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  • Images Elpsfoci.JPG/gif, Elpsmajr.JPG/gif and Elpsminr.JPG/gif (6 in all). I've replaced them with PNG images CliffTaylor 08:30 Jan 29, 2003 (CST)
  • NirvanA (CamelCase leftover) and Nirvana (disambiguation) are more useless redirects to Nirvana (which itself contains the brief disambiguation info). This means three of the five top searches for 'Nirvana' point to the same page. - Tzaquiel 03:53 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • 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: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.
  • 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
  • Lilo & Stitch
    • The article reads like it was copied from another location. I've asked Zanimum twice now to let us know where he/she got the information from, but Zanimum hasn't bothered to reply. -- Zoe
    • Is a slightly reworded version of [http://starbulletin.com/2002/06/23/features/story4.html].
    • Zanimum here-- I am planning to add on to my article, but I have since responded to Zoe's query. It is a compilation of about six articles worth of information, but in my own words, nethertheless. I can go at it some more to change it, but just let me expand it to it's full size before you consider the possiblities.
  • The material currently being entered en masse by Pedreco from the list of micronations page is of no intrinsic value. Many of the listed micronations are defunct, and a significant proportion of the data being included in articles for those that are not is complete and utter fantasy. Wikipedia is not a work of fiction; these are fictional listings and should therefore be deleted. There *are* a tiny handful of micronations that have an extensive documented history (ie not just a badly-designed geocities web page) and some form of existence in the "real world" but they are either already dealt with in the "micronation" article, or have their own separate articles.
  • Listing of noted Pagans
    • Very biased intro and list full of lesbians, sounds like pulpit raging. Not a useful page.
    • I don't get that sound. The intro can be changed if necessary. The lesbian bias may well have come from a user with a background in Dianic Wicca Martin
      • My concern is that the term 'pagan' is too poorly defined for a list to be useful. Just check out the various definitions in pagan. I'll just add a note there to attempt to prevent this. Your points about agnostics are good though. -- Hotlorp
  • Listing of noted agnostics
    • Useless page, very biased intro.
    • The intro can be changed. Example of uses: person wondering about key agnostic philosophers, or looking for common features in the lives of agnostics, or wanting not to be alone. Martin
  • Medicine (shamanism)
    • most of the content is on the talk page and reads in part like an ad. for someon'es books; questions as to why this should be an article when we already have one on shamanism. -- Slrubenstein 21:04 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
  • Basic facts on Sweden
    • all of this information is already in the main sweden article, with the exception of the big list of memberships of dubious need.
  • Gearhead
  • Lamer
  • Handle
  • Wahlau
  • Westie
  • and most of the other stuff found when searching for "slang"
  • It's mostly geek dictionary entries plus some weirder stuff. Zocky 02:54 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
    • I disagree about some of this - 'dick' is a word with multiple uses and a history all of its own that deserves to be properly written up just as much as some of the other slang terms in the wikipedia do. KJ
    • 'dick' is a word with multiple uses and a history all of its own - exactly. So is every other word in any language. But is it an object, person, idea, concept that needs an encyclopaedic article? So far the article includes: 1. short for Richard, 2. slang for penis and 3. slang for private investigator. Do we also need articles on "Ricky", "John-Thomas" and "P.I." ? Zocky 09:49 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
        • Cryptid is worth keeping and expanding. Dick is better dealt with as a paragraph in a more general article on slang, and the rest of them are utter junk. Cryptid aside, delete the lot of them. Tannin 09:16 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
    • An article on dicks is fine. They are a subject of fascination, there are non-fiction books and museums devoted to them. I have a book with an extensive documentation of the multiple uses and history of the word ‘dick’: it's called the Oxford English Dictionary. the librarian
      • That seems to be about the word dick, which in my opinion belongs in a dictionary (like wiktionary), not an encyclopedia. The subject dicks is indeed something that should be in Wikipedia, but we already have it - as penis. Andre Engels 17:27 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
    • If it's an English word, I'd like to be able to find it here. Even if you can't write some great long story about it. So if it ends up under a slang category, I'm okay with that. As long as I can find it and any other dirty and decent word I want. We do want the Wikipedia to be complete right! And if a horny adolescent needs some dirty info, it might be good if he finds something that is actually educational. (Nico)
  • Legitimacy of NATO's bombing campaign
    • The title alone is POV, and the author is making no pretense of hiding his agenda. -- Zoe
    • It is hard to justify this sort of article, given its name and content, unless you run an article with both sides of the article.
  • The Catholic crusade against the imagination
    • Intrinsically POV -- Zoe 20:49 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
    • not so intrisically POV, but the title is not well-chosen. If there really was a "fight" of the catholic church against imagination at some time in history (as the article claims), it deserves an article, so I vote against deletion (but in favour of renaming). (Unless of course there's never be such a fight). --FvdP 20:59 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
    • dodgy article. POV name. Questionable facts. This sort of thing needs to be done very carefully, like all articles criticising a religion. (Look at the edit wars over pages dealing with the jewish faith). Title fails to distinguish between Roman Catholic and general Catholic, which includes anglicans, etc. An accurate on this topic, if well written, factual, etc would be useful. This one reads like a term paper by Rev. Ian Paisley. JTD 06:09 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • Aleatory, a spirited newby experiment on an English adjective, Zocky 19:58 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)
    • See aleatoric music: this is a legitimate subject for an encyclopedia. The two entries should be merged, and redirects applied.
  • Living wage
    • Just a couple of external links Mintguy
    • Yes, 24.189.173.175 has added a number of similar stubs. If someone deletes this one, they should check the user contributions for any more. -- Tim Starling
    • I think this is fine. We have the stub-checker to show that it's a stub. There's little need to delete it; the external links offer a good start.
    • Er.. its just an ad for the websites. If someone want's to write an article on this then do it. Otherwise delete this or redirect it to minimum wage. Mintguy 23:03 Feb 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • EV1
    • Probably a copyright infringement -- Tim Starling 12:22 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
  • K. Kay Shearin - barely a stub, apparently just created for retribution against now deleted Isis (this is her real name). --Eloquence 22:09 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
    • There was a full article at that position, which was apparently deleted at Isis' request. see Talk:K. Kay Shearin
  • West Flemish is back after having been deleted before. Toby Bartels just keeps pushing his favorite lingo. OK he called it a dialect this time, but if so there should also be a page for Hoogelands, Achterhoeks, Twents, Zwijndrechts, Briels, Uterechts and Goejanverwellesluician plus a few hundred more varieties of the Dutch language. Is Bostonian and Raleighian (NC) also acceptable? Jcwf nl.wiki 205.188.209.168 01:48 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)
    • I see no reason why we shouldn't have information on every recognised dialect on the planet. Doesn't this come under "m:Wiki is not paper"? -- Oliver P. 14:05 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • Obtuse nature
    • Psychological disorders and space aliens. A real head-scratcher. If "obtuse nature" is a technical term in either psychology or exobiology a definition of some sort might be needed before this data made sense. --Ihcoyc (Feb 6, 2003)
  • Junk food news - Someone decided it was worth while to delete my suggestion that this be deleted. If you feel I'm wrong, discuss it, but don't delete pages from here WITHOUT DISCUSSING IT!!!!! -- Zoe
    • Hear. Hear. Junk food news is an historical creation of Project Censored. JFN has a 25 year research and publication history by a 175+ team of researcher. It is widely known and the information is frequently mirrored and reposted on the www.
That should be sufficient to end all debate on this topic, no?
http://www.projectcensored.org/newsabuse.htm
http://www.projectcensored.org
No. -- Zoe
Well I guess I should have said 'intelligent' debate. Zoe if you cannot be persuded by reason perhaps I can impress your starry eyed love of popular authority. The Dean of American Braodcasters Walter Cronkite says:
Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasters are practicing thorough and ethical journalism. (2000)
Don't criticise what you won't take the time to understand. Two16
  • There is an entry titled GREEK, it redirects to Greek and nothing links to it. There isn't an ENGLISH entry or a ROMAN entry and I don't think it would ever need to be used. Ams80 04:17 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
  • Jamie Reid -- article is now empty, only ever consisted of "I need Jamie Reid's anarchy flag!!!!" or soemthing like that. -- Sam 17:11 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
  • Whitepaper -- Junk article, now empty. --Nate 00:15 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • Marcel Petiot -- "this guy never existed and BOB IS COOL!!!!! HaHaHahAhAhAhAhHAh. Im dead." --Nate 00:16 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • Jacques de Molay -- Copyright infringement --Nate 00:25 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)

