Wikipedia:Deletion review

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Deletion review (DRV) is for reviewing speedy deletions and outcomes of deletion discussions. This includes appeals to delete pages kept after a prior discussion.

If you are considering a request for a deletion review, please read the "Purpose" section below to make sure that is what you wish to do. Then, follow the instructions below.

Purpose

Deletion review may be used:

  1. if someone believes the closer of a deletion discussion interpreted the consensus incorrectly;
  2. if a speedy deletion was done outside of the criteria or is otherwise disputed;
  3. if significant new information has come to light since a deletion that would justify recreating the deleted page;
  4. if a page has been wrongly deleted with no way to tell what exactly was deleted; or
  5. if there were substantial procedural errors in the deletion discussion or speedy deletion.

Deletion review should not be used:

  1. because of a disagreement with the deletion discussion's outcome that does not involve the closer's judgment (a page may be renominated after a reasonable timeframe);
  2. (This point formerly required first consulting the deleting admin if possible. As per this discussion an editor is not required to consult the closer of a deletion discussion (or the deleting admin for a speedy deletion) before starting a deletion review. However doing so is good practice, and can often save time and effort for all concerned. Notifying the closer is required.)
  3. to point out other pages that have or have not been deleted (as each page is different and stands or falls on its own merits);
  4. to challenge an article's deletion via the proposed deletion process, or to have the history of a deleted page restored behind a new, improved version of the page, called a history-only undeletion (please go to Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion for these);
  5. to repeat arguments already made in the deletion discussion;
  6. to argue technicalities (such as a deletion discussion being closed ten minutes early);
  7. to request that previously deleted content be used on other pages (please go to Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion for these requests);
  8. to attack other editors, cast aspersions, or make accusations of bias (such requests may be speedily closed);
  9. for uncontroversial undeletions, such as undeleting a very old article where substantial new sources have subsequently arisen. Use Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion instead. (If any editor objects to the undeletion, then it is considered controversial and this forum may be used.)
  10. to ask for permission to write a new version of a page which was deleted, unless it has been protected against creation. In general you don't need anyone's permission to recreate a deleted page, if your new version does not qualify for deletion then it will not be deleted.

Copyright violating, libelous, or otherwise prohibited content will not be restored.

Instructions

Before listing a review request, please:

  1. Consider attempting to discuss the matter with the closer as this could resolve the matter more quickly. There could have been a mistake, miscommunication, or misunderstanding, and a full review may not be needed. Such discussion also gives the closer the opportunity to clarify the reasoning behind a decision.
  2. Check that it is not on the list of perennial requests. Repeated requests every time some new, tiny snippet appears on the web have a tendency to be counter-productive. It is almost always best to play the waiting game unless you can decisively overcome the issues identified at deletion.

Steps to list a new deletion review

 
1.

Click here and paste the template skeleton at the top of the discussions (but not at the top of the page). Then fill in page with the name of the page, xfd_page with the name of the deletion discussion page (leave blank for speedy deletions), and reason with the reason why the discussion result should be changed. For media files, article is the name of the article where the file was used, and it shouldn't be used for any other page. For example:

{{subst:drv2
|page=File:Foo.png
|xfd_page=Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2009 February 19#Foo.png
|article=Foo
|reason=
}} ~~~~
2.

Inform the editor who closed the deletion discussion by adding the following on their user talk page:

{{subst:DRV notice|PAGE_NAME}} ~~~~
3.

For nominations to overturn and delete a page previously kept, attach <noinclude>{{Delrev|date=2024 January 12}}</noinclude> to the top of the page under review to inform current editors about the discussion.

4.

Leave notice of the deletion review outside of and above the original deletion discussion:

  • If the deletion discussion's subpage name is the same as the deletion review's section header, use <noinclude>{{Delrevxfd|date=2024 January 12}}</noinclude>
  • If the deletion discussion's subpage name is different from the deletion review's section header, then use <noinclude>{{Delrevxfd|date=2024 January 12|page=SECTION HEADER AT THE DELETION REVIEW LOG}}</noinclude>
 

Commenting in a deletion review

Any editor may express their opinion about an article or file being considered for deletion review. In the deletion review discussion, please type one of the following opinions preceded by an asterisk (*) and surrounded by three apostrophes (''') on either side. If you have additional thoughts to share, you may type this after the opinion. Place four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your entry, which should be placed below the entries of any previous editors:

  • Endorse the original closing decision; or
  • Relist on the relevant deletion forum (usually Articles for deletion); or
  • List, if the page was speedy deleted outside of the established criteria and you believe it needs a full discussion at the appropriate forum to decide if it should be deleted; or
  • Overturn the original decision and optionally an (action) per the Guide to deletion. For a keep decision, the default action associated with overturning is delete and vice versa. If an editor desires some action other than the default, they should make this clear; or
  • Allow recreation of the page if new information is presented and deemed sufficient to permit recreation.
  • Some consider it a courtesy, to other DRV participants, to indicate your prior involvements with the deletion discussion or the topic.

Remember that deletion review is not an opportunity to (re-)express your opinion on the content in question. It is an opportunity to correct errors in process (in the absence of significant new information), and thus the action specified should be the editor's feeling of the correct interpretation of the debate.

The presentation of new information about the content should be prefaced by Relist, rather than Overturn and (action). This information can then be more fully evaluated in its proper deletion discussion forum. Allow recreation is an alternative in such cases.

Temporary undeletion

Admins participating in deletion reviews are routinely requested to restore deleted pages under review and replace the content with the {{TempUndelete}} template, leaving the history for review by everyone. However, copyright violations and violations of the policy on biographies of living persons should not be restored.

Closing reviews

A nominated page should remain on deletion review for at least seven days, unless the nomination was a proposed deletion. After seven days, an administrator will determine whether a consensus exists. If that consensus is to undelete, the admin should follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Administrator instructions. If the consensus was to relist, the page should be relisted at the appropriate forum. If the consensus was that the deletion was endorsed, the discussion should be closed with the consensus documented.

If the administrator closes the deletion review as no consensus, the outcome should generally be the same as if the decision was endorsed. However:

  • If the decision under appeal was a speedy deletion, the page(s) in question should be restored, as it indicates the deletion was not uncontroversial. The closer, or any editor, may then proceed to nominate the page at the appropriate deletion discussion forum, if they so choose.
  • If the decision under appeal was an XfD close, the closer may, at their discretion, relist the page(s) at the relevant XfD.

Ideally all closes should be made by an administrator to ensure that what is effectively the final appeal is applied consistently and fairly but in cases where the outcome is patently obvious or where a discussion has not been closed in good time it is permissible for a non-admin (ideally a DRV regular) to close discussions. Non-consensus closes should be avoided by non-admins unless they are absolutely unavoidable and the closer is sufficiently experienced at DRV to make that call. (Hint: if you are not sure that you have enough DRV experience then you don't.)

Speedy closes

  • Objections to a proposed deletion can be processed immediately as though they were a request at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion
  • Where the closer of a deletion discussion realizes their close was wrong, and nobody has endorsed, the closer may speedily close as overturn. They should fully reverse their close, restoring any deleted pages if appropriate.
  • Where the nominator of a DRV wishes to withdraw their nomination, and nobody else has recommended any outcome other than endorse, the nominator may speedily close as "endorse" (or ask someone else to do so on their behalf).
  • Certain discussions may be closed without result if there is no prospect of success (e.g. disruptive nominations, if the nominator is repeatedly nominating the same page, or the page is listed at WP:DEEPER). These will usually be marked as "administrative close".



12 January 2024

10 January 2024

Claude J. Pelletier (closed)

  • Claude J. PelletierSpeedy moot. This is an improved draft by an established editor. DRV is not required to move it to mainspace. As it's not clear to me whether you want to improve it further before moving, I haven't moved it. No one revewing should take my inaction to mean anything else. Star Mississippi 23:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
Claude J. Pelletier (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claude J. Pelletier was closed in 2016 by User:MelanieN as "Userfy" to my user space, and I moved it to Draft:Claude J. Pelletier with the intention of improving it over time (better late than never, maybe). I asked User:Cunard to see if Pelletier had any additional reliable sources, and these are the results:

Extended content
The sources I found should be enough to establish notability under Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Basic criteria and reverse the 2016 "delete" close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claude J. Pelletier. Here are some sources I found about the subject:
  1. Janelle, Claude (2011). "Pelletier, Claude J.". Le Daliaf: Dictionnaire des auteurs des littératures de l'imaginaire en Amérique française [The Daliaf: Dictionary of authors of imaginative literature in French America] (in French). Quebec: Alire. p. 370. ISBN 978-2-89615-074-8. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Internet Archive.

