Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/archive May 2004
Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below so an admin can find them, check to see that they are indeed not legitimate pages. If the page should be deleted, an admin will, and the link removed from this page (it will show up on the Wikipedia:Deletion log). If the page should not be deleted, an admin will remove the link from this page. Page titles should stay listed for a minimum of a week before a decision is made.
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.
As a general rule, don't delete pages you nominate for deletion. Let someone else do it.
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 page titles of stubs that at least have a decent definition and might in the future become articles. There's no reason to delete those (see Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub). 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.
If another solution has been found for some of these pages than deletion, leave them listed for a short while, so the original poster can see why it wasn't deleted, and what did happen to it. This will prevent reposting of the same item.
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- United States of America/OldPage
- Can time move backwards: Orphan, unclear what its point is, seems like something that would be on Everything2, not Wikipedia. --k.lee
- Symmetry under time reversal is a serious topic, actively studied by physicists. The page is poorly written and contains no useful information, but it could theoretically be developed into a proper topic. -- Tim
- Suggest merging with Time travel Chas zzz brown 20:57 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)
- Title is _very_ bad, should be a section of a time article or so.
- A day in the life of an ordinary Canadian
- History of Cologne
- possible copyright violation (see Cologne/Talk). Nov 3, 2002.
- Image:Kon s.jpg xor Image:White horse thumbnail.jpg
- The following are all orphan articles: it looks as if someone started splitting up List of philosophical topics and gave up part way through. Since they only duplicate sections of the parent article, they should probably go. (the full list seems more useful for browsing topics , anyway) Malcolm Farmer 09:17 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)
- List of philosophical topics/C
- List of philosophical topics/D
- List of philosophical topics/E
- List of philosophical topics/F
- List of philosophical topics/G
- List of philosophical topics/H
- List of philosophical topics/I
- List of philosophical topics/J
- List of philosophical topics/K
- List of philosophical topics/L
- List of philosophical topics/M
- List of philosophical topics/N
- List of philosophical topics/O
- List of philosophical topics/P
- List of philosophical topics/Q
- List of philosophical topics/R
- List of philosophical topics/S
- Dave Navarro, Stabbing Westward, Industrial metal, Budgie (rock band)
- Copyright violations by 64.175.251.49.
- Playdo
- Orphan advertisment for a website -- Tim Starling 06:43 Nov 6, 2002 (UTC)
- I vote to delete this one. -- Cock
- Orphan advertisment for a website -- Tim Starling 06:43 Nov 6, 2002 (UTC)
- Oil paint
- Possible copyright violation -- Scipius 17:06 Nov 6, 2002 (UTC)
- 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.
- Friedrich Gulda
- Possible copyright violaiton. --mav
- Native gel electrophoresis
- Possible copyright violaiton. --mav
- RFC 1519 - just a link to the full text -- JeLuF
- Maud Gonne
- possible copyright violation -- JeLuF 22:43 Nov 8, 2002 (UTC)
- 3465 Lochwood Drive, Unit B-10, Fort Collins, Colorado and 3465 Lochwood Drive
- Not encyclopedic articles. At best, advertising. -- Zoe 23:22 Nov 8, 2002 (UTC)
- I don't disagree with you, they were to make a point in the Bushisms talk. -- cock
- Image:THEL.jpg - copyright violation this image is owned by TRW/Reuters and was "borrowed" from a yahoo page. --cock
- We aren't allowed to do that? It's news.
- how about the lir'd artistic rendition? Image:Lir'dTHEL.jpg
- We aren't allowed to do that? It's news.
