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Miscellany for deletion (MfD) is a place where Wikipedians decide what should be done with problematic pages in the namespaces which aren't covered by other specialized deletion discussion areas. Items sent here are usually discussed for seven days; then they are either deleted by an administrator or kept, based on community consensus as evident from the discussion, consistent with policy, and with careful judgment of the rough consensus if required.

Filtered versions of the page are available at

Information on the process

What may be nominated for deletion here:

  • Pages not covered by other XFD venues, including pages in these namespaces: Draft:, Help:, Portal:, MediaWiki:, Wikipedia: (including WikiProjects), User:, TimedText: and the various Talk: namespaces
  • Userboxes (regardless of namespace)
  • Pages in the File namespace that have a local description page but no local file (if there is a local file, Wikipedia:Files for discussion is the right venue)
  • Any other page, that is not in article space, where there is dispute as to the correct XfD venue.

Requests to undelete pages deleted after discussion here, and debate whether discussions here have been properly closed, both take place at Wikipedia:Deletion review, in accordance with Wikipedia's undeletion policy.

Before nominating a page for deletion

Before nominating a page for deletion, please consider these guidelines:

Deleting pages in your own userspace
  • If you want to have your own userpage or a draft you created deleted, there is no need to list it here; simply tag it with {{ db-userreq}} or {{ db-u1}}. If you wish to clear your user talk page or sandbox, just blank it.
Duplications in draftspace?
  • Duplications in draftspace are usually satisfactorily fixed by redirection. If the material is in mainspace, redirect the draft to the article, or a section of the article. If multiple draft pages on the same topic have been created, tag them for merging. See WP:SRE.
Deleting pages in other people's userspace
  • Consider explaining your concerns on the user's talk page with a personal note or by adding {{ subst:Uw-userpage}} ~~~~  to their talk page. This step assumes good faith and civility; often the user is simply unaware of the guidelines, and the page can either be fixed or speedily deleted using {{ db-userreq}}.
  • Take care not to bite newcomers – sometimes using the {{ subst:welcome}} or {{ subst:welcomeg}} template and a pointer to WP:UP would be best first.
  • Problematic userspace material is often addressed by the User pages guidelines including in some cases removal by any user or tagging to clarify the content or to prevent external search engine indexing. (Examples include copies of old, deleted, or disputed material, problematic drafts, promotional material, offensive material, inappropriate links, 'spoofing' of the MediaWiki interface, disruptive HTML, invitations or advocacy of disruption, certain kinds of images and image galleries, etc) If your concern relates to these areas consider these approaches as well, or instead of, deletion.
  • User pages about Wikipedia-related matters by established users usually do not qualify for deletion.
  • Articles that were recently deleted at AfD and then moved to userspace are generally not deleted unless they have lingered in userspace for an extended period of time without improvement to address the concerns that resulted in their deletion at AfD, or their content otherwise violates a global content policy such as our policies on Biographies of living persons that applies to any namespace.
Policies, guidelines and process pages
  • Established pages and their sub-pages should not be nominated, as such nominations will probably be considered disruptive, and the ensuing discussions closed early. This is not a forum for modifying or revoking policy. Instead consider tagging the policy as {{ historical}} or redirecting it somewhere.
  • Proposals still under discussion generally should not be nominated. If you oppose a proposal, discuss it on the policy page's discussion page. Consider being bold and improving the proposal. Modify the proposal so that it gains consensus. Also note that even if a policy fails to gain consensus, it is often useful to retain it as a historical record, for the benefit of future editors.
WikiProjects and their subpages
  • It is generally preferable that inactive WikiProjects not be deleted, but instead be marked as {{ WikiProject status|inactive}}, redirected to a relevant WikiProject, or changed to a task force of a parent WikiProject, unless the WikiProject was incompletely created or is entirely undesirable.
  • WikiProjects that were never very active and which do not have substantial historical discussions (meaning multiple discussions over an extended period of time) on the project talk page should not be tagged as {{ historical}}; reserve this tag for historically active projects that have, over time, been replaced by other processes or that contain substantial discussion (as defined above) of the organization of a significant area of Wikipedia. Before deletion of an inactive project with a founder or other formerly active members who are active elsewhere on Wikipedia, consider userfication.
  • Notify the main WikiProject talk page when nominating any WikiProject subpage, in addition to standard notification of the page creator.
Alternatives to deletion
  • Normal editing that doesn't require the use of any administrator tools, such as merging the page into another page or renaming it, can often resolve problems.
  • Pages in the wrong namespace (e.g. an article in Wikipedia namespace), can simply be moved and then tag the redirect for speedy deletion using {{ db-g6|rationale= it's a redirect left after a cross-namespace move}}. Notify the author of the original article of the cross-namespace move.
Alternatives to MfD
  • Speedy deletion If the page clearly satisfies a "general" or "user" speedy deletion criterion, tag it with the appropriate template. Be sure to read the entire criterion, as some do not apply in the user space.

Please familiarize yourself with the following policies

How to list pages for deletion

Shortcut

Please check the aforementioned list of deletion discussion areas to check that you are in the right area. Then follow these instructions:

Instructions on listing pages for deletion:

To list a page for deletion, follow this three-step process: (replace PageName with the name of the page, including its namespace, to be deleted)

Note: Users must be logged in to complete step II. An unregistered user who wishes to nominate a page for deletion should complete step I and post their reasoning on Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion with a notification to a registered user to complete the process.

I.
Edit PageName:

Enter the following text at the top of the page you are listing for deletion:

{{ mfd|1={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}
for a second or subsequent nomination use {{ mfdx|2nd}}

or

{{ mfd|GroupName}}
if nominating several similar related pages in an umbrella nomination. Choose a suitable name as GroupName and use it on each page.
If the nomination is for a userbox or similarly transcluded page, use {{ subst:mfd-inline}} so as to not mess up the formatting for the userbox.
Use {{ subst:mfd-inline|GroupName}} for a group nomination of several related userboxes or similarly transcluded pages.
  • Please include in the edit summary the phrase
    Added MfD nomination at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]]
    replace PageName with the name of the page that is up for deletion.
  • Please don't mark your edit summary as a minor edit.
  • Check the "Watch this page" box if you would like to follow the page in your watchlist. This may help you to notice if your MfD tag is removed by someone.
  • Save the page
II.
Create its MfD subpage.

The resulting MfD box at the top of the page should contain the link "this page's entry"

  • Click that link to open the page's deletion discussion page.
  • Insert this text:
{{subst:mfd2| pg={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:PAGENAME}}||2}}| text=Reason why the page should be deleted}} ~~~~
replacing Reason... with your reasons why the page should be deleted and sign the page. Do not substitute the pagename, as this will occur automatically.
  • Consider checking "Watch this page" to follow the progress of the debate.
  • Please use an edit summary such as
    Creating deletion discussion page for [[PageName]]
    replacing PageName with the name of the page you are proposing for deletion.
  • Save the page.
III.
Add a line to MfD.

Follow   this edit link   and at the top of the list add a line:

{{subst:mfd3| pg=PageName}}
Put the page's name in place of "PageName".
  • Include the discussion page's name in your edit summary like
    Added [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]]
    replacing PageName with the name of the page you are proposing for deletion.
  • Save the page.
  • If nominating a page that has been nominated before, use the page's name in place of "PageName" and add
{{priorxfd|PageName}}
in the nominated page deletion discussion area to link to the previous discussions and then save the page using an edit summary such as
Added [[Template:priorxfd]] to link to prior discussions.
  • If nominating a page from someone else's userspace, notify them on their main talk page.
    For other pages, while not required, it is generally considered civil to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the miscellany that you are nominating. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the page and/or use TDS' Article Contribution Counter or Wikipedia Page History Statistics. For your convenience, you may add

    {{subst:mfd notice|PageName}} ~~~~

    to their talk page in the "edit source" section, replacing PageName with the pagename. Please use an edit summary such as

    Notice of deletion discussion at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]]

    replacing PageName with the name of the nomination page you are proposing for deletion.
  • If the user has not edited in a while, consider sending the user an email to notify them about the MfD if the MfD concerns their user pages.
  • If you are nominating a WikiProject, please post a notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council, in addition to the project's talk page and the talk pages of the founder and active members.

Administrator instructions

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Archived discussions

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Current discussions

Pages currently being considered for deletion are indexed by the day on which they were first listed. Please place new listings at the top of the section for the current day. If no section for the current day is present, please start a new section.

April 29, 2024

Draft:Prayeric

Draft:Prayeric ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – ( View MfD)​

Junk draft copy and pasted from Playboi Carti. Coop ( talk) 06:58, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:SOKE*SHIHAN*CRUZ

User:SOKE*SHIHAN*CRUZ ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – ( View MfD)​

This page consists of crude copy-paste WP:COPIES of several articles (at least Sōke and Martial arts) with some nonsense that looks like an attempt at self-promotion added. Flounder fillet ( talk) 02:55, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Municipal Council

User:Municipal Council ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – ( View MfD)​

An attempt at a WP:FAKEARTICLE that seems to be at least partially copied from Toronto and altered to describe a fictional location. User stated intent to use Wikipedia as a web host and create a hoax in the page creation edit: "We are the municipal council of the Raccoon City and we are in here to let the whole world know us through wikipedia." Flounder fillet ( talk) 02:43, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 28, 2024

Talk:Blackpink/GA1

Talk:Blackpink/GA1 ( | subject | history | links | watch | logs) – ( View MfD)​

Delete to make space for a proper GA review. It seems like one of the editors has blanked the page so it's most likely that they also want it to be deleted. Okmrman ( talk) 05:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete as per rationale. — Paper9oll ( 🔔 • 📝) 05:13, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete The Sydney Morning Herald 05:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    user:750h+, your signature is not ok. — SmokeyJoe ( talk) 13:24, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Oh, I’m sorry. I’ve changed it to my normal name, hope that’s better. 750 h+ 15:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: This is talk page history and should never be deleted. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 13:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment It would be relatively trivial to simply overwrite the existing content with a new review without needing to delete anything, and even if that is disfavored for some reason, there is no shortage of space and therefore no need to "make room" for anything as new pages may always be created. Looking at the prefix index these are sometimes deleted and sometimes retained though judging from a cursory review many of the deletions were actually WP:G7s done after the MFD was started. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:49B:2883:34FC:225B ( talk) 13:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: Keep the first review archived, and write a new review at Talk:Blackpink/GA2. The first one was closed with a reason that is not valid, yes, but it's not vandalism either. Cambalachero ( talk) 16:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment: typical practice at GAN is that if a reviewer opens a page without beginning the actual review and then withdraws but can't be bothered to add a G7 (or simply disappears), we will delete the page at G6 because nothing has actually happened. In this case, there was an actual review failure by a second reviewer (if an out-of-process one). BlueMoonset ( talk) 17:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep as 750h+ closed the review, and thus it should not be deleted. It really should have been G6'd before, but whatever. change to delete per CMD's rationale. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 17:56, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    User:AirshipJungleman29 it should not have been G6'd before as that would be an abuse of WP:G6. See for example Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Sarah Cooper/GA1 which rejected that line of reasoning, if a type of page is sometimes retained at XFD discussions then speedy is not appropriate; see also Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:British Rail Class 700/GA1 and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Clique (song)/GA1. If it is believed desirable that these pages be eligible for WP:CSD then a new one should be created following discussion at WT:CSD, but as is these clearly fall under WP:!G6. Unless that happens other solutions such as moving, blanking, or simply requesting G7s from the creator should be used. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:287D:BFB4:5CC3:6570 ( talk) 00:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
      • The reviews you cite were all closed. G6 is for uncontroversial maintenance, of which this is an example, which is why it is explicitly suggested at WP:GAN/I#N4a. It is uncontroversial because of many years of discussions at WT:GAN, and if you look through my CSD log you will find numerous examples of such nominations being accepted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 02:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        User:AirshipJungleman29 that is irrelevant, WikiProjects do not make policy or have any special power over content. WP:CSD is policy, nowhere does WP:G6 authorze the deltion of those pages, and note that the page listed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Sarah Cooper/GA1 had only one author and was not closed as you claim, nor was the second MFD I cited closed when listed at MFD [1]; the fact that certain bad speedy deletions are made does not justify making others, I would know since I have gotten multiple speedies overturned by listing them at DRV. You don't have to take my word for it, go inquire at WT:CSD and people there will tell you the same. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:E171:7509:BE8D:6BD5 ( talk) 04:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        Of course G6 authorises the deletion of that content—what else does "uncontroversial maintenance" mean? If you think it means "only the examples listed below", you may wish to look up the meaning of "including". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 07:19, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        It’s common G6 misuse and is not ok. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 07:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        No, it's precisely what G6 is for. If you want to alter G6 to read "This is for the following situations only:" you are free to propose a change; until then, it will be continued to be used for uncontroversial maintenance. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 08:29, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete The Sydney Morning Herald/750+ went out of process on the third edit by speedying this without a valid CSD rationale, but that is not a reason to keep it around. There are no substantive edits pre-deletion discussion. The only potentially substantive edits since then were to try and remove the page another way and a note this was inappropriate, both by editors who have commented here and have indicated delete or that it should have been deleted. This is not part of the talkpage history, just an autogenerated page. Keeping it just creates a permanent record of mistakes by two newer users for no benefit to anyone. CMD ( talk) 08:02, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Wikipedia:No queerphobes

Wikipedia:No queerphobes ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – ( View MfD)​

