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Decisions in progress
Note that listings more than five days old should now be moved to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Old.
Ongoing discussions
- Wikipedia:Possible abuse of User namespace
- Wikipedia talk:Do lists of postal codes belong on Wikipedia?
- All recipes proposed for deletion should be discussed at Talk:List of recipes/Delete (see also Wikien-l)
- Unsolved problems in biology See Talk:Unsolved problems in biology
- List of Europeans & List of EU people, see Talk:List of Europeans & Talk:List of EU people
- Add insult to injury : Deletion cannot be the right answer, as if the idiom content is removed it should simply be a redirect to the band, but that feels wrong too. Talk continues at Talk:Add insult to injury. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:14, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Images of Athens : Consensus is that the page should be deleted if and only if the missing images are not going to be restored. See talk. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:19, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Needing Transwiki
- Serous - deletion debate
- International Meridian Conference - deletion debate
- Penultimate - deletion debate
- Wahlau - deletion debate
- Wiki cookbook - deletion debate
- Urban walks in Melbourne - deletion debate - to Wikibooks or Wikitravel if legal
- Oregon Legislative Councel's opinion on gay marriage - deletion debate
- Jonas Martin Panik - deletion debate
- Georgine Rose Corrigan - deletion debate
- Deborah Jacobs Welsh - deletion debate
April 18
Axiomatic Architecture Description Language
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MC ADE
First Post
Justyna Karakiewicz
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Eclipse FAQ for IntelliJ users
La Borinqueña
The power of many cars
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Tolkienian linguistics
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Standesamt Rawitsch
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Over the hill
Bullshit
Populist Party (UK)
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Independent_catholic_church_usa
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Tavi
Musci
Never never land
Temasek Secondary School
- *No Apparent reason for an article about this school. Exploding Boy 11:08, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
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Saraphine
Apparently not a character in classical mythology but a modern creation in the Xena: Warrior Princess TV show. I have no problem with articles on fictional characters but the context should be made clear. This article is confusing, spells the subject's name two different ways, etc. Delete until some Xena fan does a proper article. JamesMLane 12:20, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Liidii
List_of_birthdays_of_rappers
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Chris Thorndyke
Experiment 297
Skull (mythology)
Susan_May_Williams
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Downrange
Barbara G. Edwards
Electional_astrology
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FAR 103
Being in itself
Autonomy Party
Atre
Reverse piracy
2004 Ambition Googlebomb
Self-promotion, irrelevent, etc. Snowspinner 22:07 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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Fornell
Property damage
Houston Russell
April 19
List_of_religion_scholars
Kandivali
Pwn
Darlene Flagg
Roman Catholic Church
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Mansoor durrani
Roth v. United States
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Chicken Madras
Pew
April 20
Mang
Andrea_Hiesberger
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Greg Allen
Antonia_Ruster
- Devious - one of these days some people are going to create a complete universe of falsehood and we won't know where to start unravelling. This one's easy - Delete. Pteron 02:41, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Joe_haywood
Common_preference
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Free machine
Emergent_philosophy
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Aquadrenaline
Pornobilly
Riters.com
Zhi Quan Zhou
Marcus Vasconcellos
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UMMO
Trampofoil
Yostism
Tattinger Family
Please delete : Tattinger family and The Tattinger family ? both incorrectly spell the family name. I made a new page Taittinger family. JillandJack 15:13, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Why did you do that instead of using the Move Page function? Delete Taittinger family, and move Tattinger family to the correct spelling before it accumulates changes. -- Cyrius|✎ 16:49, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC)
Addiction, Buddhist Definition of
This article reads like a personal essay that attempts to support an undergrad's original research by referring to Buddhist philosophy. The essence of this page is a table of concepts apparently original to ScottPerry that claims to be "An overlay of the Buddhist model of addiction onto the most commonly accepted Western world-view". The overlay incorrectly represents "the most commonly accepted Western world-view", especially in the context of addiction medicine, and misrepresents by omission how Buddhist philosophy has significantly influenced western behavioral medicine. The article does not support claims that anything is "the" Bhuddist definition. If the article cited some published sources that are used in actual Buddhist schools of teaching (not Buddhists schools of "thought"), it would begin to be an accurate assessment. Otherwise, it is one person's point of view about how their individual understanding of Buddhism offers what they see as a better approach to the idea of addiction than does their perception of "western" approaches. The sole source cited to support this essay is another on-line personal essay, the author of which admits was written "partly for my own pleasure". In as much as the article accurately summarizes Buddhist approaches, it could stand as a subsection of the addiction article. Whatever is not rooted in other Buddhist sources can be published in a forum more suited for personal essays. Torrid 17:56, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete Torrid 17:56, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Merge with addiction and/or Buddhism and delete. Postdlf 22:23 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: original research, so don't merge w/ Buddhism or addiction. BTW the "add to this debate" link above is broken. Wile E. Heresiarch 21:06, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Jeffrey R. Shapiro
