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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:29, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A Day In The Park

Non-notable short film. Note: Director of film is also up for AfD above. Delete --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 01:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom StarryEyes 03:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Just zis Guy, you know? 14:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non notable, budget is $20?! --Reflex Reaction 18:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable.--Newyorktimescrossword 23:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable ($20 budget...)--68.192.78.133 01:19, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• del. does not meet wp:v. encephalon 10:24, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Abbott, Edith & Grace

This page is adequately covered under each of the two sisters' own articles. Therefore, we do not need a joint article. Ian Cairns 00:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. No opinion. —Cryptic (talk) 08:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete — agree with nom., but I would request that the two images get transferred to the corresponding pages (they aren't at present). Thanks. :) — RJH 16:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, images moved. -feydey 23:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Keep --JAranda | watz sup 00:58, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] African cherry orange

There is hardly any information on this webpage, and it should be deleted. Jakewater 00:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep real fruit. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all known botanical species (and create redirects for alternative names and species synonym if it's kept). Being a stub has never been a reason for deletion, and there is a tremendous amount of information in the taxobox alone. — mendel ☎ 02:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. DS 03:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but where will it end? Will we have South American raspberry kumquat next? Kappa 04:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Wait until you see my Midwestern Puppymelon. Oh, they laughed at me at the Botanical Society, but I'll show them. I'll show them all! - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 12:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • We have vampire watermelon, I'm really not sure it can get any sillier. Keep this, by the way. — Haeleth Talk 15:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep since it is used by humans and some information is available. There are too many species on Earth to include them all, though. -- Kjkolb 05:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, real botanical species. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep fruit (unless they're the products of mad science, of course). - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 12:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as WP:V fruit... and what is wrong with mad science? Mmmm, Frankenfruit.--Isotope23 16:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep. No argument for deletion. - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep needs a picture!--Newyorktimescrossword 23:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Mendel. Denni☯ 02:17, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep no valid justification for deletion. chowells 21:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Juicy. Klonimus 05:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:26, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alpha Justa Giver

Frasority with 130 members, established in 2004. 4 original Google results. -- Kjkolb 08:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete nn. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 11:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as nn. MCB 23:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. TheMadBaron 21:10, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Aren't university students cute when they think that every little thing they get up to, right down to frosh week bar brawls, deserves a Wikipedia article? Disabuse them of their delusions and delete. Bearcat 08:41, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:25, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Andy Stubbings

Vanity article. r3m0t ^talk 14:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Not just a vanity article, a boring one. Blech. No relevant Google hits that I can see. If there's something more about this person they'd better own up to it! Devotchka 14:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete (and restored AFD tag) - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Also removed questionable comments re unsecured webcam etc. and stubbed - nobody's gogin to expand it if it's not flagged, I guess. I still don't think the guy is in any way notable, though, and this article seems to have been put up solely to take the piss. - Just zis Guy, you know? 16:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Can't expect too much from a fresh article, give it a couple of weeks. Googling for ' "Andrew Stubbings" Itron ' brings up 42 results, including several from Electronics Weekly, not to mention the frequency of posts on him in 4Chan. On a side note, sorry about this new user nick - Forgot my old one - Not exactly a frequent user. --FiggisFiddis 16:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong delete, nearly a speedy delete, iMO. No encyclopedic content, no notability, and no hint of any likely. DES ^(talk) 16:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non notable vanity article --Reflex Reaction 19:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC) goodbye Mr. Stubbings.
• Delete. Produced one more low-profile VFD. AndyJones 22:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nn-bio of director of nn company. MCB 23:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nn-bio. feydey 23:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete; it was created because he has a cult following here and there. --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 10:25, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was redirect to Anime. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 03:30, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Animay

No claims to this being an important website. Also, the link provided did not work for me. Delete. —Gaff ^ταλκ 02:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• there wasn't originally a link to the site, as wikipedia states that it does not want direct links to the outside business (not that animay is a business). Anyway, that has been fixed and it is now an outside link.209.129.16.5 03:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• I find, that while it is a short article, and it is about a random site, that it is useful...that's my opinion. --gate_hakker 03:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Fails WP:WEB: Alexa rank 380,570, 497-member forum, and no assertion of national media attention. However, this is a very plausible misspelling of anime for someone who's heard the word but not seen it spelled. Redirect. —Cryptic (talk) 08:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to anime. -- Kjkolb 12:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• That's what I was thinking, too. Redirect it to anime since some people might think that's how it's spelled. --Optichan 21:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 02:21, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. By counting the raw votes, the consensus seems to be "keep", but User:Mikkalai has responded to pretty much every keep vote, claiming that although the Nazis did have anti-Slavic sentiment, "anti-Slavism" as a term by itself is not very notable. Therefore I'm taking his comments as counter-votes to the keep votes. — JIP | Talk 19:36, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-Slavism

• del nonnotable term. I have no doubts that this sentiments exised and exists, but you may well sandwich virtually any notion between "anti-" and "-ism" and obtain something sensible. But this in no way warrants a separate article for, say anti-Egyptism, while I am pretty sure there were anti-Egyptian sentiments when Egypt, e.g., tried to normalize relations with Israel. As a touchstone, google gives less than 130 unique hits, excluding wikipedia & copycats. mikka (t) 23:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Anti-Slavism was very evident during WW2, when the Nazis invaded slavic countries. Our Phellap 23:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • So what? Reputable references about the notable usage of the term, please. It was plain racial superiority racism, not "anti-". Slavic slaves were more than welcome. We don't use the term "anti-peasantism" or something in reference to landlords to describe an attitude of someone who declares himself superior. mikka (t) 00:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment We have the article Anti-Polonism. Would this be a merge candidate? Or are the phenomena sufficiently disctinct that it doesn't make sense to talk about them together? --Tabor 00:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep, seems like a notable term. — JIP | Talk 05:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Google says not. See my above reference to search that excludes wikipedia and copycats. If you have notable references from, e.g., books, you are welcome to proveide them. mikka (t) 17:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - The Nazis believed that Slavs were a much inferior race, and that gave them the right for a new Drang nach Osten--MacRusgail 20:28, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • But is was not called anti-Slavism mikka (t) 04:50, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Keep (8k, 1d). --Scimitar ^parley 16:15, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Apollonius the Sophist

NN fan/scholarcruft D Pwqn 19:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Huh? You created this article off of 1911 encyclopedia, and then say its "Scholarcruft"? --MacRusgail 20:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• I have the same question as MacRusgail. You created this article from the 1911 Britannica. Why are you nominating it for deletion? please explain.--Alhutch 20:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Of course I can't speak for 1911EB editors, but '"Apollonius the Sophist" 'gets only a few Google hits. The only people who will ever care about this guy are Greek scholars who do not need a Wikipedia article. Pwqn 20:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia has entries of even more historically "obscure" people... - Skysmith 08:45, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Obvious keep. If it was good enough for the EB in 1911, it is good enough for Wikipedia today. Google is an aid for pop culture and contemporary stuff, but should not ultimately determine notability in other cases. Uppland 21:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - if there are only a few Google hits, it's all the more important to keep this article.—Preceding unsigned comment added by BeteNoir (talk • contribs) UTC21:50, 26 October 2005
• Keep of course. Pity he didn´t blog ;-) Ejrrjs | What? 23:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I've made a few additions. Here (in Spanish) Apollonius is quoted on the etymology of nectar (page 153). Ejrrjs | What? 00:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. A prime example of how not everything that is significant shows up on Google. -- Captain Disdain 00:04, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep because I didn't vote before and per Uppland's reasoning.--Alhutch 00:23, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - There is even a project to include all 1911EB acticles - Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopedia topics - Skysmith 08:45, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• He has an entry in L'Emprière's. The WP:BIO criteria are satisfied. Keep. Uncle G 11:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - anyone remembered hundreds of years after their death must be reasonably notable. Agree with 1911 comments. Apollonius' name will probably still be known (vaguely somewhere) when Pokemon has died a death. --MacRusgail 16:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:24, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Asset excellence

Unencyclopeidc essay, delete.--nixie 04:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete essay. Gazpacho 04:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Essay style ramblings by user User:Chinmoy.  freshgavin TALK   05:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete original research - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete original research at best. TECannon 15:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete sounds like something from the corporate jargon file. chowells 22:16, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:24, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barrelanza

Fiction. Alleged Australian semi-religious festival held just prior to Christmas. Zero search engine hits. -- RHaworth 00:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep important to those who participate in it. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete...not a single google hit, borderline patent nonsense. StarryEyes 01:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. As an Australian, I have never heard of it nor does Google show any evidence of its existence. Furthermore the article is nonsensical. I quote "Barrelanza n, baral-anza: A semi-religious festival held just prior to Christmas where those with big mouths repay bets lost during the year by providing beer to adoring friends. Barrelanza has it’s heritage dating back almost 2000 years when St Peter bet Jesus some loaves of bread and fish (and a goblet of Nazareth Draught) that he could not rise from the dead. Down and out on the Friday, St Peter looked home and hosed until Jesus’ superb turn-around on the Sunday. It cost St Peter, Barrelanza was born and the rest is history." Capitalistroadster 02:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Transparent hoax. —Cryptic (talk) 02:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nonsense.--nixie 02:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete agree that it is a hoax --User:AYArktos | Talk 02:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete No google, bogus
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. . Capitalistroadster 02:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nonsense, but funny -- Ian ≡ talk 03:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as hoax. --Metropolitan90 03:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete -- Cute. seems a candidate for a different wiki, perhaps? pfctdayelise 04:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete SOunds interesting but not verifiable and per above.--Newyorktimescrossword 05:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete hoax, or at best a drinking game a few lads came up with one night at the pub. Dxco 10:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unverfiable hoax. If Romans and French (during the revolution) were involved this would have Google hits. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete with thanks to Purplefeltangel for providing such a reliable litmus test for non-verifiable nonsense :-) - Just zis Guy, you know? 14:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Uncyclopedia. This is definitely more their speed than ours. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 18:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Uncyclopedia is CC-BY-NC-SA. Alphax ^τεχ 01:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • You learn something new every day. Then transwiki this to /dev/null. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 01:58, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not verifiable... hoax, no? Janet13 20:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: nonesense and blasphemous. --TantalumTelluride 20:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Couldn't an admin speedy delete this as patent nonsense? Snottygobble | Talk 00:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Unfortunately, no. To qualify as utter nonsense, it has to be less than a complete sentance, or complete gibberish. Bullshit does not qualify as utter nonsense, so we have to delete normally. Saberwyn 01:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, utter nonsense and original research. Alphax ^τεχ 01:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Nonsense. Some really bored person messing around in Wikipedia. Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 01:39, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Keep 20K 4D --JAranda | watz sup 01:17, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bayonne High School

NN, not encyclopedic cohesion | talk 02:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Wow, well, I came back to look at this a couple days later, sorry for posting this, I wasn't, at the time, aware that school article's notability was so drastically different from other articles. When this was nominated it was a very small and seemingly non-notable stub. I know now that school articles are seen differently and are somewhat controversial. The idea that I am AFD spamming is a little extreme, I think this is the only school article I have ever submitted, certainly the only one in months. For the people that assumed I was doing this malevolently, I can only assure you that I wasn't. cohesion★talk 07:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

In defense of those who have reacted strongly against your nomination, it can be difficult to keep track (at a glance) of whether a school on AfD is the result of a multi-nominator or not. Many WP policies and guidelines are so frequently ignored by many people on both sides of this debate and the constant level of acrimony was probably not directed at you specifically. Your nomination also happened to be sandwiched in with some nominations by User:ComCat, who is a habitual nominator of schools to AFD - likely sparking the confusion.--Nicodemus75 08:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Ahh, that explains a lot. Still, I would like to think this is a forum for getting consensus regarding whether or not an article should stay in wikipedia rather than an article death sentence. I don't always know how people will react when things are nominated, but at the same time I am willing to accept whatever the consensus is. I like, and will retain that view rather than the more cynical view that everything here has nominators that are fighting tooth and nail to have their article deleted. - cohesion★talk 08:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Your idealism is admirable, unfortunately a number of "those who routinely nominate and/or vote to delete school articles" on the basis of the article being either a stub or "non-notable" have expressed the position that they engage in this process to "keep others honest" and "to see a victory of even one crappy school article deleted".--Nicodemus75 23:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Isn't that a compelling reason not to attack people for doing things in good faith? - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 00:03, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, move to Bayonne High School, and completely re-write. As pathetic as the article is, it is a real school. StarryEyes 02:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. Kappa 03:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete fiddlefaddle. Gazpacho 03:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. --Vsion 04:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. --rob 04:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as above. Please, please, please, stop AFD SPAMMING. Trollderella 05:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm sorry to have bothered you with this nomination, but I don't really nominate many articles, certainly not to the point of anyone calling it spamming. cohesion★talk 08:12, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • It wasn't a very encyclopedic article when nominated. Kappa 05:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • That isn't actually a reason to list it for deletion. Trollderella 05:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Speedy deletes for one-line stubs would actually be good, if there are clear rules for them. This AFD is just overkill, and a waste of resources. There's now a new good article, and the continuation of this AFD is a waste. --rob 06:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
        • Better yet would be speedy improvement of one line stubs. I am constantly astonished at the effort that goes into deleting articles that could easily be improved. Trollderella 06:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
          • Visit Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/New and you'll see some speedied "empty" or "nonsense" articles (as red-links). In each case, the article title, and delete edit summary (containing the micro-contents of the article), give you as much to create an article as you would if it hadn't been deleted. Nothing was lost, and nothing is stopping you, me, or anybody from making a good school article out of the information. This shows a speedy in these cases doesn't really mean a loss of anything. --rob 06:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
            • That page was extremely interesting, I didn't know school articles were being created quite that fast. Clearly the Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Delete position is a no-hoper against such remarkable growth. Christopher Parham (talk) 21:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment how does nominating one high school for deletion constitute AfD spamming? I don't agree with the nomination, but calling it "spamming" is a bit extreme.--Isotope23 14:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Sorry - what's the right word for repeatedly posting similar things that produce no result except annoyance? Trollderella 15:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Are you saying I am doing this, or am I just the scapegoat here? If you're going to publicly accuse me of something please have some facts to back it up. This is the only school article I have nominated in recent memory. The reason I do nominate things is to get consensus opinion, not to get yelled at. I won't let this get me down though and will continue to try and work on wikipedia :) - cohesion★talk 08:12, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
      • By the same user I would agree with you (and there are certainly users who do this), but I don't see any concerted effort by the nominator to repeatedly nominate schools for deletion, so assuming good faith this is not a "spam" nomination as A Man In Black put it below. No reason to attack the nominators intentions unless they have established a pattern of bad faith nominations.--Isotope23 17:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • From the Spam (electronic) article: "the term "spam" can refer to any commercially oriented, unsolicited bulk mailing perceived as being excessive and undesired." These repetitious solicitations for deletion may not be of a commercial nature, but other than that, SPAM seems to be a fairly accurate way to describe these persistent disruptions. Silensor 16:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
      • How about "good-faith nomination of an article the nominator doesn't feel is appropriate encyclopedic material"? Please assume good faith here, and don't take this so personally. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 16:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
        • Good faith or bad faith, SPAM is SPAM. These school-type nominations are indeed excessive and they are indeed undesired. As for taking things personally, it is not unreasonable for me to do so, given that ComCat has specifically targeted several articles which I contributed to. I'll keep faith out of this. Silensor 21:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
          • User:Cohesion is not User:ComCat, and, barring a relevant policy or guideline (Why not form a workable schools proposal that can be supported by consensus?), it is inappropriate to characterize good-faith AFD nominations as disruptive or spam. Vote Keep, vote Extreme Keep, vote Give Me Keep Or Give Me Death, but respect the fact that people holding different opinions in good faith disagree with each other in good faith. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 21:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
            • Silensor, you may also wish to consider the fact that many, many people here see the unending blizzard of substub articles on schools of utterly no notability to be SPAM, and every bit as excessive and undesired as you see these nominations. Or am I asking too much? Denni☯ 02:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep please this article has been made much better thank you Yuckfoo 06:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, hey, it's a school. — JIP | Talk 09:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, third paragraph asserts the needed notability (witha reference). - Mgm|^(talk) 11:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