    The book notes: "Pelletier, Claude J. [Laval, 23 mai 1962]. Claude J. Pelletier complète ses études collégiales en sciences humaines au Collège de Bois- de-Boulogne en 1981. Il poursuit sa formation en histoire à l'Université de Montréal où il obtient un baccalauréat en 1984 et une maîtrise en 1987, puis il entreprend un doctorat sans toutefois le compléter. En 1986, il fonde, avec Philippe Gauthier et Yves Meynard, le fanzine de science-fiction Samizdat et en assume la production jusqu'en 1994, de même que celle d'une petite maison d'édition, Les Publications Ianus. À la même époque, il lance le magazine de langue anglaise Protoculture Addicts. Depuis 1991, il est tour à tour ou simultanément rédacteur en chef, directeur administratif et directeur de la production de ce magazine spécialisé en dessin animé, en bande dessinée (manga) et en culture japonaise."

    From Google Translate: "Pelletier, Claude J. [Laval, May 23, 1962]. Claude J. Pelletier completed his college studies in human sciences at the Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne in 1981. He continued his training in history at the University of Montreal where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a master's degree in 1987, then he undertook a doctorate but did not complete it. In 1986, he founded, with Philippe Gauthier and Yves Meynard, the science fiction fanzine Samizdat and was responsible for its production until 1994, as well as that of a small publishing house, Les Publications Ianus. At the same time, he launched the English-language magazine Protoculture Addicts. Since 1991, he has been alternately or simultaneously editor-in-chief, administrative director and production director of this magazine specializing in cartoons, comic strips (manga) and Japanese culture."

  2. L'Année de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois editions:
    1. Beaulieu, René; Côté, Denis; Janelle, Claude; Pettigrew, Jean, eds. (1988). L'Année de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois: 1987 [The Year of Science Fiction and Quebecois Fantasy: 1987] (in French). Quebec: Le Passeur. pp. 135–136. ISBN 2-9801068-36. ISSN 0828-7945. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Internet Archive.

      The entry notes: "Codirecteur de Samizdat, Claude J. Pelletier vient de terminer une maîtrise en Histoire à l'Université de Montréal."

      From Google Translate: "Co-director of Samizdat, Claude J. Pelletier has just completed a master's degree in History at the University of Montreal."

      The entry notes: "Claude J. Pelletier m'étonne. Il parle de fond de tiroir et nous menace de Mauvais temps comme d'un châtiment. Je parie qu'il dit cela afin de couper court aux mauvaises critiques. Eh bien, s'il manque de confiance à ce point en son texte, tant pis pour lui. Quant à moi, je l'ai trouvé bon. Dès les premières lignes, et ce malgré un manque de polissage flagrant dans l'écriture des fautes tellement grosses qu'on se surprend à rire. Mais n'est-on pas dans Samizdat ?, Pelletier décrit l'atmosphère feutrée quoique tendue de ce pub enseveli sous les dunes noires. Le lecteur sent la tempête, là-dehors, il sent l'inquiétude des villageois. La scène où les Patrouilleurs entrent par le sas anti-poussière est de toute beauté: simple, comme dans la vraie vie, mais chargée d'une belle intensité. Il y a longtemps que je n'avais pas ressenti le désert comme ça. ... Un conseil à Samizdat: laissez tomber les fonds de tiroir des autres auteurs et continuez à publier ceux de Claude J. Pelletier. S'ils sont tous comme Mauvais temps, ils méritent d'être publiés."

      From Google Translate: "Claude J. Pelletier surprises me. He talks about the bottom of the drawer and threatens us with Bad Times like a punishment. I bet he says this to cut down on the bad reviews. Well, if he lacks confidence in his text that much, too bad for him. As for me, I found it good. From the first lines, despite a blatant lack of polish in the writing of mistakes so big that we find ourselves laughing. But aren't we in Samizdat? Pelletier describes the cozy although tense atmosphere of this pub buried under the black dunes. The reader feels the storm outside, he senses the worry of the villagers. The scene where the Patrollers enter through the dust airlock is truly beautiful: simple, like in real life, but full of beautiful intensity. It's been a long time since I've felt the desert like this. ... A piece of advice to Samizdat: drop the other authors' funds and continue to publish those of Claude J. Pelletier. If they are all like Mauvais temps, they deserve to be published."

