Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/archive May 2004
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- Sinitic Western comparative philosophy appears to be...err... drivel. "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet", but in atrocious prose. It's POV, it's incoherent, and it's long overdue for deletion. -- Someone else 10:54 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)
- Either that or it needs a lot of work. There is' a need for an entry on the topic, but it's certainly outside my competence. Tannin
- Images Elpsfoci.JPG/gif, Elpsmajr.JPG/gif and Elpsminr.JPG/gif (6 in all). I've replaced them with PNG images CliffTaylor 08:30 Jan 29, 2003 (CST)
- Genoa (disambiguation) -- Please delete this page, as I have moved the content to Genoa. Deb 17:23 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)
- NirvanA (CamelCase leftover) and Nirvana (disambiguation) are more useless redirects to Nirvana (which itself contains the brief disambiguation info). This means three of the five top searches for 'Nirvana' point to the same page. - Tzaquiel 03:53 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
- Bromley and Chislehurst Constituency
- Some unspecified poll results
- It's nto the only Constituency page I created. I dont have time to do all constutuencys results.
- I've tied it up to MPs elected in British Elections 2001, along with all the other "x Constituency" pages, so at least they aren't orphaned now. -Nommo
- Jehovah's Witnesses: Controversial Issues
- This page was meant as a forum for turning controversial, POV statements about JW's into NPOV ones that could be reincorporated in the main JW article. It has not served that function, and is now just duplicating information that is already stated in the other pages, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses, Practices of Jehovah's Witnesses, and Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust.
- Image:Enigma.png - This appears to be taken from www.gcsb.govt.nz/infhist.htm - according to their copyright disclaimer, the image can be used but the source and copyright status must be acknowledged.
- JewWatch not an encyclopedia entry. --Elian
- With another sentence or two it could qualify as a stub. Perhaps someone was planning on adding encyclopedic content? You'll note that some web sites do get an entire article. See Hot Or Not. --Ryguasu
- chemiosmotic potential
- There is no such thing as a "chemiosmotic potential." The word must be a conflation of chemiosmotic hypothesis and electrochemical potential
- The Incidentalist Manifesto
- Some kind of weird rant -- Zoe
- Primatology and Primatologist.
- These pages are nothing more than dictionary definitions. -- Zoe
- File:5WPhilosophy.txt
- Text files should not be hosted here. Also, part of the Fifth World vanity project
- Junk, let it go Tannin 10:04 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
- image:5thworld.jpg
- Another bit of the Fifth World vanity project
- Junk, let it go. Nothing links to it Tannin 10:04 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
- [[it:Quinto Mondo]] [[es:Quinto Mundo]] [[pt:Quinto Mundo]] [[fr:Cinquième Monde]] [[de:Fünfte Welt]] [[ja:%E7%AC%AC5_%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C]]
- these appear to be multi-lingual vanity pages, part of the Fifth World vanity project
- Emilie du Chatelet seems to have a lot of stuff taken from http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/chatelet.htm. Copyright violation? -- SGBailey 13:40 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)
- Petition of Right, 1628
- Original material, better be placed at sourceberg. -- JeLuF
- Spass guerilla
- Consists only of cross-references and weblinks. -phma 2002-12-31
- Lilo & Stitch
- The article reads like it was copied from another location. I've asked Zanimum twice now to let us know where he/she got the information from, but Zanimum hasn't bothered to reply. -- Zoe
- Is a slightly reworded version of [[http://starbulletin.com/2002/06/23/features/story4.html
http://starbulletin.com/2002/06/23/features/story4.html]].
- Zanimum here-- I am planning to add on to my article, but I have since responded to Zoe's query. It is a compilation of about six articles worth of information, but in my own words, nethertheless. I can go at it some more to change it, but just let me expand it to it's full size before you consider the possiblities.
- Whites
- I don't believe this article is necessary, especially with this title, and it's hardly NPOV. -- Zoe
- Ottoman Reform Efforts under Selim III and Mahmoud II
- Looks like someone's data dump of a term paper. --mav 07:39 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)
- The material currently being entered en masse by Pedreco from the list of micronations page is of no intrinsic value. Many of the listed micronations are defunct, and a significant proportion of the data being included in articles for those that are not is complete and utter fantasy. Wikipedia is not a work of fiction; these are fictional listings and should therefore be deleted. There *are* a tiny handful of micronations that have an extensive documented history (ie not just a badly-designed geocities web page) and some form of existence in the "real world" but they are either already dealt with in the "micronation" article, or have their own separate articles.
