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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: delete all. ‑Scottywong | [speak] || 06:21, 27 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Translation task force forks

(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) ‑Scottywong | [confer] || 05:47, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply

I am proposing a that all forms associated with the translation task force are deleted; this involves around a thousand articles in this category ( [1]). I will need some help tagging these articles. These articles:

  • are not maintained, meaning content can be inaccurate and out of date
  • appear to be part of our encyclopedia, when in fact they are unmaintained content forks
  • are indexed by search engines
  • are needless and redundant content forks ( WP:REDUNDANTFORK) that are not temporary
  • are all titled "Simple", which is also a fork of the simple English Wikipedia
  • do not reflect our current consensus. For example Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation task force/RTT/Simple Desmopressin and the recent drug pricing discussions.
  • have content that is copied and pasted without attribution to original authors
  • waste a lot of the valuable time of Wikignmoes relating to maintenance (particularly the gnoming editors updating templates, citation styles etc).
  • are out of date, often by some years, which poses a risk to the communities and readers of the non English wikipedias where they are translated into.
  • are also not in use - I have also gained email confirmation from User:Doc James that these articles are no longer in use and can be deleted from the perspective of the task force.

This follows a trial nomination of five articles. Ping to participants there: Doc James, SmokeyJoe, WhatamIdoing, SandyGeorgia, Colin, Robert McClenon.

All pages have been tagged. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 23:34, 19 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Background

These articles are associated with the translation task force (link here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force). These articles seem to be copied lead statements and most haven't been edited since creation eg here. This has come to my attention whilst doing a survey of medical templates, as many templates that had come to my attention are used on those articles.

With regard to Medical translation task force

It's clearly a very worthy goal and a great effort has gone in. However, the translation task force really seems to relate to WP MED foundation which is a meta organisation and should more appropriately be based there, in my opinion. I think that the articles that have been copied should be deleted. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 23:21, 10 September 2020 (UTC) reply

  • Delete them all, per nom, trial, and other concerns. I am sympathetic to WAID’s argument to mark them historical, but I think we should err on the side of integrity of information rather than preserving a record of what happened. We have no way of knowing if someone somewhere may still use or translate one of these pages, or preventing them from doing so, and the case that I know best is wrong. Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation task force/RTT/Simple Dementia with Lewy bodies was created on October 3, 2016, the diagnostic criteria changed in July 2017, this was known to DJ in March 2018 when I began to rewrite the entire article, and yet the dated content remains. Experience and history lead me to believe that the situation at DLB is not unique. I should also mention that the 2016 version did not distinguish between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Lewy body dementia (LBD)—not the same thing—which led to other errors. Most of the simple version is cited to LBD, not DLB, sources. Nome of this was corrected even though it was pointed out over two years ago. The safest thing to do here, to assure these pages are never read or used, is to remove them. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:25, 2 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Tom (LT), I do not see this page listed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion ?? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:28, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Oh no! You're right. Fixed. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 22:00, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Full mea culpa for MfD contributors: I created this page, linked to relevant subpages via an AWB request, and then posted at the relevant venue (WikiProject Medicine). However, embarrassingly, due to a fault that is solely my own, I forgot to check that I had listed it at MfD, something I've now rectified. I consider myself trout'd. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 22:00, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Tom (LT) a bot just deleted it. [2] I do not speak this language but I still do not see it on the page. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:05, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Ok, not sure what to do about that now. I have posted for help on the MfD talk page: Wikipedia_talk:Miscellany_for_deletion#Help_with_a_listing. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 22:11, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
It is there now, per UnitedStatesian fix. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:16, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete all, consistent with the consensus established at the previous MfD. I agree that in this case integrity of information is a more significant concern than in-WP historical preservation. Note: I adjusted the timestamp of the original nom. to avoid the bot problems. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 22:07, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Given that this MfD was not properly transcluded on the main MfD page, I think it is appropriate to allow it to run another 7 days.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ‑Scottywong | [confer] || 05:47, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: delete all. ‑Scottywong | [speak] || 06:21, 27 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Translation task force forks

