Reason: Was draftified, but it is unclear whether or not a regional minister of Ghana (seems to be the equivalent of a governor) meets
WP:NPOL. Courtesy ping
Onel5969.
Reason: This article was draftified; it seems marginal enough that I figured it was better to send it here. A search shows very few sources related to the subject himself, and nothing that seems to give
WP:SIGCOV other a
general biographical entry. Corresponding article in German doesn't have much more meat
[1]. However, I'm unsure if I'm missing any German-language sources or the like.
Reason: Tl;dr definitely doesn't pass
WP:GNG. Probably a complete or partial hoax.Since this page came into creation, there has been basically 1 single source. There are some reprinted sources (for example,
in the Ukrainian state media and
[2]), but all stem from
a single Facebook post by a
local Facebook page. This Facebook page has basically 0 editorial integrity. No sources not citing this Facebook post exist; in essence, this entire article is basically just Ukrainian propaganda based on what one extremely biased person posted on Facebook. Searches in both English and Ukrainian yield no further sources not tied to this post.I had initially merged this to
Eastern Ukraine offensive, but was reverted by
Magog the Ogre (
[3]), who stated "this is a fast moving story and worthy of its own article".
The only way this tortoise is fast moving is if the hare took a nap.
Reason: What garbage. It's a list of 3 people, 3 people whom are already mentioned elsewhere (
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War,
Category:Military personnel killed in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine). If this were transformed into a category, it wouldn't even meet
WP:SMALLCAT. To assume that enough Russian generals will eventually die in order to make this an actual list is pure
WP:CRYSTAL (which the creator unintentionally gets at when they wrote "The best way to contribute is if people continue to add names to the list" on the
talk page.I know this was created in good-faith by a productive editor, but jesus there have been so many shitty articles created about this war, and this is one of them.
Reason: Initially draftified by
Jimfbleak; I contested the draftification due to the age of the article.That said, I don't think this is particularly notable. I've tried to search for sources, but none that focus on this particular train seem to exist.
Reason: Well here we are. This is obviously not a notable battle (Ukraine war cruft). The battle did happen, but the sources available do not show that this is either a significant or notable engagement. This was originally merged into
Eastern Ukraine offensive with the
blessing of the creator, but one editor (courtesy ping
Panam2014) began inexplicably dragging their feet based on a misinterpretation of redirect/merge policy
[4].
Reason: At this point, this is a mix of
WP:NOTNEWS and
WP:TOOSOON. Most of the article consists of relaying news reports of sexual crimes, very loosely tied together with limited statements by a couple of Ukrainian officials. While I would not be surprised if this did eventually become separately notable, it is just not there yet as this moment; it is far too soon.This article just doesn't necessarily have the board macro-scale needed to cross the threshold of
WP:NOTNEWS yet.
Reason: Doesn't seem like a notable political party. The only coverage I was able to find is from a less-than-reliable source
[5]. Fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NORG.
Reason: Previous AfD:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kruty skirmishesCSD was respectfully declined as this war has been a fast-moving event. However, nothing seems to have changed with this particular article from the last AfD. Sources 2, 3, 4, and 5 are completely irrelevant to this particular claimed battle, and sources 1 and 6 rely on the same completely unverifiable Facebook post. It's questionable if any action even happened at all here, and if it did, it certainly fails
WP:GNG.
Reason: Doesn't seem like a notable person. Thoroughly fails
WP:GNG. As far as I can tell, this person is only originally mentioned very passingly in a work by Marx and Engels, and subsequent sources based on that are similarly passing (like just dropping his name and that's it). There is no corresponding article in any other language Wikipedia.n.b. There is a later U-boat captain with the same name, so don't let that confuse you in search.
Reason: Procedural nomination stemming from an inappropriate draftification (article is far to old to have been draftified). However, the draftifier appears to have had a point. This does not appear to be a notable footballer. A search in Farsi revealed no
WP:SIGCOV of the player himself; fails [{WP:GNG]].
Reason: Contested PROD. Appellate judges are not inherently notable, per
WP:USCJN. Otherwise fails
WP:GNG as literally no sources that confer
WP:SIGCOV exist (I would know, since I originally created this article).
Reason: Raised from a thread at
WP:BLPN. I don't think this article really gets to the standard set by
WP:BLP1E. Though he got a brief flash of coverage after the attack, I don't think it really amounts to independent notability; there is no
WP:SIGCOV from before Jan 6, either. The subject played a minor role during Jan 6, and otherwise doesn't meet either
WP:CRIMINAL or
WP:GNG.