It's a small point, but there is no 'need' to demonstrate notability. Trollderella 15:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Demonstrating notability is required for articles on bands, people, books, websites, etc. I don't see why schools should be any different. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep NN school. Hipocrite - «Talk» 14:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep, to go with a weak assertion of notability. It's enough to keep it, though. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 15:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all valid High Schools. — RJH 16:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. There is no consensus to delete high schools. Silensor 16:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, sufficently notable event and building.Gateman1997 20:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable. Christopher Parham (talk) 21:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Having reviewed my vote, it stays keep. This is a huge school and notability is definitely established due to the security-related matters mentioned in the article. Bryan 05:57, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep CalJW 01:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. Denni☯ 02:50, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep high schools. -- DS1953 ^talk 06:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nothing wrong with this article.--Nicodemus75 08:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep yeah sure. Klonimus 05:31, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep See Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. --BenjaminTsai 15:25, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete School. non-notable. Bwithh 14:04, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was 'Delete HappyCamper 03:23, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bug People

Unlikely and unsupported claims which I can't verify; Google searches for terms like "bug people"+"WCW vs the world" and "bug people"+"meaning of life" produce no useful results. Oh, and given that so far as I can tell WCW vs the World wasn't released until the spring of 1997, this smells strongly of a hoax. — Haeleth Talk 15:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• • • Do not Delete - I am a member of the Bug People and have spoke at many colleges such as Yale, Darmouth, Brown, and Harvard. They actually have college clubs titled "The Bug Club" at these schools. They probably have a website somewhere. — 13453 Talk 15:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Regardless of whether "they actually have college clubs" and "probably have a website somewhere", these unverifiable facts and/or speculations alone do not make for a noteable topic for an encyclopedia. Sorry. KillerChihuahua 15:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. And if deleted, can we speedy Not a bug based on this AfD? Rd232 ^talk 16:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. - Just zis Guy, you know? 16:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom --Reflex Reaction 19:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as subtrivial, unencyclopedic foolishness. MCB 23:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 06:04, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chaldean Town, Detroit

Not sure if this actually exists. Google search found only one useful link - the top ones link to us and it's a two liner! Does this exist, or is it patent nonsense? - Ta bu shi da yu 13:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as neologism. There are Chaldean & Arabic neighborhoods in Detroit; primarily found in the Warrendale area and around 7 Mile west of Woodward. "Chaldean Town" is not a term used by the vast majority of Detroiters and surrouding suburbanites. There are areas of Detroit that are commonly referred to by their ethnic demographic (like Mexican Town), but the "Chaldean Federation of America" link Ta bu shi da yu added is the first time I've ever heard "Chaldean Town" term... and I grew up in an area with a large Chaldean population. It appears that the term has been mentioned here: [1], but this could just be a pickup of the CFA press releases and mentions in Wikipedia articles (this term has been entered into the main Detroit article). I'm going to do a bit more research because this has piqued my interest, but for now I consider this term a neologism that is not in wide usage when compared to other Detroit neighborhood names like Corktown, Poletown, Mexicantown, Indian Village, Springwells, etc.

I meant for that to be a comment whilst I research this.--Isotope23 15:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Keep, term has apparently been picked up and used locally. Apparently Chaldean merchants in the 7 mile area have attempted to create an economic district akin to Greektown. This has not been overly successful, probably due to their location (Greektown has proximity to downtown Detroit; Chaldean Town does not). Couple this fact with the relative newness of the effort (circa 1999) and this would explain why the term is not in wider usage. However, it has been referenced here: [[2]], [[3]], and [[4]]. Conceivably, I can see someone doing any sort of research on Detroit's ethnic neighborhoods finding this information useful, so I say keep and I will do a rewrite.--Isotope23 16:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. An attempt to create an economic district such as this doesn't seem enough for an article with that name. When/if the name is in wider usage, it is a different matter. JPD (talk) 17:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with a Detroit-related article. — Anarchivist | Talk 18:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was speedy DELETE (obviously). -Doc (?) 22:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Characters in Super Smash Bros. Revolution

From the article's lead section: "That is why I made this page on Wikepedia, so people can write down the chatacters they would like to see in the game. All the info is not real, it is just so you can see what others think". It's a well-meaning article, but not encyclopedic. Perhaps we can have an article with this title someday, but right now it is 100% speculation, and it cannot currently be rewritten until we actually know what characters will be in Super Smash Bros. Revolution. Coffee 15:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Info which is "not real" and pure speculation, belongs more properly on a fan site blog. KillerChihuahua 15:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. And since the game itself is still in production, what is it doing on Wikipedia? - Just zis Guy, you know? 16:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Another case of people using Wikipedia as a community bulletin board. Devotchka 17:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete. Admittenly fake news. Also, there have been many articles about games in production. Hell, many articles had little information about them. - A Link to the Past (talk) 18:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete WP:NOT
• Delete, as some GameFAQs users are using Wikipedia as a discussion forum for their speculation. Let's see if I can't track this back to the source and get them to cut it out. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 19:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, why wait? This page is nonsense. If these users want to say their opinion on the game, they have their own userspace. --Zeromaru^TC 20:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No fact presented in article. I don't think Nintendo is going to be reading this anyway. --Optichan 21:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. — ceejayoz ^talk 23:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Christopher Kelly

Article tottaly irrelevant. It is a glory page. Remove. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.3.41.34 (talk • contribs) 21:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep This is an article about a high ranking Civil Servant and should be kept. --82.4.86.206 09:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Kelly appears to be a notable person. Head of a major public service organization in the U.K., and held high ranking posts in the British government prior to that. Brandon39 10:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep per Brandon39. TheMadBaron 11:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, subject is notable. - Just zis Guy, you know? 11:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy keep. Clearly notable, so I think the afd tag should be removed a.s.a.p. --A bit iffy 11:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Notable in at least four ways which would each be sufficient on their own. Bhoeble 21:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was KEEP as rewritten by User:Polotet. — JIP | Talk 19:50, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clarecraft

Blatant advertising. Denni☯ 02:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• The article claims that it was taken directly from their website. It should be deleted as a copyvio, speedy or otherwise. Keep Polotet's rewrite. It seems to be a notable company in its field. Capitalistroadster 03:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

*Delete, speedy as {{db-copyvio}} ? --Vsion 04:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, following rewrite. --Vsion 03:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as pure ad. --rob 07:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete adv. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 11:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep after rewrite. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 05:58, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy delete copyvio ads. Especially blatant ones. -- Mgm|^(talk) 11:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Keep following excellent rewrite. - Mgm|^(talk) 07:20, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy delete for copyright violations only applies to commercial content providers, which means they make their money by selling the content that has been posted, such as a newspaper or encyclopedia. It doesn't apply to advertisements. -- Kjkolb 12:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete blatant advertising, copyvio or not. And yes, copyright can apply to advertising copy as well. - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep based on rewrite. The rewrite is good but the notability of a private company which is about to close its doors after not much more than a decade in business is disputable. Oh, and "nearly unique" grates, too. - Just zis Guy, you know? 07:58, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Oh, and "nearly unique" grates, too. Ugh, for good reason, it's very sloppy diction. Don't know how that slipped past my internal editor, thanks for pointing it out. --Polotet 08:04, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Copyright does indeed apply to advertising copy, but the special speedy criterion does not (see WP:CSD and its talk page). This is because the copyright holders are quilte likely to be only too willing to allow us to use their ad copy, while the copyright speedy is only for cases where we can be pretty near 100% sure no permission will be granted even if we ask nicely. The regular {{copyvio}} tag can be used in such cases, however. DES ^(talk) 16:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Obvvious advertising, not encyclopedic, no indication of notability. I can't find the text on the wesite given as the soruce currently, so the copyvio issue is somewhat moot. DES ^(talk)

• Speedy DeleteAdvertising *Keep following rewrite.prashanthns
• Seeing the poor quality of this article inspired me to finally make an account to provide information on what I believe is a fairly notable company, as a large scale producer of merchandise for an extremely popular series of novels. If it helps, the search term Clarecraft yields 53,700 results, and at the very least the entire first few pages are all references to the company and not from Wikipedia. There are also a number of Clarecraft products currently available on Ebay. I suspect my vote may be discounted as I'm an extremely new user, but I'll vote keep anyway. If anyone notices any Wikipedia style mistakes in my rewrite, I'd appreciate if you clean them up or let me know. I've also posted on their website's forum asking for some more information about some things I thought might fit in the article which I couldn't find on the web. Polotet 02:54, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks, you did a nice job. Unfortunately, I think there's a difficulty with the topic (not your writing). I'm not sure they're that special, given they don't make it, and our now going out of business. One key that's needed for a business, is independent sources that gives verifiable information, and shows interest about the company beyond the company itself. I suspect such sources don't exist. Although, if found, and you add them to the article, that would increase the likely retention. If you have to ask the company directly for information that's a problem, since we can't use unverifiable information. Anyway, I hope you do more rewrites, but on topics more likely to be kept. I'll abstain for now (I really haven't spent adequate time investigating this company, and based my prior vote just on it being an ad). --rob 03:26, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the compliment and the advice. Is this the kind of thing you're looking for? It's an article in a published magazine in England about Discworld collectibles which confirms some of the information in the article. I've added it to the Clarecraft entry. Polotet 03:46, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Keep (barely) - This is now verifiable and seems notable to some in a specific area, so I'll go along with a couple switch voters. I think even more independent sources are still warranted, but I think the original reasons for deletion don't apply. --rob 03:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Just wanted to note here that through the magic of LexisNexis, I was able to find and provide in the entry a couple more articles, along with some new information. --Polotet 07:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• As rewritten it has a much more encyclopedic tone, and at least some indications of notability. These are still marginal IMO, but just barely enough for me to switch to a Weak Keep. I note that one of the cited news stories makes a good deal of this having been one of (perhaps the very) last manufatureing establishemnts in the UK. This is a quite separate ground of notability, and should probably be mentioned in the article. DES ^(talk) 15:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• (Weakish) keep. They're not hugely notable, but Discworld is very popular; doing Discworld figurines (even if they're about to go out of business) makes them at least somewhat notable. (Oh, and Polotet? That's a good rewrite.) -- Captain Disdain 15:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Shame to see this article go to waste. TDS ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:41, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:21, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Corporate Alliance Trooper

Article in Hungarian, has been on WP:PNT since 11 October. Physchim62 18:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Template:Votedelete. Should be recreated when an appropriate translation takes place. --Randy 20:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• It seems to be Star Wars-related. Punkmorten 21:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • If it's a Corporate Sector Trooper (and that seems like a reasonable translation), then they're just generic goons that appear in one fairly obscure trilogy of novels. Unless you're going to do something silly like list all the times these generic goons appear in that trilogy, there's not much you can say about them without writing fanfic. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 00:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, its two weeks on WP:PNT are up. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 06:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. These guys aren't related to the Corporate Sector goons. Also, the page has been roughly translated here. -LtNOWIS 23:12, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was KEEP. — JIP | Talk 20:02, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Counting coo

NN, D. ComCat 00:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Valid topic. Mis-spelled. "Counting coup" was a well-known practice of the Plains Indians. Sort of like touch football, but much more serious. Either move to Counting coup and hope for expansion, or redirect to Native American fighting styles (see "Plains-Prairies.") Dpbsmith (talk) 01:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC) P. S. an A9 "books" search turns up an entire book called Counting Coup and Cutting Horses: Intertribal Warfare on the Northern Plains, 1738-1889 and another entitled Counting Coup : Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond.

P. P. S. I believe it must be familiar to readers of Western novels. The same A9 search shows me that a recent Robert Parker novel, Appaloosa, a James Patterson novel, Roses are Red, and a Tom Clancy novel, Debt of Honor, all mention the phrase, in some cases without much explanation. Clancy just assumes you know what it means: "Some of his people had to be counting coup in a big way, full of themselves in the way of fighter pilots who had done the job and lived to tell the tale." Dpbsmith (talk) 01:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

P. P. P. S. It's in the dictionary: Noun... 3. Among certain Native American peoples, a feat of bravery performed in battle, especially the touching of an enemy's body without causing injury. Idiom: count coup Among certain Native American peoples, to ceremoniously recount one's exploits in battle. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• strong keep (or move/redirect). I'd be surprised if there isn't already a good redirect target for this (and counting coup) on WP. — brighterorange (talk) 01:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, move and redirect to counting coup as well known practice which has become a fairly common phrase. Capitalistroadster 02:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Absolutely Keep per Dpbsmith.--Newyorktimescrossword 05:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and rename. Notable cultural practice, punishing it for being a stub is just systemic bias. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I suspect the problem was not that it was a stub but that it was misspelled. If you haven't heard of it and you searched for it as "counting coo" you might get the impression it wasn't important. Although rather to my surprise the misspelling gets 181 Google hits suggesting that Counting coo should be left in place as a redirect. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • The text of the article establishes its importance beyond any shadow of a doubt. An extremely low google count might lead one to believe that it was a hoax or some sort of misinformation, but that's not why it was nominated for deletion. I can't really imagine that there's any basis for this nomination other than Comcat's habit of trying to delete any short article he happens to come across. Christopher Parham (talk) 19:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
      • I think we should do the nominator the courtesy of assuming that the expressed reason for deletion is the real reason for deletion. And I do not think the identity of the nominator should factor into the discussion, which ought to be about the article. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Ritual warfare, which is missing. Pilatus 13:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and do something about AFD Spamming. Trollderella 16:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but correct spelling. --TantalumTelluride 21:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:50, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Having reviewed my vote, as promised elsewhere, I'm sticking with "keep". In what way could this subject possibly be considered "non-notable?" This is a fantastic example of establishing dominance through ritual combat. Bryan 05:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I don't understand the context of some of these remarks. The nomination was unnecessarily curt, but valid. It happened to be mistaken, that's all. It's not at all clear to me that the misspelling should be kept. I don't think the misspelled phrase "counting coo" is particularly notable. An AfD nomination is a request for a discussion. If it were reasonable to expect nominators to be infallible, we could just expand the speedy criteria. The article as submitted was badly written, cited no sources, and could easily be mistaken for something that should be deleted. The nominator made a mistake. What's the big deal? Dpbsmith (talk) 10:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Move/redirect to Counting coup. -- Arwel (talk) 01:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep and move to Counting coup

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CVS Suite

• The entry seems only to be an ad / product literature -- see the company's product website for CVS suite CVS Suite ERcheck 04:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. No opinion. —Cryptic (talk) 08:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• erm, delete or rewrite. Article was created by an account whose sole set of contributions was to work on this article. As well, the user seems to be quite purposefull in treating this as an advert - note the edit comments for changes to the article from this user: "(This change is authorised by march hare software . Please e-mail consultants@march-hare.com if verification is required. This material is licensed under the GPL as per the Wikipedia submission guide) "
• Delete as advertising. Eddie.willers 11:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete this seems to be clearly an advertising entry added by this user : User:ArthurBarrett/CVSNT, who has also categorised his home page in Category:Software engineering. Note that CVSNT has already been deleted --Khalid hassani 14:39, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:19, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Darren Massey

Unverifiable ... vanity ... nnbio ... patent nonsense ... BJAODN ... original research ... spam ... hoax ... vandalism ... this is the perfect AfD article! Ziggurat 03:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Absolutely hilarious, but unfortunately delete StarryEyes 03:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or clean it up in a HUGE way. It's a total mess and I'm not entirely sure that it could be saved. Is there a name for the idea the article is describing? Maybe merge it with that. Devotchka 03:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nonsense. Dottore So 09:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom (I have seen no evidence the name Darren even existed in C17th) - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was SPEEDY DELETE nonsense dicdef. -Doc (?) 22:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Databi

User-created neoligsm. No such word exists. Nameneko 07:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete This is either a spurious neologism or a dicdef. Either way it has no place here. - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete User created. prashanthns

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:18, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] David Zaks

I can't find any verification that a "famous composer" by this name exists. Previous edits by the article's original author make me question its veracity. Joyous (talk) 16:37, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. No opinion. —Cryptic (talk) 08:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete David Zaks composer returns no google hits outside of WP. Hoax. Dottore So 09:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• delete no element of the page returns any music related google hits. hoax. Dxco 10:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, joke/hoax/nonsense. MCB 23:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per WP:V with no outside sources cited in article and no results outside Wikipedia for a search of "David Zaks" composer see [5]. The contents of the article make me suspicious as well "He wrote many musical soundtracks for films like "Not Quitte Taffy.". Capitalistroadster 23:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was 'Delete HappyCamper 03:17, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Death By A Rose

not notable per WP:MUSIC cohesion | talk 03:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Death By A Deletion StarryEyes 03:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 11:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nn. feydey 23:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom chowells 22:02, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity. Remy B 19:03, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Derego Williams Sr.

