Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/archive May 2004

Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below (or use the Vote feature) 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.

Also, check the What links here link. Many entries that seem not to belong in an encyclopedia, are linked from Sep 11, 2001 related pages. See Dealing with September 11 pages.

If the content of a page-to-be-deleted exists on some different page, please indicate that, somehow, on the page-to-be-deleted (either by redirecting it to the correctly titled page, or, better for our purposes, putting in a link to it). To facilitate checking that a "page title to be deleted" really ought to be deleted, please don't redirect such pages to page titles to be deleted.

As a general rule, don't delete pages you nominate for deletion. Let someone else do it.

Please review Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages before adding to this page. In the past, about half of the titles added to this page were not deleted. In particular, do not add page titles of stubs that at least have a decent defintion and might in the future become articles. There's no reason to delete those (see Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub). Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page. E.g., a page called Hume can b e easily and sensibly redirected to David Hume; presidant (a misspelling) can be redirected to president; etc. (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!) Similarly, pages in the wrong namespace (for example, user pages in the main namespace), can be redirected and should not be deleted if there are still old links to them.

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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
Wikipedia arranged by topic + Talk
- An old (?) and incomplete (page truncated) topic scheme. I think we already have several similar pages, and this one's obsolete. If we keep it, it should at least go to the Wikipedia: namespace. Jeronimo 11:06 Sep 10, 2002 (UTC)
ChristianityTalk
- Page claims not to be the talk of the Christianity page, but for general discussion - should therefore be removed or moved to Meta. Jeronimo
Michael Asher
- Personal page
  - Yep, but it's Cantor Fitzgerald related (see below) --Nairobiny
  - moved to meta Jeronimo
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam/Introduction
- Although part of the (no longer present) original text, this introduction contains some useful information. Should we remove it and wait for original text to come by, or put it as the main article (with some editing)? Jeronimo 10:22 Sep 11, 2002 (UTC)
John Kevin McAvoy
- personal tribute, not an article. Robert Merkel 13:21 Sep 11, 2002 (UTC)
- Yes, it is a personal tribute, but one that we (well, at least cunc) asked for. It should stay, until we decide were are we going to put them (an special apart maybe?)AN
- moved it to meta Jeronimo
Natural Resources Defense Council
- Can hardly be called a stub, the only linking page already has more information. Andre Engels 22:45 Sep 14, 2002 (UTC)
AbdicatioN -- a mere typo ? -- isis 21:57 Sep 17, 2002 (UTC)
- No - not a typo. Once upon a time, when Wikipedia used much older software, all pages had wierd titles like this. They have all long since been given sensible names, but the old names still exist as redirects. There are thousands of redirects like that, and they do no harm - no need to delete. Enchanter
- But nothing links to it anymore, so what reason for keeping it is there now? It may do no harm, but it doesn't do any good either. -- isis 19:43 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC)
  - It's possible that somebody may have linked to the page from an external website - deleting AbdicatioN will break that link. So then it still does no harm, but it does some good :) I think it should stay. --Camembert
McIntosh
- Wikipedia is not a dictionary Andre Engels 17:42 Sep 18, 2002 (UTC)
- There could be information on the cultivar eventually. but it certainly is a stub of the worst kind -- Tarquin 17:55 Sep 18, 2002 (UTC)
The most basic encyclopedia article topics and related pages
- Should these be in the Wikipedia namespace? I mean, they're not articles.. Jeronimo
Le Bébète Show
- Misspelling content moved to Le Bébête Show, no links remaining.
- There's no need to delete this - this mis-spelling has been used before (the original article was moved from here), and it will probably be used again. --Camembert
The Age of Spiritual Machines
- Copyright violation from website noted on the page is in the history. --mav
- I'd say an entry on this book would be good, just not that entry. --Anon
- Of course there should be an entry - however one has not been written yet. Copyright violations don't count, especially hightly chatty and POV ones. --mav
Mihail Eminescu
- Copyright violation the website noted on the page -- Tarquin 01:51 Sep 20, 2002 (UTC)
Hohe Strasse, Cologne, Germany
- I can't see the point of this page. The article on Cologne is so large that this two-liner could be absorbed in it without any problem.
- Talking of which, the copyright query about the whole page has never been answered. I'd like to work a bit on the page (e.g. starting a page on Cologne Cathedral - much more important than Hohe Strasse!). I have to confess a vested interest - it's my home town! User:Renata Sept. 20th, 2002
Lake District National Park
- Copyright violation. --mav
Poverty
- As the article itself already says, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Andre Engels 12:48 Sep 20, 2002 (UTC)
- It needs work, but an article on the nature of poverty, causes, definition & statistics (I think different bits of the UN such as the WHO may have that sort of info). I suppose it's a question of do we improve it or just delete it for now, as it's currently worthless. -- Tarquin
Image:Angus cattle thumbanil.jpg
- Misspelling, and I believe image redirects are impossible with the current version of the software. --Ellmist Friday, September 20th, 2002
Chernenkov radiation
- Copyright violation. --mav 05:36 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC)
- Misspelled too. The first 'n' is superfluous, and the name is spelled without it in the article. -phma
Sweet Adelines International
- Copyright violation. --mav 05:39 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC)
GoldenEye, Super Mario Bros (TV), Super Marios Bros (film)
- Copyright violation. --mav 05:45 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC)
Workbench 3.0, Workbench 2.1, Workbench 2.04, Workbench 2.0, Workbench 1.3, Workbench 1.2, Workbench 1.1, Workbench 1.0, Workbench
- Copyright violations, no need to have articles for different subversions, and the main article should be at Amiga Workbench or Workbench (Amiga) so as not to bother the article about workbenches. -phma 2002-09-21
Chromosome 15q, trisomy only contains "what is this?" -- JeLuF
- I'm not sure what the results of this trisomy are, but uniparental disomy of this arm results in Prader-Willi or Angelman syndrome. -phma
Listing of noted Confucianists
- stubbish, pointing to empty links -- Gianfranco
FreeMoz
- Copyright violation. --mav
I didn't change anything!
- I think it's useless to have this kind of "articles" around in Wikipedia. Some phrases might be worthy of that ("Beam me up, Scotty"), but this sentence can be used in a thousand different configurations and isn't even really jargon. Oh, and it's an orphan, too. There could be an interesting text about the problem indicated by this sentence, but that should be at software engineering or so. Jeronimo
  - It's no longer an orphan. Gpietsch 15:25 Sep 23, 2002 (UTC)
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Opportunists
- contains only external and internal links, no content