Reason: Non-notable political candidate who unsuccessfully ran for local office.
WP:GNG appears to be failed, as the sources currently cited are either not
reliable, or provide little to no
WP:SIGCOV; a
WP:BEFORE search did not reveal anything different.
Reason: Non-notable government official. Completely fails
WP:GNG, with no
WP:SIGCOV extant. While
WP:POLOUTCOMES does state that assistant secretaries are usually notable, I think the complete lack of coverage places this particular article on the other end of that usually.
Reason: Non-notable political candidate; fails
WP:NPOL and
WP:GNG. Sources covering him are mostly just
WP:ROUTINE,
WP:LOCAL election coverage, with no sources providing
WP:SIGCOV that I can find.
Reason: Contested PROD; appears to be a non-notable diplomat. A
WP:BEFORE search provided little, and while there are a lot of references in the
Polish Wikipedia article, these are primarily just list of who was an ambassador to what, with nothing seeming to provide
WP:SIGCOV.
Reason: A non-notable non-event. Entirely
WP:SYNTH/
WP:OR; the article takes from multiple sources to reach a conclusion that none of the sources say. No sources specifically describing this hypothetical exist.
Reason: Mistitled. The longstanding format for cats in this tree is {University of Such-and-such alumni/faculty}. In fact, even
Category:University of Malta faculty is formatted this way.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable collegiate newspaper. No
WP:SIGCOV outside of an article in a hyper-local newspaper (
[6]) seems to exist. Likely created as a vanity page judging by the LinkedIn link as well, but that is beyond the point. Fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NNEWSPAPER.
Reason: Prior AfD was closed NC with
NPASR. Fails
WP:GNG, as though many sources that mention her appear to exist, they are only the briefest of passing mentions. Also fails
WP:NPOL.
Reason: Hyper-local minor party which failed to win any seats in its election. Some minor buzz in local media due to its name, but this party is just not notable. Thoroughly fails
WP:GNG, and is just a local oddity due to it hijacking the name of a long-dead party.A side note, there has been a concerted effort to hijack the original and notable
A Connecticut Party article to soapbox for this party (not by Scu ba, who has been a genuine good-faith editor here, but by others, including
some affiliated with the party). At best, this should be a minor one-sentence mention on the actual party's article.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable athlete. Fails
WP:NOLY, and a
WP:BEFORE search did not appear to show anything beyond
statistics that covers him, failing
WP:GNG.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable military general. A search in English returned nothing except a couple passing mentions. I tried my best to search in Bangla, but was similarly unable to find anything providing
WP:SIGCOV.
Reason: This article is so beyond repair that I don't even know where to possibly begin. He might squeak through GNG, possibly
WP:POLOUTCOMES as a member of the
mäslihat of
Almaty, but the condition of this article is so beyond salvageable that it is probably better to
blow up and start again.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable basketballer. Was a member of the championship team of the Albanian 2nd tier league, but this does not confer notability itself. A
WP:BEFORE search, including a search on newspapers.com, revealed literally nothing except some stats, so he appears to fail
WP:GNG.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable politician. A
WP:BEFORE search, including a look through newspapers.com, revealed no sources that provided
significant coverage (even amongst local sources, coverage is minimal and hardly significant). Proposing deletion and re-creation for his
WP:NPOL-passing father who shares the same name.
Reason: Another
WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE, but unlike
WP:Articles for deletion/Mei-Ching Fok, an account bearing the name of the subject is the one who requested deletion
[7][8], stating "José Luis Domingo wants this unauthorised article about him to be deleted". This subject easily passes
WP:NPROF on multiple accounts: chief editor of multiple journals, distinguished prof, 38k cites w/ h-index of 97; I figured it better to get community input since he above and beyond passes our criteria.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable losing political candidates, failing
WP:NPOL. Additionally, a
WP:BEFORE search in both English and Nepali returned only a couple of sources that mention his name without
WP:SIGCOV (such as
[9]). De-PRODed last year with a couple of sources added (AGF as they are offline), but they also seem to be relatively passing mentions.
Reason: Another article created by the same sock chain on non-notable CPI(ML)L party functionaries. Fails
WP:NPOL as a non-winning politician, and a search did not return
WP:SIGCOV (though the article lists quite a few sources, these are mainly just election results).
