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.
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Deletion requests
June 1
- Delete Has only one source, of which does not work. DragonFire1024 06:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
- Keep has been published for too long to make disappear. --SVTCobra 23:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
- 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)
They all need to die!!! Hell yes. We shall delete them all with no regret and happiness!!! —FellowWikiNewsie 00:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
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)
Category:Women's sports, along with Category:Basketball, like above. —Zachary talk 01:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Category:Women's sports, along with Category:Basketball and Category:NCAA for this one. —Zachary talk 01:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
See above. —Zachary talk 01:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
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)
- Delete - way too specific, not in use. --SVTCobra 23:31, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
May 31
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)
- 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)
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)
- I believe the corresponding Category:Renewable energy should also go. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
- Delete both We already have Category:Environment and Category:Climate change. Is that enough? I think so. —FellowWikiNewsie 17:47, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
- Delete for both. I noticed that it is User:Mac again. --SVTCobra 23:40, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
May 30
May 26
May 24
May 21
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)
- Delete Hell yes. —FellowWikiNewsie 00:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
May 20
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May 16
Encyclopedic cat. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
- Keep. I would agree on removing the "died from heart attack" articles, but there are some articles on research that are useful for Portal:Disease.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 17:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
- Merge with Cat:Health; Delete DragonFire1024 06:36, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
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)
- Delete. Posters should only be fair use for related events, not for the person pictured.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:47, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
- 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)
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)
- 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)
Proposed deletions
Purge Cache. For reference, it's currently October 8, 2024.