Wikipedia talk:Historical archive/Logs/Deletion log

Hey, how do I get an article deleted? I've been retitling the "Middle Earth/xxx" articles to "xxx" or "xxx (Middle-earth)". This process leaves behind articles with no text to which nothing is linked. Ed Poor 05:42 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)

The simplest way is to pick "vote for deletion", explain why (as above), and wait for a sysop to do it. On straightforward stuff like that, we're usually pretty quick to respond. Vicki Rosenzweig 05:44 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)

Yes, in situations like this, people are pretty quick to respond — negatively. Pages like this that have been around for a while and have been indexed by search engines should be redirected, and will presumably remain redirects forever. See Wikipedia:Policy on permanent deletion of pages. BTW, you can't exactly "vote for deletion" under the Phase III software; you have to directly edit Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. — Toby 15:39 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)

Please see my comment in Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages. — Toby 03:22 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)

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Why in the world is this page called [Wikipedia:Article deletion log]? From very early in the project Larry Sanger and Jimbo stated that each editable page in wikipedia is a page but not all pages are encyclopedia articles. Then given the wikipedia policy on the permanent deletion of pages it would be a grave anti-wiki sin to actually delete an article. I know this wasn't the intent of LDC when he made the name change and I also know that 95% of the pages that are deleted are not articles in any sense of the word. I therefore propose a name change to simply Wikipedia:Page deletion log. It's difficult enough to get newbies used to making this distinction without having pages like this -- taken literally this page title may also be seen as a form of censorship. --mav 19:24 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)