It's a political screed coatracking as an essay. People are free to believe what they will as long as they do not act in a manner that is disruptive. The "No (fill in whichever group or set of beliefs you want banned)" essays are getting out of hand. Trying to elevate social conservatives and gender critical beliefs to the same level as Nazism is an abuse of WP:ESSAYS and also of WP:NOTADVOCACY and WP:NOTFORUM. It smacks of an attempt to turn Wikipedia into an ideological echo chamber. We need to draw a line somewhere and this seems like a good place to start. Ad Orientem ( talk) 01:24, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Redirect to Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive - We don't need an essay for every specific form of hate speech. - ZLEA T\ C 01:50, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Redirect to Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive All queer people should feel welcome to edit here. My own brother is queer, but we are both on the same page on this topic. However, this does not mean we have to indef everyone who does not agree with all of the LGBT community's demands. I know I am not. Scorpions1325 ( talk) 02:04, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I'm not sure where you got indef everyone who does not agree with all of the LGBT community's demands. The essay does not imply such an extreme statement, let alone enforce it. – RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ ( 💬 •  📝) 21:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: We already have Wikipedia:No personal attacks. If we start adding "no personal attacks on X group" specific pages, we would be here all day. Cambalachero ( talk) 04:19, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Move to the main author's user space, then redirect the WP title (and the various other WP shortcuts that have already been put in place) to WP:Hate is disruptive. I don't think this would be a problem as a user space essay, reflecting one editor's (or one group of editors') views on the subject. I do not think that it has been through the level of community scrutiny and consensus building that would warrant a WP: namespace title. Girth Summit (blether) 08:41, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    @ Girth Summit what level of community scrutiny/consensus building is necessary? This is my first wikipedia essay so I'm not sure where I'm supposed to head to notify people of it and gain broader consensus lol. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 16:57, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I don't understand what (if anything) is implied by the 'lol' at the end of your question. From WP:ESSAY: Essays may be moved into userspace as user essays (see below), or even deleted, if they are found to be problematic. This discussion will establish whether or not the essay is problematic; I am proposing the first option as an alternative to the second, if that is indeed found to be the case. Girth Summit (blether) 17:08, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Zillenial texting habits sorry - in this case the lol was meant to convey conviviality and gently acknowledge my own confusion. Gotcha, I'd thought I missed something and was supposed to take it to an essay wikiproject or something - I now get from your comment and the essay essay that it's presumed non-problematic until an MFD shows otherwise. Personally, the reason I didn't want to have it as a userspace essay is because I want it to truly be a community essay and gain that level of consensus - I want it to be open for everyone to edit rather than presumed mine. Best, Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 17:33, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    @ Girth Summit: I don't think that essays in the Wikipedia namespace are expected to have any consensus behind them, see Wikipedia:Essays#Wikipedia namespace essays. Anecdotally, deciding whether to put an essay in userspace or projectspace is more a question of intent: do you imagine others editing it and it gaining consensus one day? Or is it purely an expression of your own opinion? –  Joe ( talk) 06:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Worth noting that WP:ESSAYS is itself an essay; meta. I'm not aware of any actual policy or guideline that covers this. ESSAY is rather vague in what it suggests - it does indeed say that anyone can write an essay in project space, but then it goes on to say that they can be moved to userspace or deleted 'if they are found to be problematic', and it specifically recommends MfD as a venue to determine that, so here we are. Girth Summit (blether) 07:11, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Liz makes a similar observation below. I suppose it's another one of those troublesome unwritten rules. But you can also look to the text of {{ Essay}}, which explicitly applies to both namespaces and describes them as the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors or the sheer number of pages in Category:Wikipedia essays, for evidence that the community has historically not seen consensus as a prerequisite for putting something in projectspace.
    We can of course discuss whether there are problematic aspects of this essay that would justify it being moved (and are), I just don't think a lack of "community scrutiny and consensus building" is sufficient reason in itself. –  Joe ( talk) 07:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    The template says what it says, I can't argue with that. I can remember reading, and possibly taking part in, a discussion similar to this in the dim and distant past from which I drew the impression that some degree of wider community scrutiny is desirable in project space essays. Wish I could remember where that was and what it was - if only we knew what we know. Let me put it a slightly different way then: I'm not confident that this essay is going to do anything positive, and I think it risks doing something negative. It's not going to help us to identify and block trolls, vandals or harassers, but I fear that it's going to further alienate a certain sector of our editorship. It's a whack, or perhaps just a gentle tap, from the mallet onto a wedge that is driving people apart. Girth Summit (blether) 08:40, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per Ad Orientem Sweet6970 ( talk) 15:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Delete per Ad Orientem Okmrman ( talk) 16:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep a political screed is an insult without justification. If you don't like the essay, you can suggest improvements, be bold and make them, or write why you don't endorse it.
We currently have 4 other essays in this vein. WP:HATEISDISRUPTIVE is about bigotry in general, yet we also have WP:No racists (which I don't see anybody saying should redirect there), and then we have WP:NONAZIS and WP:No Confederates about specific kinds of racists (and I see nobody clamoring for a redirect there). 3 essays on racism, yet none on queerphobia... Interestingly, WP:NONAZIS was nominated for deletion in 2019 and 2023 for the same vague charges of advocacy and foruming.
Trying to elevate social conservatives and gender critical beliefs to the same level as Nazism where does it do this? NONAZIS was the first essay of this sort written, but we also have WP:No racists. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 16:55, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
A discussion about whether all of these separate pages are worth retaining would probably be worth having. NONAZIS is by far the oldest, and I'd guess is also by far the most well-known and oft-cited. TonyBallioni moved WP:NORACISTS from another user's userspace into project space in 2021 for reasons that he's probably forgotten, but I'd be interested to hear whether he thinks it's still serving any purpose (I suspect it's not). I hadn't seen WP:No Confederates, but it came only slightly after WP:HATEISDISRUPTIVE, which (sensibly, in my view) attempts to discuss the wider theme. It might be the case (I don't have a firm view on this) that all of these independent essays ought to be merged into HATEISDISRUPTIVE; certainly, I tend to feel that we do not need these 'WP:No...' essays to proliferate. Girth Summit (blether) 17:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
I quite like HATEISDISRUPTIVE which is why I cite it in the essay, my only qualm with it is that it leans more philosophical than practical - essays like no queerphobes/confederates/racists/nazis mean the community has some centralized points where we lay out what's inappropriate, the relevant historical context, and related policies and procedures so we can have shared working definitions of what is meant by hate. Personally, I wrote the essay partly due to being sick of years of people consistently writing in discussions (or even wikivoice) that " gender ideology" is real, that trans kids are actually just mentally ill cis kids indoctrinated to think they're trans, or that all trans women who aren't straight are fetishists, or whatever else - mostly without repercussions as long as they stop short of actual slurs (and from my discussions with other queer editors over the years, I'm far from the only one who's sick of it). I think regardless of the merits of merging them all into hate is disruptive (to which I can certainly see benefits), I doubt it'd gain traction with the community. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 17:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment: I have notified the LGBT noticeboard of this move discussion. Pinging those who've discussed/edited the essay: other significant contributors to the essay (@ LokiTheLiar, @ RoxySaunders, and @ Raladic), those who have weighed in on the talk page (@ Sundostund, @ Queen of Hearts, and @ Hob Gadling), and @ NatGertler who weighed in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies#Wikipedia:No Queerphobes. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 17:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    This appears to be coming very close to WP:CANVASSING. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    It's not canvassing to notify people who would be affected by a decision. If this was on the talk page of WP:NOQUEERPHOBES, this would be an obviously appropriate notification. Loki ( talk) 17:34, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Ummm, please do not insult my intelligence. This was calling in the cavalry. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    The only people I notified where those who discussed/edited the essay who didn't comment here. I'd like to note I pinged people who opposed the essay as well. Many I pinged had issues with the essay they noted or boldly fixed rather than go straight to MFD. This is not WP:CANVASSING by any stretch of the imagination. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 17:57, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Now that discussion has reopened, I can note that it looks like YFNS followed WP:APPNOTE in terms of who was contacted; the only variation from that was the use of pinging rather than posting on their user talk pages. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 19:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Nobody is "insulting your intelligence", we're pointing out policy. No comment on keeping yet, as I haven't read the article thoroughly enough for that. That said, and as others have mentioned at length here, there's plenty of precedent for keeping them around, and if you think they're getting out of hand, it's probably better to tackle them all at once rather than singling out the most recent one, the latter of which being almost guaranteed to end in a no consensus close at best. -- Licks-rocks ( talk) 22:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Obvious Keep. No real argument has been made for deletion of this essay. The standards for keeping an essay are extremely low: just that it doesn't contradict widespread wiki consensus. As long as that's not the case, any random editor's opinion can be a mainspace essay. Indeed, this is not even just one editor's opinion, as several editors have endorsed it on its talk page. This is a prime example of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Loki ( talk) 17:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Nomination withdrawn and request procedural close Naked canvassing has likely compromised the discussion irretrievably. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:50, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Ad Orientem, I'd urge you to let the discussion run it's course. I don't see this as improper canvassing - these people were all already discussing the essay on its talk page, it's only fair for them to be notified of this discussion. Non-endorsers were pinged as well as endorsers. As for the Wikiproject, there was an active-ish discussion on the project talk page about it (which is how I first came to know of the essay), so again it's probably within the bounds of acceptable notification. Let's not make this an us and then situation, let's see if we can actually come to a consensus on whether pages like this server any useful purpose, or if they just serve to divide otherwise productive editors who ought to be working towards the same goal. Girth Summit (blether) 18:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Move to Wikipedia:No Queerphobia. The essay, like all things on Wikipedia, is subject to change, and I think there is space here to do the core of what it is to do... or at least as I see its best possible function: to give specific examples of how a queerphobic editor might be editing that goes against what is covered at WP:HATEISDISRUPTIVE. While anti-queer belief is sadly not fringe at this point in time, and while we certainly can't be simply banning edits that support views that do no serve queer-supportive goals, but there are things that editors do that target queer editors and queer topics that have some unique methods and textures. Having a page that specifically points to things like discussing an editor specifically using pronouns that are not their preferred pronouns, or claiming that someone has a COI on LGBTQIA topics simply by identifying themselves with one of those letters, is of use. My support for a move is based on the idea that we should not (and, practically, cannot) say that people who are against gay equality or any such things are not allowed to edit here, just that they cannot be disruptively showing their hate. (Same argument would go for similar essays.) The essay-creating editor has been very open to input. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 18:27, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep - The essay outlines and espands on WP:Hate is disruptive with clearer examples of what kind of hate speech is directed towards the queer community and regularly articles involving LGBTQIA+ topics, which is why we have specific arbritation enforcements such as WP:GENSEX that became neccesary precicely because of the queerphobia that drives many vandals to wikipedia, which are often banned and even regularly requires WP:Revdel. It is also improper to say that informing relevant wikiprojects would be canvassing, as that is regular procedure in any deletion discussion and as was already pointed out above, both endorsers and non-endorsers of the essay were informed. It is also inappropriate to equate queerphobia to be a political opinion and use this as the argument for deletion of the essay. Since the OP also brought up that saying that queerphobia doesn't rise to the same level as WP:No Nazis - Nazis did in fact have queerphobic beliefs and various members of the queer community were perspecuted by them, as outlined in Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and Transgender people in Nazi Germany. But also, using it as an argument of why other essays are more valid, but this one isn't, is just saying that some marginalization is more important than others, which is a fallacy as per the Oppression Olympics. Hate speech, no matter in what form does not have a place on Wikipedia. While editors are free to have their beliefs. If such beliefs run afoul of Wikipedias policies and lead to WP:DISRUPTIVE editing, then having an essay outlining some of the relevant policies that apply to this sub-topic is valuable to the community. Per WP:POLICIES, Essays are the opinion or advice of an editor or group of editors for which widespread consensus has not been established. They do not speak for the entire community and may be created and written without approval. - they are not subject to the same scrutiny as mainspace articles and do not represent all editors views, but as has already been proven by multiple people having endorsed the essay, it clearly does represent the view and consensus of some editors on Wikipedia. One last point I'd like to make is that this essay captures some of the essence of the disruption that LGBTQIA+ topics and editors often experience, which is why we even have a mainspace article on LGBT and Wikipedia as this kind of disruptive editing has even brought large attention of reliable source media on multiple occasions. It is most certainly not just a coatrack, but very much a valuable essay on itself as the topic of LGBTQ coverage and the harassment that users trying to improve its content do have to regularly experience as the article in the NY Times from 2019 has summarized quite well. Raladic ( talk) 19:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete as we already have the tools necessary to deal with DE and PAs; this 'essay' is just an attempt to make a particular issue a more substantial one than it is. It is generally less than useful to equate all things we dislike to Nazism. It is simplistic and disingenuous to claim that because the Nazis took X-view of something that musty mean that others are also Nazis. Nazis also had ideas on many other things, obviously many of them repellent. Tamzin has written a far more effective, overarching treatment of the issue in—the much clearer and comprehensive— WP:Hate is disruptive. As noted, this is merely a WP:COATRACK and a diversion from the simple fact that if editors are abusive we deal with them every day; it is singularly obtuse to suggest that seasoned admins (and patrolling editors for that matter) somehow need have the relevant policies that apply explained to them. ——Serial Number 54129 19:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per SN54129 BilledMammal ( talk) 19:44, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment I just updated the lead and nutshell to not mention NONAZIS as much - I think those saying it equates queerphobes to Nazis are missing the point: that was the first essay against hate, WP:NORACISTS also cites it, NONAZIS itself says in the lead neo-Nazis, neo-fascists, neo-Confederates, white supremacists, white nationalists, identitarians, and others with somewhat-less-than-complimentary views on other races and ethnicities – hereafter referred to collectively as Nazis. This was explicitly addressing a gap NONAZIS doesn't fill because one can be disruptively queerphobic without being a Nazi: we have 3 essays on why racism and openly identifying with racists is bad, one on general reasons we don't tolerate bigotry, and this single essay on queerphobia. I think a deletion discussion about the solitary one on queerphobia instead of all of them is misguided at best as many editors' arguments include dislike of the type of essay as a whole. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 20:18, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep in Wikipedia namespace: from reading the above discussion I'm not sure we have clarity on what an essay is. From Wikipedia:Essays: There are over 2,000 essays ... Essays can be written by anyone and can be long monologues or short theses, serious or humorous. Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints ... Many essays ... are obscure, single-author pieces.
    Wikipedia:Essays (itself an essay!) indicates that essays can be moved to userspace or deleted if problematic, typically because they contradict existing community norms. I do not believe this essay does so. It outlines some information that is uncontroversial (e.g. medical fact or Wikipedia behavioural policies) as well as some opinion by the author about how Wikipedia policies should be enforced and what queerphobia looks like in the context of Wikipedia. None of it violates a core policy such as WP:NPOV. Though I support its contents, I would object to it being upgraded to an explanatory supplement or guideline etc.
    The highly referenced WP:NONAZIS is a contentious essay that some Wikipedians disagree with (for instance, those who believe somebody should only be blocked for actions, not beliefs). It lists views that are widely held e.g. supporting forcible sterilisation of disabled people (which is done on a large scale today) and describes them as beliefs that characterise modern-day Nazism. Nonetheless, it has enormous support and consensus at MfDs have found that its status as a Wikipedia-space essay is appropriate. This is because there has been widespread disruption to Wikipedia caused by neo-Nazis and Nazi-adjacent editors and it is an ongoing problem that requires a high level of knowledge and organisation among the community to combat. A similar analysis applies to "No queerphobes". — Bilorv ( talk) 20:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete/userfy/redirect/do whatever to get this out of projectspace: S# puts it perfectly. This is a coatrack and doesn't help. And for the record, I was "canvassed" to this because I put myself as a non-endorser. Queen of ♡ | speak 21:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep in WP namespace, as it represents the opinions of multiple editors rather than one. – RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ ( 💬 •  📝) 21:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep in Wikipedia namespace per what was said above, mainly by YFNS, Loki, Raladic and Bilorv. They, pretty much, summed up all the most important arguments regarding this essay and its importance, so I wouldn't want to simply repeat their words. I can only add that possible deletion/removal of this essay would be very undesirable and even dangerous, as it could be understood as a "licence" to discriminate LGBT people on the project, and that such behavior is acceptable. I want to make it completely clear: I am absoultely sure that the nominator didn't have such intention when they started this MfD discussion; I am just saying how all of this could be interpreted by some people, if the discussion result in deletion of this essay. In order to avoid such problematic conclusions by certain users, we should make it clear that, as a community, we stand behind this essay and its proclaimed values. The core message of the essay is clear: LGBT people must not be discriminated here, and that is more than enough for it to be kept and endorsed by more users in the future. — Sundostund mppria ( talk / contribs) 21:44, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
The problem is that this page has about fifty "proclaimed values", and maybe five of them have anything to do with actual discrimination against LGBT editors, whereas the rest are just random progressive activist tweets being said in wikivoice. There is a very long list of "groups known for spreading misinformation about and legislatively targeting the LGBT community" -- what in the world does this have to do with editing Wikipedia? There is then the non sequitur claim that these groups "and affiliated groups" should be avoided as sources. Is the idea here that if you have good enough politics opinions, you can bypass WP:RS entirely and just write a polemic essay deciding which sources are bad? This is silly. jp× g 🗯️ 22:11, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
random progressive activist tweets being said in wikivoice - have examples? Is the idea here that if you have good enough politics opinions, you can bypass WP:RS entirely and just write a polemic essay deciding which sources are bad - The list, since deleted, concerned multiple groups people have tried to cite as sources which are known for misinformation. Off the top of my head, here's the last time somebody tried to cite one [2] (who cited the groups dozens of times on other wikis and is a pretty good example of who the essay is talking about). These are groups which reliable sources concur are known for misinformation about the LGBT community, which is not only confirmed by a quick read of their articles but by RSN itself. [3] [4] [5] Which of the deleted ones do you think actually counts as anything close to a WP:RS? Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 22:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Okay, here is one of the "anti-LGBT narrative"s from the essay: That cisgender or heterosexual people are "more oppressed than" or "actually oppressed, unlike" LGBT people. What does this even mean? "Pete Buttigieg is more oppressed than Malala Yousafzai"? "Ellen DeGeneres is more oppressed than Anne Frank"? Is it about aggregates across populations? How can that even be measured? Is this sentence also saying "oppression from war and famine is directly comparable to oppression from homophobia, because this is a single quantity that exists along a single axis, and also the second is worse than the first"? Is the essay saying these sentences are true? Is it saying that they're true and also somebody who disagrees with them should be removed from the project? Ignoring, for the moment, that most LGBT people are either one or the other of those things (e.g. most homosexual people are cisgender) -- the sentence just does not make sense. It's either meant to be read at face value, in which case it's utterly ludicrous, or it's meant to be read as a hashtag-like statement of vibes where the words do not actually mean what the words say, in which case it is a vague activist tweet. I understand that writing stuff that doesn't have a coherent literal meaning for the purpose of signaling political coalitional allegiances is important. However, I am opposed to an essay that goes way out of its way to emphasize "Muslims/Catholics/Presbyterians aren't welcome on Wikipedia unless they recant". jp× g 🗯️ 00:11, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Very curious to know how one goes from "some cishet people wrongly believe they are more oppressed than queer people" to "Ellen DeGeneres is more oppressed than Anne Frank". Isabelle Belato 🏳‍🌈 01:31, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
The claim being referenced is the idea that people are oppressed for being cisgender/heterosexual (moreso than being LGBT), and not about all pairs of individuals. In a similar way, Nazis believe that white people are "more oppressed" than other races because they are "becoming minorities" in their "own country" (by racist "one-drop" rules). If this is unclear perhaps it can be reworded. — Bilorv ( talk) 06:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Funny you should point this out, as precisely that point of groups known for spreading misinformation.. was just a week ago the center of such a focus in light of the Cass Review, there was a discussion of some sources from the UK that contribute to it, directly linked to LGBT topic on the Talk:Cass Review#Don't use sources by The Telegraph and The Times, which has now led to an RFC prep to discuss the limiting of them as RS for transgender topics due to their regular coverage spreading of misinformation. This is not just a theoretical topic, but the lived reality of people trying to uphold Wikipedia's values and trying to improve LGBT content on Wikipedia and the uphill battle that it often represents. As you can see from there, editors are now collaborating to collect the evidence and will subsequently bring it for discussion, following the processes we have in place for such discussions.
The focus of the essay is not just on editors, but also the content of LGBT topics and how editors often have to fight an uphill battle against people trying to spread misinformation in such articles. Raladic ( talk) 22:40, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Well, my lived reality is that I've spent several years participating in a collaborate attempt to write a free encyclopedia -- and I've had many colleagues in this effort, from all walks of life. All of us were able to behave as colleagues, not because we all shared a completely identical set of beliefs about intersectional oppression, but because we agreed to basic standards of civility. It's really not that hard to understand: to be a Wikipedian you have to treat other editors with respect.