Sixteen Google hits for "Derego Williams", not all, surprisingly enough, to do with this one. No Google hits for "Derego Williams""Main Street 500". Denni☯ 01:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep real. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Real, but Non-notable. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 01:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete vanity. --CastAStone 02:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I can't find this web site of his to assess its notability, and he clearly has none otherwise. —Cryptic (talk) 03:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, real does not equal encyclopaedic. Proto t c 11:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete NN. - Just zis Guy, you know? 14:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, no assertion of notability.--Isotope23 17:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non notable --Reflex Reaction 18:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable--Newyorktimescrossword 23:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Please delete Derego also, which contained nothing but a link to this article until I changed it to a redirect just now. -- SCZenz 09:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete This is just one of several vanity/advertising/nonsense pages the user has created eg Main_Street_500, Gbeye_Ayerite, Sekibo_Williams .Indium 09:34, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was speedily deleted by Scimitar as a non-notable biography; no claim to notability was made.--Scimitar ^parley 17:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Division 867

American rapper who has "released one mixtape with his friend", and "has never officially released an album and has never been signed to a record label." Therefore not notable. Francs2000 17:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. NN, even by his own admission. Devotchka 17:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:15, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Earthquake Help

Vanity page for an earthquake blog. Blog looks informative, but doesn't seem notable enough to warrant a page. JJay 17:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --JJay 17:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Vanity page for a blog --Reflex Reaction 18:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Template:Votedelete - V. --Randy 20:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:14, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky f'tang-zoop-boing! Goodem-zoo-owli-zhiv

We are no longer the Knights Who Say Ni. We do not believe this individual line from one of the best movies ever is notable enough to merit its own article. Delete. — JIP | Talk 09:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. A one-line quote from a movie is not encyclopedic unless it has become a really famous catchphrase. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - I am rather fond of the movie in question, but specific jokes do not merit their own separate articles - Skysmith 09:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Agreeing with above. Even highly notable lines do not get their own entry but instead are listed as part of the movie in which they appeared. See [[6]]. Dottore So 09:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • More usually, the article on the movie in which they occur contains an interwiki link to a Wikiquote article for the movie. See Wikiquote:Spider-Man (movie), Wikiquote:Mystery Men, Wikiquote:Gone with the Wind, and — indeed — Wikiquote:Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Uncle G 11:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Skysmith. Also, they've spelt it wrong. TheMadBaron 11:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Redirects are cheap and discourage recreation. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 11:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect per everyone. - Just zis Guy, you know? 12:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. While redirects are cheap, how in the world is anybody going to find this one? — Lomn | Talk / RfC 14:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • It discourages recreation, for one. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 15:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect per Man in Black. 23skidoo 15:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect. Then you must cut down the tallest tree in the forest with...a herring. You can call me Al 16:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Does not merit a separate page prashanth
• Hell, I would have speedied this. But delete, anyway. Don;t bother with a redirect. No one is going to search this, nor can I imagine anyone trying to search this matching this spelling exactly. -R. fiend 21:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• REDIRECT. This is an obvious candidate for redirection, since the Knights who say Ni entry is going to remain and that's what this is about. What's the point of deleting? Bryan 00:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• BJAODN, that's not how you spell it.
• Delete, Ehh what the heck. Redirect also

Radiant_>|< 17:17, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete --HappyCamper 03:14, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Editors Keys Ltd

Non-notable vanity (spam) - Just zis Guy, you know? 11:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as advertising. Eddie.willers 11:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Total advertisement. Devotchka 15:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, advertising. -- DS1953 ^talk 06:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I think its needs editing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.202.130 (talk • contribs) 2005-10-28 15:07:33 (UTC) (User's only other edits are linkspam related to this company — Haeleth Talk)

• Delete advertising. — Haeleth Talk 20:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:12, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Emily Evans

Can't tell if this is actually an article or stream of concious poetry. Lots of google hits and maybe a fictional character?? I sent the contributor a message... —Gaff ^ταλκ 03:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, hoax. "I'll outlive all you punks" gets 0 results on Google, "Bono" "Emily Evans" gets nothing relevant. StarryEyes 03:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Hoax. If this were real, Emily Evans and The Edge would have at least a Google hit on page one. MoMA's website mentions nothing about an Emily Evans, surely if they were currently featuring her work, it would at least be in a search of their site.--CastAStone 03:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• But, if it's stream of consciousness poetry, wouldn't it be awfully fascist to delete it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.218.223 (talk • contribs)
  • No, not really. This is an encyclopedia, not a literary review. — Haeleth Talk
• Delete the hoax/stream/whatever --rob 09:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per above - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Dont Delete: you freakin' wikinazis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.218.223 (talk • contribs) 2005-10-26 15:16:43 (UTC) (again)

• Delete per nom — Haeleth Talk 16:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete; hoax/joke, unencyclopedic nonsense. MCB 22:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC

who cares: If Emily Evans claims all this stuff about herself then who are we to stop her? I'm sure lots of women have been with the Edge and don't show on Google searches - define noteriety. Who the hell cares who Emily Evans is anyway?

I am a family member, and Nicolla Tesla was my great grandfather. The fact that this person is proclaiming that she invented the Tesla coil is propostorous. I am deeply hurt considering that my grandfather spent his years having his co-scientist stealing his ideas from him, makes me very angry indeed. I want to find this Emily Evans and tell her that she is a liar, and will spend an eternity in burning hell crying for her deeds, and no pharmacology will be there to help dry those tears. I tell you people she lies through her teeth. Despite her vulgar lies I truly liked "It reeks of cat piss in this van." it reminds me when I go apple picking with my family, and my late grandfather would piss in the back seat.

DO NOT DELETE-I can't believe no one has heard of emily evans. Need a pop culture brush up much? Only one of the most influential artists of the last five centuries! Get real wikipedia! [edit] delete

If Derrida was her father and Plath was her mother (making the rash conclusion she is real) couldn't she have made up a more creative name than Evans? Not only is all of this ludicris but it stinks of literary canniballism. In fact, some of those ideas are mine. Dang.

It's about freaking time someone objected to the whole tesla coil lie. Thank you angry serb. Everyone's like, as if she had sex with the Edge. No one's like Wasn't Nicolla Tesla the inventor of the Tesla coil? Hence the name? Gawd. you'd think encyclopedia people would know a little better. And besides. How is sourcing with the net a form of validation? IT'S ALL LIES. And we're all damned without embellishment.

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The result of the debate was Speedy Deleted by Bumm13 as copyvio. --GraemeL ^(talk) 19:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Eroi

Blatant advertising. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 18:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

(Note: Article has been deleted as it was unsolicited advertising. Feel free to remove this entry from AfD.)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ethannoise

Nn band, not at amazon as claimed, nor at allmusic. Fails to meet WP:MUSIC. the wub "?!" 15:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - I couldn't find evidence of notabiltiy either. - 16:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. chowells 16:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• If they've really played with all of the people they claim, I think they qualify as notable. The fact that they don't meet WP:MUSIC, though, disqualifies them...I guess. Either way if the article is kept it needs to be cleaned up, as it's an obnoxious mess. Devotchka 17:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • My eleven-year-old son has played horn with Barry Tuckwell, that doesn't make him notable :-) Just zis Guy, you know? 18:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete doesn't meet WP:MUSIC --Reflex Reaction 19:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 03:33, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Eugene F. Provenzo

NN, D. ComCat 00:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Notability established in article, verifiable and encyclopedic. StarryEyes 01:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment, I disagree that notability has been established... Right now I see a college professor, which isn't all that notable. However the claim that his work has been "reviewed" in some major publications might be notable. Could the author elaborate a bit? Does this refer to his work being published in these magazines or just mentioned? No vote yet because I think he may be notable, I just would like to see some WP:V evidence.--Isotope23 02:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Geez, how the hell did I miss that link at the bottom? Published enough to meet notability in my book. Keep.--Isotope23 02:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable per article and moreso per the biography linked in the article. Just needs some more moved from there to here. — mendel ☎ 02:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as notable professor with works on video games. BTW, Comcat could you provide more information in your nominations as per Wikipedia:Deletion policy as to why you think that this item should be deleted as opposed to other action. Capitalistroadster 03:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• K. Kappa 04:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Delete Not notable, simply a professor. If we follow this precedent, ALL university professors would have his or her own entry.--Newyorktimescrossword 05:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notability established. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment/conditional Keep. I agree with Isotope -- if the article can be expanded on why this guy is important (and if the guy is indeed notable), then yes, he should have an article. Janet13 07:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • This AfD could possibly been avoided if the case for notability was better laid out in the actual article. Not all college professors are notable, but those whose research is often cited in mass media, who were the primary authors of widely used textbooks, or who have done other notable things (Professor Jim Cash at Michigan State University co-wrote Top Gun for example) are.--Isotope23 14:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• N, K. --rob 09:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. His website shows he's published a significant number of books which makes him a notable author. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. As above, and stop spam. Trollderella 16:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep based upon the inclusion criteria set forth by WP:BIO. Hall Monitor 17:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The article needs to be expanded. --TantalumTelluride 21:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Having reviewed my vote, it remains keep. This guy's got a string of publications a mile long. Bryan 05:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable academic. -- DS1953 ^talk 06:04, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep needs exapansion. I tend to think most tenured professor's are notable enough for inclusion. Klonimus 05:21, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notability established. He got the NY Times interested, that's a significant achievemant. This article needs to be expanded though. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 01:51, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:10, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Extinction (band)

I nominated this for deletion on October 1. No one voted, but instead of relisting the admin closed it as no consensus. I am relisting it myself, and my statement "No AllMusic entry, only album gets 171 google hits." still stands. Come on, voters, this is an easy one. Punkmorten 20:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete to start the voting. Punkmorten 20:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. - Just zis Guy, you know? 21:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Does not establish even a shred of notability, and neither does Google. -- Captain Disdain 00:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and note to admin that AfD debates without any votes should be relisted. — JIP | Talk 05:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was MERGE with Geography of Romania. — JIP | Talk 07:51, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Extreme points of Romania

I can't see this becoming a proper article. Perhaps merge this with Geography of Romania-- A bit iffy 11:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• See Extreme points of Algeria (AfD discussion) and Extreme points of Italy. Uncle G 12:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Very interesting Uncle G - thanks for raisng this. I can see that some "extreme points" articles, such as for the UK, should stay because there's so much stuff there, with all the constituent/associated areas and islands. In the case of Romania, I don't think there's enough to merit its own article, so my "merge" vote remains. (And I'm not just saying this because I'm a Brit.) --A bit iffy 14:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with geography of Romania. -- Kjkolb 12:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Geography of Romania. --Metropolitan90 14:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as per nom and others. MCB 23:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge. Geography articles tend to be chronically short on content. --Carnildo 23:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge... Leaving only the question of why it was brought here... Trollderella 23:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Actually, Trollderella, I didn't realise merging was something I could do myself! I had thought you had to be an admin. --A bit iffy 13:09, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was KEEP. 20 keep votes and 4 delete votes is a pretty clear consensus. — JIP | Talk 07:55, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Extreme points of U.S. states, Extreme points of Canadian provinces

There are extreme points of states that have found their way into culture, like John o'Groats in Scotland, Cabo da Roca in Portugal, "where the land ends and the sea begins", or the 38th parallel in Korea.

These two lists, on the contrary, are just a collection of map trivia; anyone interested in the borders of states will consult a map. Pilatus 15:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete geographical trivia, an endless variety of which could be dreamed up. Mapcruft? Anyway, merge with articles for individual states if anyone can be bothered, else delete. - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep — it's interesting to me at least. Somebody obviously went to a lot of work to put this together, and there are those who will find these facts both interesting and encyclopedic. — RJH 16:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• delete wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. This is, IMO not encyclopedic. As per nom. DES ^(talk) 16:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - can't see the harm in this --Doc (?) 16:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - they might have more uninteresting points than the British equivalent, but it is still an interesting list. JPD (talk) 17:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep-interesting enough, well put together, and while not totally encyclopedic, does not qualify as useless trivia either. Devotchka 17:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: geographic trivia such as area and extreme points are common to encyclopedias. This is not an indiscriminant collection. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 17:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Not sure it's super encyclopedic, but a lot of effort went into these articles, and I found them interesting.--Scimitar ^parley 17:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep interesting and encyclopedic. --Reflex Reaction 19:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as this is indiscriminate trivia. It isn't even interesting indiscriminate trivia. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 19:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I think this is fascinating trivia.--CastAStone 22:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I think the concept is good but the content is crappy. This is the kind of thing I'd like to be able to look up, but most of the points consist of stuff like: "Northeastern most point: a point in the extreme northeast," which is pretty dumb. But if it were cleaned up so it had real content, it'd be worthwhile. —Cleared as filed. 22:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge to each state/province, but that would be stupid and time consuming. I could absolutely see someone searching for this.--CastAStone 22:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the info, hopefully all together in this format, but while I could see someone searching for the concept, I am not sure the current titles would be the first search term choice. I wish the wiki search worked better.... --Jacqui ^{★ 23:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)}
• Keep, useful collection of data in one article. -feydey 00:10, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 07:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, this is well presented encyclopedic geographical information. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:26, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, interesting, verifiable, and encyclopedic. Could use a rename, though. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep It may not be of interest to you, and it isn't of interest to me, but that doesn't mean it doesn't meet all the necessary criteria. Please show more caution in nominating articles into which well meaning editors have put a lot of time. CalJW 18:25, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep If the height order of US presidents is encyclopedic, these certainly are as well. CJCurrie 21:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• There are probably some cases where a more specific spot can be identified (and even potentially written up as an article) rather than simply "border with the next state/province over"; but I don't see these as particularly invalid per se. Keep. Bearcat 23:24, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and enhance as per DES, et al. If the Canadian and World Almanacs include superlative statistics for some countries (Canada (p. 1, etc.) and the US (p. 608) respectively), why shouldn't we in a venue more global in format yet for subnational entities more community-based in nature? Perhaps some pruning and greater specificity (e.g., co-ordinates?) are in order, though.... E Pluribus Anthony 03:07, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and enhance. Potentially useful compendium. Altitudes should be added. Part of a series, see Extreme points of the world. Luigizanasi
• Keep or Merge.-Dakota 04:53, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. There are far more trivial articles in Wikipedia. This is interesting to a wide audience, verifiable and easily maintainable (will change very rarely, if ever). A better title should be used though. Carbonite | Talk 16:12, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Very specific theme of fascinating interest. - Gilgamesh 09:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:05, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flaming Milka

Google returned about a dozen results for either Flaming Milka or Amelia Milka Sablich. If other sources can be found-i.e., contemporary newspaper articles-this might be notable and verifiable, but as it stands, it doesn't appear to be either. Paul 15:52, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Andrew pmk | Talk 22:48, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:09, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FLMH

Apparent vanity, five hits off google, two from the same site, and one from the founder's site. MacRusgail 20:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete doesn't belong here. Wikipedia is not a directory of message boards.--Alhutch 20:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, non notable forum.--Isotope23 20:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, and the sooner the better. - Just zis Guy, you know? 20:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. reasons listed above. — Anarchivist | Talk 20:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, with 80 registered users it does not pass WP:WEB. Punkmorten 20:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: not encyclopedic, vanity. Janet13 21:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Merge with "Rocheworld" - Mailer Diablo 06:07, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flouwen