Reason: Seems to be a non-notable mayor. There is some coverage in Bulgarian, but this coverage does not appear to be
significant. Subject fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NPOL.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable town council; a
WP:BEFORE search ("Board of Selectmen" "Somerville" "Massachusetts" -wikipedia.org) did not return anything focusing on the board of selectmen itself, while a search on newspapers.com similarly returned just standard proceedings. This board thus fails
WP:GNG through a lack of
significant coverge. While some of the people on the list may meet
WP:NPOL through service in the legislature, the vast majority likely do not, so it fails
WP:NLIST as well.
Reason: A non-winning candidate for state representative. Does not meet
WP:NPOL, and does not appear to pass
WP:GNG. A
WP:BEFORE search returned very few mentions, almost all
WP:PASSING; the only non-passing mention is
thisentirelyWP:ROUTINE election coverage, which is not sufficient to demonstrate a GNG pass.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable small town mayor. While there is a little coverage, it is very local and superficial, and does not provide
significant coverage.
Reason: Non-notable auditor. Only "claim to fame" was being mistakenly named in a Reuters story, which was quickly corrected. Never held an
WP:NPOL-conferring office, and a
WP:BEFORE search did not return any
WP:SIGCOV.
Reason: Previously kept in the yonder-years of 2009. However, our notability threshold has stiffened since then. New York county legislators are not an
WP:NPOL-awarding position. While there is some coverage on newspapers.com, it is entirely run-of-the-mill coverage from local news ([
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117903603/yatauro-wont-run-again-in-nassau/ example) with no indication of any broader
WP:SIGCOV, so this does not appear to pass
WP:GNG.
Reason: Non-notable losing political candidate. A
WP:BEFORE search on newspapers.com only revealed typical run-of-the-mill local election coverage (such as
[10]), which is not sufficient; thus, with no
WP:SIGCOV, the subject fails
WP:GNG.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable lawyer. A
WP:BEFORE search only returned a few press releases or quotes in news articles, with nothing that appears to be
WP:SIGCOV, thus
WP:GNG does not appear to be met.
Reason: Subject appear to be a non-notable municipal level official. Does not pass
WP:NPOL, and a
WP:BEFORE search only returned routine coverage from local news.
Reason: Plainly non-notable municipal level politician. A WP:BEFORE search did not return any sources, let alone a source providing WP:SIGCOV. PROD was contested by an IP on the bogus rationale won his election 5 times, as if that means anything.
Reason: Was draftified, but it is unclear whether or not a regional minister of Ghana (seems to be the equivalent of a governor) meets
WP:NPOL. Courtesy ping
Onel5969.
Reason: This article was draftified; it seems marginal enough that I figured it was better to send it here. A search shows very few sources related to the subject himself, and nothing that seems to give
WP:SIGCOV other a
general biographical entry. Corresponding article in German doesn't have much more meat
[1]. However, I'm unsure if I'm missing any German-language sources or the like.
Reason: Tl;dr definitely doesn't pass
WP:GNG. Probably a complete or partial hoax.Since this page came into creation, there has been basically 1 single source. There are some reprinted sources (for example,
in the Ukrainian state media and
[2]), but all stem from
a single Facebook post by a
local Facebook page. This Facebook page has basically 0 editorial integrity. No sources not citing this Facebook post exist; in essence, this entire article is basically just Ukrainian propaganda based on what one extremely biased person posted on Facebook. Searches in both English and Ukrainian yield no further sources not tied to this post.I had initially merged this to
Eastern Ukraine offensive, but was reverted by
Magog the Ogre (
[3]), who stated "this is a fast moving story and worthy of its own article".
The only way this tortoise is fast moving is if the hare took a nap.
Reason: What garbage. It's a list of 3 people, 3 people whom are already mentioned elsewhere (
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War,
Category:Military personnel killed in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine). If this were transformed into a category, it wouldn't even meet
WP:SMALLCAT. To assume that enough Russian generals will eventually die in order to make this an actual list is pure
WP:CRYSTAL (which the creator unintentionally gets at when they wrote "The best way to contribute is if people continue to add names to the list" on the
talk page.I know this was created in good-faith by a productive editor, but jesus there have been so many shitty articles created about this war, and this is one of them.
Reason: Initially draftified by
Jimfbleak; I contested the draftification due to the age of the article.That said, I don't think this is particularly notable. I've tried to search for sources, but none that focus on this particular train seem to exist.
Reason: Well here we are. This is obviously not a notable battle (Ukraine war cruft). The battle did happen, but the sources available do not show that this is either a significant or notable engagement. This was originally merged into
Eastern Ukraine offensive with the
blessing of the creator, but one editor (courtesy ping
Panam2014) began inexplicably dragging their feet based on a misinterpretation of redirect/merge policy
[4].