There is not a requirement that all editors profess a specific set of factual claims regarding feminist theory, or viral news stories about schoolkids pissing in litter boxes, or any of the things in the long list of things that this essay asserts to be homophobic beliefs which are not welcome here. jp× g 🗯️ 00:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: The idea of having a specific WP:NONAZIS fork for sexuality is already dodgy, and of questionable utility (some people have already mentioned this). But this page, specifically, is a partisan political screed about how we need to purge editors who believe in "narratives" the author does not like. I've gone a hundred thousand edits under my real name without being asked about my sexual orientation, but sources close to JPxG say that all LGBT editors are not spoken for here. We should not have an essay asserting confidently that everyone who argued against its author in a MoS debate should be ejected summarily from the project. This is a collaborative encyclopedia, not a political thunderdome -- I am opposed to any outcome that involves any chance of people reading this and thinking that it represents official Wikipedia doctrine. jp× g 🗯️ 22:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Meh. I don't have any strong objection to this being in project space. We give people a fair amount of latitude on essays. But keep in mind that when it's in project space, people also have greater freedom to edit it, as I did in Special:Diff/1221268945 to remove what strikes me as inappropriate targeting of specific organizations. You might want to consider moving it to your userspace, where you'll have a greater ability to control the content and revert changes you don't agree with. RoySmith (talk) 22:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep and Move Per Radalic, Brilov, and Nat Gertler above. This essay definitely needs some more flesh and has kinks to work out, but it is currently being worked on by a large number of editors, so I'm confident that this will happen, other than that, it is, in my opinion a fairly unremarkable extension to Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive, listing a bunch of common fringe claims about the subject and behaviours of the editors pushing them, none of which are particularly new to Wikipedia in general or AE in particular. -- Licks-rocks ( talk) 23:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I agree with that. In this case I say it should be kept and would be a good addition to the WP:HID page you mentioned. I have to fundamentally disagree with those such as jpxg, Queen of Hearts, and the original nominating statement. Historyday01 ( talk) 23:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. It might be merged to Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive, but it represents a separate well-defined subtopic. I do not see any harm from having this page. My very best wishes ( talk) 00:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment. I would be very leery of any quick decisions on this-especially because we can all acknowledge at a level that there are currently many queerphobes who would like this removed as quickly as possible. User:sock-the-guy ( talk) 05:52, 28 April 2024 (MST)
    Editing from my phone. I implore you look at the talk page of any queer individual's article on here for many examples of homophobic and transphobic editors. To imply that Wikipedia has somehow solved queerphobia is laughable 2600:8800:7180:8D:B9A7:9B74:FF22:45B4 ( talk) 01:53, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Okay, here are some direct yes-no questions:
    1) Do you think that making insulting comments based on someone's sexual orientation is currently permitted by existing policies?
    2) Do you think that the page Wikipedia:No queerphobes is a policy? jp× g 🗯️ 02:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete/userfy/redirect/do whatever to get this out of projectspace per Queen of Hearts. Also agree with JPxG; this essay is of questionable utility. There's the potential to mis-use this essay to subtly attack or intimidate those they're in disagreement with in LGBT-related content or MOS discussions. Some1 ( talk) 00:57, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Keep in namespace largely based on the points of what others have said, especially Bilorv Snokalok ( talk) 03:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. There are loads of essays I disagree with, or that I don't think add anything to the encyclopedia. There are many that are contentious. And the essay itself says This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. right at the top, like all essays in wp-space. So I'm not really sure what the reason for deletion is here. The idea that WP:HATEDISRUPT already covers this topic doesn't make much sense to me as a deletion reason either. Look at how many redundant essays we have on notability! -- asilvering ( talk) 04:25, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. For a start, it's an essay. Editors are free to write these to express an argument about whatever topic they like, as long as it's relevant to editing and doesn't fall afoul of any conduct policies. That really should be the end of the discussion: talk of whether the essay is needed or useful entirely missed the purpose and established use of the project namespace. But for what it's worth I do also think that this is a useful essay that doesn't just duplicate WP:HATESPEECH. It puts the issue in the context of previous discussions and lists specific examples of queerphobic attitudes and behaviours, including things like deadnaming which are unlikely to come up in pages about other forms of bigotry. Those are the kind of things that an editor or admin can easily overlook if, like me, they're not personally very familiar with the struggles faced by queer people. The objection that the essay compares queerphobia to Nazism seems to be entirely based on the fact that it has a similar title to WP:NONAZIS. But with all due respect to Tony for a great essay, I don't think he invented the "No X" formulation. –  Joe ( talk) 05:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment One of the misgivings I see in some comments here is that having this essay in project space somehow represents an "official" Wikipedia stance. When has that ever been a valid assumption? There are thousands of user essays, many of which I think are silly or dumb. If project space is considered official representative of Wikipedia project, well, then I have dozens and dozens of essays I'd like to send to MFD for discussion because they are useless or stupid or joke essays that are just not funny and are juvenile. I find them more embarrassing that this essay. If we are going to have some new purity test for essays, we have to clear out a lot of deadwood. Liz Read! Talk! 06:41, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep per Loki and Raladic. This clearly passes WP:ESSAY and the arguments against mainly appear to be WP:IDONTLIKEIT. As Liz has already explained, essays do live in the Wikipedia: namespace, not userspace and it's pretty disappointing to see people trying to claim that this one is somehow special and should not follow that long-established policy. Equally, it is normal for related WikiProjects to be informed of relevant deletion discussions; posting there and tagging contributors to the page under discussion does not amount to WP:CANVASSING, no matter how much detectors may not like it. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 09:52, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 27, 2024

Draft:Ryan Daou (The Kingpin Of Addis Ababa)

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See also User:Khaled Tarabey/sandbox, which shows that this is the output from a large language model, and is web hosting by an editor who is not otherwise contributing to the encyclopedia. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete No use or purpose to an encyclopedia. In userspace G5 would apply. Its not so doesnt; the closest we get is to deleting after 168 hours. Thanks to the nom for identification. Another classic from The McClenon. Sounds like a single malt that! Mmmm... 🥃 hic. ——Serial Number 54129 21:28, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete Userpages and drafts are not Google Keep. The draft topic seems to be a fictional character that has not been created yet, and so unsuitable for an article regardless of everything else. Cambalachero ( talk) 04:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Hiiijeu373u3j3

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This is the same as Draft:Shaheedallll and is U5, Wikipedia is not for web hosting. No other contributions by author. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:36, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Delete both, seems like an AI-generated story. And please merge both deletion requests, it will make things easier Cambalachero ( talk) 17:18, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan/Pakistani sources

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This page was created by a now blocked sockpuppet who has a history of writing paid BLPs, potentially as an attempt to WP:GAMING. Given this context, this is not a legitimate and does not reflect community consensus. Deleting it would prevent any confusion and ensure that unreliable sources are not mistakenly defended using this page as a reference. — Saqib ( talk | contribs) 17:45, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Keep: He may be the author but not the only editor, and he was not blocked when he started the page. Cambalachero ( talk) 17:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
It's puzzling how a blocked user can create this page. Obviously, they were unblocked at that time. However, whether the user was blocked or unblocked seems irrelevant here. The core issue is having such a page that lacks community consensus and is primarily edited by suspected sockpuppets. This poses a significant risk, as this page could be susceptible to misuse, intentionally or unintentionally, leading to the inclusion of unreliable sources, especially on BLPs, which are highly contentious area. Therefore, it's imperative to consider removing such a page altogether. — Saqib ( talk | contribs) 17:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
You're mixing 2 arguments. Argument 1: That the page was created by a user who was later blocked. Unless the page's creation is the very reason why he was blocked (not the case here), that's not a valid reason for deletion. Second, that unlike the perennial sources pages this one has not been subject to substantial scrutiny. That can easily be dealt with with a disclaimer at the top. I know nothing of Pakistani press or politics, so I don't know if the list is accurate or not, but I can't support deletion based on my own ignorance. If someone with more local knowledge can actually point examples of misuse, then that would be something else. Cambalachero ( talk) 23:52, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Barbara Engler

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An open letter to rep Kevin Hern doesn't belong here. Coop ( talk) 09:01, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Aashutosh gourav

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GPT-generated entry that does not belong on Wikipedia. Coop ( talk) 04:02, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Katie chapplow

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Her life experience can be interesting, but the content of this is not suitable for Wikipedia at all. Coop ( talk) 03:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Bait Comedy

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Not a real topic, as the author mentions. Coop ( talk) 03:01, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Comment - Not sure at this time whether this is a sufficient misuse of draft space to call for deletion. This is not an article draft, but could be worked into a draft that would need declining. Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:02, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: Per WP:NDRAFT. No valid reason to delete. MfD is not for curating bad drafts, and trying to do so is contrary to the purpose of draftspace. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 12:14, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Cecelia Joyce Otis

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Would work well in a blog. Coop ( talk) 02:58, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Alexi Dear

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A personal diary-like entry about WritingDearly written by WritingDearly. Coop ( talk) 02:52, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks

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"This is a literary essay." - according to the creator. Coop ( talk) 02:49, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Cheese

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Why do we need a GPT-generated draft of Cheese? Cooper ( talk) 02:31, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Delete per nom Okmrman ( talk) 05:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
I would assume cheese never had a draft in the first place since it's one of these articles where it's so old that it was made before drafts were standard or something like that. Okmrman ( talk) 16:07, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:The Longest Word In English In One Page

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I don't know if this is true or not, but this does not belong on Wikipedia. Cooper ( talk) 02:26, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete As noted in Longest Word In English, there is a claim that this is a word. It is the systematic chemical name for a protein, although proteins are never known by their systematic chemical names, because that results in monstrosities like this. Of no encyclopedic value, and not needed even inf draft space. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:57, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Ryan Daou (The Kingpin Of Addis Ababa)

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Part of User:Khaled Tarabey/sandbox, GPT-generated fiction. Cooper ( talk) 02:23, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Khaled Tarabey/sandbox

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GPT-generated story. Cooper ( talk) 02:23, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Speedy delete - U5. Nominated for speedy. Flounder fillet ( talk) 02:20, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:ColourBlocks (BBC Kids Show)

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This should be removed as Draft:Colourblocks already exists, and the current topic lacks notability. —  48JCL Talk 12:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC) 00:39, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete: It's a much less ample duplicate of Draft:Colourblocks. Cooper ( talk) 02:25, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Redirect to Draft:Colourblocks. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:44, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    That article, I personally feel like, should probably get deleted. The main source is literally fandom and there are multiple issues. It’s updated like once a month. It’s been under construction for 2 years and nothing good has happened with it. 48JCL Talk 21:10, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Sean Grieve Sr

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Fictional short story? Cooper ( talk) 01:41, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Shaheedallll

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I think someone wrote a short story here... Cooper ( talk) 01:40, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 26, 2024

Draft:Myster Shadow-Sky

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WP:SALT Admins with the relevant privileges will be able to see this car-crash of past deletions. Andy Dingley ( talk) 21:22, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete and Semi-protect - The car-crash of six past deletions, all for G13, can be seen by anyone who knows to view the logs. The name-drops and puffery are not reasons to delete a draft, only to decline or reject it, except that it keeps being recreated by unregistered editors, and then expiring. Semi-create-protecting the title will prevent its recreation by IP editors. If a registered editor creates it again and is a nuisance with it, then it might be necessary to ECP-create-protect it, but for now semi is good enough. Robert McClenon ( talk) 23:51, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply


Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Windows Deployment Image Customization Kit
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: withdrawn by nom. There is a clear consensus to keep this draft. As such, I have closed the discussion as I see no point in keeping a discussion where there is a unanimous "keep". (non-admin closure) thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 01:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Windows Deployment Image Customization Kit

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Reads like an advertisement. Also, sources are not reliable. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 15:36, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Keep: Source 1 has been updated with an article from a fairly reputable site (Microsoft Learn documentation) 1berr1sfueller ( talk) 20:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: not really reasons to delete a draft since it doesn't seem to be exclusively promotional. Seems like a real thing, unlikely to be notable enough for an article, but it seems like at this point the normal WP:G13 process will handle this well enough. Skynxnex ( talk) 16:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: If you didn't touch this draft, it would have been G13 deleted 2 weeks from now. Acceptable enough for draftspace, not overly promotional. Curbon7 ( talk) 17:23, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep - Reliability of sources is not a reason to delete drafts, because it is a reason to decline drafts (so that the author can find better sources). This is not promotional enough to require G11, and drafts are not deleted for tone unless they need speedy deletion as G11. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:30, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
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April 25, 2024

Draft:Itioma no kami

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We're told that this is about "a personal artistic constructed language", and we are warned "DO NOT SUBMIT THE DRAFT FOR REVIEW AT ANY POINT IN TIME FOR ANY REASON."

