Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/archive May 2004
Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below (or use the Vote feature) so an admin can find them, check to see that they are indeed not legitimate pages, and delete them. If the content of a page-to-be-deleted exists on some different page, please indicate that, somehow, on the page-to-be-deleted (either by redirecting it to the correctly titled page, or, better for our purposes, putting in a link to it). To facilitate checking that a "page title to be deleted" really ought to be deleted, please don't redirect such pages to page titles to be deleted.
Please review Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages before adding to this page. In the past, about half of the titles added to this page were not deleted. In particular, do not add article names to this list that might in the future become articles. There's no reason to delete those. Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page. E.g., a page called Hume can be easily and sensibly redirected to David Hume; presidant (a misspelling) can be redirected to president; etc. (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!) Similarly, pages in the wrong namespace (for example, user pages in the main namespace), can be redirected and should not be deleted if there are still old links to them.
Discussion about the merits of deleting a page listed here should take place on wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion.
NOTE to Wiki Administrators: Simply deleting a page does not automatically delete its talk page or any subpages. Please delete these pages first, and then the main page. Also, if you delete a page, remove if from this list as well.
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- Log:Most Wanted
- jheijmans June 11, 2002, because : this seems like an old version of the most wanted page (orphan)
- At the very least this is completely outdated Andre Engels
- jheijmans June 11, 2002, because : this seems like an old version of the most wanted page (orphan)
- Listing of noted atheists
- jheijmans June 20, 2002, because : serves no purpose imo (see talk)
- Listing of noted agnostics
- jheijmans June 20, 2002, because : serves no purpose imo (see talk of atheists)
- Listing of noted Buddhists
- jheijmans June 20, 2002, because : serves no purpose imo (see talk of atheists)
- Listing of noted Hindus
- jheijmans June 20, 2002, because : serves no purpose imo (see talk of atheists)
- Listing of noted Deists
- jheijmans June 20, 2002, because : serves no purpose imo (see talk of atheists)
- How does one edit a page/Alternate version
- jheijmans June 20, 2002, because : (orphan) old version (?) of how to edit a page
- Prussia/Ostsee
- jheijmans June 20, 2002, because : (orphan) useless subpage with German title
- Content of this page and much more can be found at Baltic Andre Engels
- jheijmans June 20, 2002, because : (orphan) useless subpage with German title
- September 11, 2001
- Bryan Derksen June 21, 2002, because : the "specific day in history" pages never took off, and the others have been deleted. I also don't think it should be a redirect, since other things did happen on that day in history. I think this page should be deleted.
- I have orphaned this page by splitting the link in the only linking page (Bob Dylan/Love and Theft) into separate ones for September 11 and 2001 Andre Engels
- Bryan Derksen June 21, 2002, because : the "specific day in history" pages never took off, and the others have been deleted. I also don't think it should be a redirect, since other things did happen on that day in history. I think this page should be deleted.
- Gene Anderson
- Deb June 24, 2002, because : completely incorrect
- Noyes
- jheijmans June 28, 2002, because : wikipedia is not a genealogy index
- Toby Bartels, Friday, June 28, 2002 : I can see arguments for keeping it, but not strongly enough to make them. However, if somebody else does and we do keep this, then all of the alternative spellings should redirect to this article, not be linked from it!
- Content moved to metapedia. Page is ready for deletion by another sysop.
- Toby Bartels, Friday, June 28, 2002 : I can see arguments for keeping it, but not strongly enough to make them. However, if somebody else does and we do keep this, then all of the alternative spellings should redirect to this article, not be linked from it!
- jheijmans June 28, 2002, because : wikipedia is not a genealogy index
- World War II/The Battle of Crete
- Stephen Gilbert June 29, 2002, because : there are no links to this page, and no content. A redirect is unnecessary.
- And it's a rather strange redirect anyway. Andre Engels
- Stephen Gilbert June 29, 2002, because : there are no links to this page, and no content. A redirect is unnecessary.
- Robin Hood Enginering Ltd
- Enchanter July 10, 2002, because : 1) The name is spelt wrongly 2) the article is no more than an ad
- Dreaming doubt (content moved to the meta -- ready for deletion)
- Andre Engels July 10, 2002, because : It's wordly copying several pages of text from the only page linking to it; this should be at one place only
- Idoigo Ardza (content moved to meta, page ready for deletion)
- Vicki Rosenzweig July 13, 2002, because : it's a phrase from a nonexistent language, and there isn't even an article on Enochian
- Maiden name
- Vicki Rosenzweig July 13, 2002, because : Wikipedia is not a dictionary
- Ynysddu
- Andre Engels July 16, 2002, because : stub orphan
- Yair Bacharach
- Andre Engels July 16, 2002, because : stub orphan
- Wikipedia/Edit lock (content moved, page ready for deletion)
- Andre Engels July 16, 2002, because : outdated Wiki information
- Volks-Deutsche
- Andre Engels July 16, 2002, because : orphan stub
- Then fix it!