Reason: At this point, this is a mix of
WP:NOTNEWS and
WP:TOOSOON. Most of the article consists of relaying news reports of sexual crimes, very loosely tied together with limited statements by a couple of Ukrainian officials. While I would not be surprised if this did eventually become separately notable, it is just not there yet as this moment; it is far too soon.This article just doesn't necessarily have the board macro-scale needed to cross the threshold of
WP:NOTNEWS yet.
Reason: Doesn't seem like a notable political party. The only coverage I was able to find is from a less-than-reliable source
[5]. Fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NORG.
Reason: Previous AfD:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kruty skirmishesCSD was respectfully declined as this war has been a fast-moving event. However, nothing seems to have changed with this particular article from the last AfD. Sources 2, 3, 4, and 5 are completely irrelevant to this particular claimed battle, and sources 1 and 6 rely on the same completely unverifiable Facebook post. It's questionable if any action even happened at all here, and if it did, it certainly fails
WP:GNG.
Reason: Doesn't seem like a notable person. Thoroughly fails
WP:GNG. As far as I can tell, this person is only originally mentioned very passingly in a work by Marx and Engels, and subsequent sources based on that are similarly passing (like just dropping his name and that's it). There is no corresponding article in any other language Wikipedia.n.b. There is a later U-boat captain with the same name, so don't let that confuse you in search.
Reason: Procedural nomination stemming from an inappropriate draftification (article is far to old to have been draftified). However, the draftifier appears to have had a point. This does not appear to be a notable footballer. A search in Farsi revealed no
WP:SIGCOV of the player himself; fails [{WP:GNG]].
Reason: Contested PROD. Appellate judges are not inherently notable, per
WP:USCJN. Otherwise fails
WP:GNG as literally no sources that confer
WP:SIGCOV exist (I would know, since I originally created this article).
Reason: Raised from a thread at
WP:BLPN. I don't think this article really gets to the standard set by
WP:BLP1E. Though he got a brief flash of coverage after the attack, I don't think it really amounts to independent notability; there is no
WP:SIGCOV from before Jan 6, either. The subject played a minor role during Jan 6, and otherwise doesn't meet either
WP:CRIMINAL or
WP:GNG.
Reason: Non-notable political candidate who unsuccessfully ran for local office.
WP:GNG appears to be failed, as the sources currently cited are either not
reliable, or provide little to no
WP:SIGCOV; a
WP:BEFORE search did not reveal anything different.
Reason: Non-notable government official. Completely fails
WP:GNG, with no
WP:SIGCOV extant. While
WP:POLOUTCOMES does state that assistant secretaries are usually notable, I think the complete lack of coverage places this particular article on the other end of that usually.
Reason: Non-notable political candidate; fails
WP:NPOL and
WP:GNG. Sources covering him are mostly just
WP:ROUTINE,
WP:LOCAL election coverage, with no sources providing
WP:SIGCOV that I can find.
Reason: Contested PROD; appears to be a non-notable diplomat. A
WP:BEFORE search provided little, and while there are a lot of references in the
Polish Wikipedia article, these are primarily just list of who was an ambassador to what, with nothing seeming to provide
WP:SIGCOV.
Reason: A non-notable non-event. Entirely
WP:SYNTH/
WP:OR; the article takes from multiple sources to reach a conclusion that none of the sources say. No sources specifically describing this hypothetical exist.
Reason: Mistitled. The longstanding format for cats in this tree is {University of Such-and-such alumni/faculty}. In fact, even
Category:University of Malta faculty is formatted this way.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable collegiate newspaper. No
WP:SIGCOV outside of an article in a hyper-local newspaper (
[6]) seems to exist. Likely created as a vanity page judging by the LinkedIn link as well, but that is beyond the point. Fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NNEWSPAPER.
Reason: Prior AfD was closed NC with
NPASR. Fails
WP:GNG, as though many sources that mention her appear to exist, they are only the briefest of passing mentions. Also fails
WP:NPOL.
Reason: Hyper-local minor party which failed to win any seats in its election. Some minor buzz in local media due to its name, but this party is just not notable. Thoroughly fails
WP:GNG, and is just a local oddity due to it hijacking the name of a long-dead party.A side note, there has been a concerted effort to hijack the original and notable
A Connecticut Party article to soapbox for this party (not by Scu ba, who has been a genuine good-faith editor here, but by others, including
some affiliated with the party). At best, this should be a minor one-sentence mention on the actual party's article.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable athlete. Fails
WP:NOLY, and a
WP:BEFORE search did not appear to show anything beyond
statistics that covers him, failing
WP:GNG.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable military general. A search in English returned nothing except a couple passing mentions. I tried my best to search in Bangla, but was similarly unable to find anything providing
WP:SIGCOV.