"Seemingly created solely for the creator's personal amusement" isn't a speedy deletion criterion, so I bring the matter here. Hoary ( talk) 00:39, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Utopes/Requests for adminship/Xaosflux

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Well, it's been a minute since I made this, and I can't say this is a proud accomplishment of mine. Back then, "nominating a well-respected bureaucrat for adminship" was a funnier idea in my head, perhaps, and my young self wasn't sure how to deliver. I don't feel strongly about deleting it entirely, so if people would rather move this to an April Fools subpage that's fine, but I'd prefer this not have to keep this as a user subpage. Utopes ( talk / cont) 03:38, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

(This isn't U1 because not all previous titles were in userspace. In other news, wee 30k :v) As it's probably good to notify, apologies for MfDing this totally real request for adminship @ Xaosflux:... :(. Utopes ( talk / cont) 03:41, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Copy notation

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Speedy as an A11 was contested (courtesy @ CanonNi and Whpq:), but it's a G5 ( Editer344 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)). Rather than re-tag, bringing here for more eyes. I don't see a path toward article space for this draft. Star Mississippi 02:53, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete as a non-notable topic created as a draft by an editor evading scrutiny using multiple accounts. -- Whpq ( talk) 03:15, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: obviously made up. Could not find any sources mentioning "copy notation" online. '''[[ User:CanonNi]]''' ( talk| contribs) 03:25, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Weak Delete for two reasons out of three:
      • Not an A11 in draft space. Being an unreferenced draft is not a reason for deletion of a draft unless the draft is a BLP, and this is not. Unreferenced drafts should be declined.
      • Maybe a G5. Not a clear-cut G5 because we don't have information to identify when the first block was made. Robert McClenon ( talk) 22:48, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply
      • The work of a an editor who has been reported to WP:ANI for creating stupid draft and articles.
      • A marginal case. Since we are here and the editor is not likely to be reinstated, we can delete this, without prejudice (viz., do not apply salt, pepper, cloves, ginger, or cinnamon). Robert McClenon ( talk) 22:48, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        Fine with the substance of your !vote @ Robert McClenon, but this was created on 12 April, the current master was blocked on 18 March so I think we're safely in G5 territory. Now I want cinnamon french toast though! Star Mississippi 00:44, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply


April 24, 2024

User:This 777

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Unattributed (default edit summary) WP:COPIES of West Garo Hills district. Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:24, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Lextra~enwiki

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Unattributed (no edit summary) WP:COPIES of Labor union. Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:08, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Delete as per nomination. Samoht27 ( talk) 16:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Write2nihal

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Unattributed (default exit summary for page creation) WP:COPIES of Ajax (programming). Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:06, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:BLANKSON200

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Unattributed (edit summary consists solely of the word "ALL") WP:COPIES of PL/SQL. Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:01, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete this ugly thing, which is a copy of an article, that doesn't look like an article, because it was copied from a displayed web page into a wikitext window, and lacks attribution, and is a redundant fork. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:10, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Og skull trooper

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WP:COPIES of Johnstown flood. Flounder fillet ( talk) 13:15, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete another fake article that is a redundant fork of an obsolete version of a real article. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:58, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply
      • The edit summary says: "I did this to prove a person that Wikipedia is not a credible site". Duh. That proves nothing.
      • Doing a full-page copy from a displayed web page into a window, which appears to be how these pages (those nominated on 24 April) were created, is stupid.

Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:58, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:HendersonJimmy

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WP:COPIES of the Beatles. Flounder fillet ( talk) 13:10, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete another fake article which is another redundant fork, and so has obsolete content. There are footnote numbers for the references in the original article, but they are just useless numbers. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:40, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:300680YEET

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WP:COPIES of NASCAR. Flounder fillet ( talk) 13:03, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 22, 2024

User:Skatesista6

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WP:COPIES of Love Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete this ugly mess, which is an old redundant fork of an article, and has attribution violations, and no references, and is almost unreadable. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:43, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per above.— Alalch E. 18:36, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:William John Titus Bishop

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This draft, written by a paid editor about a non-notable BLP, has sucked too much community time; it is time for this draft to be deleted. I will also note an article about Bishop has been deleted at AfD and is currently salted at William Bishop (performing artist), William Bishop (Author, Musician), William Bishop (Musician, Author), Draft:William Bishop, and William Bishop (singer).

This has been declined at AfC six(!) times before I rejected it yesterday. Since the rejection, the author has tried to improve the article and asked a plethora of questions at the AFC help desk, resulting a ~35 comment discussion in just over 24 hours. Responding to these questions is consuming volunteer time to satisfy a paid editor (and besides the paid author I have seen zero evidence of anyone finding this to be a notable topic).

At the request of the article creator, I have previously prepared several SATs; I have included an updated one below. As you can see, we have identified one (1) possible SIRS candidate, but we would need multiple for notability. UPDATE: that source is not independent; see comments by Cleo Cooper. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 03:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Source assessment table: prepared by User:HouseBlaster
Source Independent? Reliable? Significant coverage? Count source toward GNG?
https://www.abc.net.au/triplejunearthed/artist/william-john-titus-bishop/ No Does not appear to be independent of Bishop (the website says it has has kicked off the careers of thousands of Australian musicians, which seems awfully promotional. Furthermore, it shares much of the same text with source 2. ~ It has two paragraphs, which is not nothing but certainly not enough to base an article on ✘ No
https://www.chinaimx.com/545/ No Appears to be sourced from https://www.williamjohntitusbishop.com and is essentially close paraphrasing of the above source ~ It has two paragraphs, which is not nothing but certainly not enough to base an article on ✘ No
https://theplayground.co.uk/listen-to-william-john-titus-bishops-latest-i-dont-remember-you-at-all/ Yes No Three sentences about Bishop himself ✘ No
https://www.viberate.com/artist/william-bishop/ No Appears to be independent, but I could be wrong. Giving the benefit of the doubt. Not independent; see this comment from Cleo Cooper ? Not sure if this is reliable? Yes See the "More about William Bishop" section ✘ No
https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/shakespeare-sonnets-alchemy No By Bishop himself No Not much about Bishop as a person ✘ No
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Fdeclanmckenna_tdhc_thumb-439b84365ce19df2b1c95758b0571c37ed67047b.jpg&tbnid=0FubSYJYdNm8kM&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2020%2F09%2F14%2F912004072%2Fdeclan-mckenna-tiny-desk-home-concert&docid=6CzqE-UFeDmeAM&w=1438&h=1078&hl=en-GB&sfr=vfe No A video which features Bishop himself No No coverage of Bishop at all ✘ No
https://ethicalinfluencers.co.uk/william-bishop/ No Not independent of Bishop; also copies the same bio from sources 1 and 2 Yes It has three meaty paragraphs ✘ No
https://intellifluence.com/blog/william-john-titus-bishop-influencer-spotlight No An interview with Bishop is not independent of Bishop Yes ✘ No
https://theopinionpages.com/2022/10/modern-music-collaboration-influencer-marketing-and-independent-labels/ No Written by Bishop himself Yes ✘ No
https://www.cultr.com/news/interview-william-john-titus-bishop-people-can-expect-to-be-moved-by-my-music/ No An interview with Bishop is not independent of Bishop Yes ✘ No
https://www.reverbnation.com/williambishop No It contains the phrase I had always wanted to go into music as a career without realising it, which is written in the first person. Even if we grant that it is a typo (and that is a massive assumption), it still contains insights into Bishop's thoughts (e.g. He didn’t think anything of it at the time). Occam's razor is that it was written by Bishop himself. ? I had a long discussion about this source with the author, Topg1985. To counter the fact that it contains Bishop's thoughts, Topg1985 stated that independant writers do sometimes use ‘poetic licence’ when writing about artists.They may just be imagining that is what Bishop was thinking at the time to embellish the article. If we accept that it is an embellishment (read: made-up BS), the source is not reliable. Yes ✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{ source assess table}}.

House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 20:55, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Notified: Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk#20:42, 21 April 2024 review of submission by Topg1985. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 20:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - The primary and sufficient reason why this draft should be deleted is that the author is tendentiously continuing to work on it after having being explicitly told in the rejection not to resubmit it. A second reason is that the author is also being disruptive at the AFC Help Desk. A third reason is that this is a clear and well-documented case of the gaming of names, the submission of an excessive number of drafts and articles with different titles for the same person, after an article was deleted after deletion discussion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Bishop (performing artist). However, MFD is a content forum, and deleting the draft does not preclude reporting the editor's conduct to a conduct forum. Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Ultra-weak keep. There is the weakest, weakest, weakest, weakest hint of notability, from Bored City and CULTR, but these are interviews. But they are recent and new from past AfD. At the moment, this is an absolute waste of time from probably paid editors. By the way, @ House, that Viberate source is not independent, see here. However, in 3 years, can this person be notable? I'll give it a weak maybe. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 02:25, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Just curious, in the case of a delete, would the draft be able to be recreated? Or G4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 02:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

    Thank you for the note about Viberate—I have amended the SAT accordingly.

    Interviews with Bishop are certainly not independent of Bishop, and thus cannot contribute to notability (which requires significant coverage in secondary reliable sources independent of the subject. Per WP:NOTCRYSTAL we should not keep an article because it will be notable in the future. In fact, we have a list of articles which were (correctly!) deleted at one point—in many cases due to lack of notability—only to be (again, correctly!) recreated later once they qualified. One great examples of this include iPhone ( discussion).

    G4 applies if someone recreates the same page with essentially the same content. If someone recreates this page with different content—in particular, with additional sourcing—that would not qualify as G4. Let me know if you have any other questions, House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 03:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

    Thank you for the clarification. I will vote delete. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 05:38, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    In that case, can you please strike out your earlier !vote, just for clarity @ Cleo Cooper – thanks. -- DoubleGrazing ( talk) 05:44, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Done. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 06:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: per nom GrayStorm( Talk| Contributions) 02:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - I think the source analysis table is beig a bit generous assessing theplayground.co.uk and www.viberate.com as independent. Read about The Playground UK and you'll see they are a PR company. And Viberate provides tools for artists. Given the rejection of the draft further wasting of time on it is not a good thing.-- Whpq ( talk) 02:53, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment - The originator has been indeffed by User:Star Mississippi for disruptive editing. Thank you, User:Star Mississippi. If any of you see another draft or article that is substantially identical to this one, or another draft or article with a different variation of the title, please submit a sockpuppet report. Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:59, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    You're welcome @ Robert McClenon. I gave them a fairly strong warning against sock/meat but I got a disingenuous reply so feel free to ping me if further admin action is necessary. I will not weigh in here as to content as I'm obviously Involved. Star Mississippi 12:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete (& salt?) as utterly non-notable subject with very poor referencing (and yes, that Playground/Playee source is not reliable, although was credited as such). The other titles in this title-gaming hullabaloo have already been salted (and that includes also Draft:William Bishop (Musician) and Draft:William Bishop (musician)), so this probably should be also... unless we want to leave it open for a reason? ;) -- DoubleGrazing ( talk) 05:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Is salting even possible? This musician shares a name with many people (see: William Bishop). Cleo Cooper ( talk) 06:16, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    The various forms of the name have all been salted in article space. I think that salting in draft space is undesirable, because it encourages the further gaming of titles. It might be in order to salt William John Titus Bishop. Salting in draft space should be reserved for extreme and unusual situations, and this is not one of them; it is persistent and troublesome, but not extreme and unusual compared to other cases of similar misconduct. Robert McClenon ( talk) 14:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    In my opinion, Draft:William Bishop should be unsalted, because someone might reasonably submit a draft for another different person with that name, and might not know about disambiguation. (New users don't always know about disambiguation.) The reviewer can disambiguate the name in that case. Robert McClenon ( talk) 14:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    That is a good idea. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 17:15, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: Per nom and comments above. Subject is clearly non-notable with very poor referencing (including one source that uses Google?), and draft has been rejected by an unprecedented seven (!) times. HarukaAmaranth 春 香 14:11, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment to User:HarukaAmaranth - It wasn't rejected seven times. It was declined seven times and rejected once. Seven declines are not unprecedented, only excessive. I have seen nine declines. That isn't much of a difference. Occasionally the resubmitting editor is making a bona fide effort to submit a draft about someone whom they think is notable. In this case they may have only been making an effort to get paid for getting the article in place. It wasn't unprecedented, only excessive. Robert McClenon ( talk) 15:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete and salt See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Armaghan Muawiyah. –  Muboshgu ( talk) 17:59, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - but do not salt. The sources are trash, the merc doesn't listen to anyone (as mercenary editors are wont to do), and salting this would just lead to yet another draft under yet another name that we ultimately have to ferret out. Much better to leave it unprotected so that it's easier to track him. — Jéské Couriano v^_^v AE thread summaries 18:09, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete (no opinion on salting). This article was created by a  Confirmed sock ( Topg1985) of globally locked Armaghan Muawiyah and could therefore be speedily deleted under WP:G5. -- Yamla ( talk) 20:34, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 21, 2024

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:ElChinoAntrax
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. Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 05:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:ElChinoAntrax

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Incomplete unattributed copy of José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa. Flounder fillet ( talk) 21:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Note: user has been warned for COI. Neutral. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 02:21, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply
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Old business