Why delete a page about a disorder which exists. Also, quotes from the manual are not copyright protected - the rest of the copy-pasted article I replaced with a link DrFreud

You need to provide proof that the material is in the public domain, otherwise it goes. --mav 04:24 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • The provided link says that the quotes ARE from the manual - that is the

proof if you want one. The manual is a general reference and is meant to be a source for quoting.

Whether or not the text is from a manual is irrelevant since everything is copyrighted as soon as it is written. An author has to explicitly give up copyright for the text to enter the public domain. --mav
  • ISD-10 and DSM III,IV manuals are public domain reference, standardized for the psychiatric community. They include disclaimer about this.
    • This is still a possible copyright breach as you discover if you read the talk page for that article. If you want to rewrite the article from a neutral point of view then go ahead write it. Mintguy
  • Über die Weiber -- Seems to be quotes from a diatribe on women by Schopenhauer (possibly with more misogyny added by the contributor), and not an encylopaedia article. Mintguy 03:57 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)
    • You could check the web before accusing someone of inserting his own quotes - Do you want to remove all te articles I ever worked on? DrFreud
    • If you continue with your extreme misogyny then yes! Mintguy
    • I agree with Mintguy in this matter. You've been banned under several names, want to keep getting banned? -- Zoe
  • Image:Ed8.jpg - A picture of some flowers and some Arabic writing. -- Zoe
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