    2. Côté, Denis; Janelle, Claude; Pettigrew, Jean, eds. (1990). L'Année de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois: 1989 [The Year of Science Fiction and Quebecois Fantasy: 1989] (in French). Quebec: Le Passeur. p. 153. ISBN 2-9801068-5-2. ISSN 0828-7945. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Internet Archive.

      The book notes:

      Pelletier, Claude J.

      Codirecteur de Samizdat, rédacteur en chef de Protoculture Addicts et membre fondateur, avec Yves Meynard, des Publications lanus, Claude J. Pelletier la terminé une maîtrise en Histoire à l'université de Montréal.

      Sous des soleils étrangers, [Y. MEYNARD]

      Collectif. Laval: Les Publications Ianus, 203 pages.

      Pour la recension, voir sous Yves Meynard, p. 137-138.

      From Google Translate:

      Pelletier, Claude J.

      Co-director of Samizdat, editor-in-chief of Protoculture Addicts and founding member, with Yves Meynard, of Publications lanus, Claude J. Pelletier completed a master's degree in History at the University of Montreal.

      Under foreign suns, [Y. MEYNARD]

      Collective. Laval: Les Publications Ianus, 203 pages.

      For the review, see under Yves Meynard, p. 137-138.

  3. Appelcline, Shannon (2014). "Dream Pod 9: 1985–Present". Designers & Dragons: The 90s. Silver Spring, Maryland: Evil Hat Productions. pp. 116117, 119. ISBN 978-1-61317-084-7. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Internet Archive.

    The book notes on 116117: "Dream Pod 9 is a company that had a long and varied history before it ever got into roleplaying. It began with a Montreal-based company called Ianus Publications, which was founded by Claude J. Pelletier to first publish historical papers and later a science-fiction fanzine called Samizdat (1986). The company name of Ianus referred to this duality, for the Greek god of portals had two faces, one looking back to the past and one looking forward to the future. When Pelletier was introduced to the Robotech TV show in 1987, he decided to publish a Robotech fanzine as well, Protoculture Addicts (1987). ... As part of this expansion Pelletier brought in a new partner, graphic designer Pierre Ouellette."

    The book notes on page 119: "A newborn company called Protoculture retained Protoculture Addicts and two of the former Ianus staff, Claude J Pelletier and Martin Ouellette; the magazine remained in print through issue #98 (July/ August 2008) and is still active on the web today."

  4. Swallow, Jim (August–September 1993). "Canadian Club: Jim Swallow talks to Canada's Ianvs Publications". Anime UK. Vol. 2, no. 4. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Internet Archive.

    The article notes: "lanvs was founded by publisher/editor Claude J. Pelletier in 1988 to publish French language historical and sf novels to the discerning fans of Canada. Around that time Harmony Gold's Robotech tv series was resonating across North America, and Pelletier was inspired to create Protoculture Addicts, the definitive Robotech magazine. Through the years, as popular interest in the Robotech series waned, PA expanded its horizons to cover more and more of the anime and manga field. Five years on, most of the original staff have departed. and the new people have transformed PA into what it is today. ... The core staffers of lanvs are all locals of Montreal; Claude J. Pelletier, founder and head honcho, is company president, the driving force behind the PA magazine; ..."

  5. Trudel, Jean-Louis (July 1990). "Sous des soleils éntrangers edited by Yves Meynard and Claude J. Pelletier". The New York Review of Science Fiction. Vol. 2, no. 11 #23. pp. 21–23. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Internet Archive.

    The review notes: "Some of the best-recognized talents of the young sf community in Francophone Canada are assembled in Sous des soleils éntrangers [Under Alien Suns], a small-press anthology of Québec sf edited by Yves Meynard and Claude J. Pelletier. Eight short stories and one poem, each prefaced by a short biography and the author's comments, make up the slim volume."

  6. Cooper-Chen, Anne M. (2010). Cartoon Cultures: The Globalization of Japanese Popular Media. New York: Peter Lang. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-4331-0367-4. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Google Books.

