User:Amire80/Deletion

These are the deletion processes that i started. I don't do it for fun. If you can convince me that i am wrong in any of these cases, please do it. Be bold - a deleted article can always be re-created.

General thoughts about deletion

Deletion policies in the English Wikipedia are just right and Wikipedias in all other languages should adopt them. Notability counts; Verifiability counts; majority vote doesn't count.

Some people say that deleting non-notable articles is wrong, because Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia. This is a misunderstanding of the word "free" in this context - what makes Wikipedia free is the freedom to redistribute and modify its contents. The freedom of Wikipedia is not the freedom to write anything you want.

An encylopedia is not supposed to be a democracy and a "democratic" vote is not the right way to decide about deletion or any other encyclopedic matter. Some Wikipedias have elaborate rules about voting, while instead they should all adopt the very sensible English Wikipedia policy: Deletion discussion is not a vote.

Deletion discussions (AfD)

In progress

None at the moment.

Speedily deleted

• The Guyver Project - Nominated for AfD, speedied. Their music is not bad, actually :(
• Ben Avraham Nhamani - this guy cited a personal website written in Lorem ipsum as the only source. Speedily deleted after existing for 5 days.

Deleted

• New Kypchak language, Kypchakia
• Obadiah Shoher
• Faust manifesto, Vladislav Boskonovitch Karimov
• The Belorussian Culture (redirected), Anna Lopatieva
• National Bolshevik Party of Israel - It is not a party, and as far as i know, it doesn't exist. Someone proposed speedy; it was converted to PROD; someone wanted to discuss, so converted to AfD. Oh, the bureaucracy.
• Ill Bethisad - Yet another conlang-based online community.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shmuel Yerushalmi (2nd nomination) - Non-notable Israeli communist poet. Nice, he wrote poems about Gagarin and the Great October in Hebrew. IW:
  • ar:شموئيل يروشلمي
  • bg:Шмуел Ерушалми
  • cs:Šmuel Jerušalmi
  • da:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • de:Shmuel Jerusalmi
  • es:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • fr:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • it:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • la:Samuel Yerushalmi
  • nl:Sjemoe'el Jeroesjalmie
  • no:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • pl:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • pt:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • ru:Ерушалми, Шмуэль
  • simple:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • sv:Shmuel Yerushalmi
  • uk:Ерушалмі Шмуєль

The Sudoku friends

• Avriri - Let me just say, that this article embodies all the reasons why i shall never, ever, willingly live in Tel Aviv.
• Alon Kastiel - Wikipedia is not a real-estate or gossip supplement.

Non-notable constructed languages and scripts

• İQTElif, Deletion review - It was really sad to nominate it, because it looks like the guy who created it did a thorough job and that he is also a contributor to Free Software. He tried to recreate it too, and it was speedied; the he tried to recreate it again and it was speedied and protected. Oh, the mess. For more info see User talk:Amire80/İQTElif.
• IPA2 - This story is sadly similar to the İQTElif story.

Slovio and Mark Hucko

• Slovio (2nd nomination), Mark Hucko (2nd nomination), Deletion review - Deleted after a long, but thoughtful and interesting discussion. I am slowly working on deleting it from Wikipedias in other languages. An anonymous user called it "a crusade", but i am really just upholding the sensible policies of Notability and Verifiability.
  • bs:Slovio - Speedily deleted. Too easy...
  • bg:Словио
  • ca:Slovio deleted
  • cs:Slovio
  • da:Slovio - deleted
  • de:Slovio - Was nominated before. User Tilman Berger provided some rationale for keeping, but no tangible proof of notability.
  • es:Slovio - Nominated, kept. 9 votes for deletion, 5 against and according to their rules, a majority of 75% is needed. es.wiki is a heaven for inclusionists!
  • cv:Словио
  • eo:Slovio
  • fr:Slovio - Nominated, kept after very little discussion.
  • ko:슬로비오 - Nominated.
  • hsb:Slovio
  • hr:Slovio - Nominated, kept.
  • ia:Slovio
  • it:Slovio - deleted
  • csb:Slovio
  • hu:Slovio nyelv
  • mk:Словио
  • nl:Slovio
  • ja:スロヴィオ - Deleted.
  • no:Slovio - Deleted after a pretty long discussion.
  • pl:Slovio
  • pt:Slovio
  • ru:Словио - Nominated, kept because of interwikis.
  • sk:Slovio - Asked the ambassador. He wasn't enthusiastic, 'cause Hucko is a Slovak.
  • sl:Slovio
  • sh:Slovio
  • sr:Словио - Nominated, kept.
  • fi:Slovio - Nominated, kept. An impressive vote turnout and a lot of comments that i can't understand. Is the English Wiki the only sane place where deletion discussion is not a vote?..
  • sv:Slovio
  • uk:Словіо
  • cs:Mark Hucko
  • eo:Mark Hucko
  • hr:Mark Hucko
  • pl:Marek Hucko
  • ru:Гучко, Марк - Nominated, kept "because Slovio was kept".
  • sk:Mark Hucko
  • sl:Mark Hucko

For more on this, see this post in a Polish blog; at the bottom there's a very long comment that i wrote in English: Brzydkie slovio i chińszczyzna.

Redirected

• The Belorussian Culture
• Germanic IAL

Kept

• Babm - I nominated it, and some people claimed that it is notable. Their proof wasn't strong, but neither was mine.
• Stoozing - Kept. My bad. I assumed that it's bollocks too quickly.
• Lingua Franca Nova - No consensus. Hmmm. It's really very nice, but all sources are self-published.
• Penis game - Very interesting: In 2004 it survived a very funny VfD with a lot of "keep" votes, and in 2008 it was immediately slammed with a lot of "delete" votes. I wonder why. It was kept, 'cuz some sources were found. I didn't grow in English-speaking environment, so i can't say whether this is real or not; if English speakers think that this thing is more than a joke, then so be it...
• Yuki Asuka - She's not a pornstar, she's an AV idol. It was worth it to run into this article only to learn this term.

Withdrawn

• Alphabet 26 - A proposal to unify capital and small letters, that few people cared about. Tried to prod, but it was contested based on Google result count. Apparently, the word alphabet is quite likely to appear near the number 26, guess why.
• Lycée Carnot - Converted from PROD. Apparently, there's a pretty big article about it in French and that bum Chirac studied there.

PROD

These are proposed deletions - not bad enough for speedy, and not interesting enough for discussion.

In progress

None at the moment.

Deleted

If you see that any of those links is not red, someone may have recreated the article. Maybe i was wrong and it actually became a worthy article.

• Block Script - Artificial script from Omniglot.
• Ido Gideon - more Sudoku cruft.
• Israelis on Syrian soil - yet more Sudoku cruft.

Kept or redirected

• Alphabet 26 - My mistake. I missed the fact that the designer of this thing is notable. Converted to merge proposal.
• .bzh - A nice idea, which can become as a good as .cat one day, but currently it is barely a proposal. (ca:.bzh, hu:.bzh, no:.bzh). Eventually merged to Proposed top-level domain. Personally, i really hope that it becomes reality one day.
• Pyrrhocoroidea - Expanded.

Closed AFD as admin

Delete

• Elite Tower - That's the one in Dubai, not Ramat-Gan.
• Pardus Company

Keep

• Fire troop - an interesting lesson in spelling
• Progressive Dane

Speedily deleted myself

These are some notable cases in which i speedily deleted an article myself on sight.

• .sla - If it was a real proposal, like .bzh, then i would PROD it, but this one is not even a proposal. See User talk:dotSLA for more information.