Reason: This article is so beyond repair that I don't even know where to possibly begin. He might squeak through GNG, possibly
WP:POLOUTCOMES as a member of the
mäslihat of
Almaty, but the condition of this article is so beyond salvageable that it is probably better to
blow up and start again.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable basketballer. Was a member of the championship team of the Albanian 2nd tier league, but this does not confer notability itself. A
WP:BEFORE search, including a search on newspapers.com, revealed literally nothing except some stats, so he appears to fail
WP:GNG.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable politician. A
WP:BEFORE search, including a look through newspapers.com, revealed no sources that provided
significant coverage (even amongst local sources, coverage is minimal and hardly significant). Proposing deletion and re-creation for his
WP:NPOL-passing father who shares the same name.
Reason: Another
WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE, but unlike
WP:Articles for deletion/Mei-Ching Fok, an account bearing the name of the subject is the one who requested deletion
[7][8], stating "José Luis Domingo wants this unauthorised article about him to be deleted". This subject easily passes
WP:NPROF on multiple accounts: chief editor of multiple journals, distinguished prof, 38k cites w/ h-index of 97; I figured it better to get community input since he above and beyond passes our criteria.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable losing political candidates, failing
WP:NPOL. Additionally, a
WP:BEFORE search in both English and Nepali returned only a couple of sources that mention his name without
WP:SIGCOV (such as
[9]). De-PRODed last year with a couple of sources added (AGF as they are offline), but they also seem to be relatively passing mentions.
Reason: Another article created by the same sock chain on non-notable CPI(ML)L party functionaries. Fails
WP:NPOL as a non-winning politician, and a search did not return
WP:SIGCOV (though the article lists quite a few sources, these are mainly just election results).
Reason: Seems to be a non-notable mayor. There is some coverage in Bulgarian, but this coverage does not appear to be
significant. Subject fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NPOL.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable town council; a
WP:BEFORE search ("Board of Selectmen" "Somerville" "Massachusetts" -wikipedia.org) did not return anything focusing on the board of selectmen itself, while a search on newspapers.com similarly returned just standard proceedings. This board thus fails
WP:GNG through a lack of
significant coverge. While some of the people on the list may meet
WP:NPOL through service in the legislature, the vast majority likely do not, so it fails
WP:NLIST as well.
Reason: A non-winning candidate for state representative. Does not meet
WP:NPOL, and does not appear to pass
WP:GNG. A
WP:BEFORE search returned very few mentions, almost all
WP:PASSING; the only non-passing mention is
thisentirelyWP:ROUTINE election coverage, which is not sufficient to demonstrate a GNG pass.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable small town mayor. While there is a little coverage, it is very local and superficial, and does not provide
significant coverage.
Reason: Non-notable auditor. Only "claim to fame" was being mistakenly named in a Reuters story, which was quickly corrected. Never held an
WP:NPOL-conferring office, and a
WP:BEFORE search did not return any
WP:SIGCOV.
Reason: Previously kept in the yonder-years of 2009. However, our notability threshold has stiffened since then. New York county legislators are not an
WP:NPOL-awarding position. While there is some coverage on newspapers.com, it is entirely run-of-the-mill coverage from local news ([
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117903603/yatauro-wont-run-again-in-nassau/ example) with no indication of any broader
WP:SIGCOV, so this does not appear to pass
WP:GNG.
Reason: Non-notable losing political candidate. A
WP:BEFORE search on newspapers.com only revealed typical run-of-the-mill local election coverage (such as
[10]), which is not sufficient; thus, with no
WP:SIGCOV, the subject fails
WP:GNG.
Reason: Appears to be a non-notable lawyer. A
WP:BEFORE search only returned a few press releases or quotes in news articles, with nothing that appears to be
WP:SIGCOV, thus
WP:GNG does not appear to be met.
Reason: Subject appear to be a non-notable municipal level official. Does not pass
WP:NPOL, and a
WP:BEFORE search only returned routine coverage from local news.
Reason: Plainly non-notable municipal level politician. A WP:BEFORE search did not return any sources, let alone a source providing WP:SIGCOV. PROD was contested by an IP on the bogus rationale won his election 5 times, as if that means anything.