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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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  • Maiden name
  • Ynysddu
  • Yair Bacharach
  • 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    • Andre Engels July 16, 2002, because : outdated Wiki information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!
        • What would 'fixing' mean? Add the word on some page just so this stub is not orphaned any more?
  • 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)
  • 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
      • I checked the links on the Laura page, and it seems to be not of Laura Bierman, but of someone called Laura Tripp.Andre Engels

Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)

      • You found a last name in all that mess? Wow! — Toby 10:28 Aug 7, 2002 (PDT)
  • 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
  • Talk:Palestine/Commentary
    • Nothing but a series of questions that appear to be aimed at answering some homework question. --mav
      • I don't think this is homework at all. They sound like fairly reasonable (relatively speaking) rhetorical questions on the issue, designed to argue that Palestine was not a historic homeland for Jews for the roughly 2 millennia between 135 and 1948, which is a common claim. I've moved the material to Talk:Palestine where I hope it will be seen and properly archived. I don't know where it should be archived; hopefully you do. I also don't know if I redirected the page to proper spot (again Talk:Palestine); hopefully you can fix that too. But I do think that it's as legitimate commentary as any of the other stuff on those archives.
  • American Communists (essy moved to meta -- page ready for deletion)
    • Article by Helga essentially claiming without basis that Communist infiltrators determined American policy during the Truman administration. Danny
      • Why not redirect it to "Communism in the United States" and it can be an overview of CPUSA, SWP, and all the various communist parties and thinkers that the US has seen? djk
  • Colorless green ideas sleep furiously and Noam Chomsky/Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
    • This sentence is meant to explain concepts. Let's explain the concepts, not the sentence. djk
    • The sentence itself is famous enough for there to be an article on it. It's been the subject of contests, included in poems, etc., so the sentence itself is of interest, not just the concept it was illustrating.
  • Luciano Caruso
    • empty, was created as a self-promoting page --Gianfranco
  • Tezcatlipoca
    • Prehistoric chat that seems to have no relation to the Aztec god. Or is it a user page? — Toby 22:19 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)
  • Snorkeling
    • Odd newbie experiment. --mav
    • Trying a stubbish definition --Gianfranco
  • Eisenhower and German POWs
    • The information is not supported by the facts. Zoe 22:29 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)~
  • Greek etymology
    • A non-article. Zoe 22:52 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)~
  • Boure
    • Copyright violation. --mav
  • Testbug
    • orphan stub that seems to have been created in testing for a wikipedia bug. Malcolm Farmer 03:06 Aug 2, 2002 (PDT)
  • LE PUNCHING-BALL & LA VACHE A LAIT: La critique universitaire norde-américaine face au Surréalisme
    • 1. orphan stub.
    • 2. would be better categorized under the writer rather than the book
    • 3. bad naming convention - why is the first part in ALL-CAPS? -- Andre Engels
  • MP
    • Wikipedia is not a dictionary - Zoe
    • OTOH, we could certainly use an article Member of Parliament, which MP could redirect to. Alternatively, discuss this in Parliament, which currently doesn't even mention the abbreviation. — Toby 07:54 Aug 3, 2002 (PDT)
    • If there's going to be an article called MP, it should be a disambiguation page, since the abbreviations is also used for military police (or even mounted police), mezzo piano (music) and melting point - at least, that's what my dictionary tells me. Jeronimo
    • Sure, of course it should be a disambiguation page instead of a redirect — if there's another meaning for "MP"!!! Which, erm, there is, I guess .... — Toby 00:00 Aug 5, 2002 (PDT)
  • personal relationship
    • Not an encyclopedia article at present; so general and vague a topic its going to be difficult to make it one.
  • Obituary and its sub-pages
    • As a group these form an orphan; information is also on the normal year pages. Andre Engels
  • Pictures of hoplites
  • 3apes
    • (orphan) Wikipedia is not a web-directory Jeronimo
  • Non-English Wikipedias/OldTextToTranslate
    • Looks like this stuff is no longer of any use, or is it? Jeronimo
  • Image:Star-black-d.gif
  • Image:Talab.jpg
    • Might this perhaps be used in the Arab version; does anyone know how to check that?
  • Image:Nf01511.jpg
    • Would be a useful picture once someone recognizes who this woman is.
  • Image:Krra.JPG
  • Image:Work.jpg
  • Image:SpiritofFlight.jpg
  • Image:RQ-3 Dark Star.png
  • Image:Nature1.jpg
  • Image:Tolkienavatar.jpg
  • Image:Mulak Odocoileus hemionus.jpg
  • Image:Front Elev.jpg
    • See image pages for reasons. -phma
      • I de-linked two images that were incorrectly linked from their article. Please at least do a wikipedia Google search on the file names before listing them here -- There are many images that are linked via a hyperlink only and therefore they appear to be orphans when they are not. Some of the above may also be used in a different language wikipedia so that must also be checked. --mav
        • Mav, why'd you get rid of that search form? It worked just fine for me! I typed in "Beachsub.jpg", and bazam! — Toby 00:02 Aug 5, 2002 (PDT)
        • Would it perhaps be a good idea to have a version of 'Orphaned pictures' that only lists pictures that are not used on any of the international Wikipedias? (keeping the current page is a good idea nevertheless; I have created links to several pictures that were originally intended for the French or Polish versions, which I probably would not have found without it)
  • Kolmogorov
    • This redirects to a nonexistent page and has no history (it's prehistoric). Its existence gives the false impression that an article exists when one reads a page that links to it. — Toby 03:08 Aug 7, 2002 (PDT)
  • Image:Lavalamp.gif
    • Animated GIF too small for an illustration. The user previously uploaded Tolkienavatar.jpg, a monkey head with eyeglasses. -phma
  • 1.jpg - Picture of two tents. The link does not work because the filename has a pipe in it. -phma
  • Image:Hancock.jpg
    • Only after uploading it, did I see that there was already a picture link on the page I wanted to put it on (to another picture on the same site as where I got this one, btw) Andre Engels
  • Manat
    • Newbie experiment with copyright violation in history. However the text there is good enough that it could be rewritten to remove the obvious parentage. --mav
    • Looks to me like it ought to be a double article or a disambig. The word means an Azeri money as well as an Arabic god. -phma
  • Image:Us-map-580.png and Image:Us-map-580-2.jpg
  • The Rivers of Oregon -- does not follow any sensible naming scheme
  • Rivers of Oregon -- starting 'Rivers of xxx' other than continents does not follow...
  • Spiritual Gifts
    • I don't think this warrants a Wikipedia entry; if it does someone has some heavy NOPV-ing to do...
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