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Alec
Standesamt Kolmar
Patrick Harrington
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Third Way (UK)
Brett McElvaine, Maroon Pierce
April 21
Megacycles
Stance
Epitome
Superphat
Maps of Prussia
Xeon (emulator)/XBD3DPixelShader.h.txt and Xeon (emulator)/XBD3DPixelShader.cpp.txt
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Tie (draw)
Sasank
Responsible Drug User's Oath
- Delet Title is an oxymoron, drug usuers are not responsible. ping 08:09, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Dann Jones
Pithecanthropus
- keep as is, seems OK now ping 07:45, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Lordhelme
SoBe No Fear
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Credo quia absurdum
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Minestrone of rice and turnip
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7 P Principle
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United Holyland
April 22
Futami Jouwa
This page looks like complete rubbish at first site. On closer inspection I expect it to be a transcript of a Japanese or Chinese joke. Unlikely to turn into article. Wrong language anyway -- MGM
- Delete, support own suggestion. - MGM 20:08, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)
- delete that puppy. Lefty 23:08, 2004 Apr 22 (UTC)
- Delete. Postdlf 00:17 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Deviant Films
- delete: The whole idea seems inherently POV Lefty 18:44, 2004 Apr 22 (UTC)
Vote: Delete. Agreed. Mat-C 23:07, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Delete. RickK 02:44, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Postdlf 05:25 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I guess a redirect to Independent film wouldn't kill us... Pteron 06:16, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Deviant directors
Note: Deviant Directors is a redir page to Deviant directors.
- delete: The whole idea seems inherently POV Lefty 18:44, 2004 Apr 22 (UTC)
Vote: delete: Agreed, seems a silly term to me...... even "alternative" is bad enough.Mat-C 23:04, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. I read a lot about movies, and I've never heard this term used, and it does seem inherently POV. Postdlf 00:16 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Delete. RickK 02:52, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
ChooseBooks.com
- Delete. Postdlf 7:15 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. SWAdair | Talk 07:20, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Rename, rewrite (I'll do it if required, but I doubt much will be left ;) ). Valid to put company on here, not valid as sales pitch. Will see if it sticks and if it gets sales-pitched (vandalised) we can think again. Mat-C 02:04, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete unless the site is really notable. We don't want to give advertisers any incentive for coming here, and that means deletion, not NPOVing. Otherwise we still end up providing them advertising, and we're just asking to have to NPOV hundreds of these things. Isomorphic 08:34, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Shaw's principle
1 sentence quote, unlikely to become an article. Maximus Rex 03:06, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Can't seem to find any reference to the Shaw behind Shaw's law. My guess is that some enterprising sort appended it to an early chain letter. Rhymeless 04:40, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Another thing Wikipedia is not - a collection of witty sayings. Delete. SWAdair | Talk 07:17, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Neutral, but it has been floating around for some time. I heard this in the 80s or earlier. -- Jmabel 09:10, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. I agree with Maximus Rex. Postdlf 00:14 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Wiley Brooks
- One (POV) line of text, two large paragrahps of quotes, and one see also link. RickK 04:59, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Exploding Boy 08:11, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Expand. I've heard of him. He's an interesting enough kook to merit an article. -- Jmabel 09:13, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Keep and expand. Kooks have the magical power of generating their own notability (in a much more fulfilling way than rich-boy wannabe pop stars). Postdlf 00:12 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. Agreed w/ Postdlf. Reminds me of that song -- "Junk Food Junkie". Wile E. Heresiarch 02:15, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Black-out
Template:VfD-Black-out Cyrius changed it to a re-direct before I could. *sigh* Guy30082 06:05, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Keep as redir. Andrewa 06:31, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
FSMGenerator
TUNES
Sousveillance
EyeTap
CyborgLog
Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense/WikiSex
A waste of wikipedia resources. Its presence means that it has bypassed the grounds by which it was defeated. Arno 12:23, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Cosmosophhy
The United States and weapons of mass destruction
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Kimmo Innanen
Wizards_(Movie)
Dr.Rife
April 23
Andy Johnson
Christian mysticism
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Henri Spahiu
Pokemon damage formula
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Philipp Batz
Quarter-life crisis
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Intervertebral and Intravertebral
Dissociation
Anti-social
Exclusivist
Top_shelf
Luciano_Rivera
Italy fish
23 April
Morac-Songhrati
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Maven
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Joe Park, The Secluded, and The Preloaders
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THE SELFPROCLAIMED MONARCHY OF OSMISVETIA
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