- [[Maraj%F3_micronation]]
- Not encyclopedic, essentially orphaned
- Started as a copyright violation/info dump, now empty, and this is the only page linking to it. As orphaned as they come. - Tzaquiel 16:23 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
- Not encyclopedic, essentially orphaned
- Image:Old style cuffs.jpg, Image:Ratchet cuffs.jpg, Image:Hinged handcuffs.jpg, Image:Single cuff.jpg
- images of handcuffs that we don't need. They all have a vaguely lace / goth / bondage air to them Dubious. -- Tarquin 20:44 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC) (apologies for clogging this page -- I don't know how to link to the image page rather than display the image)
- You put a colon before the "Image", thus: [[:Image:Single cuff.jpg]] --Camembert
- images of handcuffs that we don't need. They all have a vaguely lace / goth / bondage air to them Dubious. -- Tarquin 20:44 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC) (apologies for clogging this page -- I don't know how to link to the image page rather than display the image)
- Cwmbran, South Wales
- Possible copyright violations
- Political culture:United States
- Empty Article -- Grimm
- multilingual
- so that multilingualism can be move to multilingual (see also Talk:bilingual)
- Image:Poinsetta.jpg & Image:Poinsetta thumbnail.jpg
- Misspellings. Replaced by Image:Poinsettia.jpg & Image:Poinsettia thumbnail.jpg. I'd prefer just redirection, but I don't know if images allow this.
- Wikipedia:List_of_offensive_usernames - This just propogates the offense -- SGBailey 09:15 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)
- I've made some changes, but I wouldn't object to a deletion Martin
- Wikipedia:Warned users
- hasn't proved useful. (Two warnings, four edits in the past several months; see also Wikipedia talk:Warned users.) --FvdP 21:00 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)
- Image:CLematis hybrid thumbnail.jpg
- Incorrect capitalization. Replaced by Image:Clematis hybrid.jpg. I'd rather just use a redirect, but I don't know if the software allows this with images.
- Listing of noted Pagans
- Very biased intro and list full of lesbians, sounds like pulpit raging. Not a useful page.
- I don't get that sound. The intro can be changed if necessary. The lesbian bias may well have come from a user with a background in Dianic Wicca Martin
- Listing of noted agnostics
- Useless page, very biased intro.
- The intro can be changed. Example of uses: person wondering about key agnostic philosophers, or looking for common features in the lives of agnostics, or wanting not to be alone. Martin
- copyright problem -- Tarquin 10:31 Jan 19, 2003 (UTC)
- Sinitic Western comparative philosophy
- seems like nonsense; there are some comments on the talk page that invited the original author to clairify, but no one has responded either in talk or on the page. -- Slrubenstein 21:04 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
- Medicine (shamanism)
- most of the content is on the talk page and reads in part like an ad. for someon'es books; questions as to why this should be an article when we already have one on shamanism. -- Slrubenstein 21:04 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
- Rebel Alliance -this had a self-link and nothing else. Eclecticology 08:37 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
- Basic facts on Sweden
- all of this information is already in the main sweden article, with the exception of the big list of memberships of dubious need.
- Futurology
- Just a definition "Futurology is the study of the future" and a list of lots of external links. Tokerboy
- I am now working on this article: hopefully it will be a better article by the time you read this...
- Just a definition "Futurology is the study of the future" and a list of lots of external links. Tokerboy
- Bruce A. C. McHenry
- possible copyright infringement -- JeLuF 20:47 Jan 23, 2003 (UTC)
- It's mostly geek dictionary entries plus some weirder stuff. Zocky 02:54 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
- I disagree about some of this - 'dick' is a word with multiple uses and a history all of its own that deserves to be properly written up just as much as some of the other slang terms in the wikipedia do. KJ
- 'dick' is a word with multiple uses and a history all of its own - exactly. So is every other word in any language. But is it an object, person, idea, concept that needs an encyclopaedic article? So far the article includes: 1. short for Richard, 2. slang for penis and 3. slang for private investigator. Do we also need articles on "Ricky", "John-Thomas" and "P.I." ? Zocky 09:49 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
- Cryptid is worth keeping and expanding. Dick is better dealt with as a paragraph in a more general article on slang, and the rest of them are utter junk. Cryptid aside, delete the lot of them. Tannin 09:16 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
- An article on dicks is fine. They are a subject of fascination, there are non-fiction books and museums devoted to them. I have a book with an extensive documentation of the multiple uses and history of the word ‘dick’: it's called the Oxford English Dictionary. the librarian
- If it's an English word, I'd like to be able to find it here. Even if you can't write some great long story about it. So if it ends up under a slang category, I'm okay with that. As long as I can find it and any other dirty and decent word I want. We do want the Wikipedia to be complete right! And if a horny adolescent needs some dirty info, it might be good if he finds something that is actually educational. (Nico)
- no, No, NO and NOOOOOOO! Wikipedia is not a dictionary. see [wiktionary] Zocky 20:46 Feb 3, 2003 (UTC)
- United States surface transportation policy
- Possible copyright violation. --mav 08:27 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
- U.S. military action to disarm Iraq
- same topic as U.S. plan to invade Iraq, minimal useful content
- In fact most of the stuff added by [213.38.124.94]. He's been inputting external link-only articles over and over again. I'm currently trying to communicate with him.