- Image:Lirskullwhat.jpg - is replaced by Image:Lirskullwhat2.jpg
- Gordian II - combined into article for Gordian I. See my justification at Talk:List_of_Roman_Emperors llywrch 02:34 Nov 9, 2002 (UTC)
- Typically a case where a redirect works much better than removing. Removing will break links and invite someone to later re-create a page. Andre Engels 12:26 Nov 10, 2002 (UTC)
- After some thought, I agree with you. Consider my original suggestion a bit of over-enthusiasm -- as well as learning my way around the etiquette of Wikipedia. -- llywrch 03:32 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- Image:Italia.png
- Orphan uploaded by someone with no user page. Image has a copyright notice. It makes no sense, but it is a copyright notice. -phma 2002-11-09
- Crown Princess Victoria, Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Queen Astrid of the Belgians
- Copyright problems. --mav
- Paola Ruffo di Calabria - same user as the above nominated Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria (67.8.2.22), same text, different title, still copyrighted -- Someone else
- Rae, Jonathan, CCA, Megan newhooke -- newcomer's experiments and personal info -- Someone else
- Also Josh fawcett Tokerboy 22:49 Nov 10, 2002 (UTC)
- Also Photos - just a weblink. Some contributions by that IP look like good stubs. -phma
- Toni Braxton
- Sigismund III of Sweden: One man, Sigismund III of Poland, was also Sigismund I of Sweden, but there was, as pointed out (thanks, Montréalais) no Sigismund III of Sweden. -- Someone else 05:48 Nov 11, 2002 (UTC)
- TSC Computer -- Looks like garbage to me! -- Oliver Pereira 07:53 Nov 11, 2002 (UTC)
- Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians - fails the Google test for copyright violations. - montréalais
- User talk:Fucking Asshole -- the sysop who logged on as Fucking Asshole should delete the talk page that still remains, which seems to be the last remnant of his little experiment in vandalism. -- Someone else
- William Osler
- Possible copyright violation. --mav
- Sheet Music Comment Guidelines
- Created a long long time ago - I just don't know what it's for. --Camembert 02:39 Nov 13, 2002 (UTC)
- Bituminous coal
- On Oct 16, anonymous user says "It's black rock, what more can I say?" A user suggested that a lot more could be said, but it hasn't been said yet. No useful content -- should be deleted if it remains as it is much longer, in order to encourage a proper article. -- Sam 14:03 Nov 13, 2002 (UTC)
- I made a very brief stub; hopefully that will encourage more useful content. Wesley 14:18 Nov 13, 2002 (UTC)
- The Story of Mel
- This is nothing more than source material from the internet jargon file (hackers dictionary). --TMC
- File:Filmmove.gif
- An orphan animated gif. -- Zoe 23:40 Nov 13, 2002 (UTC)
- It's not actually an orphan (Orson Welles, Robin Hood and Lord Peter Wimsey all use it), but it should be. In a similar vein, there is Image:Bookturn.gif, which I think should also go. --Camembert 00:30 Nov 14, 2002 (UTC)
- Huh. When I clicked on "What links here" nothing showed up. -- Zoe 00:36 Nov 14, 2002 (UTC)
- "What links here" gives you the page that link to the image description page. To see the links to the image itself, look at 'Image links' on the image description page itself. Andre Engels 15:11 Nov 14, 2002 (UTC)
- Huh. When I clicked on "What links here" nothing showed up. -- Zoe 00:36 Nov 14, 2002 (UTC)
- Carol Ann Peterson-Heimstead
- not unamusing but doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. -- Someone else 21:36 Nov 14, 2002 (UTC)
- Jun Fukuda
- Only contained garbage, now is empty. -- Zoe 00:07 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- Judy Resnick
- Peat bog
- Contained "BITE ME!", is now empty. -- Zoe 03:04 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- I just made the blank entry into a stub article. I'll make everyone a deal: if this remains either (1) an orphan article (I haven't checked if it one already), or (2) no one adds to it for, say, 60 days, go ahead & delete it. -- llywrch 03:32 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- Contained "BITE ME!", is now empty. -- Zoe 03:04 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- List of ethnic groups
- I doubt this article will ever be useful due to the lack of any acceptable definition of what counts as an ethnic group. (i.e. my grandmother will punch anyone that calls her Italian, but few people actually recognize Sicilian as a distinct ethnic group and language.) The only direct link is ethnic group (a redirect) which should be an actual article IMHO. Tokerboy 04:29 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- A link of perceived (if you will) ethnic groups is quite useful. When I read, Sicilian I want to be able to look it up on the list and see what it is referring too. Lir 05:14 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- According to the Ethnologue, there are 6,800 main languages--virtually all of them (except sign languages, Esperanto, etc) are probably a distinct ethnic group. There are also 41,000 dialects, according to Ethnologue. If even 1/10 of them are also ethnic groups, we're talking about a list 10,000 long. It would be nice, but not feasible. Tokerboy 09:47 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- I doubt this article will ever be useful due to the lack of any acceptable definition of what counts as an ethnic group. (i.e. my grandmother will punch anyone that calls her Italian, but few people actually recognize Sicilian as a distinct ethnic group and language.) The only direct link is ethnic group (a redirect) which should be an actual article IMHO. Tokerboy 04:29 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- Edwin Arrott Abbott - strange misspelling. Now just redirects to Edwin Abbott Abbott (the correct spelling), so is no longer needed. -- Oliver Pereira 16:08 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
- Negligent damage to Chysauster Ancient Village