Fictional alien species that appears in one novel. Not encyclopedic at all. Delete. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 18:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete or Merge? Seems to be an awful lot of information on the aliens but most of it is excessive or pointless. To quote:Or maybe it’s because the younger flouwen are DUMB!!! (Inside book joke.) Uh, yeah. This should probably just be merged with the article on the book. Devotchka 19:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with "Rocheworld". --MacRusgail 20:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per MacRusgail.--Isotope23 20:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per above; also check book cover scan for copyvio - Just zis Guy, you know? 21:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. User:Sir Lewk is a real user, not a sock puppet, even though is keep vote was first added by an anonymous IP. Therefore 2 delete votes versus 1 keep vote is too narrow a margin. — JIP | Talk 08:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fog Creek Copilot

Brand new, just launched in August and seems pretty NN. Devotchka 21:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Probably slightly notable because of Joel on Software. DJ Clayworth 21:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete but open to persuasion - Just zis Guy, you know? 21:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, doesn't really seem like an advertisment to me, relatively notable.--Lewk_of_Serthic 04:35, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete article makes no claim for notability, reads like ad copy (talks too much about how and why users buy 24hr unlimited day pass from Fog Creek Copilot's website to fix their computers). Pete.Hurd 07:24, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment:" The article doesn't seem to make any attempt to establish critical differences between this and Microsoft's inbuilt remote assistance. Some indication of how many users / sites are covered might help in establishing whether it is worthy of note. - Just zis Guy, you know? 12:55, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). I did vote in this debate, arguing for deletion, and I still believe that this article ought to be deleted. However, there is an even split among those who want this kept and those who want this deleted. Therefore, there is no other option than to keep this article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:06, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] George Alexander (US Army soldier)

Sad but still NN, D. ComCat 00:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Weak keep & rewrite. He's the 2000th American forces casaulty in the war, meaning he's getting quite a lot of attenion here in the States: [7] I admit it's a bit arbitrary to include him but not the other 1,999, but it's the mass media that establishes notability, and the mass media loves numbers that you can divide by 100 and 1000, much like the faux-millennium mania we had a few years back. Changed my mind, everyone else is right. Delete StarryEyes 02:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete NN plus not encyclopedic Ejrrjs | What? 00:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, no memorial. Maybe mention the soldier at Cindy Sheehan, and the date at US invasion of Iraq. Gazpacho 01:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep real person, real soldier. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• And really non-notable. Delete --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 01:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Delete but condolences to his family. Wikipedia is not a memorial and I disagree with StarryEyes that just because he had the misfortune to be #2000 he is any more notable than the other 1999 who gave their lives. The media may be giving it press right now, but sadly by next week his name will be all but forgotten by everyone but his family, friends, and those in his unit who survived him.--Isotope23 02:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete. The article makes no assertion of notability. Even if it did, Wikipedia is not a memorial. —Cryptic (talk) 02:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The article's no longer a speedy candidate, but it still draws a delete from me. His 15 minutes are up. —Cryptic (talk) 10:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Notable because of the 2000 number, plain and simple. He personally is all over the news, for chrissake his name and picture is the front of CNN.com right now and I promise that its on the front of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor in 4 or 5 hours. If that isn't notability, I obviously dont understand the concept. --CastAStone 02:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I just edited the article to make it far more encyclopedic...--CastAStone 03:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • So much the worse for the press. They'll use him for couple days and then forget all about him. Gazpacho 03:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Isotope23, his fame is transitory and there is nothing special about him compared to the others who died. -- Kjkolb 03:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep, encyclopedic. Kappa 04:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per WP:NOT.--nixie 04:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep please merging this to cindy sheehan would make no sense this person has received individual national news coverage in teh united states so if we want to be the sum of human knowledge we should include this too people might want to learn about him here Yuckfoo 05:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

  Mentioning at Cindy Sheehan makes perfect sense, since she promised she would make a scene when the 2000th soldier died. It would be stupid to have an article about this person just because he got killed when he did and not an hour earlier or later. Gazpacho

• Delete. Maybe we should have a list of casualities instead though? And that list can be expanded upon a bit? Else, we *do* run into a problem every conflict where the 1st, 5th, 10th, 100th, etc. all get their own pages... also, it kinda smacks of bias in reporting... we certainly don't have a page for the 200th Iraqi.Janet13 07:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep Notable. Even if he will be forgotten by the media, his death is a big media event. Take Jessica Lynch for example. Banes 09:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Dying as a soldier in Iraq doesn't make a person encyclopedically notable, and being number 2000 doesn't change that. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete No more or less significant than the other 1999 who have died. Isotope's point above is eloquently made. Including him as encyclopedic and not the others is, in fact, rather offensive. Dottore So 10:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong delete, WP:NOT a memorial. This shouldn't even be a difficult decision. Proto t c 11:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as Wikipedia isn't a memorial. I'm not even sure if this merits a single sentence in Iraq War. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 11:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per above. - Just zis Guy, you know? 14:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong delete. I am sorry that he was killed, but this death is no more or less significant than the previous US deaths in this conflict; nor the >>20,000,000 deaths in combat of all nationalities in the last century. Sliggy 15:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep I understand that notability should not be established simply on the basis of numbers, however I am convinced the article should be retained. A baby being born is a regular occurence, sure, but Nevic sure got a lot of attention becuase she was the 6,000,000,000th by the UN [8]. Furthermore, Alexander should stand, in a sense, is a representative for the several hundreds of men who have lost their lives in Iraq. As the 2,000th soldier to die, he will, in my opinion, serve as a reprensentative for the 1,999 who died before him. It would be cordial to make an article about each of the brave men who died in the War in Iraq, but such is not plausible for an encyclopedia. Thus, a brief mention of Alexander - in my opinion - would give some type of recognition besides that found in the War on Terrorism articles, etc. I think that this article should be kept. Molotov (talk) 16:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This was a difficult decision to make. On the one hand, WP:NOT a memorial, and having the misfortune of being the Nth person to die divisible by 1000 does not automatically make one notable. So while I do not disagree with many of the reasons provided by those who wish to delete this article, I must dissent; this death has been widely covered by the media, news.google.com returns over 1,000 articles which mention this specific person by name. If the media decides to make this person a poster child for all of the other fallen soldiers in Iraq, then this person does become significantly notable, or notable enough that people may look to Wikipedia for additional information about this person. I would liken this to the Natalee Holloway disappearance case; from a distance Natalee Holloway is one of 800,000 children who are reported missing each year, yet she is notable due to the mass news coverage she received. It is too soon to tell if George Alexander will receive the same type of media attention that Holloway did, but nonetheless they are both notable because of the attention they received, thus my vote of support to include this article. Hall Monitor 17:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • If Mr. Alexander's death becomes the flashpoint for an increased anti-war movement in the United States or receives a massive amount of news coverage for a prolonged period of time ala Natalee Holloway I would be inclined to agree with you Hall Monitor. Mr. Alexander would indeed be notable then, but at this point that is a crystal ball scenario and there is no credible evidence that either of those things will happen.--Isotope23 20:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • The crystal ball argument is a double edged sword. Time will tell if this person will become a flashpoint or not, but right now this person is receiving a considerable amount of media attention. I have reasonable doubt that this article should or should not be deleted, and as per WP:DEL: "If in doubt, don't delete!" I respect and understand the varying arguments being presented here, but I do not necessarily agree with them. Hall Monitor 20:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Fair enough... I wasn't attacking your vote or reasoning Hall Monitor, just making a comment.--Isotope23 20:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a memorial. Having his fifteen minutes of fame in the United States, apparently, but Wikipedia is also not an American newspaper. Lord Bob 19:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep at least as notable as Jessica Lynch, his name has been all over the media.  ALKIVAR™ 19:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable. He was doing his job. Unfotunate that he got killed but being killed doing your job doesn't make you notable. chowells 21:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep I'm going to change my vote. Widespread media coverage is sufficient notability. He may not be any more or less notable than the 1 999 who fell before him (let alone the Iraqis or British or other troops that have died) but maybe he can become a reminder of the sad state of our world today, in the same way that Anne Frank has come to represent the millions that died in the holocaust. Maybe after near nuclear annihilation in World War 3 someone will read this article and be more determined to put forward the ideals of people that I respect highly such as Józef Rotblat. chowells 10:57, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Though I am against this war and support our troops abroad, this article is unncessary.--Newyorktimescrossword 23:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a memorial. --Carnildo 23:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Claiming that a person is non-notable is a valid reason to delete in black and white, in WP:CSD A7. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 01:06, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Actually A7 doesn't talk about whether a person is notable or not, it covers articles that don't claim notability. "An article about a real person that does not assert that person's importance or significance". So you can't use A7 because you do or do not think someone is notable, only if the article does or does not claim notability. It's an important distinction. Rx StrangeLove 01:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
      • I'm a little scrambled at the moment. WP:BIO, not WP:CSD A7, sorry. (I wasn't planning on speedying this anyway.) - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 01:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • My problem with this nomination is that the nominator provided absolutely no basis on which to justify the claim that he's not notable. Why should we delete something when no reason's been provided to do so? Having reviewed my vote, as I promised elsewhere, I'm sticking with "keep". Being the 2000th soldier to die fighting the Iraq war seems pretty likely to get this guy some publicity. Bryan 05:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Large main-stream media presence. Rx StrangeLove 01:14, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete His only notability is a statistical one. His death is no different from the 1999 which preceded his. Denni☯ 02:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• K, N. —RaD Man (talk) 05:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: WP:BIO lists "Persons achieving renown or notoriety for their involvement in newsworthy events" as an acceptable reason for a biographical article. I'm not in the USA, and I don't know whether George Alexander has "achieved renown or notoriety" there (hence my not casting a keep or delete vote), but if he has, it seems reasonable that he should have an article. --Stormie 06:23, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  The notoriety isn't for George Alexander. It's for "the 2,000th soldier killed." That's certainly a statistic to mention in passing, but not to have an article about. Gazpacho 01:54, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Tragic, but not encyclopedic. Gamaliel 18:10, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep His death was greatly anticipated and warmly celebrated by the "anti-war" crowd. http://www.zombietime.com/2000_iraq_deaths_party/ Klonimus 05:26, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. As others have said, just being the 2000th does not make him notable. Of course if someone created an article for the other 1999 deaths then I'd be happy to see this kept. Evil Monkey∴Hello 06:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep (or Merge to 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage) The death toll from Iraq, the press coverage of it and the controversy it has contributed to, is certainly notable. Since Alexander has gotten media attention, he would certainly be covered in an article about the controversy. I don't think it's either here or there whether that's in a separate article or as part of another article. Demi ^T/_C 06:37, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, with condolences to his family. 2000th death no more notable than the 1999th. Brandon39 13:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I am skeptical of whether Sgt. Alexander should be notable (even though, for the record, I have been a strong, consistent opponent of this (imo) profoundly stupid war since it first became possible), because I have sympathy for the other dead who aren't being noted likewise. Still, objectively, this person is in the press, ergo notable. Xoloz 19:44, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete George Alexander is a hero who died so others may be free but that doesn't make the article encyclopedic or the man notable above all the other casualties of the War on Terror. May he RIP--Kalsermar 21:32, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Staff Sgt. George Alexander Jr and the 2,000th soldier killed are not mutually exclusive beings, they are one in the same. Seeing as how he was on the front page of my newspaper yesterday and I live nowhere near Texas or Alabama I cannot imagine how he could be considered not notable. Yamaguchi先生 00:29, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. He's verifiable, and the article is really interesting. Nothing is gained by deleting this, significant information is lost. Trollderella 00:32, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete 2000th does not make him notable Bwithh 01:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a memorial. He has a news article on him in Wikinews. That suffices. 2,000th death doesn't make him notable, per above. I'm sure Sargent Alexander would agree that an article need not be created for him any more than an article needs to be created about the other 1,999 soldiers who perished in Iraq. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 02:06, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not says this about memorials: Memorials. It's sad when people die, but Wikipedia is not the place to honor them. Subjects of encyclopedia articles must have a claim to fame besides being fondly remembered by their friends and relatives. This is not a random person who died, this is someone who has received significant exposure in the press as a result of being the 2,000th soldier to die since the 2003 invasion of Iraq began. Alexander was not mentioned in passing on the front page of my newspaper, he was front page headline news. Hall Monitor mentions that his name brought up 1,000 hits on Google News, and now it returns over 3,000. If you read the news article on Wikinews, you would know that it is not sufficient at all, it tells very little about him. Wikinews is not the appropriate place to talk about him in detail, that is what Wikipedia is for, so it seems perfectly reasonable that someone would want to learn more about him here. Yamaguchi先生 03:29, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Such a minor branch of a subject that it doesn't deserve an article: Merge the useful content into a more comprehensive article [2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage] and redirect. I will perform the merge if this is kept. Any other guy who simply died in Iraq would be deleted; the number 2000 is nothing special. The media circus about it can be mentioned in 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage. --SPUI (talk) 06:33, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

STRONG KEEP: George Alexander was not notable for his life in any particular regard, but his death is very notable in that his death set the milestone of the 2,000th KIA in this war and is receiving a great deal of media attention which is a matter of permanent record and future interest. You can be sure that the 3,000th KIA will ignite the same kind of contentions that are being presented here. In any event, his sacrifice stands as a rallying point for opposition to this war and as such is a matter of historical importance.

• DELETE did we do the 1,000? should we do the 2,500? what about the 3,000? Williamb 09:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, being the 2000th to die is entirely arbitrary. Radiant_>|< 12:03, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete per A7. His claim to notability is?  Grue  14:11, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
  • being mentioned on CNN/FoxNews/CBS/ABC/NBC/CSPAN and in The New York Times/Washington Post/Most other AP wire outlets/and Reuters story. That notable enough?  ALKIVAR™ 14:17, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep mainly for reasons stated by Hall Monitor. There are plenty of verifiable facts about this man, and he's undeniably a current news item. FRS 14:32, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep although Wikipedia is not a memorial, the fact that he is officially the 2000th person killed in the campaign makes him notable. Roodog2k (Hello there!) 19:24, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this eminently notable soldier.--Nicodemus75 21:26, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notability established by hundreds of newspapers who have written articles on him. Others are arguing whether he deserves his notability, which is a separate question. Babajobu 22:58, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep for the reasons already stated by several people; deserving or not, this person is notable. Please be aware that this nominator has a history of disruption on AFD, and an RFC has been opened accordingly at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/ComCat. Silensor 02:24, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • In this particular case, a nomination was almost inevitable (and sure to have some support.) Even though I voted keep, I almost procedurally nominated this the second it popped up, because this is a discussion which needs to be had. Xoloz 07:48, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rep is irrelevant. The AfD should be judged on its own merits. Silensor, please consider striking out that part of your comment. Brandon39 11:15, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Nomintor's behavior is relevant. AfDs brought to the community by editors who utilize the AfD process process in a disruptive fashion are immediately suspect. Further, this nominator has made no justifiable attempt to support his nomination. Silensor, please do not reconsider that part of your comment.--Nicodemus75 02:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment Perhaps there is some difference between notability in the news vs. notability in the long term (which is what an encyclopedia should preserve) Ejrrjs | What? 11:05, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, To draw on my own counrty, the article on Daniel Gunther details the last Canadian killed by hostile forces in 11 years (1993-2004) and Jamie Murphy was the first Canadian killed in those 11 years. The article is not set up as a memorial, and should be encyclopaedic, but should exist. Sherurcij 19:12, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

That's part of the problem.... right now the article isn't encyclopaedic, ie biographical. It's just about the fact he is number 2000 and discussions about that in the media and some Congressmen.--Kalsermar 22:30, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment Google now returns 18,000 hits for "george Alexander"+iraq, and thousands more if his middle initial is included, and another 26,000 for "2000th soldier"+iraq" Sherurcij 22:22, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment So what! Google brings up several thousand hits for Paris Hilton's chihuahua too. If not more. Williamb 12:15, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    • actually the chihuahua brings up 280,000 I say replace it with chihuahua articles. Williamb 12:17, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect/Delete The story is certainly (though temporarily) notable. However, it is the story about 2000 deaths, not Alexandar, which is notable. If kept, the title should be 2000th death in 2003 Iraq War, and this article should redirect there. Further, a category should be started named Category:Milestone Deaths in American Wars in anticipation of 2500, 3000, 5000, 10000, etc. However, my suggestion is deletion, with possible redirection to Iraq War. ∴ here…♠ 05:55, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep nice article --JAranda | watz sup 01:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable death, came here from media reports --129.173.105.28 02:48, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
• I am the mother of his child Alexandria Alexander and I feel it is a keeper. What he has done is heartening for me and my child. He saved the lives of four other soldiers and pulled four out of a burning bradley and in the interim he died. There are so many silly things that we wish to remember but someone laying down his life for another is not worthy of keeping. How many of you saying to delete would lay down your life for someone that is not in your family, a neighbor or a stranger not many. He knew that there was a chance that he would not make it and that he would leave two beautiful children behind but inspite of the odds he still tried to save the lives of others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vamadison (talk • contribs) 17:02, 2 November 2005
• Keep The mere fact of an individual's existence at some point in time makes an article on him worthy enough for inclusion. Kurt Weber 23:55, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. If it would help to form consensus, I would also be okay with a merge to 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage. Jacqui ^{★ 01:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)}
• Keep. Notable simply and totally because of media coverage. Wikipedia is not a memorial, but it is also not paper. --Fermatprime 02:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep Notable. JG of Borg 03:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. (article was already speedied)-- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 03:34, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Glencoe hedge fund

How is this different from any other hedge fund? Delete. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 21:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Fund looks to be very small and has no track record. Nothing notable about its strategy. --JJay 01:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Most convertible arbitrage funds are delta/market neutral and are stuck because there is too much money using the same approach. This year a lot of traditional convertible arbitrage funds closed shop causing an implosion in convertible securities pricing. It is for the first time in more than 10 years since conservative delta neutral funds displayed 30% + volatility without any external market events like a surge in interest rates (1994)or the Russinan defaults in 1989. Glencoe is different. It starts off as delta neutral and becomes directional. The CSFB convertible arbitrage index representing well established large funds with a long track record did 19% between oct 2001 and oct 2003. The invesment club experiment did 61% and Glencoe continues the 30% + annualized track record through Dec 2004. It ranked #1 in AbsoluteReturn magazine on an annualized compounded basis through end of Dec 2004.

