Wikipedia:Archived articles for deletion discussions

Delete Debates

The following debates took place on wikipedia, on or off the main Votes for deletion page.

For discussions that have not been regularly archived, the page history of the VfD page has to be used as a contingency archive. For a deleted page one can look in the Deletion log to obtain date and time of a deletion. One can look in the page history of VfD near that time to see which edit regards the unlisting of the page, and take the previous version.

For this purpose, always give a good edit summary when editing the VfD page, especially when unlisting a page.

If you find any other pages which contained detailed debates on whether or not to delete an article, please link them here.

The following paragraph is disputed - see Talk.

If a page is to be deleted and it was debated on the talk page, move the debate to a separate page called [[Talk:NAME OF ARTICLE/deletion]] and store that delete debate record here to preserve a record of past wiki debates. Having copies may prove useful if and when at some stage in the future a history of wikipedia is compiled and historians need to know how wikipedia reached decisions and for what reason.

An alternative version:

Normally, when deleting a page also delete the talk page. However, if the discussion on either the talk page, or on VfD, might be useful to you or someone else, instead keep it (and list it here). The same applies to generic deletion discussion on the village pump, for example, that's worth preserving. Use your judgement.

See also: wikipedia talk:deletion policy, wikipedia talk:votes for deletion, wikipedia talk:deletion policy/redirect,

Boilerplate text

To avoid confusion and votes being added to an archived debate page, the following boilerplate text may be added:

'''This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of a page entitled [[PAGE NAME]].'''

'''Further comments should be made on the [[Talk:PAGE NAME|talk page]] rather than here as this page is kept as an historic record.'''

'''The result of the debate was RESULT.'''

September 2003

• Talk:List of heterosexuals/deletion (final archive)
• Talk:Md. Ahiduzzaman Liton
• Talk:Jimmy James and the Blue Flames
• Talk:Engelsism/delete
• User talk:Rambot/Delete
• Talk:List of nicknames for George W. Bush
• Talk:Militant Islam/Delete
• Talk:Misconceptions and disputed facts/Delete
• Talk:Islamism/Delete
• Talk:Library of Sir Thomas Browne/Delete

October 2003

• Talk:Lists of postal and zip codes of the world/Delete
• Talk:List of people who have publicly denied being gay/Delete
• Talk:List of schools in the United States/Delete
• Wikipedia talk:Cleanup process/Delete
• Talk:Slogan 'Jesus is Lord'/Delete
• Talk:London E17/Delete
• Talk:Santorum/Delete
• Talk:List of schools in the United States/Delete