    The book notes: "He credits Claude Pelletier, editor-in-chief and production manager of Protoculture Addicts, with early "well thought out" pioneering efforts to support anime in Canada. Pelletier, who translated books on anime from Italian, also wrote an anime fan guidebook. Protoculture Addicts, which passed its 97th number in early 2009, started in 1987 as a ʼzine for fans of "Robotech"—a 1985 anime cobbled together from 36 episodes of the sci-fi saga "Macross," followed by two other anime (the splicing occurred in order to reach the 65 episodes needed for weekly U.S. syndication). ... By 2004, Pelletier had thought of closing down the venture, due to the tremendous workload for small-to-no profits; then in 2005 when it linked up with ANN, it changed its name to Anime News Network's Protoculture Addicts. The two entrepreneurs "played with the content” and regularized its schedule to come out six times a year. ... Pelletier's wife, Miyako Matsuda, who grew up on a farm in Japan, works as a freelance translator and as a contributing editor. (They met at the 1991 Anime Expo in Los Angeles.)"

  7. Hartwell, David G.; Grant, Glenn, eds. (2017). Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. New York: Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-9332-6. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Google Books.

    The book notes: "He was coeditor, with Claude J. Pelletier of lanus Publications, of the original SF anthology Sous des soleils étrangers and of two books by Daniel Sernine (the two-volume collection of Sernine's Carnival sequence, which includes the story in this book)."

  8. Kratina, Al (2008-03-28). "Anime fans have lots to choose from". The Montreal. ProQuest 434601923. Archived from the original on 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-01-10 – via Newspapers.com.

    The article notes: "One of those shows, Robo-tech, inspired Montreal's Claude Pelletier to start Protoculture Addicts in 1988. It's now North America's longest-running anime magazine, and currently associated with Montreal-based Anime News Network, which publisher Christopher MacDonald describes as "arguably the most trafficked anime website in the world.""

I would like to see if this is enough to get the draft moved back into article space. I am going to continue to work on the draft article as time allows (although I admit I will struggle with incorporating the French sources). I am sending a courtesy ping to all the AFD participants to allow them the chance to review the new sources: User:SephyTheThird, User:AngusWOOF, User:SwisterTwister, User:Jclemens, User:Atlantic306. BOZ (talk) 23:58, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • Speedy close: there's nothing really to overturn here. You followed the path decided by the AfD, and now you can submit the improved draft for review via the standard AfC/review process. If approved by the reviewer, the draft will be moved back to main namespace, replacing the current redirect. Owen× 00:46, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Comment: or seeing as you are an experienced editor yourself, apply our standard article creation acceptance criteria and determine whether your draft is ready for main namespace or not. CSD:G4 shouldn't apply here, and you don't need to run this by DRV. Owen× 00:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Allow Submission of Draft or Allow Recreation, subject to AFD, but those actions were already allowed. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:32, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Comment - Should we revise the introductory language for DRV to clarify when improved versions of articles that were deleted for inadequate notability or inadequate sources do not need to come to DRV? Robert McClenon (talk) 02:32, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Allow recreation. Claude J. Pelletier passes Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Basic criteria based on the sources I found and that BOZ listed in the DRV nomination. The sources were not discussed in the 2016 AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claude J. Pelletier.

    Wikipedia:Deletion review#Purpose says "Deletion review may be used: 3. if significant new information has come to light since a deletion that would justify recreating the deleted page". When recreating articles that have been deleted at AfD, I sometimes have taken them to DRV first (if I feel recreation could be controversial) or sometimes just directly recreated the article (if I feel recreation likely would not be controversial). This is up to editorial discretion. It is fine for BOZ to seek the community's opinion at DRV on whether the sourcing is sufficient, especially since the 2016 AfD was very divided.