- List of years in KROQ and any year in KROQ pages that have been made (there's at least one).
- See Talk:List of years in KROQ -- this is not the best way to present the information.
- Talk:Laws of anime
- Talk of deleted article, but keep it for a while for the newbie to read it. -- JeLuF 17:10 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)
- Dispensationalism
- possible copyright violation -- JeLuF 18:54 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)
- Legitimacy of NATO's bombing campaign
- The title alone is POV, and the author is making no pretense of hiding his agenda. -- Zoe
- Wikipedia:Danish Wikipedia language links
- All links are now correct, and the page is no longer needed. -- Christian 15:45 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)
- James JF Forest Looks like nothing more than a resume Aldie 05:38 Jan 28, 2003 (UTC)
- Burgerlijk Recht - was a non-English stub ; empty now. - Tzaquiel 14:04 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
- BV/NV
- Ondernemingsrecht
- Burgerlijk Recht
- Startpagina - not in English (Dutch?) sannse 14:38 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
- Martin Dies - newbie vandalism, now an empty article
- The Catholic crusade against the imagination
- Intrinsically POV -- Zoe 20:49 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
- not so intrisically POV, but the title is not well-chosen. If there really was a "fight" of the catholic church against imagination at some time in history (as the article claims), it deserves an article, so I vote against deletion (but in favour of renaming). (Unless of course there's never be such a fight). --FvdP 20:59 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
- Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo - possible copyright infringement - sannse 21:12 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
- Cabinet of Canada - rant, one incomplete sentence. - Montréalais
- Rana. Would someone who understands this language (Swedish ? Dutch ?) maybe see to its worthiness and move it or dump it as appropriate ? - Tzaquiel 23:12 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
- Tea bag sex position
- Nonsense definition created by anon user. Mintguy
- Ice crystal Entire contents: An Ice crystal is precipitation consisting of small, slowly falling crystals of ice. plus an external link to the same sentence. Tannin 07:15 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
- Causus belli, Case of war, Casus belli, and Case for war contain nothing but links to each other. - Tzaquiel 21:28 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
- Totò
- Complete contents : a dog in the wizard of oz. - Tzaquiel 21:28 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
- added a stub about the italian actor Gianfranco
- Complete contents : a dog in the wizard of oz. - Tzaquiel 21:28 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
- These are the Lost Tribes of Israel
- Someone wiped it, but this is a redundant article ; see Israelites (which Lost tribes of Israel already redirects to) - Tzaquiel 21:28 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
- Demagogues' Quotations
- Hardly NPOV. -- Zoe
- matrix (Mathematics)
- It is moved to matrix (mathematics) and all related links are updated.
- Ashington , possible copyright infringement http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/vg/wansbeck.html 62.30.150.99 14:57 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)
- Ashington Apologies from a new user. Although I wrote this myself, for another purpose originally, I cannot deny that it was heavily based on the Northumberland County Council website. I've deleted this entry, although having found this page, that might have been another error! Jimfbleak
- Aleatory, a spirited newby experiment on an English adjective, Zocky 19:58 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)
- Samoyed -- it's about derogatory terms, not about "Samoyeds", and it's inaccurate about what's derogatory, too. -- isis 02:54 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)
- Canada's position on the US plan to invade Iraq - Originally had one inane comment, now blank. 66.81.220.32 07:46 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)
- Teledildonics call me a prude but this entry seems to be nothing more than a portal to somebodies porn selling scam quercus robur
- Home care is at present nothing more than a redirect to the above mentioned Teledildonics page quercus robur
- Why I am a socialist by 24.42.43.3 -- not an article; is an unsigned personal political essay devoid of links
- Living wage
- Just a couple of external links Mintguy
- Yes, 24.189.173.175 has added a number of similar stubs. If someone deletes this one, they should check the user contributions for any more. -- Tim Starling
- I think this is fine. We have the stub-checker to show that it's a stub. There's little need to delete it; the external links offer a good start.
- Casus belli Not even a dictionary entry Tannin 11:22 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
- EV1
- Probably a copyright infringement -- Tim Starling 12:22 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
- Paper tiger A redirect to the United States, Aldie 14:10 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
- GeForce2 -- not an article.
- Simon Crean — Just an insulting rant. Pandora 20:00 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
- I've just turned it into some sort of stub, and left some external links to biographical summaries and articles about him that can be used if anyone wants to fill in some more details... -- Oliver P. 21:05 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
- K. Kay Shearin - barely a stub, apparently just created for retribution against now deleted Isis (this is her real name). --Eloquence 22:09 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
- Accountancy Education Resources (Including Technology)
- Not an encyclopedia article. Might be good to have this in meta instead. --mav 22:23 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)