- Andre Engels July 16, 2002, because : orphan stub
- Resolution regarding the use of rectangular world maps
- The Anome July 17, 2002, because : not an encylopedia article; replaced by external link to text
- Mistakes in textbooks in America (content moved to the meta, page ready for deletion)
- Danny July 18, 2002, because : It was an attempt at advocacy and certainly not of Wikipedia quality.
- Andre Engels July 18, 2002, because : Advocacy page rightly been removed, but now an empty page still in the Wiki
- Mass-production
- Slrubenstein July 20, 2002, because it is not about mass-production
- Hans Selye
- Zoe July 21, 2002 because there's nothering there but dates, not even an explanation of who he is
- You folks are so quick to delete, five minutes in Google and click on Hans Selye to see what I came up with, an important and interesting medical figure who has probably made all our lives better with his discoveries and who someone else can probably really do a good article on in the future. Ortolan88 21:50 Jul 21, 2002 (PDT)
- Zoe July 21, 2002 because there's nothering there but dates, not even an explanation of who he is
- Frederic Sanger
- new page for Frederick Sanger has been created and all links pointed to it
- Since the old version is prehistoric, it should be kept as a redirect since people may have bookmarked it, and search engines certainly have indexed it. See Wikipedia:Policy on permanent deletion of pages. — Toby 16:05 Jul 22, 2002 (PDT)
- new page for Frederick Sanger has been created and all links pointed to it
- Super mario 64
- July 22, 2002: useless stub - ansible
- Short words
- July 23, 2002: a "list of encyclopedia articles" like article that may only be hiding orphans and isn't really of any use (as far as I can see) - Jheijmans
- I always assumed that the purpose of this list had something to do with the limitations of our search feature, although I didn't see exactly how it could be put to use. I suggest that the people modifying the search feature to allow it to search for certain words (at least in titles) use this list as a guide and then (assuming that no objections appear to Jheijmans' vote) delete it. — Toby 14:23 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)
- July 23, 2002: a "list of encyclopedia articles" like article that may only be hiding orphans and isn't really of any use (as far as I can see) - Jheijmans
- Chosen plaintext attack
- July 24, 2002: a pointless title, a contentless article that will never become anything
- Please do not make such accusations without checking what links there or making a web search. It is not in the least pointless, and even the more pointless-sounding "chosen-key attack" does have a meaning.
- In fact, I've given it a bit more content, explaining a little about how it works and comparing public-key encryption. I'm not a cryptographer, though, and really fudged the notation. Vicki Rosenzweig 10:38 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)
- Please do not make such accusations without checking what links there or making a web search. It is not in the least pointless, and even the more pointless-sounding "chosen-key attack" does have a meaning.
- July 24, 2002: a pointless title, a contentless article that will never become anything
- Laura
- July 24, 2002: This is a personal page, and I suspect not from a Wikipedia user. If the author is a user, the page should be moved to user namespace; if not, deleted.
- There's a film called Laura, according to the two other links to the page. The page is not about the film.
- Special:Listusers indicates that we have a User:Laura Bierman, but she has no user page and doesn't seem to have made any contributions at all. I don't know if this is the same Laura or not; just reporting in case anybody else thinks of checking what I just checked. — Toby 11:34 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)
- July 24, 2002: This is a personal page, and I suspect not from a Wikipedia user. If the author is a user, the page should be moved to user namespace; if not, deleted.
- Israeli-Palestinian violence
- July 25, 2002: This is not a suitable subject for an encyclopaedia, and people who feel strongly about the topic will be distracted from working on proper articles by the need to purge it of propaganda for one side or the other. GrahamN
- Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
- Newbie experiment (copyright violation is hidden in the history). --mav
- BChristopher Tolkien/b
- Empty orphan subpage of a non-existing main article. Jheijmans 00:12 Jul 25, 2002 (PDT)
- Year in Review/Backward
- Orphan with no use (no responses in talk question - that page links it now). Accompanied by similar pages for 1st through 19th and 21st century. Jeronimo 04:52 Jul 26, 2002 (PDT)
- A search for
year review backwardwill find all of these pages, everything that links to them, and nothing else. I don't see why any of it should be kept either; the reasons may be lost in the mists of time. — Toby 12:27 Jul 26, 2002 (PDT)
- A search for
- Orphan with no use (no responses in talk question - that page links it now). Accompanied by similar pages for 1st through 19th and 21st century. Jeronimo 04:52 Jul 26, 2002 (PDT)