    Cunard (talk) 06:48, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

    • Yeah, I was going by criterion 3 when I decided to submit to DRV. I figure that if this does go to "allow recreation" that essentially voids out the previous AFD in case anyone wanted to challenge it later. It may not be necessary, but if there is no consensus here then I can submit for AFC after building up the article with the new sources. BOZ (talk) 07:03, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    • DRVPURPOSE criterion #3 specifically talks about articles that were deleted. When an article is draftified (or in older days, userfied), the explicit intent is to improve it and move it back to mainspace. No appeal or overturn is needed to follow this prescribed sequence. BOZ chose to err on the side of caution, which is fine. When I said, "you don't need to run this by DRV", I didn't mean they mustn't, but that the original AfD result gives them the option to assess the article and skip DRV.
    At this point, seven experienced editors have chimed in, five of whom are or were admins or new page reviewers - including BOZ themselves. Not a single one objected to the procedural move BOZ requested, for which BOZ doesn't really need our permission, and already has our blessing. There's no harm in keeping this DRV open for another six days, but there's no real point in doing so either. Owen× 18:42, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Comment This really needs to be an FAQ. Someone want to draft an essay that can be linked? Jclemens (talk) 06:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • It would be a reasonable decision for you to decide to move that to mainspace.—S Marshall T/C 08:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Agree, the amended article now passes WP:GNG so is ready for mainspace in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 19:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • We've already got WP:DRVPURPOSE #10. If people aren't reading the instructions, repeating ourselves in them won't help; if people are reading the instructions but being a bit more cautious than they need to be, repeating ourselves in them still won't help. —Cryptic 09:38, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    • On the other hand, I see that, while the original title isn't salted, it'll still need the intervention of an admin or pagemover to get the draft back there with its history intact. I was already an admin before WP:RM/TR came about and have never followed it; is it usual practice there to refuse requests to re-mainspace previously-deleted content without looking further? —Cryptic 09:45, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.

8 January 2024

The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
EFS Facilities Services Group (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

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https://www.gdnonline.com/Details/632838/EFS-Facilities-Services-wins-over-$46m-contracts- (120.89.74.94 (talk) 05:42, 8 January 2024 (UTC))Reply[reply]

The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.

6 January 2024

User:Somers-all-the-time/MyMilitia (closed)

The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
User:Somers-all-the-time/MyMilitia (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (restore)

If my memory serves correctly, this draft in my userspace contained a list of citations and notes on those citations. I intended to use these in the future to write out a full article. No further information was given when I reached out to the deleting admin User:Anthony Bradbury when I contacted him on his talk page. Further the admin who took the action originally is now deceased. Somers-all-the-time (talk) 18:08, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • overturn looks like an article draft to me. Some references are just mentions, but others look to be independent and on the topic. SO it could even be notable. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:03, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Speedy Restore as a valid draft desired by an established editor. Move to draft space if needed, but seven days when the actioning admin can't speak to their actions is pointless bureaucracy. Star Mississippi 20:42, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Undelete. As User:Somers-all-the-time was a contributor at the time, the page was not WP:U5-eligible. SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:43, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.

Category:Queer Wikipedians

Category:Queer Wikipedians (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