(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) ‑Scottywong | [confer] || 05:47, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply

I am proposing a that all forms associated with the translation task force are deleted; this involves around a thousand articles in this category ( [1]). I will need some help tagging these articles. These articles:

  • are not maintained, meaning content can be inaccurate and out of date
  • appear to be part of our encyclopedia, when in fact they are unmaintained content forks
  • are indexed by search engines
  • are needless and redundant content forks ( WP:REDUNDANTFORK) that are not temporary
  • are all titled "Simple", which is also a fork of the simple English Wikipedia
  • do not reflect our current consensus. For example Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation task force/RTT/Simple Desmopressin and the recent drug pricing discussions.
  • have content that is copied and pasted without attribution to original authors
  • waste a lot of the valuable time of Wikignmoes relating to maintenance (particularly the gnoming editors updating templates, citation styles etc).
  • are out of date, often by some years, which poses a risk to the communities and readers of the non English wikipedias where they are translated into.
  • are also not in use - I have also gained email confirmation from User:Doc James that these articles are no longer in use and can be deleted from the perspective of the task force.

This follows a trial nomination of five articles. Ping to participants there: Doc James, SmokeyJoe, WhatamIdoing, SandyGeorgia, Colin, Robert McClenon.

All pages have been tagged. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 23:34, 19 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Background

These articles are associated with the translation task force (link here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force). These articles seem to be copied lead statements and most haven't been edited since creation eg here. This has come to my attention whilst doing a survey of medical templates, as many templates that had come to my attention are used on those articles.

With regard to Medical translation task force

It's clearly a very worthy goal and a great effort has gone in. However, the translation task force really seems to relate to WP MED foundation which is a meta organisation and should more appropriately be based there, in my opinion. I think that the articles that have been copied should be deleted. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 23:21, 10 September 2020 (UTC) reply

  • Delete them all, per nom, trial, and other concerns. I am sympathetic to WAID’s argument to mark them historical, but I think we should err on the side of integrity of information rather than preserving a record of what happened. We have no way of knowing if someone somewhere may still use or translate one of these pages, or preventing them from doing so, and the case that I know best is wrong. Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation task force/RTT/Simple Dementia with Lewy bodies was created on October 3, 2016, the diagnostic criteria changed in July 2017, this was known to DJ in March 2018 when I began to rewrite the entire article, and yet the dated content remains. Experience and history lead me to believe that the situation at DLB is not unique. I should also mention that the 2016 version did not distinguish between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Lewy body dementia (LBD)—not the same thing—which led to other errors. Most of the simple version is cited to LBD, not DLB, sources. Nome of this was corrected even though it was pointed out over two years ago. The safest thing to do here, to assure these pages are never read or used, is to remove them. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:25, 2 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Tom (LT), I do not see this page listed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion ?? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:28, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Oh no! You're right. Fixed. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 22:00, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Full mea culpa for MfD contributors: I created this page, linked to relevant subpages via an AWB request, and then posted at the relevant venue (WikiProject Medicine). However, embarrassingly, due to a fault that is solely my own, I forgot to check that I had listed it at MfD, something I've now rectified. I consider myself trout'd. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 22:00, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Tom (LT) a bot just deleted it. [2] I do not speak this language but I still do not see it on the page. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:05, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Ok, not sure what to do about that now. I have posted for help on the MfD talk page: Wikipedia_talk:Miscellany_for_deletion#Help_with_a_listing. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 22:11, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
It is there now, per UnitedStatesian fix. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:16, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Delete all, consistent with the consensus established at the previous MfD. I agree that in this case integrity of information is a more significant concern than in-WP historical preservation. Note: I adjusted the timestamp of the original nom. to avoid the bot problems. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 22:07, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Given that this MfD was not properly transcluded on the main MfD page, I think it is appropriate to allow it to run another 7 days.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ‑Scottywong | [confer] || 05:47, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.



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