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.

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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
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.
History of Cologne
- possible copyright violation (see Cologne/Talk). Nov 3, 2002.
Image:Kon s.jpg xor Image:White horse thumbnail.jpg
- They are identical. Kon s is used in the Polish article about kon; White horse thumbnail is used here in horse. -phma 2002-10-05
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
  - Are these perhaps used to train this bavarian filter for Larry's automatic list of philosophy-related articles? -- JeLuF 07:57 Nov 19, 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
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
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
Jonathan, CCA, Megan newhooke -- newcomer's experiments and personal info -- Someone else
Toni Braxton
- Possible Copyright violation — Toby 01:11 Nov 11, 2002 (UTC)
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)
Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians - fails the Google test for copyright violations. - montréalais
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
Image: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)
Carol Ann Peterson-Heimstead
- not unamusing but doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. -- Someone else 21:36 Nov 14, 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)
  - That sounds like an argument against wikipedia altogether. Yet we already have 90,000+ articles... Lir 01:55 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
  - Why couldn't we try to work together on a fair, consensual, acceptable definition of "ethnic group"? I believe it will be perhaps hard, but not impossible. --G
    - I tried to start, please follow :-)
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: Discussion moved to Talk:Negligent damage to Chysauster Ancient Village user:sjc

Television and Radio and Popular sightseeing spots which were subpages of Japan, I moved their content to better names and these articles are now empty. -- RTC 03:47 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
- 133.27.124.13 has been creating lots of pages, mostly related to Japan. Many have names that could apply to any country. -- RTC 04:01 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
User:Edd Poor -- not a real user's page (only goatse.cx in its history) -- Toby 16:53 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
Vandalbot 2.0, Wikipedia moderator and Aaaaaaaaaaa... etc are user pages for vandals; can't we get rid of them? --Slrubenstein 18:53 Nov. 15 2002
April 9, 2002 -- empty; all useful content moved to April 9 -- Sam 21:47 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
George II
- redirected to "George_Francis_Cruickshank", "Emperor" of a "Non-Territorial Empire". George II needs deletion; George Francis Cruickshank needs either revision or deletion. -- Someone else 07:26 Nov 17, 2002 (UTC)
  - Shouldn't George II just be turned into a disambiguation page? As well as George II of the United Kingdom and George Francis Cruickshank, many other rulers have been thus designated, so isn't it inevitable that it will eventually become a disambiguation page anyway? -- Oliver Pereira 08:59 Nov 17, 2002 (UTC)
    - Ya got a point. I've put three George II's on there, please add any more you can think of! -- Someone else 10:54 Nov 17, 2002 (UTC)
Myra Hindley
- Her biography has been moved to Moors murders, leaving the original as a redirect page. This needs to be deleted if her biography is to be moved back to its original location. Whether or not this should be done is controversial - see the discussion on the Talk page. -- Oliver Pereira 15:17 Nov 17, 2002 (UTC)
- It doesn't need to be deleted if the biography is to be moved back; we simply replace the redirect with the biography. -- Stephen Gilbert 17:10 Nov 17, 2002 (UTC)
  - Do you mean by copying and pasting? That would separate the article from its edit history. Or can one replace a redirect page using the standard "move" function? -- Oliver Pereira 16:19 Nov 18, 2002 (UTC)
    - It seems that the article has been reconstructed at Myra Hindley, leaving the edit history all split up over the two pages. Ah well, such is life. So does this mean that the issue is resolved and we can remove this section from "Votes for deletion"? -- Oliver Pereira 22:24 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)
Bad Thing
- Probably all the linked "articles" as well. I don't think this is an article at all. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Jeronimo
Pescennius_Niger
- because the page was created by a vandalist and filled only with dirt.
- It has been fixed. Please do not delete it now. --Ed Poor
Cooper T. Satterfield
- not really Wikipedia stuff
- text removed by Ed Poor
Battle of Manzikert
- Possible copyright violation. --mav 22:14 Nov 18, 2002 (UTC)
Mayor of the Palace
- Call for an article -- JeLuF
Agricultural Act
- Just nonsense; title seems too ambiguous to redirect to Agricultural Adjustment Act --Mrwojo 03:30 Nov 19, 2002 (UTC)

Python vs Java typing example (redirect page)
Python and Java typeheckexample (redirect page)
Python-Java/Typeheckexample (redirect page)
Proper version is Python vs java typing example
--by the author user:hfastedge

Heian Period
- Looks like someone still has to do some homework :-) -- JeLuF
Queer theory
- Possible copyright infringement -- JeLuF 21:38 Nov 19, 2002 (UTC)
- OK, I reworded the text, sorry for the C.I., it won't happen again.

globe and global
- pages have no content, I have removed all links to them. if they existed, they would just be dictionary entries. --TMC

Lightning rod
- nonsense, content cleared but page needs to be deleted --Eloquence 15:12 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)
  - Why, because someone put nonsense in it, would one conclude that a page should be deleted? This is clearly something that someone would want to come to an encyclopedia and look up. I put an article in there, yet another dramatic rescue from death row. Posting things like this here are a lightning rod to Ortolan88 16:18 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)

UFO (band)
- Text does not cover subject. -- JeLuF 22:23 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)

Lalaine Miranda
- Contained "i like your page lizzie mcguire from your fan brittanywoods", is now empty. -- Zoe