |
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This seems to be a tendentious nomination of a business-related article. The topic is extremely notable and rich in irony in the present circumstances. It inspires me to try the current rescue process and I am not finding it an improvement. The rescue tag was better because it encouraged you to actually edit the article. Warden (talk) 09:43, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
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Mail storage – AfD closed as Keep. |
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This topic appears to just meet WP:GNG from the following sources, with the first one listed below being one that I found and added to the article.
However, other's in the article's AfD discussion (here) disagree. Placing this here in the hope that others can find and add more sources to further qualify this topic's notability. This article is also tagged for copy editing and reading like an advertisement. As ARS' scope also includes these types of article improvements, hopefully others can help to improve the article by copy editing. Northamerica1000(talk) 08:41, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
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Oddcast (company) – CSD removed and article improved. |
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Can some help me with this please? I started an article with references to them in the New York Times, but it still got nominated for a speedy deletion. The press section of their website shows they have received hordes of coverage for their activities, and their showcase shows all the things they have done for major companies. I've been adding things to the list that have news coverage for them. Need to come up with a good lead paragraph I think. Dream Focus 12:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
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