As a side comment to the previous 2 where does it say that a fund has to have a long track record or be large in order for it to publish information about it on Wikipedia? or maybe the 2 gentlemen above work in sales for competitors? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.70.2.90 (talk • contribs) 14:58, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. I'll start by pointing out that Glencoe previously passed through Afd where it was deleted after a unanimous vote. [[9]] The article therefore may be a Speedy Delete per G4.

Regarding your question, I suggest you read WP:CORP. Glencoe seems to fail at every level. It has not received any notable press coverage. It is not a component of any of the leading hedge fund indexes including CSFB/Tremont, Dow Jones Hedge Fund Index [[10]] or the S&P Hedge Fund Index [[11]]. It does not hold a 20% share of its market, etc.

Wikipedia does generally preclude advertising and self-promotion as per Wikipedia:Spam. It requires notability for inclusion. These were the reasons for the article's deletion in September. Further, your discussion of the fund's strategy, while interesting, hardly seems unique and is largely unverifiable. It therefore qualifies as OR.

Finally, I am not making millions working for a hedge fund. I do not work in the financial industry. If I did, it is highly unlikely I would be trying to plug my firm through Wikipedia. --JJay 17:20, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy Dlyons493 Talk 00:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Per JJay, have tagged article for speedy deletion under CSD G4. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 06:32, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was speedy deleted under A7. A clearly absurd claim to fame (world's longest 30 second speech) isn't a proper assertion of notability. Friday (talk) 22:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Glenn Preston

non-notable, possible joke or spam page. Guinness site has no "glenn preston" on its search, and the other site likewise from what I could tell. Delete-- Syrthiss 12:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. - Just zis Guy, you know? 12:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's either a hoke or a joax. That other site was just spam, and I've removed it. TheMadBaron 14:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:11, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grove School moved to Grove School (Madison, Connecticut)

NN, D. ComCat 00:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep & clean up. Encyclopedic. StarryEyes 01:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Clean-up as suggested above. Our Phellap 01:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, N. Christopher Parham (talk) 01:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep the school, and clean-up article. This seems to be a replay of what was discussed a while ago at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/ComCat. --rob 01:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, this is very informative about alternative education not only in Madison, Connecticut but in the United States as a whole. We have very few articles about this kind of school. Also per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. Kappa 01:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. --Vsion 04:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. Unfocused 04:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep needs clean up per StarryEyes.--Newyorktimescrossword 05:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless some evidence of notability is provided. Ever mentioned in a major media? Plane crash on the roof? Missing toddler found in basement, frightened but unharmed, clenched in the jaws of escaped zoo python? No? Then, like a random podcast or some garage band, it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. - brenneman^(t)(c) 08:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Yeah I can see how a plane crash would make all the difference to someone looking for examples of alternative education in Connecticut. Kappa 08:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • What would they actually learn from this article (presuming that they somehow found it) that would not be better placed in Alternative education in Connecticut? - brenneman^(t)(c) 09:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
      • That is a red link so I don't see the relevance of the question. Kappa 09:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
        • That's my point, Kappa. Why spend so much time and energy defending these little bits of low-utility information instead of gathering them together into some coherent form? - brenneman^(t)(c) 09:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
          • If I weren't wasting my time being forced to vote Keep and rename (per Haeleth) on AFD all the time and having to refresh this page to keep people honest - if those people, for instance, would just accept that there is no consensus on school deletions and stop nominating them, I'm certain I'd have more time to create an article or two. Hey, perhaps those people, instead of fruitlessly voting delete and trolling for new schools to nominate could create the article they so desperatly want schools to be merged into? Hipocrite - «Talk» 13:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
          • With respect, you clearly are not aware of the history regarding merging of school articles. This aproach was tried and soundly trounced, as the same individuals who are voting "keep" here swarmed to vote "delete" on the multi-school merges. And please refrain from questioning the good faith of other contributors with phrases like "fruitlessly voting delete and trolling". No reason we can't be civil. - brenneman^(t)(c) 23:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
            • With respect, I am. I will not vote delete on multi-school merges. I will also not vote delete on individual schools. In fact, you will be hard-pressed to find me voting delete on anything but obvious deletes. I believe that a failure to delete an article via contested AFD for what, like 4 months now is fruitless voting, and "trolling for new schools" is trolling in the fishing sense, and not in the under-the-bridge internet sense. I apologize, however, for any misunderstanding. Hipocrite - «Talk» 12:47, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
            • Aye, ok, I'll accept that apology and tender my own as well over troll/troll. In the next couple of days I'll attempt to merge a few smaller school sub-stubs. We'll see what happens, ok? - brenneman^(t)(c) 13:03, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
              • I would be happy to help. I assume the intention is to take a bunch of stubs from a geographic district, create an article "High Schools in x,x,x" and then replace the individual school articles with redirects - for example, where I live now: "High Schools in Brooklyn, New York, USA?" Can I suggest that notable schools with longer articles be shortened and included in stub-format in the list, with a link from their name to their main article? Suggest a starting location! Hipocrite - «Talk» 13:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. Special needs schools are rare and thus more notable than regular schools. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - 70+ year old alternative schools are inherently notable.  BD2412 ^talk 13:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Doomed nominations of schools are not a good use of human or server resources. 82.35.34.11 14:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or merge into a more general article. At the very least, rename to "Grove School, Connecticut" or something. I thought this was going to be about the Grove School I attended for a year as a child, but it turns out it's not even in the right country. Highly specific articles under highly generic headings are not good. — Haeleth Talk 15:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and disambiguate. Oh, and write an article for every 'Grove School' in the world! Trollderella 16:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep — the usual reasons. — RJH 16:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This is just one of anywhere between 40 - 70 notable school articles created every day. Silensor 16:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I love how you don't smile when you say "notable". Denni☯ 02:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, good article about a decent topic. Also rename to a more geographically narrowed name.Gateman1997 20:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This is a pretty good article. --TantalumTelluride 21:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Having reviewed my vote, it stays the same. This is an excellent article that goes into a great deal of detail, and certainly establishes the notability of the subject. Bryan 05:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep And here we have a fairly well crafted article about a school which is notable. Thank you. Denni☯ 02:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Denni. -- DS1953 ^talk 06:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep yet another inherently notable school. Should people of good faith continue to nominate schools?--Nicodemus75 08:15, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Yes. - brenneman^(t)(c) 08:30, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Yes, and to suggest otherwise is both counter to generating consensus and needlessly disruptive to the VFD process.Gateman1997 17:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Yes. Badly written and/or content-free school pages are still badly-written and/or content-free pages, and as such are not immune from the sanctions we place against any other page. Why should school articles get a free ride? Denni☯ 23:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep precious school. Klonimus 05:19, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable school Bwithh 13:59, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep more notable than more schools or better yet Create a School Wiki --JAranda | watz sup 00:43, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Habbo Paper

NN, D. ComCat 00:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep verifiable. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• My own website is verifiable too, but that alone doesn't mean it should have its very own article in an encyclopedia. Policy states this too. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Aha - that old strawman... Come on, surely you can do better. Trollderella 15:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Not notable. StarryEyes 01:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• delete, and wasn't this on AfD already recently? (perhaps under a different name..) — brighterorange (talk) 01:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • No. But see Habbo rares (AfD discussion) and Habbos (AfD discussion). Uncle G 01:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete completely non-notable. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 01:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable...--Isotope23 02:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable per aboveNewyorktimescrossword 05:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Habbo-cruft. — JIP | Talk 09:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable, Self-promotional/vanity Dxco 10:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Forum vanity. Perhaps it can be a link in Habbo Hotel if it contains some relevant information. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per everyone. - Just zis Guy, you know? 14:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable--Jishnu--Jishnua 14:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. not noteable —Wayward ^Talk 14:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete gah. Certainly not notable. Janet13 20:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. --TantalumTelluride 20:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete the article but merge content into Habbo Hotel. This particular fansite is not worthy of its own article. --TantalumTelluride 20:26, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I've reviewed my vote in more depth, as I promised elsewhere, and this one's staying "keep". The article claims a million hits, nothing to sneeze at, and none of the votes cast so far have provided a basis for the claim that this isn't worth an article. What's the point of just saying "non-notable" over and over again? Or worse, someone saying "non-notable" and then someone else saying "what he said"? There's no content here. Bryan 05:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I just wikified the article and added a link to the website. How anyone could vote without doing that I really dont know. How can you know if its non notable without any links in the article? Justinc 09:40, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• del. does not satisfy wp:v. encephalon 10:20, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: one of many fansites for an indeed-notable website: nothing appears to distinguish it from the others. It is already listed on Habbo Hotel so maybe some of the information should be merged there. —Phil | Talk 13:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Obvious. Gamaliel 18:08, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:06, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hamo Field

Appears to be pure vanity. — Anarchivist | Talk 18:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: Agreed, probable delete. He is listed as one of the "notable alumni" from Kalamazoo College on Wikipedia, but he may have added himself. Google brings up very little on the guy and absolutely nothing about his having invented a style of photography! Devotchka 19:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn.--Alhutch 20:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable... Google comes up with 1 relevent hit (though quite a few about Sir Hamo Thornycroft, who apparently died before he was born [12]).--Isotope23 20:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete patent vanity. "Photography from below" was common when I studied photography over 20 years ago, and if there is a genuinely new style going by this name then it is insignificant per Google. - Just zis Guy, you know? 21:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity and not notable. feydey 00:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Vanity and non-notable. The Tokyo Art Beat website [13], which I rely on for news about the Tokyo art scene, has never heard of him. --Calton | Talk 00:12, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was uhhhhhh... no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 06:57, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

14 keep, 11 delete, 8 merge. (Votes such as 'keep or merge' and 'merge or delete' are counted as just 'merge') - Mailer Diablo 06:57, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] High School tram stop

NN, D. ComCat 00:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Firstly what does "NN" mean? Secondly, as I only created this article a few days ago, it hasn't really been given chance to be expanded beyond a stub etc. Our Phellap 00:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

It means its non-notable, delete it. ComCat 00:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

It is one of a series of articles, so why delete this one in particular? Similar articles exist for railway stations, tube stations and tram stops on Midland Metro and Sheffield Supertram. I fail to see the logic for this nomination. Our Phellap 00:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

It doesn't mean anything. There is nothing about notability in deletion policy. Deletion policy does not allow for as much deletion as ComCat's appetite requires, so he is making up new reasons to delete things. Trollderella 16:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Or, it could be a good-faith nomination based on an understood but controversial and uncodified notion of encylcopedic notability. I'm not happy with these terse nominations or the apparent mass nomination, but I don't see any reason to be assuming bad faith when it can be explained as a good-faith misunderstanding or disagreement of what is appropriate for deletion. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 16:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't know why he did it MiB, but mass nomination of seemingly random articles, with no explanation, except a coded reference to something that he must know is not in policy, and is best controversial, is bound to raise a certain amount of irritation. If he wanted to irritate less, he would explain his nominations, or nominate more carefully chosen articles. Trollderella 16:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep as much as I resent the hypocrisy of those who seem fascinated by boxes on wheels and other traincruft.--Nicodemus75 01:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. We have other similar articles. Carioca 01:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, with the exact same sentiments as Nicodemus75. StarryEyes 01:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as part of the abovementioned series. A tram station at a high school? AfD will collapse in upon itself! — mendel ☎ 02:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • A tram stop, not a station? Well, then, delete. Too high precision for an encyclopedia. — mendel ☎ 20:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - note to people deciding on relevant result in these vote/discussions: ComCat seems to have picked a bunch of fairly random stubby articles today and "NN, D."'d them all (16 of the first 20 nominations on today's page, in fact). Going by the mix of articles, I'm not convinced that they wereall judged on any specific merit - several of them are speedy keeps (although it must be said that two or three of them are deletable). Grutness...wha? 02:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep or wikipedia:Tram stations/Arguments#Keep as appropriate. Kappa 04:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep or merge. Kappa 16:47, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but... Keep this only if the article is expanded otherwise, DELETE.---Newyorktimescrossword 05:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, it's verifiable and part of a series. Alphax ^τεχ 06:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep please we have many articles like this it is part of a series ersaing this makes no sense Yuckfoo 06:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with the transit system. Tram stops do move around a bit more than subway stations, Oslo lost one of its tram stops a few months ago, although they are naturally more less mobile than a bus stop. This article is however a very short stub, and unless expanded all the stops can be merged into a list of stops with short descriptions, which is far more reader friendly than separate articles. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect them all into the main article per Sjakkalle. Having them in one article is indeed more friendly. An article on a tram stop is impossible to expand with meaningful encyclopedic information to a state for which a seperate article is warranted. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Do something that isn't keep to this. Merge it, redirect it, delete it, hell, BJOADN it, but I can't imagine an an article on a tram station ever being anything but an unexpandable stub. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 14:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Oh God. You're serious, aren't you? What about Ramle Tram Station, Beckenham Junction station, Birkbeck station etc? Trollderella 16:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Well, not serious about BJAODNing it. This is obviously an unexpandable stub, but I leave it to the wisdom of those who actually want to write about tram stations to arrange it or dispose of it. As for the others, I feel similarly, but lack the energy and desire to seek them out and deal with them. I have a list of cruft to deal with in my own overspecific interests. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 16:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or merge Trollderella 15:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or merge. Having checked it up, this is not a tram station (which might be notable, they tend to be large and locally prominent) but a tram stop, which is equivalent to a bus shelter. See this link, which has a picture of this allegedly notable structure. So this is a footnote to Nottingham Express Transit but on its own the structure is patently non-notable. Or should I create a Wikipedia article for the bus shelter at the end of my road? - Just zis Guy, you know? 18:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

You could, if you wanted to, create that article, and we could deal with it on it's merits. As you know, non-notable is irrelevant to deletion. Trollderella 19:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Hmmmm... could you be a little more condescending? "As you know" not being notable means not being encyclopedic. And what are the phantom "merits" of this article that warrant its inclusion? -R. fiend 19:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

