Wikinews:Deletion requests

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This page seeks to resolve the question whether a page or file should be deleted through consensus.

Articles written from other news sources are listed here for a period of three days. Original reports have to be listed for seven days. Non-articles also appear for Seven days. After the appropriate period, an admin looks at the page or file and determines whether consensus for deletion has been reached. If it has, the page is deleted. The period of time starts at the submission of the deletion request on this page.

You may also list an image, category or article pages on the candidate for speedy deletion page by adding {{delete}} to the page to be nominated for speedy deletion.

  • Read and be familiar with the Deletion guidelines before listing a page here, or debating on a page here.
  • Articles must fall foul of the Deletion guidelines to be listed here. Invalid listings will be removed. Editors may not edit the Deletion guidelines in order to justify their listing.

This page is also the proper venue for discussing undeletion requests. If you object to speedy deletion of an article, or wish to overturn another deletion request, please list it here, an admin may undelete it for the duration of the vote, so that users may view the article they are voting on.

You no longer need to nominate abandoned articles, copyright violations, or minimal articles here — see Wikinews:Proposed deletion.

How to list a page here

  1. Add {{Deletion request}} or {{dr}} to the image, category or article page.
    • For suspected copyright violations, instead add {{Copyvio|url=insert_web_address_here}} The page will remain here for three days before being deleted.
    • For abandoned articles, instead add {{abandoned}}, but please be aware that people often forget to {{publish}}.
  2. List the link below using the following template:
=== [[Article title]] ===
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Deletion requests

June 1

U.S. court adds limit to police searches

Then sources need to be found, or we deal with a massive template noting the "correction." Cannot have an article with no verifiable sources. DragonFire1024 04:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Interwiki utility templates

They all need to die!!! Hell yes. We shall delete them all with no regret and happiness!!! FellowWikiNewsie 00:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Women's football (soccer)

Category:Women's sports, along with Category:Football (soccer) should be sufficient for women's football articles. —Zachary talk 01:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Women's basketball

Category:Women's sports, along with Category:Basketball, like above. —Zachary talk 01:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:NCAA Women's basketball

Category:Women's sports, along with Category:Basketball and Category:NCAA for this one. —Zachary talk 01:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:NCAA women's basketball

See above. —Zachary talk 01:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tennessee Lady Vols basketball

Too specific. Only one article about the team (not in cat) Candace Parker double dunks, makes basketball history. —Zachary talk 01:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May 31

Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Drtsp

Per below. Please delete/look at all the pages listed (or list them here and comment on them) in the above link. I couldn't list all the pages as there are too many!! FellowWikiNewsie 20:27, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral on {{fixhtml}} (I could see a case in the future where that may be useful, but its not incredibly useful, so I really don't care either way), everything else die in a hole. Bawolff 23:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Renewable energy

Encyclopedic, only effort to put an article in it was incompatibly copywritten material that was old. Unlikely to be consistently applied, virtually impossible to retroactively apply. Basically copying a structure from Wikipedia that is inappropriate here. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the corresponding Category:Renewable energy should also go. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May 30

May 26

May 24

Women_ruining_BBC_claims_Patrick_Moore


May 21

Category:Templates using ParserFunctions

It is not fesable (or useful) to label every template using parser functions with this. Temnplates which do special effects go into category:Strange and unusual templates. This cat is part of TSP. Bawolff 00:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]



May 20


May 19

Portal:Kaupthing Bank


May 16

Category:Cardiovascular disease

Encyclopedic cat. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Morgan Tsvangirai poster.jpg

Movement for Democratic Change election poster, 2002, depicting their presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai.

The image description page claims: "Fair use to illustrate articles about the MDC or Morgan Tsvangirai". Uploaded from image on Wikipedia, which has been deleted for not having a source. Requested for speedy deletion previously.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:47, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. Posters should only be fair use for related events, not for the person pictured.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:47, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral This could have been taken by the user or someone else not associated with a news organization because a news agency that pays for images, would not pay for this. Keep if proper fair use rational can be determined, and if a possible CC lisence can be established. One year to do so. DragonFire1024 06:38, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Tomstephens1.jpg

No fair use rationale, breaking news tag, no source listed, although the article says it's from the person's MySpace profile. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:44, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

KeepIf can be sourced, then a fair use rational can be written for it. We have just under one year to do so. DragonFire1024 06:35, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Iranmap,1.gif


Proposed deletions

Purge Cache. For reference, it's currently March 29, 2024.

Copyvio

Delete articles posted before March 28.

Abandoned

Delete articles posted before March 27.

Minimal and PR

Delete articles posted before March 26.


Unsourced prepared

Delete articles posted before March 19


Undeletion requests