April 11, 2024

Template:User hate CCP

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WP:UBCR and WP:POLEMIC. Divisive userbox. Broc ( talk) 08:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete. The word 'hate' should not appear in userboxes.— Alalch E. 09:08, 11 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I lean to supporting this, but not without limit. A userbox might mention hate without expressing or advocating hate.
    There are several transcluders. The transcluders should be advised of this discussion. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 00:38, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Courtesy ping to the transcluders of this userbox: SunDawn Moreno Ardan1 EnverTheHero Magnatyrannus Partyfrittata R09a21045 TeddyRoosevelt1912 Carlinal Michigander901 PoisonHK Delta2571 -- Broc ( talk) 07:16, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Thanks SmokeyJoe ( talk) 11:11, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Broc, SmokeyJoe, specifically pinging people who are likely to !vote in a certain way is WP:VOTESTACKING. Thebiguglyalien ( talk) 21:16, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    No, it is not. The proposal is to alter these people’s userpages, altering their self-introductions, with an allegation that they are doing something wrong. There are therefore key stakeholders. Their contribution here is not to vote, but to explain, or defend. If the userbox is deleted, they may be accused of disruption if they put a similar back. This outcome is an obvious failing of natural justice. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 04:27, 16 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I’ve not found the input of any of the transcluders to be persuasive. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 08:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    If like to ask them, what is it about the CCP that they hate. Then, I’m sure it can be improved by an edit. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 11:12, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep - Hate of a political class of tyrants should not be equated with a group of individuals. Robert McClenon ( talk) 02:44, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    How is a party which counts 98 million members not "a group of individuals"? Broc ( talk) 07:13, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. Dislike towards an organization (that has done "things") is different than hating millions of Chinese. I didn't think the word "hate" should immediately be construed as divisive. I didn't think "hating" the Nazi Party or ISIS is violating WP:UBCR. ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 11:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Ok, now read the userbox as "This user hates the US Republican Party". Do you still consider it non-divisive? If the template said "oppose" I would have no problem with it, but hate is a different thing. Broc ( talk) 12:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: My usage of the anti-CCP infobox isn't of any malice towards Chinese culture or society at all, but as a protest against the party's omnipresent dominance and human rights violations that led to a moral decline within the country's political state, if not with China altogether. This includes but is not limited to Mao Zedong's cult of personality (similar with Joseph Stalin's), several massacres ( Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and Red August, the Tiananmen massacre and suppression of its discussion and the related), declining human and Internet rights, and other forms of crimes against humanity. That's what I hate about the party and its impact; I believe other users with the infobox aren't drastically different in motive. The party's slogan is " Serve the People", but it only serves itself, of a code not revealed to anyone with any sympathy. I wouldn't be anti-communist in the first place if all of this never happened. My use of this infobox is not light, and it speaks out for the preservation of common sense and human dignity. Carlinal ( talk) 13:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Wording Change: I am a Hong Konger, and this template sums up a large part about my childhood in the city, so I'm definitely against deleting the template entirely (please see Hong Kong-Mainland China conflict). I personally have no problem using the word "hate" towards a political organization that has no respect for human rights whatsoever, but I can understand why some would feel problematic about this. So, I would be fine if the template is re-worded to take out the word "hate" but keep much of the meaning, something along the lines of: "This user strongly condemns the CCP (for its gross violations of human rights)". TeddyRoosevelt1912 ( talk) 14:15, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Strong oppose for being more divisive than the current wording. Nasssa Nser 00:51, 18 April 2024 (UTC) reply
How is "strongly condemns" more divisive than "hates"? Broc ( talk) 18:55, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: Wikipedia is not the venue for this divisiveness, and there is nothing positive that can come from this crude criticism. —Matrix(!) { user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:40, 18 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep Hate is a strong word, so in the state it was nominated in, i'd have to agree! But this userbox is not unfixable! We are wikipedians! We can edit!. I think it would be a good choice to change the wording on this userbox, and change the name of the template. Possibly to something along the lines of "This user is opposed to the policies of the Chinese Communist Party" and the template name to "User oppose CCP"? Samoht27 ( talk) 18:55, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Reword. Most just have a problem with the word "hate". Change it into "strongly condemns" or even "dislikes" would fix it. If you genuinely think all political userboxes violate WP:SOAPBOX, it would be more prudent to start a discussion on the talk page of the policy first. Northern Moonlight 00:11, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Reword: Easy to fix with "rejects", "dislikes", "condemns" or whatever. Cambalachero ( talk) 04:12, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment CCP-related discussions tend to make highly heated Chinese language debates, more so when it's between a Mainlander and a non-Mainlander. Nasssa Nser 11:24, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment to those suggesting a rewording: is it fair to reword userboxes? The user who added it to their user page might not have meant it with the new wording. Broc ( talk) 14:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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April 29, 2024

Draft:Prayeric

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Junk draft copy and pasted from Playboi Carti. Coop ( talk) 06:58, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:SOKE*SHIHAN*CRUZ

User:SOKE*SHIHAN*CRUZ ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – ( View MfD)​

This page consists of crude copy-paste WP:COPIES of several articles (at least Sōke and Martial arts) with some nonsense that looks like an attempt at self-promotion added. Flounder fillet ( talk) 02:55, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Municipal Council

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An attempt at a WP:FAKEARTICLE that seems to be at least partially copied from Toronto and altered to describe a fictional location. User stated intent to use Wikipedia as a web host and create a hoax in the page creation edit: "We are the municipal council of the Raccoon City and we are in here to let the whole world know us through wikipedia." Flounder fillet ( talk) 02:43, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 28, 2024

Talk:Blackpink/GA1

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Delete to make space for a proper GA review. It seems like one of the editors has blanked the page so it's most likely that they also want it to be deleted. Okmrman ( talk) 05:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete as per rationale. — Paper9oll ( 🔔 • 📝) 05:13, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete The Sydney Morning Herald 05:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    user:750h+, your signature is not ok. — SmokeyJoe ( talk) 13:24, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Oh, I’m sorry. I’ve changed it to my normal name, hope that’s better. 750 h+ 15:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: This is talk page history and should never be deleted. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 13:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment It would be relatively trivial to simply overwrite the existing content with a new review without needing to delete anything, and even if that is disfavored for some reason, there is no shortage of space and therefore no need to "make room" for anything as new pages may always be created. Looking at the prefix index these are sometimes deleted and sometimes retained though judging from a cursory review many of the deletions were actually WP:G7s done after the MFD was started. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:49B:2883:34FC:225B ( talk) 13:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: Keep the first review archived, and write a new review at Talk:Blackpink/GA2. The first one was closed with a reason that is not valid, yes, but it's not vandalism either. Cambalachero ( talk) 16:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment: typical practice at GAN is that if a reviewer opens a page without beginning the actual review and then withdraws but can't be bothered to add a G7 (or simply disappears), we will delete the page at G6 because nothing has actually happened. In this case, there was an actual review failure by a second reviewer (if an out-of-process one). BlueMoonset ( talk) 17:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep as 750h+ closed the review, and thus it should not be deleted. It really should have been G6'd before, but whatever. change to delete per CMD's rationale. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 17:56, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    User:AirshipJungleman29 it should not have been G6'd before as that would be an abuse of WP:G6. See for example Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Sarah Cooper/GA1 which rejected that line of reasoning, if a type of page is sometimes retained at XFD discussions then speedy is not appropriate; see also Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:British Rail Class 700/GA1 and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Clique (song)/GA1. If it is believed desirable that these pages be eligible for WP:CSD then a new one should be created following discussion at WT:CSD, but as is these clearly fall under WP:!G6. Unless that happens other solutions such as moving, blanking, or simply requesting G7s from the creator should be used. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:287D:BFB4:5CC3:6570 ( talk) 00:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
      • The reviews you cite were all closed. G6 is for uncontroversial maintenance, of which this is an example, which is why it is explicitly suggested at WP:GAN/I#N4a. It is uncontroversial because of many years of discussions at WT:GAN, and if you look through my CSD log you will find numerous examples of such nominations being accepted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 02:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        User:AirshipJungleman29 that is irrelevant, WikiProjects do not make policy or have any special power over content. WP:CSD is policy, nowhere does WP:G6 authorze the deltion of those pages, and note that the page listed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Sarah Cooper/GA1 had only one author and was not closed as you claim, nor was the second MFD I cited closed when listed at MFD [1]; the fact that certain bad speedy deletions are made does not justify making others, I would know since I have gotten multiple speedies overturned by listing them at DRV. You don't have to take my word for it, go inquire at WT:CSD and people there will tell you the same. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:E171:7509:BE8D:6BD5 ( talk) 04:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        Of course G6 authorises the deletion of that content—what else does "uncontroversial maintenance" mean? If you think it means "only the examples listed below", you may wish to look up the meaning of "including". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 07:19, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        It’s common G6 misuse and is not ok. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 07:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        No, it's precisely what G6 is for. If you want to alter G6 to read "This is for the following situations only:" you are free to propose a change; until then, it will be continued to be used for uncontroversial maintenance. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 08:29, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete The Sydney Morning Herald/750+ went out of process on the third edit by speedying this without a valid CSD rationale, but that is not a reason to keep it around. There are no substantive edits pre-deletion discussion. The only potentially substantive edits since then were to try and remove the page another way and a note this was inappropriate, both by editors who have commented here and have indicated delete or that it should have been deleted. This is not part of the talkpage history, just an autogenerated page. Keeping it just creates a permanent record of mistakes by two newer users for no benefit to anyone. CMD ( talk) 08:02, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Wikipedia:No queerphobes

