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February 2021
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Talk:February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm: nominated at
RM; New name:
Winter Storm Uri 04:19, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Following on the last RM, which was procedurally closed, I'd like to propose this again. Per
WP:COMMONNAME,
Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used
. This says that we do not "wait" for an "official" name to be given, and that unofficial names are just as acceptable, and sometimes even more so. Per the article naming criteria, a title must berecognizable, natural, precise, concise, and consistent
. The current title fails three of those criteria. The proposed title fails only one (consistency, but that can be remedied). The current title is ambiguous, as it overlaps with at least one other article. The current title is not natural, as most people do not discuss storms in terms of dates past a month. The current title is not concise because... well that one should be obvious. The proposed title is recognizable, natural, precise, and concise - which meets almost all of the criteria for naming.While I completely understand why people do not want to support a "commercialization" of storms/disasters/etc, this is a much different situation than when TWC first introduced their naming system. As of now, even Google has taken on the name Winter Storm Uri, as have multiple other reliable sources, but not any of the "big" sources such as major national networks. To look at an unbiased view, one can look at news organizations which don't compete with NBC (who own TWC). In international news, the proposed title is used almost exclusively to refer to this storm. For these reasons, I feel that there is no policy-based reason to not move this page. A local consensus to violate the naming policy by prohibiting names that are clearly in the best compliance with that policy does not override the project-wide consensus of that policy.
- Reason: Following on the last RM, which was procedurally closed, I'd like to propose this again. Per
WP:COMMONNAME,
May 2021
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Quintin Jones (prisoner):
nominated at
AfD; notified
John Cummings (
talk ·
contribs) 13:02, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: There is virtually no coverage of this person other than what can be described as WP:ROUTINE coverage of a crime that occurred, and then the punishment inflicted. The only one source that is potentially helpful for notability is the Guardian source - but even still, it's only coverage of his plea to not be executed - it's not a biographical source. Regardless of something being a national/international news source, coverage of crimes/executions is still routine coverage and does not provide any significant biographical content - hence why this article barely has four short sentences about his life outside the crime and related things. Most other sources aside from the Guardian and CBS source are simply opinion articles that provide nothing for notability. Overall, fails the requirement for significant coverage in reliable sources that is not routine coverage of crimes or similar events and should likely be deleted.
July 2021
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File:Matthew Parish photo grayscale.jpg: (
log)
nominated at
FfD; notified
Pandypandy (
talk ·
contribs) 00:30, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: File appears to be a promotional/publicity image, as evidenced by the fact that it is used on Fox News and a publicity website (Tineye) - highly highly unlikely that he took it himself, and even if he did, I doubt he would actually release this. If this was commons, I'd direct the poster to their OTRS queue for confirming permissions (or tag for no permission) but as far as I'm aware that doesn't exist on enwp, so I'm nominating it for deletion so that permission can be provided if it exists.
This is a log of all deletion discussion nominations made by this user using Twinkle's XfD module.
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February 2021
-
Talk:February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm: nominated at
RM; New name:
Winter Storm Uri 04:19, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: Following on the last RM, which was procedurally closed, I'd like to propose this again. Per
WP:COMMONNAME,
Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used
. This says that we do not "wait" for an "official" name to be given, and that unofficial names are just as acceptable, and sometimes even more so. Per the article naming criteria, a title must berecognizable, natural, precise, concise, and consistent
. The current title fails three of those criteria. The proposed title fails only one (consistency, but that can be remedied). The current title is ambiguous, as it overlaps with at least one other article. The current title is not natural, as most people do not discuss storms in terms of dates past a month. The current title is not concise because... well that one should be obvious. The proposed title is recognizable, natural, precise, and concise - which meets almost all of the criteria for naming.While I completely understand why people do not want to support a "commercialization" of storms/disasters/etc, this is a much different situation than when TWC first introduced their naming system. As of now, even Google has taken on the name Winter Storm Uri, as have multiple other reliable sources, but not any of the "big" sources such as major national networks. To look at an unbiased view, one can look at news organizations which don't compete with NBC (who own TWC). In international news, the proposed title is used almost exclusively to refer to this storm. For these reasons, I feel that there is no policy-based reason to not move this page. A local consensus to violate the naming policy by prohibiting names that are clearly in the best compliance with that policy does not override the project-wide consensus of that policy.
- Reason: Following on the last RM, which was procedurally closed, I'd like to propose this again. Per
WP:COMMONNAME,
May 2021
-
Quintin Jones (prisoner):
nominated at
AfD; notified
John Cummings (
talk ·
contribs) 13:02, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: There is virtually no coverage of this person other than what can be described as WP:ROUTINE coverage of a crime that occurred, and then the punishment inflicted. The only one source that is potentially helpful for notability is the Guardian source - but even still, it's only coverage of his plea to not be executed - it's not a biographical source. Regardless of something being a national/international news source, coverage of crimes/executions is still routine coverage and does not provide any significant biographical content - hence why this article barely has four short sentences about his life outside the crime and related things. Most other sources aside from the Guardian and CBS source are simply opinion articles that provide nothing for notability. Overall, fails the requirement for significant coverage in reliable sources that is not routine coverage of crimes or similar events and should likely be deleted.
July 2021
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File:Matthew Parish photo grayscale.jpg: (
log)
nominated at
FfD; notified
Pandypandy (
talk ·
contribs) 00:30, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
- Reason: File appears to be a promotional/publicity image, as evidenced by the fact that it is used on Fox News and a publicity website (Tineye) - highly highly unlikely that he took it himself, and even if he did, I doubt he would actually release this. If this was commons, I'd direct the poster to their OTRS queue for confirming permissions (or tag for no permission) but as far as I'm aware that doesn't exist on enwp, so I'm nominating it for deletion so that permission can be provided if it exists.