The last decision on this category was made over 15 years ago. In that time, there has been consensus to bring back Category:Asexual Wikipedians, Category:Pansexual Wikipedians, Category:Bisexual Wikipedians, Category:Gay Wikipedians, Category:Lesbian Wikipedians, Category:Genderqueer Wikipedians, and (spiritually) Category:LGBT Wikipedians. The original deletion decision is questionable as well, as the admin closed the thread based on their subjective view of the "strength of arguments", despite there clearly being no consensus. The Midnite Wolf (talk) 06:16, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • Allow recreation That AFD close was dubious, and could be a no consensus, but after all this time probably not worth overturning. My opinion is that users should be able to categorise themselves, so reasoning here is just opinion. Categories for users are not just about collaboration. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:14, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Procedural close and allow recreation - I see no point in re-litigating a 2007 decision, BOLDly recreate it and see if there's any objection. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 23:41, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    It's been salted since 2008 (and the protecting admin is not someone I recognize as one of the user category police of old, oddly enough). * Pppery * it has begun... 01:12, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • All of the above violate WP:USERCATNO in at least one way. If the LOCALCONSENSUSes in such discussion are really a global consensus that USERCATNO is out of step with the will of the community, then USERCATNO should be altered appropriately by RfC. Until there's an appropriate discussion, then G4 appears to apply. Jclemens (talk) 03:57, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    What part of USERCATNO do these categories violate? The Midnite Wolf (talk) 08:33, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    I'm against all user categories, but I don't see USERCATNO applying here. SportingFlyer T·C 19:40, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    While the individual criteria are not numbered, criteria 6-8 of the 9 enumerated would be the ones at issue. Jclemens (talk) 04:45, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    It seems to me like OC/U intentionally avoids taking a stance on the above categories. Being LGBT isn't a like, an advocacy of a position, or inherently provocative. I agree with the editor below who said that an RfC is needed to amend OC/U and clarify whether or not identity-based categories are allowed. For the time being, they're not discouraged by any policy and consensus seems to be in favor of them. The Midnite Wolf (talk) 21:10, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    I honestly have no idea how you're applying any of those criteria to the category at hand. SportingFlyer T·C 10:11, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Allow Recreation - I personally think that these user categories and most user categories are undesirable, but policy allows them, and a deletion debate 16 years ago should not be decisive because consensus can change. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Comment: Gender- and sexuality-based user categories and userboxes are among the most popular with Wikipedians. It makes no sense for us to try to second-guess the intent of whoever penned WP:USERCATNO item #6 (any grouping of users on the basis of shared preferences that are irrelevant to encyclopedia-building) to figure out whether it applies to things that aren't a preference, but are still in most cases irrelevant to encyclopedia-building. This issue is important and widespread enough to be properly handled via an RfC to amend WP:USERCATYES and WP:USERCATNO, and spell out whether categories such as Category:Queer Wikipedians are welcome here or not. I can see valid arguments for both sides, but CfD or DRV is not the place to debate the issue. Owen× 20:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Allow re-creation. Who are these shadowy userspace category police anyway, and how are they helping us write an encyclopaedia? Can we refocus them on something more productive?—S Marshall T/C 21:15, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    The CfD regulars of old.
    What is the role of categories? To categorise? To navigate? To help organise maintenance? Pageviews indicate that no one uses them. (Like Portals).
    A huge amount of maintenance goes into categories, from a very few volunteers. Non category wonks fiddling with categories adds to the maintenance load, and user categories encourage editors to play with categories, and so the category wonks merged usercategories into all categories and have enforced extremely esoteric and restrictive usage criteria. For trails to stories and evidence of attempted resistance, see Category:Wikipedians who retain deleted categories on their userpages. SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:56, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Yup, personally I'm a member of Category:Wikipedians who think the userspace category police could probably be doing something better with their time. This disruptive pointy gatekeeping rubbish has been going on at CfD since forever. Remember Wikipedians who say CfD is broken from 2009?—S Marshall T/C 23:47, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Yes. After being told I need to participate at CfD, I put in a few years of at least reading the nomination of every CfD. I feel I learned a lot about categories and category policy. I think the category system is more work than it’s worth, that it burns more users than it helps, that no reader uses it, and that it (like Portalspace) should be deleted, barring some creative large scale renovation. SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:20, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • What's the point? Why do we need three separate categories for "LGBT", "Non-binary", and "Queer"? Regardless begrudgingly allow recreation since I can't think of any actual refutation to the nominator's argument, although I would definitely advocate for a merge or deletion at CfD. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:12, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    People identify differently, I don't see that as being the reason to begrudge anything. SportingFlyer T·C 04:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Some of us grew up during a time when the term in question was clearly and only a slur, and are unimpressed with the efforts of some to rehabilitate it as empowering. Thus, divisive and clearly USERCATNO, no matter how noble the intentions of those desiring to so self-describe. Jclemens (talk) 17:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang in 1937 suggests it had been a claimed term for self identification since 1914.
    The claims that usercategories can be divisive, I have always found very weak. SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:33, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    We were once told (and I see you were also involved slightly, SmokeyJoe) that to categorise yourself under Category:Logical positivist Wikipedians or any of 155 other categories was to be "divisive, provocative, or otherwise disruptive".[1] Thincat (talk) 17:36, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    That misrepresents the linked nomination. It claims that the creation of Category:Logical positivist Wikipedians and other categories like it was the divisive action, not the decision of any one user to add themselves to those categories once they existed. Adding oneself to a category is not an endorsement of its existence, and in fact my userpage is in at least one category that I would probably support deletion of if it were nominated at CfD. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:46, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    I agree with Thincat. The Usercat police were pushing logically contorted arguments that were in that discussion properly ridiculed. SmokeyJoe (talk) 20:04, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