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It's a political screed coatracking as an essay. People are free to believe what they will as long as they do not act in a manner that is disruptive. The "No (fill in whichever group or set of beliefs you want banned)" essays are getting out of hand. Trying to elevate social conservatives and gender critical beliefs to the same level as Nazism is an abuse of WP:ESSAYS and also of WP:NOTADVOCACY and WP:NOTFORUM. It smacks of an attempt to turn Wikipedia into an ideological echo chamber. We need to draw a line somewhere and this seems like a good place to start. Ad Orientem ( talk) 01:24, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Redirect to Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive - We don't need an essay for every specific form of hate speech. - ZLEA T\ C 01:50, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Redirect to Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive All queer people should feel welcome to edit here. My own brother is queer, but we are both on the same page on this topic. However, this does not mean we have to indef everyone who does not agree with all of the LGBT community's demands. I know I am not. Scorpions1325 ( talk) 02:04, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I'm not sure where you got indef everyone who does not agree with all of the LGBT community's demands. The essay does not imply such an extreme statement, let alone enforce it. – RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ ( 💬 •  📝) 21:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: We already have Wikipedia:No personal attacks. If we start adding "no personal attacks on X group" specific pages, we would be here all day. Cambalachero ( talk) 04:19, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Move to the main author's user space, then redirect the WP title (and the various other WP shortcuts that have already been put in place) to WP:Hate is disruptive. I don't think this would be a problem as a user space essay, reflecting one editor's (or one group of editors') views on the subject. I do not think that it has been through the level of community scrutiny and consensus building that would warrant a WP: namespace title. Girth Summit (blether) 08:41, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    @ Girth Summit what level of community scrutiny/consensus building is necessary? This is my first wikipedia essay so I'm not sure where I'm supposed to head to notify people of it and gain broader consensus lol. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 16:57, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I don't understand what (if anything) is implied by the 'lol' at the end of your question. From WP:ESSAY: Essays may be moved into userspace as user essays (see below), or even deleted, if they are found to be problematic. This discussion will establish whether or not the essay is problematic; I am proposing the first option as an alternative to the second, if that is indeed found to be the case. Girth Summit (blether) 17:08, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Zillenial texting habits sorry - in this case the lol was meant to convey conviviality and gently acknowledge my own confusion. Gotcha, I'd thought I missed something and was supposed to take it to an essay wikiproject or something - I now get from your comment and the essay essay that it's presumed non-problematic until an MFD shows otherwise. Personally, the reason I didn't want to have it as a userspace essay is because I want it to truly be a community essay and gain that level of consensus - I want it to be open for everyone to edit rather than presumed mine. Best, Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 17:33, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    @ Girth Summit: I don't think that essays in the Wikipedia namespace are expected to have any consensus behind them, see Wikipedia:Essays#Wikipedia namespace essays. Anecdotally, deciding whether to put an essay in userspace or projectspace is more a question of intent: do you imagine others editing it and it gaining consensus one day? Or is it purely an expression of your own opinion? –  Joe ( talk) 06:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Worth noting that WP:ESSAYS is itself an essay; meta. I'm not aware of any actual policy or guideline that covers this. ESSAY is rather vague in what it suggests - it does indeed say that anyone can write an essay in project space, but then it goes on to say that they can be moved to userspace or deleted 'if they are found to be problematic', and it specifically recommends MfD as a venue to determine that, so here we are. Girth Summit (blether) 07:11, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Liz makes a similar observation below. I suppose it's another one of those troublesome unwritten rules. But you can also look to the text of {{ Essay}}, which explicitly applies to both namespaces and describes them as the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors or the sheer number of pages in Category:Wikipedia essays, for evidence that the community has historically not seen consensus as a prerequisite for putting something in projectspace.
    We can of course discuss whether there are problematic aspects of this essay that would justify it being moved (and are), I just don't think a lack of "community scrutiny and consensus building" is sufficient reason in itself. –  Joe ( talk) 07:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    The template says what it says, I can't argue with that. I can remember reading, and possibly taking part in, a discussion similar to this in the dim and distant past from which I drew the impression that some degree of wider community scrutiny is desirable in project space essays. Wish I could remember where that was and what it was - if only we knew what we know. Let me put it a slightly different way then: I'm not confident that this essay is going to do anything positive, and I think it risks doing something negative. It's not going to help us to identify and block trolls, vandals or harassers, but I fear that it's going to further alienate a certain sector of our editorship. It's a whack, or perhaps just a gentle tap, from the mallet onto a wedge that is driving people apart. Girth Summit (blether) 08:40, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per Ad Orientem Sweet6970 ( talk) 15:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Delete per Ad Orientem Okmrman ( talk) 16:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep a political screed is an insult without justification. If you don't like the essay, you can suggest improvements, be bold and make them, or write why you don't endorse it.
We currently have 4 other essays in this vein. WP:HATEISDISRUPTIVE is about bigotry in general, yet we also have WP:No racists (which I don't see anybody saying should redirect there), and then we have WP:NONAZIS and WP:No Confederates about specific kinds of racists (and I see nobody clamoring for a redirect there). 3 essays on racism, yet none on queerphobia... Interestingly, WP:NONAZIS was nominated for deletion in 2019 and 2023 for the same vague charges of advocacy and foruming.
Trying to elevate social conservatives and gender critical beliefs to the same level as Nazism where does it do this? NONAZIS was the first essay of this sort written, but we also have WP:No racists. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 16:55, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
A discussion about whether all of these separate pages are worth retaining would probably be worth having. NONAZIS is by far the oldest, and I'd guess is also by far the most well-known and oft-cited. TonyBallioni moved WP:NORACISTS from another user's userspace into project space in 2021 for reasons that he's probably forgotten, but I'd be interested to hear whether he thinks it's still serving any purpose (I suspect it's not). I hadn't seen WP:No Confederates, but it came only slightly after WP:HATEISDISRUPTIVE, which (sensibly, in my view) attempts to discuss the wider theme. It might be the case (I don't have a firm view on this) that all of these independent essays ought to be merged into HATEISDISRUPTIVE; certainly, I tend to feel that we do not need these 'WP:No...' essays to proliferate. Girth Summit (blether) 17:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
I quite like HATEISDISRUPTIVE which is why I cite it in the essay, my only qualm with it is that it leans more philosophical than practical - essays like no queerphobes/confederates/racists/nazis mean the community has some centralized points where we lay out what's inappropriate, the relevant historical context, and related policies and procedures so we can have shared working definitions of what is meant by hate. Personally, I wrote the essay partly due to being sick of years of people consistently writing in discussions (or even wikivoice) that " gender ideology" is real, that trans kids are actually just mentally ill cis kids indoctrinated to think they're trans, or that all trans women who aren't straight are fetishists, or whatever else - mostly without repercussions as long as they stop short of actual slurs (and from my discussions with other queer editors over the years, I'm far from the only one who's sick of it). I think regardless of the merits of merging them all into hate is disruptive (to which I can certainly see benefits), I doubt it'd gain traction with the community. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 17:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment: I have notified the LGBT noticeboard of this move discussion. Pinging those who've discussed/edited the essay: other significant contributors to the essay (@ LokiTheLiar, @ RoxySaunders, and @ Raladic), those who have weighed in on the talk page (@ Sundostund, @ Queen of Hearts, and @ Hob Gadling), and @ NatGertler who weighed in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies#Wikipedia:No Queerphobes. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 17:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    This appears to be coming very close to WP:CANVASSING. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    It's not canvassing to notify people who would be affected by a decision. If this was on the talk page of WP:NOQUEERPHOBES, this would be an obviously appropriate notification. Loki ( talk) 17:34, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Ummm, please do not insult my intelligence. This was calling in the cavalry. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    The only people I notified where those who discussed/edited the essay who didn't comment here. I'd like to note I pinged people who opposed the essay as well. Many I pinged had issues with the essay they noted or boldly fixed rather than go straight to MFD. This is not WP:CANVASSING by any stretch of the imagination. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 17:57, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Now that discussion has reopened, I can note that it looks like YFNS followed WP:APPNOTE in terms of who was contacted; the only variation from that was the use of pinging rather than posting on their user talk pages. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 19:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Nobody is "insulting your intelligence", we're pointing out policy. No comment on keeping yet, as I haven't read the article thoroughly enough for that. That said, and as others have mentioned at length here, there's plenty of precedent for keeping them around, and if you think they're getting out of hand, it's probably better to tackle them all at once rather than singling out the most recent one, the latter of which being almost guaranteed to end in a no consensus close at best. -- Licks-rocks ( talk) 22:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Obvious Keep. No real argument has been made for deletion of this essay. The standards for keeping an essay are extremely low: just that it doesn't contradict widespread wiki consensus. As long as that's not the case, any random editor's opinion can be a mainspace essay. Indeed, this is not even just one editor's opinion, as several editors have endorsed it on its talk page. This is a prime example of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Loki ( talk) 17:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Nomination withdrawn and request procedural close Naked canvassing has likely compromised the discussion irretrievably. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:50, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Ad Orientem, I'd urge you to let the discussion run it's course. I don't see this as improper canvassing - these people were all already discussing the essay on its talk page, it's only fair for them to be notified of this discussion. Non-endorsers were pinged as well as endorsers. As for the Wikiproject, there was an active-ish discussion on the project talk page about it (which is how I first came to know of the essay), so again it's probably within the bounds of acceptable notification. Let's not make this an us and then situation, let's see if we can actually come to a consensus on whether pages like this server any useful purpose, or if they just serve to divide otherwise productive editors who ought to be working towards the same goal. Girth Summit (blether) 18:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Move to Wikipedia:No Queerphobia. The essay, like all things on Wikipedia, is subject to change, and I think there is space here to do the core of what it is to do... or at least as I see its best possible function: to give specific examples of how a queerphobic editor might be editing that goes against what is covered at WP:HATEISDISRUPTIVE. While anti-queer belief is sadly not fringe at this point in time, and while we certainly can't be simply banning edits that support views that do no serve queer-supportive goals, but there are things that editors do that target queer editors and queer topics that have some unique methods and textures. Having a page that specifically points to things like discussing an editor specifically using pronouns that are not their preferred pronouns, or claiming that someone has a COI on LGBTQIA topics simply by identifying themselves with one of those letters, is of use. My support for a move is based on the idea that we should not (and, practically, cannot) say that people who are against gay equality or any such things are not allowed to edit here, just that they cannot be disruptively showing their hate. (Same argument would go for similar essays.) The essay-creating editor has been very open to input. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 18:27, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep - The essay outlines and espands on WP:Hate is disruptive with clearer examples of what kind of hate speech is directed towards the queer community and regularly articles involving LGBTQIA+ topics, which is why we have specific arbritation enforcements such as WP:GENSEX that became neccesary precicely because of the queerphobia that drives many vandals to wikipedia, which are often banned and even regularly requires WP:Revdel. It is also improper to say that informing relevant wikiprojects would be canvassing, as that is regular procedure in any deletion discussion and as was already pointed out above, both endorsers and non-endorsers of the essay were informed. It is also inappropriate to equate queerphobia to be a political opinion and use this as the argument for deletion of the essay. Since the OP also brought up that saying that queerphobia doesn't rise to the same level as WP:No Nazis - Nazis did in fact have queerphobic beliefs and various members of the queer community were perspecuted by them, as outlined in Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and Transgender people in Nazi Germany. But also, using it as an argument of why other essays are more valid, but this one isn't, is just saying that some marginalization is more important than others, which is a fallacy as per the Oppression Olympics. Hate speech, no matter in what form does not have a place on Wikipedia. While editors are free to have their beliefs. If such beliefs run afoul of Wikipedias policies and lead to WP:DISRUPTIVE editing, then having an essay outlining some of the relevant policies that apply to this sub-topic is valuable to the community. Per WP:POLICIES, Essays are the opinion or advice of an editor or group of editors for which widespread consensus has not been established. They do not speak for the entire community and may be created and written without approval. - they are not subject to the same scrutiny as mainspace articles and do not represent all editors views, but as has already been proven by multiple people having endorsed the essay, it clearly does represent the view and consensus of some editors on Wikipedia. One last point I'd like to make is that this essay captures some of the essence of the disruption that LGBTQIA+ topics and editors often experience, which is why we even have a mainspace article on LGBT and Wikipedia as this kind of disruptive editing has even brought large attention of reliable source media on multiple occasions. It is most certainly not just a coatrack, but very much a valuable essay on itself as the topic of LGBTQ coverage and the harassment that users trying to improve its content do have to regularly experience as the article in the NY Times from 2019 has summarized quite well. Raladic ( talk) 19:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete as we already have the tools necessary to deal with DE and PAs; this 'essay' is just an attempt to make a particular issue a more substantial one than it is. It is generally less than useful to equate all things we dislike to Nazism. It is simplistic and disingenuous to claim that because the Nazis took X-view of something that musty mean that others are also Nazis. Nazis also had ideas on many other things, obviously many of them repellent. Tamzin has written a far more effective, overarching treatment of the issue in—the much clearer and comprehensive— WP:Hate is disruptive. As noted, this is merely a WP:COATRACK and a diversion from the simple fact that if editors are abusive we deal with them every day; it is singularly obtuse to suggest that seasoned admins (and patrolling editors for that matter) somehow need have the relevant policies that apply explained to them. ——Serial Number 54129 19:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per SN54129 BilledMammal ( talk) 19:44, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment I just updated the lead and nutshell to not mention NONAZIS as much - I think those saying it equates queerphobes to Nazis are missing the point: that was the first essay against hate, WP:NORACISTS also cites it, NONAZIS itself says in the lead neo-Nazis, neo-fascists, neo-Confederates, white supremacists, white nationalists, identitarians, and others with somewhat-less-than-complimentary views on other races and ethnicities – hereafter referred to collectively as Nazis. This was explicitly addressing a gap NONAZIS doesn't fill because one can be disruptively queerphobic without being a Nazi: we have 3 essays on why racism and openly identifying with racists is bad, one on general reasons we don't tolerate bigotry, and this single essay on queerphobia. I think a deletion discussion about the solitary one on queerphobia instead of all of them is misguided at best as many editors' arguments include dislike of the type of essay as a whole. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 20:18, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep in Wikipedia namespace: from reading the above discussion I'm not sure we have clarity on what an essay is. From Wikipedia:Essays: There are over 2,000 essays ... Essays can be written by anyone and can be long monologues or short theses, serious or humorous. Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints ... Many essays ... are obscure, single-author pieces.
    Wikipedia:Essays (itself an essay!) indicates that essays can be moved to userspace or deleted if problematic, typically because they contradict existing community norms. I do not believe this essay does so. It outlines some information that is uncontroversial (e.g. medical fact or Wikipedia behavioural policies) as well as some opinion by the author about how Wikipedia policies should be enforced and what queerphobia looks like in the context of Wikipedia. None of it violates a core policy such as WP:NPOV. Though I support its contents, I would object to it being upgraded to an explanatory supplement or guideline etc.
    The highly referenced WP:NONAZIS is a contentious essay that some Wikipedians disagree with (for instance, those who believe somebody should only be blocked for actions, not beliefs). It lists views that are widely held e.g. supporting forcible sterilisation of disabled people (which is done on a large scale today) and describes them as beliefs that characterise modern-day Nazism. Nonetheless, it has enormous support and consensus at MfDs have found that its status as a Wikipedia-space essay is appropriate. This is because there has been widespread disruption to Wikipedia caused by neo-Nazis and Nazi-adjacent editors and it is an ongoing problem that requires a high level of knowledge and organisation among the community to combat. A similar analysis applies to "No queerphobes". — Bilorv ( talk) 20:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete/userfy/redirect/do whatever to get this out of projectspace: S# puts it perfectly. This is a coatrack and doesn't help. And for the record, I was "canvassed" to this because I put myself as a non-endorser. Queen of ♡ | speak 21:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep in WP namespace, as it represents the opinions of multiple editors rather than one. – RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ ( 💬 •  📝) 21:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep in Wikipedia namespace per what was said above, mainly by YFNS, Loki, Raladic and Bilorv. They, pretty much, summed up all the most important arguments regarding this essay and its importance, so I wouldn't want to simply repeat their words. I can only add that possible deletion/removal of this essay would be very undesirable and even dangerous, as it could be understood as a "licence" to discriminate LGBT people on the project, and that such behavior is acceptable. I want to make it completely clear: I am absoultely sure that the nominator didn't have such intention when they started this MfD discussion; I am just saying how all of this could be interpreted by some people, if the discussion result in deletion of this essay. In order to avoid such problematic conclusions by certain users, we should make it clear that, as a community, we stand behind this essay and its proclaimed values. The core message of the essay is clear: LGBT people must not be discriminated here, and that is more than enough for it to be kept and endorsed by more users in the future. — Sundostund mppria ( talk / contribs) 21:44, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
The problem is that this page has about fifty "proclaimed values", and maybe five of them have anything to do with actual discrimination against LGBT editors, whereas the rest are just random progressive activist tweets being said in wikivoice. There is a very long list of "groups known for spreading misinformation about and legislatively targeting the LGBT community" -- what in the world does this have to do with editing Wikipedia? There is then the non sequitur claim that these groups "and affiliated groups" should be avoided as sources. Is the idea here that if you have good enough politics opinions, you can bypass WP:RS entirely and just write a polemic essay deciding which sources are bad? This is silly. jp× g 🗯️ 22:11, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
random progressive activist tweets being said in wikivoice - have examples? Is the idea here that if you have good enough politics opinions, you can bypass WP:RS entirely and just write a polemic essay deciding which sources are bad - The list, since deleted, concerned multiple groups people have tried to cite as sources which are known for misinformation. Off the top of my head, here's the last time somebody tried to cite one [2] (who cited the groups dozens of times on other wikis and is a pretty good example of who the essay is talking about). These are groups which reliable sources concur are known for misinformation about the LGBT community, which is not only confirmed by a quick read of their articles but by RSN itself. [3] [4] [5] Which of the deleted ones do you think actually counts as anything close to a WP:RS? Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ ( talk) 22:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Okay, here is one of the "anti-LGBT narrative"s from the essay: That cisgender or heterosexual people are "more oppressed than" or "actually oppressed, unlike" LGBT people. What does this even mean? "Pete Buttigieg is more oppressed than Malala Yousafzai"? "Ellen DeGeneres is more oppressed than Anne Frank"? Is it about aggregates across populations? How can that even be measured? Is this sentence also saying "oppression from war and famine is directly comparable to oppression from homophobia, because this is a single quantity that exists along a single axis, and also the second is worse than the first"? Is the essay saying these sentences are true? Is it saying that they're true and also somebody who disagrees with them should be removed from the project? Ignoring, for the moment, that most LGBT people are either one or the other of those things (e.g. most homosexual people are cisgender) -- the sentence just does not make sense. It's either meant to be read at face value, in which case it's utterly ludicrous, or it's meant to be read as a hashtag-like statement of vibes where the words do not actually mean what the words say, in which case it is a vague activist tweet. I understand that writing stuff that doesn't have a coherent literal meaning for the purpose of signaling political coalitional allegiances is important. However, I am opposed to an essay that goes way out of its way to emphasize "Muslims/Catholics/Presbyterians aren't welcome on Wikipedia unless they recant". jp× g 🗯️ 00:11, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Very curious to know how one goes from "some cishet people wrongly believe they are more oppressed than queer people" to "Ellen DeGeneres is more oppressed than Anne Frank". Isabelle Belato 🏳‍🌈 01:31, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
The claim being referenced is the idea that people are oppressed for being cisgender/heterosexual (moreso than being LGBT), and not about all pairs of individuals. In a similar way, Nazis believe that white people are "more oppressed" than other races because they are "becoming minorities" in their "own country" (by racist "one-drop" rules). If this is unclear perhaps it can be reworded. — Bilorv ( talk) 06:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Funny you should point this out, as precisely that point of groups known for spreading misinformation.. was just a week ago the center of such a focus in light of the Cass Review, there was a discussion of some sources from the UK that contribute to it, directly linked to LGBT topic on the Talk:Cass Review#Don't use sources by The Telegraph and The Times, which has now led to an RFC prep to discuss the limiting of them as RS for transgender topics due to their regular coverage spreading of misinformation. This is not just a theoretical topic, but the lived reality of people trying to uphold Wikipedia's values and trying to improve LGBT content on Wikipedia and the uphill battle that it often represents. As you can see from there, editors are now collaborating to collect the evidence and will subsequently bring it for discussion, following the processes we have in place for such discussions.
The focus of the essay is not just on editors, but also the content of LGBT topics and how editors often have to fight an uphill battle against people trying to spread misinformation in such articles. Raladic ( talk) 22:40, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Well, my lived reality is that I've spent several years participating in a collaborate attempt to write a free encyclopedia -- and I've had many colleagues in this effort, from all walks of life. All of us were able to behave as colleagues, not because we all shared a completely identical set of beliefs about intersectional oppression, but because we agreed to basic standards of civility. It's really not that hard to understand: to be a Wikipedian you have to treat other editors with respect.

