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Add links to unwanted page titles to the list below so an administrator can find them, check to see that they should be deleted. Please review Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages before adding to this page. If the page should be deleted, an admin will do so, and the link will be removed from this page (it will show up on the Wikipedia:Deletion log). If the page should not be deleted, someone 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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As a general rule, don't delete pages you nominate for deletion. Let someone else do it.

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  • Prophesies
    • An NPOV attempt to justify religious belief. Danny
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Go game demonstration
    • Good idea, but there is no game here, just the information on what game it is that is (not) shown
  • Rush Limbaugh/Updates
    • No explanation as to what the article is supposed to be, and does not contain encyclopedic information. -- Zoe
    • Yes it does. It's describing the various "updates" that Rush Limbaugh does on his radio show.
  • Saturday Night
    • possible copyright infringement -- JeLuF 21:57 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
  • University_of_Central_Florida
    • Possible copyright infringement -- Dec 5, 2002
  • Powered exoskeleton
    • Possible copyright infringement -- The Anome 23:25 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
  • Grain of salt, Grain of salt/Poetic interpretations and Grain of salt (philosophical interpretations)
  • Zhongshan University
    • Copyright violation. -phma 2002-12-09
  • George Adamski
    • Possible copyright infringement -- JeLuF 22:31 Dec 9, 2002 (UTC)
  • Clifford Simak
    • Possible copyright infringement, and in Spanish, too.
  • JewWatch not an encyclopedia entry. --Elian
    • With another sentence or two it could qualify as a stub. Perhaps someone was planning on adding encyclopedic content? You'll note that some web sites do get an entire article. See Hot Or Not. --Ryguasu
  • The Unity of God in the Scriptures
    • POV and an orphan besides Tokerboy 21:30 Dec 11, 2002 (UTC)
      • I second this vote. Unless this article is majorly rewritten, it should be deleted. -- Zoe
    • I concur. It should be moved to a POV-friendly forum (like meta) and then deleted from this database. --mav
    • Please delete. This guy (80.116.222.134) has been sermonising like crazy. Mintguy
  • The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
    • I waited for several days for the original author to explain to us the source of his material. The fact that one of the sentences reads "He had left five Englishmen there, three rude villains and two good fellows." makes me think it's not the article's author's own words. I smell a copyright violation. -- Zoe
    • The burden of proof is not on the submitter. Such language as you refer to is from Defoe, and is not copyrighted. The entry is most likely fine, and without direct evidence to the contrary, should not be deleted. --The Cunctator
    • I asked the original author if the work was original, and he/she did not reply. Are we to assume that if an originator doesn't reply when asked if the work is original, that it is? What happened to the copyright problem? -- Zoe
    • Without other evidence, yes. We only expect the originator to reply if we know that it was copied from a copyright-protected source. Not suspect that it was copied. --The Cunctator
  • Cockroach
    • Contained "Put your gdfhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhfdddddddddddddhggfdhhh hgfmdhtrymrtdmyrd", now empty. -- Zoe
  • Omnibenevolence
    • Another one of 80.116.222.134's sermons. -- Zoe
  • Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
    • Apparent copyright violation. What's a Mahasamadhi? -phma 2002-12-11
    • Note that 8 articles reference this page. Deleting this page will be okay because it will prompt someone to fix the broken wiki and write a new article, hopefully an original one (see the article's Talk page). David 23:30 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC)
  • Scott
    • Contained personal comments --taras
  • Rhaeto Romance language
    • Contained "for me the studying of rhaeto-romance languages is very important.I want to see new sites on this theme.Per favore,aiutatemi !!!!!!!!!", now empty. -- Zoe
  • Pearson International Airport
    • Contained "hello you gay asses", now empty -- Zoe
  • Tennis Court Oath
    • Contained "this is brutal. . . .O'Neill bitch", now empty -- Zoe
    • Someone else, not me this time, has entered a brief article on this important moment in the history of France.
  • Halophilic and thermoacidophilic bacteria
    • Was "boooooooooo", now empty -- Tim 01:06 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC)
  • Burlingame Treaty
    • Contained "We the people inorder to form a more perfect union, estaplish justice insure domestic tranquility. Provide for the common defense, promote...", now empty. -- Zoe
  • Interstate 127
  • Interstate 131
    • Both of these articles were about U.S. Highways, not Interstates. I have made them redirects to articles with appropriate titles. -- Gregory Pietsch
  • Banstead
  • Reigate
  • Redhill
  • Horley
    • The above 4 Surrey towns were made into redirects before the destination pages were created. I'm told this is bad form. SGBailey 22:49 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC)
  • chemiosmotic potential
  • Right Thing (and others)
    • it's just an entry copied from the Jargon File. It may be worth a mention in a larger article on hacker jargon in general, but not a subject for an encyclopedia. -- Tarquin 18:39 Dec 14, 2002 (UTC)
    • I think it has promise. We shouldn't add more such entries willy-nilly, but I don't think any harm will come of such entries already here stay there. --The Cunctator
    • If it can ever be more than a stub, then OK, but I don't see how it can. The harm that might come of leaving these entries here is that people see them, think that they're the sort of entries we want, and make lots more like them. I think it should be deleted (perhaps it could be moved to the wiktionary?). --Camembert 00:30 Dec 15, 2002 (UTC)
  • Haylie Duff
    • Contained "Haylie is slutty like her sister.}, now empty -- Zoe
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