Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Witch trials

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

The result of the debate was delete. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 00:10, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Witch trials

This is a POV fork of Witch trial. Applicable policies are WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:OWN, and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#not a soapbox. I have tried to engage the editor who created this article in constructive dialogue. This person has characterized various Wikipedians' attempts to bring the page in accordance with Wikipedia policies as "censorship" and insists, among other things, that a highly POV discussion of Abu Ghraib prison is relevant to witch trials. The article creator removed the merge flag I had posted and replaced it with an informal poll on the talk page about whether to delete the article, so I'm nominating it here according to standard procedure. Durova 20:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

• Kill with fire; horrible mess of snippets of material from witch trial lumped together with abundant original research (if it can be termed that; what do nuclear weapons have to do with witch trials?) Seems created to promote a particular POV vis the Abu Ghraib scandal. —Kirill Lokshin 20:53, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Redirect to Witch trial . — Adrian Lamo ·· 20:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete history and redirect. Just zis Guy you know? 22:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete history and redirect. I wasn't sure what to do when I made this nomination, but I like Just Zis Guy's solution. Durova 00:09, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and recreate as redirect per above. -- Saberwyn 00:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect per above. The author removed the AfD tag just now, I put it back. Grandmasterka 00:47, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Comment Article creator has removed the AfD tag three times now, most recently with an edit comment that User:Grandmasterka and I aren't objective because of our Russian usernames. Durova 01:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

(Loud, cynical laugh!) Grandmasterka 03:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Heh. —Kirill Lokshin 03:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• Merge with Witch trial, salvaging what is useful, then redirect.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 01:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; NPOV, NOR, V, soapbox, spurious censorship claims. Witch trial deals with the topic in a neutral fashion. - CNichols 03:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy redirect Nothing worth salvaging here. Fan1967 04:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect; the length of the article hurts my brain, and I haven't read it, but if the above reasons were incorrect, I'm sure the author would have responded to them. Failing that... Melchoir 06:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
  • The author has to this point remained willfully ignorant of this discussion. Oh well, his loss... Grandmasterka 06:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
    • He got an invitation to join this discussion, but he blanked out his userpage and user talk instead. Durova 15:33, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, salvage whatever can be Judgesurreal777 23:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep A much more comprehensive article than Witch trial. If any merging is to be done, it ought to be to this article. I really wonder whether people are actually reading before they vote. BTW, the author's unwillingness to engage in debate is not a measure of the validity of the information presented in the article. Denni ☯ 01:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately the highly POV and unreferenced nature of this article leave all information suspect. It's also on another website (a link is at Village Pump), so copyright status is questionable. Durova 04:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete in its current form. Some content may be merged with Witch trial. Scoo 15:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete the current version as a poor POV fork, then recreate and possibly protect as a redirect to Witch trial. Stifle 11:33, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

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