5 January 2024

TV Tonight Awards 2020

TV Tonight Awards 2020 (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

I believe this award list's AfD deletion discussion, which was nominated by @Boneymau, was closed in the wrong way, as both the 2021 and 2022 awards list pages, which I nominated for AfD in the first place, for failing notability guidelines ("having no significant coverage outside of the TV Tonight website itself, failing WP:NTV and WP:GNG"). Those award list pages were properly deleted, while this award list page was redirected to TV Tonight, by @Liz. I believe that this page should be deleted, for my reasons. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 22:45, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • TechGeek105, please advise the administrator who closed the discussion, Liz, as required by Step 2 of Wikipedia:Deletion review#Steps to list a new deletion review. Daniel (talk) 23:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Endorse redirect was a viable option (and in my opinion, the correct option). While there was consensus against keeping the article, there was certainly not consensus against a redirect, as neither delete vote stated an opposition to a redirect (and the nominator even supported a redirect as a WP:ATD). I also support restoring the history of the 2021 and 2022 pages as redirects, but DRV is not the place for that argument. Frank Anchor 01:59, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Endorse. The appellant mentions "reasons" for the appeal, but doesn't list any. Having two other pages deleted isn't a valid reason on AfD, and certainly not on DRV. The AfD had two Delete !votes, and two Redirect, including the nom. Redir was the natural, correct way to close it. At this point, the appellant's petition amounts to an RfD, which is even more unreasonable. Owen× 02:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Nominator comment: My reasons why I support a deletion of the page, include having no significant coverage outside of TV Tonight itself, hence no secondary sources, and the TV Tonight Wikipedia article does not mention the awards at all. I will let the AfD closer admin, Liz know about this discussion, because @Daniel, said it is required by Step 2 of Wikipedia:Deletion review#Steps to list a new deletion review. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 04:06, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    That is an argument for an WP:RfD, not a DRV. DRV is not AfD/RfD Round 2. You haven't suggested that the debate was closed incorrectly based on the consensus evident in the discussion, just that you disagree with the arguments levelled in the debate and therefore the end result. I fail to see which of the five DRV purposes listed at WP:DRVPURPOSE apply here. Specifically, "Deletion review should not be used...because of a disagreement with the deletion discussion's outcome that does not involve the closer's judgment". Daniel (talk) 04:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    @Daniel, I have let Liz know. I agree that the discussion was closed incorrectly, because the consensus in the discussion was redirect. I believe a delete consensus would work just as well, because the awards are not notable to add to the TV Tonight article and there are no other secondary sources. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 04:22, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    For the record, the statement "I agree that the discussion was closed incorrectly" is confusing; it indicates that I said the discussion was closed incorrectly and the editor is agreeing with my statement, which is patently incorrect - I said no such thing, and (given my endorse below) clearly do not think the discussion was closed incorrectly. Daniel (talk) 04:26, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    @Daniel, I meant, I believe that the discussion was closed incorrectly, because the discussion consensus was redirect and that a delete consensus would work just as well, because information on the awards is not on the article TV Tonight, and there are no reliable sources besides TV Tonight. Hence why I support an overturn, as the DRV nom. I will go back to editing and reading other articles now. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 (his talk page) 04:39, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Endorse closure as a viable AtD that was proposed by two editors and not objected to by the other two. I would go so far as to say that the close was clearly the best close, and any alternative may possibly have been deemed as not ideal. No procedural or other DRV-applicable argument has been advanced by the applicant, as per OwenX. Daniel (talk) 04:17, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Comment I don't have much to add but if you disagree with the closure to allow a Redirect, I'd suggest taking this to RFD. It's much simpler to get a Redirect reevaluated than to overturn an AFD decision at Deletion review unless there is a groundswell of support for your stance (or unless I seriously screwed up which I don't believe is the case here). Liz Read! Talk! 04:24, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Endorse as well within the closer's discretion given the status of the discussion. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 23:49, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Endorse as a reasonable action by the closer. When the responses are split between Delete and Merge, Merge is less drastic. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:24, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Endorse as within discretion, but there's no mention of "TV Tonight Awards" at the target, and if someone were to try adding that mention they would find that it is not trivially easy (I tried).—Alalch E. 09:28, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Endorse with limited participation, redirect was clearly a harmless option for the closer, and a "redirect versus delete" outcome is a lot less worrying than a "keep versus delete" debate as they both functionally lead to the same result. SportingFlyer T·C 19:38, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]


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