So where, Trollderella, do you place the cutoff point for notability? I'd say a bus shelter for tram passengers is not notable. You are free to disagree, but that is my settled view. - Just zis Guy, you know? 20:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, where do you place the cut off point for how yellow the object is? I don't place a cut-off point for notability, because notability has nothing to do with deletion criteria. It may be your settled view, but it's not deletion policy. Trollderella 22:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per new info brought to light by Just zis Guy, you know?. The title isn't even right, as it is not a station. This ios basically the same as a bus stop. Mention it in the high school article, maybe, if it can be done so without looking ridiculously stupid and amateur, which it probably can't. -R. fiend 18:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - this is a tram stop, not a tram station. There is nothing useful that could be written in an article about a tram stop. - ulayiti (talk) 19:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• For what it's worth, the BBC disagrees with you. Trollderella 22:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Yeah, well, the BBC are not an encyclopaedia. What in particular are you referring to? (Sounds interesting.) - ulayiti (talk) 10:20, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as above. --Carnildo 23:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete non notable. That's a pretty cool 360°, but there's barely anything more than a trashcan and a sign. My little New England city has bigger bus stops than this. Since the article does not seem to give any special significance to this stop, I have to say delete. - orioneight (talk) 00:16, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:50, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • And that is a reason to keep this article? Denni☯ 01:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • It's a reason to reject this nomination. I've reviewed the article further, and there's a whole category for these things: Category:Nottingham Express Transit stations. Rather than deleting them, there's plenty of material here for a larger and more comprehensive article about all of these. Why not merge it all into one big article, if the stubbiness of the existing ones is a problem? What's the reason for deleting this particular station's article? Bryan 05:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • If you like to see it merged, then why not vote to merge? - Mgm|^(talk) 10:10, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete If we wish to drown in a sea of inconsequential trivia, let us welcome articles on bus stops. (Oops - forgot to add my name - Denni☯ 21:02, 27 October 2005 (UTC))

'Drown' is an interesting way to put it, I'm not sure how you'd ever even notice. Trollderella 02:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep train, trolley stations. They don't have to be notable or expandable. Fg2 03:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Please read the above. It is not a station. -R. fiend 03:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable. We're really reaching the bottom of the barrel here, aren't we? - brenneman^(t)(c) 08:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep someone is working on it, its part of a series so deletion would be stupid, and it may later help to give structure to the city articles (in the same say as the tube station ones do with London; Nottingham only has trams not a subway). Justinc 09:58, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • There's a lot of things that can be told about London Underground stations as the The Tube is world-famous and the stations are actually more than a shelter and a sign. We could merge all of it in an article about the tram line, but can you think of any information that can be included in an article on the bus stop. (It's not a station). - Mgm|^(talk) 10:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep' notable. chowells 21:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Nice link to panoramic photo. Honbicot 22:58, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep trolley stations. Klonimus 05:15, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, have you all lost your minds? Gazpacho 06:52, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nothing resembling notable. It is about a tram station at a high school no one cares about (figuratively speaking). It is ridiculous to say anything but delete. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 01:42, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete tram stops. And bus stops. And especially those with a generic name such as this one. Radiant_>|< 17:10, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I have updated the page with more information on its location and service frequency. I have also added some more links. Our Phellap 17:32, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Station on a notable system for which useful information can be given. David Arthur 18:44, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge or delete. The stop hasn't got any sort of substantial infrastructure, and there's nothing else remarkable about it. --A bit iffy 13:43, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or merge; the information about frequency isn't really necessary here as it will become outdated due to redunancy. --SPUI (talk) 16:55, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete just nn --JAranda | watz sup 00:36, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Nobody seems inclined to argue that this isn't a POV fork, and the debate is ongoing at Talk:Rajput. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 17:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hindu rajputs

POV fork of Rajput (currently protected from vandalism) and History of Rajputs.

Simply more bad behavior by "Shivraj" (203.101.53.247 (talk · contribs)/203.101.51.191 (talk · contribs)/203.101.54.165 (talk · contribs)/203.101.54.143 (talk · contribs)/203.101.50.154 (talk · contribs)/203.101.54.195 (talk · contribs)/203.101.51.164 (talk · contribs)) who is bent on inserting anti-Muslim text into the Rajput article. — goethean ॐ 18:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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• Wiki admins please see the discussion page on rajputs. Gothean and other muslims have been repeatedly asked to provide written evidence for there edits against hindu rajputs. Close to a week has gone by and they are refusing to give us bibliography of any books or written evidence. They have the opinion that unless there version of history is accepted by hindu rajputs it is POV. Evidence and good scholarship is not there forte. -Shivraj Singh

• Comment I'm leaning toward delete, but I don't know enough about the ongoing debate to vote. Of note is that the original page Rajput is protected and NPOV is disputed. --Reflex Reaction 18:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Reading some of the comments it appears that Shivraj is pushing a single point of view that multiple users contest, including Goethean, the founder of Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias in religion. As it reads now, I don't think that the Rajput article or the Hindu rajputs is very good but that doesn't qualify it for AFD. Because it is a relatively unknown and extremely controversial topic, I do not think that it will garner many votes except for those involved with the debate. If and when the debate at Rajput is satisfactorally resolved then this article can be relisted again. --Reflex Reaction 23:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I'm willing to trust Goethean's judgement, and this has all the earmarks of a POV fork. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, but spare me an essay, please. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 23:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Man in Black: I am not sure if I have put my point across well. I have created the article from a multitude of books which have been written by eminent historians of yesteryears and modern times. Gothean himself and his friends have been reverting the edits WITHOUT providing a single piece of documented evidence to support there work. And he now admits that he has no citations to prove his and his buddies beliefs. I have cut and pasted what he wrote on User:Dmcdevit's page below. Some of the authors I referenced are:

James Tod: Annals and antiquities of ancient Rajasthan

Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan; or the Central and Western Rajput States... (Hardcover) by James Tod, William Crooke (Editor) Book Description Relates the history of the Central and Western Rajput states of India; edited by William Crooke. 3 volumes. classic on early Rajasthan (amazon.com) Product Hardcover Publisher: Trans-Atl (1994) Language: English ISBN: 8170691281

Prof Dashratha Sharma: Early Chauhan dynasties: A study of Chauhan political history, Chauhan political institutions, and life in the Chauhan dominions, from 800 to 1316 A.D

Product Details Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass; 2d rev. ed edition (1975) Language: English ISBN: 0842606181

Dr. LS Rathore : The glory of ranthambore

Jodhpur university press, Jodhpur (India) First published in 1990

Richard D. Saran and Norman P. Ziegler: Mertiyo Rathors Of Merto, Rajasthan: Select Translations Bearing On The History Of A Rajput Family, 1462-1660

Select Translations Bearing on the History of a Rajput Family, 1462-1660 Translator Saran, Richard D. Annotations by Saran, Richard D. Hardcover Edition: Series#:51; Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia (Hardcover) 772 pages Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN / EAN: 0891480854

Shivraj Singh 01:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Then, by all means, resolve the dispute at Rajput instead of creating a POV fork. The more I read into this, the more I see that no effort has been made to make this anything but a duplicate of an existing article, with a certain POV being advanced. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 01:25, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Resolving the dispute was my intention too on the rajput discussion page. I requested the "other side" to provide a list of books which they used to revert my edits. A week has gone by, they have been pretty vocal and active, but no evidence has been forthcoming. See the section "Talk Facts" on the rajput discussion page. What I wonder is how come no body is asking these guys to come up with supporting evidence? Shivraj Singh 01:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Have some patience. In any case, making a POV fork isn't allowed. Resolve the disputes at Rajput; don't try to bypass the page protection by making a fork. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 01:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I have been waiting patiently for one week now. I am happy to answer any questions that people have on my writings. But what perplexes me is that nobody is asking these muslims, who are reverting my edits to provide any citations. Does everyone here completely beleive them? If so why is it? -- Shivraj Singh 17:46, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete This article is just a cache of article Rajput.الثاقب (WiseSabre| talk) 00:27, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Reflex Reaction,

I have tried to discuss on the talk page because some muslim users were constantly reverting my edits on rajput page. Then I requested the page be protected and also asked these users to provide evidence for there edits. It has been close to a week and they have chosen to not provide any evidence. So what should be assumed in such a circumstance?

The books from which this article is formed are very welll researched books on rajput history written by eminent historians. No one , even on rajput discussion page has provided a single counter evidence to what is written by the following authors.

James Tod did more then 20 years of research when he was living in Rajasthan in 1800's and then published the momentous "Annals and Antiquities of ancient Rajasthan". This is the only book which covers in great detail the history of rajputs. Before him and since him such a comprehensive book has not been published.

Other books I cited were by Professor Dashratha Sharma who took into account quite a few stone writings of various chauhan kings throughout there dominion and also took into account numismatics and the history works written in native Indian languages by the authors of that era. e.g Prithvirajvijay, Hammir MahaKavya etc.

Third book is by an existing professor at Jodhpur university who spent a lot of time researching the Indian works on the life of Hammir and then published has work in English.

These authors are not known to westerners who any way tend to rely more on muslim historians who tend to be very biased towards there kings.

On the rajput discussion page I pointed out how biased muslim historians are even today. MJ Akbar who is a very educated man and a journalist from India published a book recently called "shades of swords" in which he lists the wars of muslim kings but completely glosses over the severe defeats Ghori suffered in Gujarat in 1178 at Kayadara and later at Taraori in Haryana in 1191. And there are many more omissions.

Reason we have so much acrimony because muslims have been fed one version of the history by there historians in which there kings are shown as superhumans and rajput kings were shown as pushovers. Reality is far too different as many historians have pointed out. I presented a complete bibliography which they have managed to delete also. (I am in the process of collecting the publishers etc for these books in the bibliography. I am travelling and am away from my library but I will gather all the info by COB friday).

-Shivraj Singh

PS: User Goethean is an extremely biased hindu hater. Here is an example:

Gothean has been selectively removing hindu responses from the wiki talkpage on rajputs. He is calling himself a moderator but I let the post from raja(who happens to be a muslim), where he talks about insecurity of faith, sit there on the talk page for more then 24 hours. Goethean was nowhere to be found. Then someone called me a moron and Goethean was still on snooze. Finally I responded to raja and then Gothean woke up instantaneously and started deleting stuff. When I ask him to explain this duplicity in behavior he remains silent. See the difff below. Raja is a muslim user who made an assertion on insecurity of faith and then I responded.

1. cur) (last) 18:55, 26 October 2005 203.101.51.164 (→Talk facts)
2. (cur) (last) 17:56, 26 October 2005 Goethean (→Hindu Rajputs)

Your arguments would be more respected if you signed in as a user, learned wiki formatting and stopped using ad hominem attacks and perhaps sockpuppets. I do not agree with everything that User:Goethean has done, but he is familiar with the rules and conventions of wikipedia, even though it he may have broken some of those rules. From reading the comments you should be more familiar with Wikiquette. If you would like to discuss further contact me at my user page and I would be glad to help you. --Reflex Reaction 20:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Point well taken Reflex_Reaction. I have created an account. As I have repeatedly stated we should ask Goethean and his friends to provide us documentary evidence for there edits. Since I have already requested them multiple times for this info maybe somebody else asking might have better cooperation from them. The response I have gotten from a user on the other side of this discussion is "Again why should we? Who cares?". I suggested to him this is not an answer and he has been vocal about other things but no citations. Please see rajput discussion section "Talk facts". -- Shivraj Singh 01:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Goethean admits he and his buddies have no evidence

Please look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dmcdevit and the heading Rajput. It is the 20th heading.

Hi there. I believe that it was you who protected the Rajput article. In the pursuit of resolution of the dispute, I would like to add some text to the article. Unfortunately, it has not been approved by all parties, but nonetheless, here it is:

Some see the Rajput varna as including followers of all four major religions of the sub-continent: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Sikhism. Others dispute the claim that non-Hindus can be Rajputs, seeing the Rajput identity as comprised primarily of participation in Hindu religious rites and the Hindu caste system rather than one of ethnic heritage.

This would replace the last sentence of the "Definition" section. Unfortunately, at this point, we don't have citations to back up the attributions. Thanks! — goethean ॐ 18:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

-Shivraj

Rajputana is not my area of expertise, but I know how to find info. I searched my Questia account for recent books on Rajputs and came up with three, with are listed on the talk page for Rajput. There were many more. Shivraj is using four books, one of which is an old primary source, two of which are local Indian productions (and possibly Hindutva-slanted), and one reputable academic text of limited scope. I know enough about India, and communal violence in India, to know that Shivraj is pushing an extreme Hindu POV. What I've skimmed of the books I found on Questia suggests that Goethean and the other editors are correct in seeing the question in shades of grey, rather than Shivraj's simplistic black-and-white narrative. Identity is not a simple matter, and especially so in India. Please don't let this POV fork stand. Zora 07:14, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Zora. Richard Saran is from the west so his work is reputable and these other professors are "possibly hindutva slanted"? Have you read these books to arrive at this conclusion or is it a prejudice? I have personally communicated with Richard Saran a few times and he has sent me good amount of material from his personal collection which helped me trace my genealogy back to Rao Sheoji of Marwar. Let us see how Richard did his research (He told me this when I spoke to him). He went to India and translated marwari/dingal manuscripts of rathore kings in a particular time window. Then he got the genealogies of various rajput clans from Manohar Singh Ranawat of Sitamau, who is a direct descendant of Maharana Pratap, and is also a protege of Raghubir Singh the ruler of Sitamau. Raghubir Singh is an eminent historian and wrote the life of Durgadas Rathore which is present in my bibliography. It took Richard and Norman couple of decades to bring there work out i.e painstaking research over a very long period of time.

Prof. Dashratha Sharma and Dr LS Rathore researched works like HammirMahaKavya, Prithiviraj Vijaya, PrithvirajRaso and various stone inscriptions in rajasthan and numismatic evidence and after many dedicated years of research published there respective works. To trivialize them as "hindutva.." is bad scholarship.

I have not mentioned just four books. Please see the Reference section of this page.

You claim you know India and communal violence there. Then you use sweeping generalizations of shades of grey and black and white. I want you to be very precise and point out what is anti muslim or hindutva POV in my post on this page.

What is astonishing on this wiki is I have provided a complete bibliography from which I formed this article and yet I am the one who is being accused of pushing POV, being a hindutva wadi and anti muslim. When these muslims reverted my edits and I asked them for supporting citations they refuse to provide even a single piece of documented evidence and yet they are not considered POV pushing, or just clueless about rajput history. I asked them 5 precise questions on the rajput talk page and I asked them to provide citations so that we can engage in a logical discussion but I received a blank and nobody is bothered here ? What am I missing? -- Shivraj Singh 17:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

It has nothing to do with Hindutva.

In the same light, if one were to look at history, with the statement of "pronounced anti-Muslim agenda" then the enitire History of the Jewish people during the holocaust of Worl war 2 can be viewed as a "Pronounced Anti-german, anti-european, anti-christian agenda". To deny what has happened will only further divide and embitter communities.

In this discussion, Shivraj Singh is citing references and making attempts for individuals on this site to see the reality of the situation and the claims being made without foundation. Shivraj is not working with very few books, since a study in any ASouth Asian Studies department will provide you with a huge list of books that narrate the atrocities committed in the subcontinent by the Islamic invasion. Its not about being anti-Islamic, its just about what happened as recorded by Islamic historians who happened to be quite amazing in their prcise accounts of what happened and how they crushed and destroyed the inhabitants of India.

Irfan Husain, a Muslim and a freelance columnist from Pakistan has observed:

”While historical events should be judged in the context of their times, it cannot be denied that even in that bloody period of history, no mercy was shown to the Hindus unfortunate enough to be in the path of either the Arab conquerors of Sindh and south Punjab, or the Central Asians who swept in from Afghanistan.

The Muslim heroes who figure larger than life in our history books committed some dreadful crimes. Mahmud of Ghazni, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak, Balban, Mohammed bin Qasim, and Sultan Mohammad Tughlak, all have blood-stained hands that the passage of years has not cleansed. Indeed, the presence of Muslim historians on their various campaigns has ensured that the memory of their deeds will live long after they were buried.

Seen through Hindu eyes, the Muslim invasion of their homeland was an unmitigated disaster. Their temples were razed, their idols smashed, their women raped, their men killed or taken slaves. When Mahmud of Ghazni entered Somnath on one of his annual raids, he slaughtered all 50,000 inhabitants. Aibak killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands. The list of horrors is long and painful.