There is not a requirement that all editors profess a specific set of factual claims regarding feminist theory, or viral news stories about schoolkids pissing in litter boxes, or any of the things in the long list of things that this essay asserts to be homophobic beliefs which are not welcome here. jp× g 🗯️ 00:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: The idea of having a specific WP:NONAZIS fork for sexuality is already dodgy, and of questionable utility (some people have already mentioned this). But this page, specifically, is a partisan political screed about how we need to purge editors who believe in "narratives" the author does not like. I've gone a hundred thousand edits under my real name without being asked about my sexual orientation, but sources close to JPxG say that all LGBT editors are not spoken for here. We should not have an essay asserting confidently that everyone who argued against its author in a MoS debate should be ejected summarily from the project. This is a collaborative encyclopedia, not a political thunderdome -- I am opposed to any outcome that involves any chance of people reading this and thinking that it represents official Wikipedia doctrine. jp× g 🗯️ 22:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Meh. I don't have any strong objection to this being in project space. We give people a fair amount of latitude on essays. But keep in mind that when it's in project space, people also have greater freedom to edit it, as I did in Special:Diff/1221268945 to remove what strikes me as inappropriate targeting of specific organizations. You might want to consider moving it to your userspace, where you'll have a greater ability to control the content and revert changes you don't agree with. RoySmith (talk) 22:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep and Move Per Radalic, Brilov, and Nat Gertler above. This essay definitely needs some more flesh and has kinks to work out, but it is currently being worked on by a large number of editors, so I'm confident that this will happen, other than that, it is, in my opinion a fairly unremarkable extension to Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive, listing a bunch of common fringe claims about the subject and behaviours of the editors pushing them, none of which are particularly new to Wikipedia in general or AE in particular. -- Licks-rocks ( talk) 23:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I agree with that. In this case I say it should be kept and would be a good addition to the WP:HID page you mentioned. I have to fundamentally disagree with those such as jpxg, Queen of Hearts, and the original nominating statement. Historyday01 ( talk) 23:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. It might be merged to Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive, but it represents a separate well-defined subtopic. I do not see any harm from having this page. My very best wishes ( talk) 00:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment. I would be very leery of any quick decisions on this-especially because we can all acknowledge at a level that there are currently many queerphobes who would like this removed as quickly as possible. User:sock-the-guy ( talk) 05:52, 28 April 2024 (MST)
    Editing from my phone. I implore you look at the talk page of any queer individual's article on here for many examples of homophobic and transphobic editors. To imply that Wikipedia has somehow solved queerphobia is laughable 2600:8800:7180:8D:B9A7:9B74:FF22:45B4 ( talk) 01:53, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Okay, here are some direct yes-no questions:
    1) Do you think that making insulting comments based on someone's sexual orientation is currently permitted by existing policies?
    2) Do you think that the page Wikipedia:No queerphobes is a policy? jp× g 🗯️ 02:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete/userfy/redirect/do whatever to get this out of projectspace per Queen of Hearts. Also agree with JPxG; this essay is of questionable utility. There's the potential to mis-use this essay to subtly attack or intimidate those they're in disagreement with in LGBT-related content or MOS discussions. Some1 ( talk) 00:57, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Keep in namespace largely based on the points of what others have said, especially Bilorv Snokalok ( talk) 03:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. There are loads of essays I disagree with, or that I don't think add anything to the encyclopedia. There are many that are contentious. And the essay itself says This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. right at the top, like all essays in wp-space. So I'm not really sure what the reason for deletion is here. The idea that WP:HATEDISRUPT already covers this topic doesn't make much sense to me as a deletion reason either. Look at how many redundant essays we have on notability! -- asilvering ( talk) 04:25, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. For a start, it's an essay. Editors are free to write these to express an argument about whatever topic they like, as long as it's relevant to editing and doesn't fall afoul of any conduct policies. That really should be the end of the discussion: talk of whether the essay is needed or useful entirely missed the purpose and established use of the project namespace. But for what it's worth I do also think that this is a useful essay that doesn't just duplicate WP:HATESPEECH. It puts the issue in the context of previous discussions and lists specific examples of queerphobic attitudes and behaviours, including things like deadnaming which are unlikely to come up in pages about other forms of bigotry. Those are the kind of things that an editor or admin can easily overlook if, like me, they're not personally very familiar with the struggles faced by queer people. The objection that the essay compares queerphobia to Nazism seems to be entirely based on the fact that it has a similar title to WP:NONAZIS. But with all due respect to Tony for a great essay, I don't think he invented the "No X" formulation. –  Joe ( talk) 05:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment One of the misgivings I see in some comments here is that having this essay in project space somehow represents an "official" Wikipedia stance. When has that ever been a valid assumption? There are thousands of user essays, many of which I think are silly or dumb. If project space is considered official representative of Wikipedia project, well, then I have dozens and dozens of essays I'd like to send to MFD for discussion because they are useless or stupid or joke essays that are just not funny and are juvenile. I find them more embarrassing that this essay. If we are going to have some new purity test for essays, we have to clear out a lot of deadwood. Liz Read! Talk! 06:41, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep per Loki and Raladic. This clearly passes WP:ESSAY and the arguments against mainly appear to be WP:IDONTLIKEIT. As Liz has already explained, essays do live in the Wikipedia: namespace, not userspace and it's pretty disappointing to see people trying to claim that this one is somehow special and should not follow that long-established policy. Equally, it is normal for related WikiProjects to be informed of relevant deletion discussions; posting there and tagging contributors to the page under discussion does not amount to WP:CANVASSING, no matter how much detectors may not like it. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 09:52, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 27, 2024

Draft:Ryan Daou (The Kingpin Of Addis Ababa)

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See also User:Khaled Tarabey/sandbox, which shows that this is the output from a large language model, and is web hosting by an editor who is not otherwise contributing to the encyclopedia. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete No use or purpose to an encyclopedia. In userspace G5 would apply. Its not so doesnt; the closest we get is to deleting after 168 hours. Thanks to the nom for identification. Another classic from The McClenon. Sounds like a single malt that! Mmmm... 🥃 hic. ——Serial Number 54129 21:28, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete Userpages and drafts are not Google Keep. The draft topic seems to be a fictional character that has not been created yet, and so unsuitable for an article regardless of everything else. Cambalachero ( talk) 04:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Hiiijeu373u3j3

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This is the same as Draft:Shaheedallll and is U5, Wikipedia is not for web hosting. No other contributions by author. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:36, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Delete both, seems like an AI-generated story. And please merge both deletion requests, it will make things easier Cambalachero ( talk) 17:18, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan/Pakistani sources

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This page was created by a now blocked sockpuppet who has a history of writing paid BLPs, potentially as an attempt to WP:GAMING. Given this context, this is not a legitimate and does not reflect community consensus. Deleting it would prevent any confusion and ensure that unreliable sources are not mistakenly defended using this page as a reference. — Saqib ( talk | contribs) 17:45, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Keep: He may be the author but not the only editor, and he was not blocked when he started the page. Cambalachero ( talk) 17:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
It's puzzling how a blocked user can create this page. Obviously, they were unblocked at that time. However, whether the user was blocked or unblocked seems irrelevant here. The core issue is having such a page that lacks community consensus and is primarily edited by suspected sockpuppets. This poses a significant risk, as this page could be susceptible to misuse, intentionally or unintentionally, leading to the inclusion of unreliable sources, especially on BLPs, which are highly contentious area. Therefore, it's imperative to consider removing such a page altogether. — Saqib ( talk | contribs) 17:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
You're mixing 2 arguments. Argument 1: That the page was created by a user who was later blocked. Unless the page's creation is the very reason why he was blocked (not the case here), that's not a valid reason for deletion. Second, that unlike the perennial sources pages this one has not been subject to substantial scrutiny. That can easily be dealt with with a disclaimer at the top. I know nothing of Pakistani press or politics, so I don't know if the list is accurate or not, but I can't support deletion based on my own ignorance. If someone with more local knowledge can actually point examples of misuse, then that would be something else. Cambalachero ( talk) 23:52, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Barbara Engler

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An open letter to rep Kevin Hern doesn't belong here. Coop ( talk) 09:01, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Aashutosh gourav

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GPT-generated entry that does not belong on Wikipedia. Coop ( talk) 04:02, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Katie chapplow

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Her life experience can be interesting, but the content of this is not suitable for Wikipedia at all. Coop ( talk) 03:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Bait Comedy

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Not a real topic, as the author mentions. Coop ( talk) 03:01, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Comment - Not sure at this time whether this is a sufficient misuse of draft space to call for deletion. This is not an article draft, but could be worked into a draft that would need declining. Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:02, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: Per WP:NDRAFT. No valid reason to delete. MfD is not for curating bad drafts, and trying to do so is contrary to the purpose of draftspace. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 12:14, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Cecelia Joyce Otis

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Would work well in a blog. Coop ( talk) 02:58, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Alexi Dear

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A personal diary-like entry about WritingDearly written by WritingDearly. Coop ( talk) 02:52, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks

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"This is a literary essay." - according to the creator. Coop ( talk) 02:49, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Cheese

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Why do we need a GPT-generated draft of Cheese? Cooper ( talk) 02:31, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Delete per nom Okmrman ( talk) 05:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
I would assume cheese never had a draft in the first place since it's one of these articles where it's so old that it was made before drafts were standard or something like that. Okmrman ( talk) 16:07, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:The Longest Word In English In One Page

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I don't know if this is true or not, but this does not belong on Wikipedia. Cooper ( talk) 02:26, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete As noted in Longest Word In English, there is a claim that this is a word. It is the systematic chemical name for a protein, although proteins are never known by their systematic chemical names, because that results in monstrosities like this. Of no encyclopedic value, and not needed even inf draft space. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:57, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Ryan Daou (The Kingpin Of Addis Ababa)

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Part of User:Khaled Tarabey/sandbox, GPT-generated fiction. Cooper ( talk) 02:23, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Khaled Tarabey/sandbox

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GPT-generated story. Cooper ( talk) 02:23, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Speedy delete - U5. Nominated for speedy. Flounder fillet ( talk) 02:20, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:ColourBlocks (BBC Kids Show)

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This should be removed as Draft:Colourblocks already exists, and the current topic lacks notability. —  48JCL Talk 12:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC) 00:39, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete: It's a much less ample duplicate of Draft:Colourblocks. Cooper ( talk) 02:25, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Redirect to Draft:Colourblocks. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:44, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    That article, I personally feel like, should probably get deleted. The main source is literally fandom and there are multiple issues. It’s updated like once a month. It’s been under construction for 2 years and nothing good has happened with it. 48JCL Talk 21:10, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Sean Grieve Sr

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Fictional short story? Cooper ( talk) 01:41, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Shaheedallll

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I think someone wrote a short story here... Cooper ( talk) 01:40, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 26, 2024

Draft:Myster Shadow-Sky

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WP:SALT Admins with the relevant privileges will be able to see this car-crash of past deletions. Andy Dingley ( talk) 21:22, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete and Semi-protect - The car-crash of six past deletions, all for G13, can be seen by anyone who knows to view the logs. The name-drops and puffery are not reasons to delete a draft, only to decline or reject it, except that it keeps being recreated by unregistered editors, and then expiring. Semi-create-protecting the title will prevent its recreation by IP editors. If a registered editor creates it again and is a nuisance with it, then it might be necessary to ECP-create-protect it, but for now semi is good enough. Robert McClenon ( talk) 23:51, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply


Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Windows Deployment Image Customization Kit
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: withdrawn by nom. There is a clear consensus to keep this draft. As such, I have closed the discussion as I see no point in keeping a discussion where there is a unanimous "keep". (non-admin closure) thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 01:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Windows Deployment Image Customization Kit

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Reads like an advertisement. Also, sources are not reliable. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 15:36, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Keep: Source 1 has been updated with an article from a fairly reputable site (Microsoft Learn documentation) 1berr1sfueller ( talk) 20:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: not really reasons to delete a draft since it doesn't seem to be exclusively promotional. Seems like a real thing, unlikely to be notable enough for an article, but it seems like at this point the normal WP:G13 process will handle this well enough. Skynxnex ( talk) 16:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: If you didn't touch this draft, it would have been G13 deleted 2 weeks from now. Acceptable enough for draftspace, not overly promotional. Curbon7 ( talk) 17:23, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep - Reliability of sources is not a reason to delete drafts, because it is a reason to decline drafts (so that the author can find better sources). This is not promotional enough to require G11, and drafts are not deleted for tone unless they need speedy deletion as G11. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:30, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
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April 25, 2024

Draft:Itioma no kami

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We're told that this is about "a personal artistic constructed language", and we are warned "DO NOT SUBMIT THE DRAFT FOR REVIEW AT ANY POINT IN TIME FOR ANY REASON."

"Seemingly created solely for the creator's personal amusement" isn't a speedy deletion criterion, so I bring the matter here. Hoary ( talk) 00:39, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Utopes/Requests for adminship/Xaosflux

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Well, it's been a minute since I made this, and I can't say this is a proud accomplishment of mine. Back then, "nominating a well-respected bureaucrat for adminship" was a funnier idea in my head, perhaps, and my young self wasn't sure how to deliver. I don't feel strongly about deleting it entirely, so if people would rather move this to an April Fools subpage that's fine, but I'd prefer this not have to keep this as a user subpage. Utopes ( talk / cont) 03:38, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

(This isn't U1 because not all previous titles were in userspace. In other news, wee 30k :v) As it's probably good to notify, apologies for MfDing this totally real request for adminship @ Xaosflux:... :(. Utopes ( talk / cont) 03:41, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:Copy notation

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Speedy as an A11 was contested (courtesy @ CanonNi and Whpq:), but it's a G5 ( Editer344 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)). Rather than re-tag, bringing here for more eyes. I don't see a path toward article space for this draft. Star Mississippi 02:53, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete as a non-notable topic created as a draft by an editor evading scrutiny using multiple accounts. -- Whpq ( talk) 03:15, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: obviously made up. Could not find any sources mentioning "copy notation" online. '''[[ User:CanonNi]]''' ( talk| contribs) 03:25, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Weak Delete for two reasons out of three:
      • Not an A11 in draft space. Being an unreferenced draft is not a reason for deletion of a draft unless the draft is a BLP, and this is not. Unreferenced drafts should be declined.
      • Maybe a G5. Not a clear-cut G5 because we don't have information to identify when the first block was made. Robert McClenon ( talk) 22:48, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply
      • The work of a an editor who has been reported to WP:ANI for creating stupid draft and articles.
      • A marginal case. Since we are here and the editor is not likely to be reinstated, we can delete this, without prejudice (viz., do not apply salt, pepper, cloves, ginger, or cinnamon). Robert McClenon ( talk) 22:48, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply
        Fine with the substance of your !vote @ Robert McClenon, but this was created on 12 April, the current master was blocked on 18 March so I think we're safely in G5 territory. Now I want cinnamon french toast though! Star Mississippi 00:44, 26 April 2024 (UTC) reply


April 24, 2024

User:This 777

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Unattributed (default edit summary) WP:COPIES of West Garo Hills district. Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:24, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Lextra~enwiki

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Unattributed (no edit summary) WP:COPIES of Labor union. Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:08, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Delete as per nomination. Samoht27 ( talk) 16:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Write2nihal

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Unattributed (default exit summary for page creation) WP:COPIES of Ajax (programming). Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:06, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:BLANKSON200

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Unattributed (edit summary consists solely of the word "ALL") WP:COPIES of PL/SQL. Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:01, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete this ugly thing, which is a copy of an article, that doesn't look like an article, because it was copied from a displayed web page into a wikitext window, and lacks attribution, and is a redundant fork. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:10, 25 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Og skull trooper

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WP:COPIES of Johnstown flood. Flounder fillet ( talk) 13:15, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete another fake article that is a redundant fork of an obsolete version of a real article. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:58, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply
      • The edit summary says: "I did this to prove a person that Wikipedia is not a credible site". Duh. That proves nothing.
      • Doing a full-page copy from a displayed web page into a window, which appears to be how these pages (those nominated on 24 April) were created, is stupid.

Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:58, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:HendersonJimmy

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WP:COPIES of the Beatles. Flounder fillet ( talk) 13:10, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete another fake article which is another redundant fork, and so has obsolete content. There are footnote numbers for the references in the original article, but they are just useless numbers. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:40, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:300680YEET

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WP:COPIES of NASCAR. Flounder fillet ( talk) 13:03, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 22, 2024

User:Skatesista6

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WP:COPIES of Love Flounder fillet ( talk) 23:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete this ugly mess, which is an old redundant fork of an article, and has attribution violations, and no references, and is almost unreadable. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:43, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per above.— Alalch E. 18:36, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Draft:William John Titus Bishop

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This draft, written by a paid editor about a non-notable BLP, has sucked too much community time; it is time for this draft to be deleted. I will also note an article about Bishop has been deleted at AfD and is currently salted at William Bishop (performing artist), William Bishop (Author, Musician), William Bishop (Musician, Author), Draft:William Bishop, and William Bishop (singer).

This has been declined at AfC six(!) times before I rejected it yesterday. Since the rejection, the author has tried to improve the article and asked a plethora of questions at the AFC help desk, resulting a ~35 comment discussion in just over 24 hours. Responding to these questions is consuming volunteer time to satisfy a paid editor (and besides the paid author I have seen zero evidence of anyone finding this to be a notable topic).

At the request of the article creator, I have previously prepared several SATs; I have included an updated one below. As you can see, we have identified one (1) possible SIRS candidate, but we would need multiple for notability. UPDATE: that source is not independent; see comments by Cleo Cooper. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 03:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Source assessment table: prepared by User:HouseBlaster
Source Independent? Reliable? Significant coverage? Count source toward GNG?
https://www.abc.net.au/triplejunearthed/artist/william-john-titus-bishop/ No Does not appear to be independent of Bishop (the website says it has has kicked off the careers of thousands of Australian musicians, which seems awfully promotional. Furthermore, it shares much of the same text with source 2. ~ It has two paragraphs, which is not nothing but certainly not enough to base an article on ✘ No
https://www.chinaimx.com/545/ No Appears to be sourced from https://www.williamjohntitusbishop.com and is essentially close paraphrasing of the above source ~ It has two paragraphs, which is not nothing but certainly not enough to base an article on ✘ No
https://theplayground.co.uk/listen-to-william-john-titus-bishops-latest-i-dont-remember-you-at-all/ Yes No Three sentences about Bishop himself ✘ No
https://www.viberate.com/artist/william-bishop/ No Appears to be independent, but I could be wrong. Giving the benefit of the doubt. Not independent; see this comment from Cleo Cooper ? Not sure if this is reliable? Yes See the "More about William Bishop" section ✘ No
https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/shakespeare-sonnets-alchemy No By Bishop himself No Not much about Bishop as a person ✘ No
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Fdeclanmckenna_tdhc_thumb-439b84365ce19df2b1c95758b0571c37ed67047b.jpg&tbnid=0FubSYJYdNm8kM&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2020%2F09%2F14%2F912004072%2Fdeclan-mckenna-tiny-desk-home-concert&docid=6CzqE-UFeDmeAM&w=1438&h=1078&hl=en-GB&sfr=vfe No A video which features Bishop himself No No coverage of Bishop at all ✘ No
https://ethicalinfluencers.co.uk/william-bishop/ No Not independent of Bishop; also copies the same bio from sources 1 and 2 Yes It has three meaty paragraphs ✘ No
https://intellifluence.com/blog/william-john-titus-bishop-influencer-spotlight No An interview with Bishop is not independent of Bishop Yes ✘ No
https://theopinionpages.com/2022/10/modern-music-collaboration-influencer-marketing-and-independent-labels/ No Written by Bishop himself Yes ✘ No
https://www.cultr.com/news/interview-william-john-titus-bishop-people-can-expect-to-be-moved-by-my-music/ No An interview with Bishop is not independent of Bishop Yes ✘ No
https://www.reverbnation.com/williambishop No It contains the phrase I had always wanted to go into music as a career without realising it, which is written in the first person. Even if we grant that it is a typo (and that is a massive assumption), it still contains insights into Bishop's thoughts (e.g. He didn’t think anything of it at the time). Occam's razor is that it was written by Bishop himself. ? I had a long discussion about this source with the author, Topg1985. To counter the fact that it contains Bishop's thoughts, Topg1985 stated that independant writers do sometimes use ‘poetic licence’ when writing about artists.They may just be imagining that is what Bishop was thinking at the time to embellish the article. If we accept that it is an embellishment (read: made-up BS), the source is not reliable. Yes ✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{ source assess table}}.

House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 20:55, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Notified: Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk#20:42, 21 April 2024 review of submission by Topg1985. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 20:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - The primary and sufficient reason why this draft should be deleted is that the author is tendentiously continuing to work on it after having being explicitly told in the rejection not to resubmit it. A second reason is that the author is also being disruptive at the AFC Help Desk. A third reason is that this is a clear and well-documented case of the gaming of names, the submission of an excessive number of drafts and articles with different titles for the same person, after an article was deleted after deletion discussion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Bishop (performing artist). However, MFD is a content forum, and deleting the draft does not preclude reporting the editor's conduct to a conduct forum. Robert McClenon ( talk) 01:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Ultra-weak keep. There is the weakest, weakest, weakest, weakest hint of notability, from Bored City and CULTR, but these are interviews. But they are recent and new from past AfD. At the moment, this is an absolute waste of time from probably paid editors. By the way, @ House, that Viberate source is not independent, see here. However, in 3 years, can this person be notable? I'll give it a weak maybe. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 02:25, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Just curious, in the case of a delete, would the draft be able to be recreated? Or G4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 02:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

    Thank you for the note about Viberate—I have amended the SAT accordingly.

    Interviews with Bishop are certainly not independent of Bishop, and thus cannot contribute to notability (which requires significant coverage in secondary reliable sources independent of the subject. Per WP:NOTCRYSTAL we should not keep an article because it will be notable in the future. In fact, we have a list of articles which were (correctly!) deleted at one point—in many cases due to lack of notability—only to be (again, correctly!) recreated later once they qualified. One great examples of this include iPhone ( discussion).

    G4 applies if someone recreates the same page with essentially the same content. If someone recreates this page with different content—in particular, with additional sourcing—that would not qualify as G4. Let me know if you have any other questions, House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 03:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

    Thank you for the clarification. I will vote delete. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 05:38, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    In that case, can you please strike out your earlier !vote, just for clarity @ Cleo Cooper – thanks. -- DoubleGrazing ( talk) 05:44, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Done. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 06:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: per nom GrayStorm( Talk| Contributions) 02:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - I think the source analysis table is beig a bit generous assessing theplayground.co.uk and www.viberate.com as independent. Read about The Playground UK and you'll see they are a PR company. And Viberate provides tools for artists. Given the rejection of the draft further wasting of time on it is not a good thing.-- Whpq ( talk) 02:53, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment - The originator has been indeffed by User:Star Mississippi for disruptive editing. Thank you, User:Star Mississippi. If any of you see another draft or article that is substantially identical to this one, or another draft or article with a different variation of the title, please submit a sockpuppet report. Robert McClenon ( talk) 04:59, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    You're welcome @ Robert McClenon. I gave them a fairly strong warning against sock/meat but I got a disingenuous reply so feel free to ping me if further admin action is necessary. I will not weigh in here as to content as I'm obviously Involved. Star Mississippi 12:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete (& salt?) as utterly non-notable subject with very poor referencing (and yes, that Playground/Playee source is not reliable, although was credited as such). The other titles in this title-gaming hullabaloo have already been salted (and that includes also Draft:William Bishop (Musician) and Draft:William Bishop (musician)), so this probably should be also... unless we want to leave it open for a reason? ;) -- DoubleGrazing ( talk) 05:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Is salting even possible? This musician shares a name with many people (see: William Bishop). Cleo Cooper ( talk) 06:16, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    The various forms of the name have all been salted in article space. I think that salting in draft space is undesirable, because it encourages the further gaming of titles. It might be in order to salt William John Titus Bishop. Salting in draft space should be reserved for extreme and unusual situations, and this is not one of them; it is persistent and troublesome, but not extreme and unusual compared to other cases of similar misconduct. Robert McClenon ( talk) 14:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    In my opinion, Draft:William Bishop should be unsalted, because someone might reasonably submit a draft for another different person with that name, and might not know about disambiguation. (New users don't always know about disambiguation.) The reviewer can disambiguate the name in that case. Robert McClenon ( talk) 14:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    That is a good idea. Cleo Cooper ( talk) 17:15, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: Per nom and comments above. Subject is clearly non-notable with very poor referencing (including one source that uses Google?), and draft has been rejected by an unprecedented seven (!) times. HarukaAmaranth 春 香 14:11, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment to User:HarukaAmaranth - It wasn't rejected seven times. It was declined seven times and rejected once. Seven declines are not unprecedented, only excessive. I have seen nine declines. That isn't much of a difference. Occasionally the resubmitting editor is making a bona fide effort to submit a draft about someone whom they think is notable. In this case they may have only been making an effort to get paid for getting the article in place. It wasn't unprecedented, only excessive. Robert McClenon ( talk) 15:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete and salt See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Armaghan Muawiyah. –  Muboshgu ( talk) 17:59, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete - but do not salt. The sources are trash, the merc doesn't listen to anyone (as mercenary editors are wont to do), and salting this would just lead to yet another draft under yet another name that we ultimately have to ferret out. Much better to leave it unprotected so that it's easier to track him. — Jéské Couriano v^_^v AE thread summaries 18:09, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete (no opinion on salting). This article was created by a  Confirmed sock ( Topg1985) of globally locked Armaghan Muawiyah and could therefore be speedily deleted under WP:G5. -- Yamla ( talk) 20:34, 27 April 2024 (UTC) reply

April 21, 2024

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:ElChinoAntrax
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. Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 05:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:ElChinoAntrax

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Incomplete unattributed copy of José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa. Flounder fillet ( talk) 21:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Note: user has been warned for COI. Neutral. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 02:21, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply
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Old business


April 11, 2024

Template:User hate CCP

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WP:UBCR and WP:POLEMIC. Divisive userbox. Broc ( talk) 08:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC) reply

  • Delete. The word 'hate' should not appear in userboxes.— Alalch E. 09:08, 11 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I lean to supporting this, but not without limit. A userbox might mention hate without expressing or advocating hate.
    There are several transcluders. The transcluders should be advised of this discussion. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 00:38, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Courtesy ping to the transcluders of this userbox: SunDawn Moreno Ardan1 EnverTheHero Magnatyrannus Partyfrittata R09a21045 TeddyRoosevelt1912 Carlinal Michigander901 PoisonHK Delta2571 -- Broc ( talk) 07:16, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Thanks SmokeyJoe ( talk) 11:11, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Broc, SmokeyJoe, specifically pinging people who are likely to !vote in a certain way is WP:VOTESTACKING. Thebiguglyalien ( talk) 21:16, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    No, it is not. The proposal is to alter these people’s userpages, altering their self-introductions, with an allegation that they are doing something wrong. There are therefore key stakeholders. Their contribution here is not to vote, but to explain, or defend. If the userbox is deleted, they may be accused of disruption if they put a similar back. This outcome is an obvious failing of natural justice. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 04:27, 16 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    I’ve not found the input of any of the transcluders to be persuasive. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 08:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    If like to ask them, what is it about the CCP that they hate. Then, I’m sure it can be improved by an edit. SmokeyJoe ( talk) 11:12, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep - Hate of a political class of tyrants should not be equated with a group of individuals. Robert McClenon ( talk) 02:44, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    How is a party which counts 98 million members not "a group of individuals"? Broc ( talk) 07:13, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep. Dislike towards an organization (that has done "things") is different than hating millions of Chinese. I didn't think the word "hate" should immediately be construed as divisive. I didn't think "hating" the Nazi Party or ISIS is violating WP:UBCR. ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 11:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
    Ok, now read the userbox as "This user hates the US Republican Party". Do you still consider it non-divisive? If the template said "oppose" I would have no problem with it, but hate is a different thing. Broc ( talk) 12:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep: My usage of the anti-CCP infobox isn't of any malice towards Chinese culture or society at all, but as a protest against the party's omnipresent dominance and human rights violations that led to a moral decline within the country's political state, if not with China altogether. This includes but is not limited to Mao Zedong's cult of personality (similar with Joseph Stalin's), several massacres ( Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and Red August, the Tiananmen massacre and suppression of its discussion and the related), declining human and Internet rights, and other forms of crimes against humanity. That's what I hate about the party and its impact; I believe other users with the infobox aren't drastically different in motive. The party's slogan is " Serve the People", but it only serves itself, of a code not revealed to anyone with any sympathy. I wouldn't be anti-communist in the first place if all of this never happened. My use of this infobox is not light, and it speaks out for the preservation of common sense and human dignity. Carlinal ( talk) 13:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Wording Change: I am a Hong Konger, and this template sums up a large part about my childhood in the city, so I'm definitely against deleting the template entirely (please see Hong Kong-Mainland China conflict). I personally have no problem using the word "hate" towards a political organization that has no respect for human rights whatsoever, but I can understand why some would feel problematic about this. So, I would be fine if the template is re-worded to take out the word "hate" but keep much of the meaning, something along the lines of: "This user strongly condemns the CCP (for its gross violations of human rights)". TeddyRoosevelt1912 ( talk) 14:15, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply
Strong oppose for being more divisive than the current wording. Nasssa Nser 00:51, 18 April 2024 (UTC) reply
How is "strongly condemns" more divisive than "hates"? Broc ( talk) 18:55, 21 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Delete: Wikipedia is not the venue for this divisiveness, and there is nothing positive that can come from this crude criticism. —Matrix(!) { user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:40, 18 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Keep Hate is a strong word, so in the state it was nominated in, i'd have to agree! But this userbox is not unfixable! We are wikipedians! We can edit!. I think it would be a good choice to change the wording on this userbox, and change the name of the template. Possibly to something along the lines of "This user is opposed to the policies of the Chinese Communist Party" and the template name to "User oppose CCP"? Samoht27 ( talk) 18:55, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Reword. Most just have a problem with the word "hate". Change it into "strongly condemns" or even "dislikes" would fix it. If you genuinely think all political userboxes violate WP:SOAPBOX, it would be more prudent to start a discussion on the talk page of the policy first. Northern Moonlight 00:11, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Reword: Easy to fix with "rejects", "dislikes", "condemns" or whatever. Cambalachero ( talk) 04:12, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment CCP-related discussions tend to make highly heated Chinese language debates, more so when it's between a Mainlander and a non-Mainlander. Nasssa Nser 11:24, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment to those suggesting a rewording: is it fair to reword userboxes? The user who added it to their user page might not have meant it with the new wording. Broc ( talk) 14:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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