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* '''image:Peter1tiara.jpg''' please delete. I downloaded it having been assured it was not copyrighted. However there is a question-mark over whether someone ''does'' own copyright. To be safe I have removed it from the article and replaced it with a new image. This can be deleted. [[User:Jtdirl|JTD]] 07:03 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
* '''image:Peter1tiara.jpg''' please delete. I downloaded it having been assured it was not copyrighted. However there is a question-mark over whether someone ''does'' own copyright. To be safe I have removed it from the article and replaced it with a new image. This can be deleted. [[User:Jtdirl|JTD]] 07:03 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)


* [[Dubya Dubya Three]] and [[Bush League]]
** heavily POV rants, apparently from a banned user [[User:The Anome|The Anome]] 17:23 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)

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  • Image:Pioneer11.jpg is 56K in size. For convenience's sake, is there a maximum size to pictures uploaded to Wikipedia? (I also uploaded Image:Pioneer11-small.jpg for comparison.) If you think the image is too big, please delete it. -- Modemac 15:52 Feb 15, 2003 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • United States of America/OldPage
    • Jeronimo 00:26 Aug 27, 2002 (PDT)
      • Before it is deleted some version control needs to take place -- that page and the various CIA pages were being edited at the same time by different people. In some places the "old" page is more currently edited and in others the former CIA subpages are. --mav
  • 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
    • Stubbed. --Eloquence 01:08 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)
  • 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].
    • 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.
  • 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)
  • Gearhead
  • Lamer
  • Handle
  • Wahlau
  • Westie
  • and most of the other stuff found when searching for "slang"
  • 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
      • That seems to be about the word dick, which in my opinion belongs in a dictionary (like wiktionary), not an encyclopedia. The subject dicks is indeed something that should be in Wikipedia, but we already have it - as penis. Andre Engels 17:27 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
    • 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)
  • Legitimacy of NATO's bombing campaign
    • The title alone is POV, and the author is making no pretense of hiding his agenda. -- Zoe
    • It is hard to justify this sort of article, given its name and content, unless you run an article with both sides of the 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)
    • dodgy article. POV name. Questionable facts. This sort of thing needs to be done very carefully, like all articles criticising a religion. (Look at the edit wars over pages dealing with the jewish faith). Title fails to distinguish between Roman Catholic and general Catholic, which includes anglicans, etc. An accurate on this topic, if well written, factual, etc would be useful. This one reads like a term paper by Rev. Ian Paisley. JTD 06:09 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • EV1
    • Probably a copyright infringement -- Tim Starling 12:22 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
  • Obtuse nature
    • Psychological disorders and space aliens. A real head-scratcher. If "obtuse nature" is a technical term in either psychology or exobiology a definition of some sort might be needed before this data made sense. --Ihcoyc (Feb 6, 2003)
  • Junk food news - Someone decided it was worth while to delete my suggestion that this be deleted. If you feel I'm wrong, discuss it, but don't delete pages from here WITHOUT DISCUSSING IT!!!!! -- Zoe
    • Hear. Hear. Junk food news is an historical creation of Project Censored. JFN has a 25 year research and publication history by a 175+ team of researcher. It is widely known and the information is frequently mirrored and reposted on the www.
That should be sufficient to end all debate on this topic, no?
http://www.projectcensored.org/newsabuse.htm
http://www.projectcensored.org
No. -- Zoe
Well I guess I should have said 'intelligent' debate. Zoe if you cannot be persuded by reason perhaps I can impress your starry eyed love of popular authority. The Dean of American Braodcasters Walter Cronkite says:
Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasters are practicing thorough and ethical journalism. (2000)
Don't criticise what you won't take the time to understand. Two16
  • Histrionic personality disorder
    • Possible copyright violation. --Mintguy 03:45 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
    • Why delete a page about a disorder which exists. Also, quotes from the manual are not copyright protected - the rest of the copy-pasted article I replaced with a link DrFreud
    • You need to provide proof that the material is in the public domain, otherwise it goes. --mav 04:24 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
    • The provided link says that the quotes ARE from the manual - that is the proof if you want one. The manual is a general reference and is meant to be a source for quoting.
    • Whether or not the text is from a manual is irrelevant since everything is copyrighted as soon as it is written. An author has to explicitly give up copyright for the text to enter the public domain. --mav
    • ISD-10 and DSM III,IV manuals are public domain reference, standardized for the psychiatric community. They include disclaimer about this.
    • This is still a possible copyright breach as you discover if you read the talk page for that article. If you want to rewrite the article from a neutral point of view then go ahead write it. Mintguy
    • Please note: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in its various editions is copyrighted by the American Psychiatric Association. The Anome 11:12 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
    • copyrighted material now gone - don't delete Martin
  • Über die Weiber -- Seems to be quotes from a diatribe on women by Schopenhauer (possibly with more misogyny added by the contributor), and not an encylopaedia article. Mintguy 03:57 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
    • You could check the web before accusing someone of inserting his own quotes - Do you want to remove all te articles I ever worked on? DrFreud
    • If you continue with your extreme misogyny then yes! Mintguy
    • I agree with Mintguy in this matter. You've been banned under several names, want to keep getting banned? -- Zoe
    • I've merged it with the article about the author, since it was too stublike to warrant an entire entry. But cf Das Judenthum in der Musik - this could become a standalone piece if enough was written about it to warrant the split.
  • Image:Ed8.jpg - A picture of some flowers and some Arabic writing. -- Zoe
  • Bloody Sunday (Ireland 1920)
    • possible copyright infringement -- however, this is an important event, will someone write a proper article here, please? (I presume this article was written by some new person who didn't understand the wiki rules. I'll do a rewrite. (Once I know my article won't then get deleted by mistake. JTD 19:01 Feb 13, 2003 (UTC))
  • 12 stars
    • Possible copyright infringement (and pretty unencyclopaedic subject matter - would be better off in European Flag if anywhere). --Camembert 00:41 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)
  • Alcott Lousia and related pages
    • Supposedly a band with a eight or nine albums under their belt, yet no database nor a google search confirms their existence. Even the smallest indie labels have a website that should list the bands and albums, at least for one that's been around so long -- I dunno what this is, but I don't think we need it. Tokerboy
  • Iamblichus
    • possible copyright infringement -- JeLuF 10:17 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)