These conquerors justified their deeds by claiming it was their religious duty to smite non-believers. Cloaking themselves in the banner of Islam, they claimed they were fighting for their faith when, in reality, they were indulging in straightforward slaughter and pillage. When these warriors settled in India, they ruled as absolute despots over a cowed Hindu populace. For generations, their descendants took their martial superiority over their subjects for granted. "... And a substantial number of Pakistani Muslims are secretly convinced that they are inherently superior to the Hindus. One irony, of course, is that contrary to their wishful thinking, the vast majority of Muslims in the subcontinent have more Hindu blood in their veins than there is Arab, Afghan, Turkish or Persian blood. Many of the invaders took Hindu wives and concubines."

Reference: Demons from the past - By Ifran Husain - dailytimes.com.pk

Thus from here you can see that this is not about being Anti-Islamic, however denying what has happened, or simply denying th holocaust of the subcontinent will not win people's minds in favour of Islam, instead it will further create an feeling of animosity since in this discussion alone their has been a lot of denial of the truth.

Furthermore, Rajput is a strata of the hierarchial system of the Hindus, and for a Muslim to claim to be part of the Hindu Hierarchy clearly violates the beliefs and tenents of Islam, however here we find the convinience of claiming what one wishes to from a Pagan/Kafur faith and yet claiming to be a Muslim, there is an oxymoron.

VS Naipaul, we all know is a Noble Laureate and even he can see what Shivraj Singh is trying to state:

Sir Vidiadhar S. Naipaul (1932 - ) Nobel laureate, He is the author of several books including Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, and India: A Wounded Civilization. He has said: "India was wrecked and looted, not once but repeatedly by invaders with strong religious ideas, with a hatred of the religion of the people they were conquering. People read these accounts but they do not imaginatively understand the effects of conquest by an iconoclastic religion."

"India became the great land for Muslim adventurers and the peasantry bore this on their back, they were enslaved quite literally. It just went on like this from the 11th century onwards."

Vidiadhar Naipaul summed up the situation well. He said, "In art and history books, people write of the Muslims "arriving" in India as though they came on a tourist bus and went away again. The Muslim view of their conquest is a truer one. They speak of the triumph of faith, the destruction of idols and temples, the loot, the casting away of locals as slaves." Reference: Economic Times - http://www.economictimes.com/today/30poli04.htm

And even Islamic texts state what happened:

The temple of Somnath, which is not very far from Dwaraka, is dedicated to Lord Siva as Nagnath or Nageshwar Mahadev, and enshrines one of the twelve ‘Jyotirlingas’ which according to the Puranas manifested themselves as columns of light in different parts of the country. The magnificent temple that stands there now is a replica of the original temple. The 13th century Arab source refers to the glories of the temple thus: "Somnath - a celebrated city of India situated on the shore of the sea is washed by its waves. Among the wonders of that place was the temple in which was placed the idol called Somnat. This idol was in the middle of the temple, without anything to support it from below or to suspend it from above. It was held in the highest honour among the Hindus, and whoever beheld it floating in the air was struck with amazement..."

Reference: Sultan Alau’d-Din Khalji (1296-1316), in Tarikh-I-Firuz Shahi

And another article for you by another muslim Rizwan Salim:

" It is clear that India at the time when Muslim invaders turned towards it (8 to 11th century) was the earth's richest region for its wealth in precious and semi-precious stones, gold and silver, religion and culture, and its fine arts and letters. Tenth century Hindustan was also too far advanced than its contemporaries in the East and the West for its achievements in the realms of speculative philosophy and scientific theorizing, mathematics and knowledge of nature's workings. Hindus of the early medieval period were unquestionably superior in more things than the Chinese, the Persians (including the Sassanians), the Romans and the Byzantines of the immediate proceeding centuries. The followers of Siva and Vishnu on this subcontinent had created for themselves a society more mentally evolved-joyous and prosperous too-than had been realized by the Jews, Christians, and Muslim monotheists of the time. Medieval India, until the Islamic invaders destroyed it, was history's most richly imaginative culture and one of the five most advanced civilizations of all times.

Look at the Hindu art that Muslim iconoclasts severely damaged or destroyed. Ancient Hindu sculpture is vigorous and sensual in the highest degree-more fascinating than human figural art created anywhere else on earth. (Only statues created by classical Greek artists are in the same class as Hindu temple sculpture). Ancient Hindu temple architecture is the most awe-inspiring, ornate and spell-binding architectural style found anywhere in the world. (The Gothic art of cathedrals in France is the only other religious architecture that is comparable with the intricate architecture of Hindu temples). No artist of any historical civilization have ever revealed the same genius as ancient Hindustan's artists and artisans.

Their minds filled with venom against the idol-worshippers of Hindustan, the Muslims destroyed a large number of ancient Hindu temples. This is a historical fact, mentioned by Muslim chroniclers and others of the time. A number of temples were merely damaged and remained standing. But a large number - not hundreds but many thousands - of the ancient temples were broken into shreds of cracked stone. In the ancient cities of Varanasi and Mathura, Ujjain and Maheshwar, Jwalamukhi and Dwarka, not one temple survives whole and intact from the ancient times.

It is easy to conclude that virtually every Hindu temple built in the ancient times is a perfect work of art. The evidence of the ferocity with which the Muslim invaders must have struck at the sculptures of gods and goddesses, demons and apsaras, kings and queens, dancers and musicians is frightful. At so many ancient temples of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, for example, shattered portions of stone images still lie scattered in the temple courtyards. Considering the fury used on the idols and sculptures, the stone-breaking axe must have been applied to thousands upon thousands of images of hypnotic beauty.

Giving proof of the resentment that men belonging to an inferior civilization feel upon encountering a superior civilization of individuals with a more refined culture, Islamic invaders from Arabia and western Asia broke and burned everything beautiful they came across in Hindustan. So morally degenerate were the Muslim Sultans that, rather than attract Hindu "infidels" to Islam through force of personal example and exhortation, they just built a number of mosques at the sites of torn down temples-and foolishly pretended they had triumphed over the minds and culture of the Hindus. "

" I have seen stones and columns of Hindu temples incorporated into the architecture of several mosques, including the Jama Masjid and Ahmed Shah Masjid in Ahmedabad; the mosque in the Uparkot fort of Junagadh (Gujarat) and in Vidisha (near Bhopal); the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra right next to the famous dargah in Ajmer-and the currently controversial Bhojshala "mosque" in Dhar (near Indore).

Hindu culture was at its imaginative best and vigorously creative when the severely-allergic-to-images Muslims entered Hindustan. Islamic invaders did not just destroy countless temples and constructions but also suppressed cultural and religious practices; damaged the pristine vigor of Hindu religion, prevented the intensification of Hindu culture, debilitating it permanently, stopped the development of Hindu arts ended the creative impulse in all realms of thought and action, damaged the people's cultural pride, disrupted the transmission of values and wisdom, cultural practices and tradition from one generation to the next; destroyed the proper historical evolution of Hindu kingdoms and society, affected severely the acquisition of knowledge, research and reflection and violated the moral basis of Hindu society. The Hindus suffered immense psychic damage. The Muslims also plundered the wealth of the Hindu kingdoms, impoverished the Hindu populace, and destroyed the prosperity of Hindustan."

" Gaze in wonder at the Kailas Mandir in the Ellora caves and remember that it is carved out of a solid stone hill, an effort that (inscriptions say) took nearly 200 years. This is art as devotion. The temple built by the Rashtrakuta kings (who also built the colossal sculpture in the Elenhanta caves off Mumbai harbour) gives proof of the ancient Hindus' religious fervor.

The descendants of those who built the magnificent temples of Bhojpur and Thanjavur, Konark and Kailas, invented mathematics and brain surgery, created mindbody disciplines (yoga) of astonishing power, and built mighty empires would almost certainly have attained technological superiority over Europe.

It is not just for "political reasons" that Hindus want to build grand temples at the sites of the (wrecked) Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, and the Mathura idgah. The efforts of religion-intoxicated and politically active Hindus to rebuild the Ram Mandir, the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, and the Krishna Mandir are just three episodes m a one-thousand year long Hindu struggle to reclaim their culture and religion from alien invaders.

The demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992 was just one episode in the millennial struggle of the Hindus to repossess their religion-centered culture and nation. Meanwhile, hundreds of ancient Hindu temples forsaken all over Hindustan await the reawakening of Hindu cultural pride to be repaired or rebuilt and restored to their original, ancient glory.

Reference: What the invaders really did - By Rizwan Salim - hindustantimes.com - December 28, 1997

Thus it is not about anti-Islam, not at all, many muslims know what has happened and they feel bad, thus it brings about a feeling of forgiveness and a chance for understanding, however, it seems, that here it is a complete Anti-Hindu situation with an attempt to subvert and distort the truth. I have yet to see one of my muslim colleagues claim I was anti-Islamic simly because I spoke about the truth and historucal fact.

I hope I have been of some assistance.

Dr. Chauhan Gorkhali 10:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. – Alphax ^τεχ 07:43, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hopesfall

Barely breaks 20,000 Google hits, website's Alexa rating did not break the two million mark. Delete. A Link to the Past (talk) 12:00, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

• leave it up —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.34.172 (talk • contribs) 12:42, 19 October 2005

• I was going to say clean it up and keep it, since they've got discography, etc, but some wiseass decided to delete the other comments left here (check the history) in regards to the article and replace it with "leave it up". Charming. Does that warrant a deletion? Devotchka 00:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Yeah, I know, keep. I was just annoyed by the random vandalism. :) Devotchka 03:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• I restored the AfD page after the vandalism. No vote for now. StarryEyes 02:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Has AllMusic entry, meets WP:MUSIC criteria, keep & clean up. StarryEyes 02:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Yeah Trustkill is one of the "Major indie" labels. 2 albums on Trustkill=Meets WP:MUSIC.--CastAStone 03:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per WP:music. Two albums on a notable independent label and their A Types album making the Billboard independent charts see [14]. Capitalistroadster 03:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Three albums (two on a notable label) and an EP out; first Christian screamo band signed to a mainstream label; has pages on AllMusic and MTV, have done several tours covering the East and West coasts of the US and parts of Canada; and have toured with The Juliana Theory and The Ataris. That meets WP:MUSIC. Also... 20,000 Google hits is a rather high application of the Google test, isn't it? --Idont Havaname 04:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, Please stop spamming. Trollderella 16:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • This is a good-faith error, from someone who doesn't often nominate articles for deletion. Assume good faith, eh? - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 18:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry! It's just been a bad day for AFDSPAM. Trollderella 22:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, as they clearly pass WP:MUSIC. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 18:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was KEEP. 23 keep votes and 9 delete votes (discounting the one added by a sock puppet), which is a borderline keep consensus. — JIP | Talk 08:05, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Horace Mann Elementary School (Oak Park, Illinois)

See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horace Mann Elementary School (Oak Park, Illinois) (2nd nomination) for moved discussion of 2nd nom. --Rob 04:57, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

NN, D. ComCat 00:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Comment. This is a slightly expanded version of a previously AfD'd and deleted article - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horace Mann Elementary School. They have at least learned to leave out the bit about melting snowpeople. -- RHaworth 09:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I have now restored and merged Horace Mann Elementary School so that anyone can judge how different the new version is. -- RHaworth 10:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it's a far cry from "many parents prefer it"--Nicodemus75 10:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Currently operating public school, keep. StarryEyes 01:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. "NN, D." is not even an intelligible rationale for a nomination.--Nicodemus75 01:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand Our Phellap 01:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, N. Christopher Parham (talk) 01:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. --rob 01:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. There is also a "Horace Mann Elementary School" in Broome County, New York. (I think it's the Binghamton or Johnson City or Union-Endicott school district.) I don't see a disambiguation page so one should be added if the NY school gets added. I'm not a "keep" voter on elementary schools without evidence of other significance, so I won't be bold and do it. There are likely many other elementary schools by that name, probably all of them not notable within their category but wonderful to a segment of their local community. Barno 01:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Without the city/state disambiguation, there was an earlier HMES article deleted 10 Feb 2005 (with the usual wet-fish-slap debating points) at [15]. Barno 02:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• N, K. JYolkowski // talk 02:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Utterly devoid of anything approximating notability, unless having a field counts. Denni☯ 03:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, inherently-N. --Vsion 04:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. Unfocused 04:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, good work Silensor thanks for helping build NPOV coverage of education. Kappa 04:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

That's what's Education and Education in the United States is for. Articles on individual schools don't help us cover education any better. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, but... Keep but needs expansion!--Newyorktimescrossword 05:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep please this school is important so we should include it Yuckfoo 06:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand how this school is important (ie, in the context of the many tens of thousands of schools that exist).Dxco 10:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• It's a sewage plant, it affects thousands of lives, we must kee... oh, wait, it's a school. Delete per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Delete. Nothing special about schools. - brenneman^(t)(c) 08:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete There are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of school in existence. Those which represent something noteworthy merit inclusion in wikipedia, whereas this school sounds like just another ordinary school. Dxco 10:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with the school district its in until it's seriously expanded. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep because it's a school. — JIP | Talk 11:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete because it's a school. --Bucephalus talk to me 12:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This article tells me where the school is and how many students it has, and will likely not ever offer any other useful information, making it an unexpandable stub. Anyone who wants to prove me wrong by adding something othan demographic information is free to do so, however. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 12:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Doomed nominations of schools are not a good use of human or server resources. CalJW 14:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and stop AFD Spamming. Trollderella 16:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Keep. At the very least, please have the courtesy to use full sentences when nominating an article for deletion. Silensor 16:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments#Delete and to meet my once a week quota of votes against schoolcruft.--Isotope23 16:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: if we're going to have articles on every single school in the world (which it seems some people are determined to make happen) can we please limit to info to that which will remain consistent for years? No one is going to update a quarter of a million school articles regularly (hell, many of these are AfDed as substubs, are voted to be kept and expanded, and remain sustubs for eternity). Principals come and go (my high school had 3 in the 4 years I was there), exact student enrollments change daily. Information like that should be supplied by external links to the high school's sites (which will be updated). Give an approximate size ("about 200", "over 1000" etc.) and keep the rest to relatively consistent stuff, otherwise, as the articles become dated, we'll have incorrect information, which I think we can all agree is not good for the project. -R. fiend 19:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • This is a reasonable request. Whenever possible we should be dating when the principal was in office, that way when they do change we can build a historical list of principals who have served at the school, including the years they served. The same goes with enrollment counts, we should either round the numbers off slightly and state that the figures are approximate, or provide a dated source for the information so the reader is aware that these figures may have changed, as they tend to do. Silensor 19:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Again, I don't really see this happening. Most school pages are stubs that will never be significantly expanded. Trying to make the scope of the school inundations greater by adding more pretty insignificant details is just going to increase the half-assed manner in which most of these articles are put together. Trying to have not only the current, but all past principals is going to fail. Utterly. The "best" that is likely to happen is someone will find their old high school and add who the principal was the years they were there, giving us a few names with some approximate dates and many gaps (with much still largely unverified). We have to face up to the fact that school articles by and large aren't going to get the attention they need to keep them up to date. There is plenty about the schools that won't change much over the years, and that is what people should be concentrating on when writing such articles. -R. fiend 22:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
      • You are quite correct. I reviewed all the school articles for the states of Texas and California, and found twelve that were more than a year old. Of those twelve, only two had undergone extensive revision since their create date. Another five showed adequate growth, and were no longer just substubs. The remaining five were pretty much in the same state as they were when first written, with little or no new information added. I expect this trend will continue when the huge number of school articles created in the last six months reaches a year of age. It seems people are keen to create a mass of stubs, but when it comes to adding meat to the bones, their enthusiasm is elsewhere. Denni☯ 01:46, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Can someone point out something about this school that sets it apart from any other public institution? Anything at all?--inks^T 19:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, stub with little future, and because this AFD is a good use of time for humans and a waste of server space.Gateman1997 20:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete skjnmi Gazpacho 20:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy-delete as re-creation of previously-VFD'd content. --Carnildo 23:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:50, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I've reviewed my vote, as I promised elsewhere, and it's staying "keep". This appears to be a perfectly good article, no different than many other school articles throughout Wikipedia (and better than many to boot), so unless there's some compelling reason to delete this particular one I see no reason to. A school article that grows from its initial state is a good thing. Bryan 05:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Perfectly good article. Wonder why the original version was deleted. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 01:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. -- DS1953 ^talk 05:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Interesting footnote to the importance of Horace Mann. Justinc 10:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep cmon, all schools are worthy of inclusion. Klonimus 05:16, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep. This has a chance to be made notable. It needs to be greatly expanded though. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 01:45, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete It's a school. It's non-notable. Bwithh 14:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep, interesting article, plenty of potential! Thanks! Babajobu 20:56, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Delete This article is nothing but a paragraph about a field. LyndaBaquero 14:01, 30 October 2005 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.91.78 (talk • contribs)
  • The preceeding was by an anon who tried to change somebody elses vote, and also signed there vote with a user's name. --rob 10:04, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn elementary school --JAranda | watz sup 00:32, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• K, N. —RaD Man (talk) 05:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. — ceejayoz ^talk 23:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hummer Card