  • Alluvium
    • Copied from 1911 encyclopedia, full of OCR errors, and is it still up to date? -- JeLuF
The page now appears to be a stub -Scipius 22:22 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)
I think this was once used as a humorous contribution to a talk page on one the Middle East pages. If no-one can find a use for then it can probably be deleted. -Scipius 22:22 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)
It was a jpeg on 172's talk page of 700kb, and someone thought it would be a good idea to convert it to a .png (that came in at 400kb) and change the link, I compressed the original jpeg down to 150k or soand linked it back to the jpg. Mintguy
CamelCase names might still be linked to by someone outside Wikipedia. They're a left-over from the early days of Wikipedia. It's best to just leave these redirects alone, they're not particularly harmful. -Scipius 22:22 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)
Bah, the likelihood of anyone linking to these is close to zero, and they show up in searches and make us look unprofessional. I say get rid of them all. CamelCase must die, die, die! --Eloquence 01:17 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)~
Google can't find any links to http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/AbductioN and it is mildly harmful now that Abduction is a disambiguation page and the redirect from AbductioN increases the number of links to it and its place on the list of disambiguation pages needing attention. Stephen C. Carlson 16:41 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
We should discuss this on the relevant policy talk page, not here. Martin
  • The List of Dictators
    • Badly named and written. Also a gross violation of NPOV (one of the dictators are accused of drinking the blood of babies!) --mav 22:56 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)
a ridiculous POV page. Bin it. JTD 00:33 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
  • Deeper Than Schmigit and all related articles about band members and albumbs etc... "Deeper Than Schmigit" - produces no hits on google[1]. Even if they exist they are not worthy of an article here. Mintguy
  • Queef - "colloquial term..." - Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and this page is an orphan.
    • I listed this here before, but the page didn't get removed and was removed from this page without any discussion. Mintguy 17:59 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
  • Styles of clothing
    • Not an article at all (not even a stub, despite what it says), just a request for an article. --Camembert 19:15 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
  • "passage meditation" and Eknath Easwaran
    • Contained copied and pasted information without wikis, or any special tags at all. -- Goatasaur
      • Deleted the meditation one already: extensive book excerpt, blatant copyright violation, not an article, and with Microsoft's stupid "smart quotes" embedded in link. Will now look at the other one. Koyaanis Qatsi
      • The Eknath Easwaran one was a slack-jawed appreciation of the man, but *could* potentially be an article at that title. Currently, it's just a POV copyright violation. Koyaanis Qatsi 01:52 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
  • Jamnalal Bajaj Institute Of Management Studies,JBIMS and Philosophy of social sciences
    • Former is junk title, latter is a junk entry. -- Goatasaur 18:11 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
    • The JBIMS article should be okay. A bad title is not sufficient reason to request deletion: there is a "Move this page" option on every page. -- Oliver P. 18:53 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
      • I am aware of that, but why bother? The page was created less than a day ago, and the title *looks* bad; it's not an encyclopedic entry. Camelcase entries are being removed, so why not horribly garbled titles? -- Goatasaur 19:58 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
        • It's an encyclopaedic entry which formerly had a bad title. It's now been moved to a more sensible title. The destruction of CamelCase is deletion of redirects, not articles. There is no need to delete an article just because it is titled badly. -- Oliver P. 20:05 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
  • Syncreticism misspelled word -redirect page to Syncretism BF 01:59 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
    • It's a reasonably common mispelling, so general policy is to keep it to catch future links and searches from people who don't know the correct spelling. Tuf-Kat
  • Khan
    • Had some weird text in it, which I dutifully removed. If someone wants to post a bio of Khan Noonien Singh perhaps that would be the place. ;) -- Goatasaur
    • I put some stubbish content. (Ghengis Khan and Kublai Khan are a bit more important than Khan Noonien Singh, but I'm sure somebody will make a biography of him too)
      • They may be more important to you! -- Goatasaur
  • image:Peter1tiara.jpg please delete. I downloaded it having been assured it was not copyrighted. However there is a question-mark over whether someone does own copyright. To be safe I have removed it from the article and replaced it with a new image. This can be deleted. JTD 07:03 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)


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