NN, D. ComCat 00:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep real magic trick. As usual, deletionists are morons. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Oi! NPA, eh? — mendel ☎ 02:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull this Keep out of my hat! As notable as all the other magic tricks we have articles on. Incidentally, I think that explaining magic tricks behind a spoiler warning is a fantastic thing for an encyclopedia to do. — mendel ☎ 02:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per mendel. StarryEyes 03:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep real magic trick as Ms. Purplefeltangel pointed out, but I think it should be expanded, maybe include notable magicians who perform the trick, maybe find out what creative mind came up with the trick etc, etc.KnowledgeOfSelf 05:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep sounds good to me and per above reasons.---Newyorktimescrossword 05:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, notability established. Could use an appropriate category. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep please it is a real and verifiable magic trick and the article has improved alot Yuckfoo 06:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, article has basics about real magic effect. It should be expanded though. Perhaps drop it off at Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic? - Mgm|^(talk) 11:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, there are in excess of 3 million hits on Google. ComCat, do you do any research before trying to get something removed? --BenM 13:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • To his credit, there's only 977 Google results for "hummer card"; much of the three million include things like the opportunity to rent a Hummer with your Visa, or to give your significant other a card in order to receive, well, you know. — mendel ☎ 13:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and please, let's have some guidelines about AFD Spamming. Trollderella 16:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as WP:V and I refer some people back to WP:CIVIL.--Isotope23 16:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: verifiable and somewhat notable. --TantalumTelluride 21:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. And I rewrote it just now to make it more encyclopedic. Janet13 21:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as rewritten. Nice save. MCB 22:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Speedy Delete Per CSD G4 Karmafist 03:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)Explanation on Talk Page

[edit] Jagism

This was previously discussed and deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jagism. I don't think the current text is "Substantially identical" so I didn't tag it for a speedy delete under WP:CSD G4 (which was my first inclination). Howver, few if any of the problems which led to it being deleted, and very recently at that, have been fixed. Delete and protect the deleted page to prevent future recreations. DES ^(talk) 00:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. ComCat 00:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep important philosophy. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete. The problems which got it deleted the first time have in no way been addressed. We don't need to debate it every time. —Cryptic (talk) 02:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jeff M. Dym

Appears to be a hoax. says who???Yahoo cannot find a "Radiological Imaging Center" in Los Angeles, Google cannot find a publisher called "Rays Press", and although there is a Dr. Jeffrey M. Dym working in radiology, he lives in Maryland. Delete. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 23:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. According to this article, he works both in proctology and in the penile field. Plus, he has the ability to take X-Rays of his heart. I have a feeling that it's fake. PersonDude 23:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Speedy Deleted by Jni as nn-bio. --GraemeL ^(talk) 13:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jesse Ramer

Vanity Page 24.127.127.190 08:03, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Out of 7 opinions, 5 were for delete, 2 for keep. This is more than about 2/3s consensus to delete, hence delete. HappyCamper 03:03, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jewdriver

Was at one stage tagged as speedy but does not meet the criteria. However, also does not appear to meet WP:MUSIC, so delete. OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 14:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete this, as failing WP:MUSIC. All of the content from the article about this non-notable band is already in the Skrewdriver article. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 15:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Hm. On closer inspection, it seems this may be notable in Germany, which would explain why they didn't show up on in the usual places. Abstain for now. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 17:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • No, I was right the first time, I think. Based on my elementary understanding of German, I think there's a German band with the same name. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 17:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
      • There are 4,780 German language Google hits for Jewdriver, and all the ones I check seem to speak of "Jewdriver aus Kalifornien" or mention that they are from Oakland; they have also apparently made a CD together with a Christian band called Jesus Skins. These, on the other hand, appear to be from Hamburg and sing in German.[16][17]. Uppland 18:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
        • Oh. Well, I guess I should go back to elementary school. Anyway, if they've only made a split EP and a self-published album, that's not even close to WP:MUSIC, even with German-language buzz. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 18:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete tribute band with political aspirations, clearly minions of Stan the lot of them. - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete because it doesn't meet WP:MUSIC, but kudos for cracking me up. Weird thing is that when I saw their name in the AfD before I read the article I thought "a Jewish Skrewdriver parody band perhaps? Nah, who would think of that..."--Isotope23 16:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. 11,000 Google hits, including some in German, indicates some degree of notability. Uppland 17:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. — Anarchivist | Talk 18:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. --Arm 17:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:MUSIC. Radiant_>|< 17:19, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 03:01, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jorge Garibaldi

Non-notable person. Being sacked from Big Brother in Mexico before the premiere, isn't enought to warrant an article in my opinion. Bjelleklang - talk 21:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC) Delete per nom. - and as far as I'm concerned the same applies to every article about every contestant in every "reality" TV show in every country on the planet. - Just zis Guy, you know? 21:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete-this sort of thing belongs in the Big Brother article, assuming there is one. Devotchka 21:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Note Reverted page, as it was blanked by 169.229.76.224, who also removed the afd tag from the article. Bjelleklang - talk 22:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I can't find anything verifiable. Only real reference is a persional facebook.com entry. --Tabor 00:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Berkeley student prank/hoax. --JJay 00:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Relax guys... this Jorge character checks out. I work with MTV in LA and called our international dept and verified that he was in fact on the show. The books were published but violated his contract with MTV so they were recalled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.210.234 (talk • contribs)
• Delete. Berkeley student. He's an idiot.

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The result of the debate was SPEEDY KEEP (withdrawn by nominator). — ceejayoz ^talk 23:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Keele ward

I'm not completely sure about this one, is this guy notable enough? I'm an idiot never mind Withdraw nom. (Relax!)Gator1 19:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Is this guy notable enough??!! This is about a political ward, not a person! Grunners 19:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy Keep presumably mistaken Afd nomination Dlyons493 Talk 20:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep per above. Punkmorten 20:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 03:35, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Keyfile

This article appears to have been created solely for the purpose of advertising a product and does not contain any content that would be useful outside of that context. Thatdog 08:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Rewrite or delete. The concept itself is very notable and important but the current contents are blatant advertising. — JIP | Talk 09:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Changing vote to keep as rewritten by just zis guy, you know?

• delete Advertising. Should this ever become more than a single product, the topic could be revisited afresh by an interested user at that time. Dxco 10:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Article as written was advertorial, I've replaced it with a brief description of the legitimate computer terminology as per my understanding of it. - Just zis Guy, you know? 12:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep in the rewritten form. Thanks for the rewire. Now a perfectly valid short article. DES ^(talk) 16:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Excellent rewrite! Thatdog 19:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep rewritten article and well done Just zis Guy. Capitalistroadster 23:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:59, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kim Jong Il Fan Club

Group made up of a bunch of kids in North Dakota, containing one of the officers' email address. I'm tempted to leave it up so that email-harvesting spambots collect it, but I must resist. Delete. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 21:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Probably put up by The Braden Kirkey, who is also up for deletion and is ALSO a Kim Jong Il fan in North Dakota. Devotchka 22:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Yes, the article proudly lists Secretary/Treasurer Braden Kirkey as the contact point. Unverifiable and certainly not encyclopedic. Sliggy 22:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, probably speedy as CSD:A6, attack page. MCB 23:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -feydey 00:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, maybe redirect to Korean Friendship Association. Gazpacho 05:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. — JIP | Talk 05:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:58, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kotava

We need good NPOV articles about notable conlangs. This is a POV article about a non-notable conlang. DenisMoskowitz 14:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. DenisMoskowitz 15:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete a google search returns only 201 entries, of which over 5 of the top 20 are Wikipedia sites, non-notable conlang --Reflex Reaction 19:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and fix to NPOV. Who are you do say a language even conlang is insignificant to be on WP? What's the scale to judge with? I'm not an adept of any conlang, but an article about this one doesn't hurt WP as long as it's NPOV ---moyogo 06:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • 1. It's not NPOV, it seems to be a clumsily translated advertisement. If you can fix that, please go ahead.
  • 2. As an editor, I have as much right to say something is insignificant as anyone else.
  • 3. IMHO, Wikipedia doesn't need to contain every pet project known to a circle of friends (Wikipedia is not a soapbox). There are certainly notable conlangs (those known by large numbers of people, those that influence other conlangs, those that appear in mass media, etc.) but with the evidence available to me, this doesn't appear to be one. DenisMoskowitz 13:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak delete. Honestly, I've been thinking this over for quite a while. It was me who put the {{NPOV}}-tag in the first place, then asked some questions on Talk:Kotava and brought up the topic on Talk:Constructed language#Kotava. The language seems to have a small community of users indeed, but consensus says that that alone does not make a conlang notable enough for inclusion. The number of Google hits, on the other hand, speaks out firmly against inclusion. Unfortunately, I didn't get any reply to my remarks about the POV character of the article, nor to my questions about what else would make the language notable. I would probably have abstained if the writer of the article had at least taken the effort to remove the propagandistic elements, but its current contents, in combination with a lack of convincing arguments regarding notability, make it pretty impossible for me to vote otherwise than delete. --IJzeren Jan 10:14, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:56, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lcirc

Non-notable IRC network. At 250 users, it doesn't even merit a footnote. -- Captain Disdain 23:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. -- Captain Disdain 23:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete agreed. Devotchka 23:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. — JIP | Talk 05:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:55, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] LEFPro

nn company Gator1 19:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Not only NN, but they seem to have trouble deciding what their acronym is. No relevant Google hits. Devotchka 19:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom --MacRusgail 20:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom - Just zis Guy, you know? 20:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 03:36, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Liquid Candybar, That Kind of White Sunset, Liquid Candybar (album)

Delete. Unsigned band that apparently has recorded two albums on their own (the sencond one recorded in their basement, I believe. Not meeting WP:music. And unlike Prussian Blue, these guys do not appear to be neo-nazis that got a segment on ABC news. —Gaff ^ταλκ 02:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Here's a rule of thumb for band AfD's: if their official website ends in .tk, it's all but certainly safe to delete. StarryEyes 03:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• delete, but i like the desperate "They are extremely important" bit at the end! Souk 03:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • You know when they add that, they're really scraping the barrel... Saberwyn 02:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 11:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per above - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This appears to be a legitimately significant band. See the link to White Supremacy Psych-pop.

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The result of the debate was Keep --JAranda | watz sup 01:12, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of individuals executed in New York

Small list with no meaning to it. RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 02:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete:Per nomination. RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 02:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep There are a great many such lists already on Wiki. See, for example, List of individuals executed in Alabama, among many others. Brandon39 07:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep In light of the fact that current list policies do allow list of people in Alabama, etc, why not New York? Janet13 07:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, if it's too small expansion is the way to go. Valid subject. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Obviously. Trollderella 16:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep --MacRusgail 20:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per the Alabama list. - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unless expanded. These single item lists are a disgrace. -R. fiend 21:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Being a stub is not an argument for deletion. - A Link to the Past (talk) 22:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes - if it's a disgrace, which I'm not convinced it is, then expand it! Trollderella 22:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Why should I have to do a bunch of research on a topic I have no real interest in because someone can't be bothered to write their own crappy article? You're the one who wants to keep article. You make it halfway worthwhile. I'm sick of people who decide to write "articles" but can't even do the most minimal job of making it anything but a piece of shit. -R. fiend 01:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Keep the expansion. Thank you, Evil Monkey, for doing what no one else could be bothered to do, in making a halfway decent article here. -R. fiend 15:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• I just want to say that a list can't only be one person. RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 01:08, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree - please feel free to add some more - it's just not a reason to delete it. Trollderella 01:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and expand. CalJW 01:30, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I've expanded the list with people I found who had articles and were executed by the state of New York (which is why the Rosenbergs are not on the list - they were executed by the United States Federal Government). Evil Monkey∴Hello 04:17, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep dead folks are harmless. Klonimus 05:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete - applies to this list, and all related subpages listed here. Please request an undeletion if there is a desire to edit this material in the future. HappyCamper 02:47, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of plagiarism songs

surely it cannot be a good idea to have a potentially libellous page of essentially unsourced allegations? Nunh-huh 06:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• anyone can check the information and make his own decision how to react. Dpakoha 06:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete/Cite I'd argue that yes, we need outside sources on this page -- I bet some of these are heated disputes, and it's possible that it could become a revert war issue. Additionally, if there is no real plagarism, just accidental evolution of similar sounds, we would be misleading people. Janet13 07:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • There is not a political issue for revert wars, also feel free to add some entries, like common source for similar sounds. I checked of about 10% of this information and can guarantee this is not simple coincidence. Also I think author of this information knows about that (s)he talks about. Dpakoha 08:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • fine, but sourcews must be provided on the page, and unsourced info removed propmptly. It is nice that the creator allegedly know what s/he is talking about, but sources must be provided to document this for the rest of us. DES ^(talk) 16:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• One question is: Why you thinks of plagiarisms is bad? In the post-modernist paradigm it used only for checking for source of information. And information about plagiarisms don't ceased to exist, but in this case it will comfortable to use wikipedia for working with this information. Dpakoha 09:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I thinks of plagiarisms is bad because it means "to steal and pass off another's ideas or words as one's own, or to commit literary theft: to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source" (MW 11th Collegiate, with my emphasis). Accusing someone of theft and stealing when you can't prove it: a bad thing. - Nunh-huh 18:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - unsourced, a potential POV nightmare, unmaintainable, and on top of all that some of the notes aren't even in English. Also "plagiarism songs" isn't a real term - should be "plagarized songs". 23skidoo 15:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for all the above reasons. Good to know it's not libellous, though - or at least it says it isn't, which should be enough to satisfy any lawyer, eh? - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Cite. A note should be provided for each entry, citign that at least a claim of plagerism has been made in each case. Any unsourced entries should be deleted promptly. Also the page should be renamed to "list of plagarized songs" or "list of songs involved in plagarism claims". If at least a stsrt on providing source notes is not made promptly, with a comitment to followup, then Delete. DES ^(talk) 16:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as unmaintainable, inherently POV list. And, didn't we already delete this one? I remember making the same argument sometime in the last month or two, but I can't find the VfD/AfD; article had a slightly different title. Can anyone find it? MCB 23:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless citations appear ASAP. --Jacqui ^{★ 23:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)}
• Delete unless citations appear and the commentary is translated from German to English. --Metropolitan90 02:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• While I would like to keep this article, I think if there was ever a time when citations were in order, it is here. I can see the potential for some fairly rancorous debate and heated edit wars if no legitimate sourcing is done. Delete if said sources are not given. Denni☯ 03:17, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as above Honbicot 22:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per the above. Presumably this AFD debate also covers these lists
  1. List of plagarized songs 0-C
  2. List of plagarized songs D-G
  3. List of plagarized songs H-L
  4. List of plagarized songs M-Q
  5. List of plagarized songs R-S
  6. List of plagarized songs T-Z Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Check the #List of plagarized songs 0-C for changes had done. Dpakoha 12:39, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete after discounting anonips showing up for the first time in order to vote. As suggested, categories would be a good way to replace it. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 03:53, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of The Simpsons episodes by theme

Delete because

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information: Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of items of information. That something is 100% true does not mean it is suitable for inclusion in an encyclopedia.

This list is pure fancruft (yes, I know some people here do not like the term but this is the epitome of it) and is of no encyclopedic value whatsoever - I doubt categorizing Simpsons episodes by theme serves any encyclopedic purpose.

There are hundreds of fansites out there who are more suitable for this topic than Wikipedia.

zerofoks 19:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - I like the Simpsons, but sometimes you can go too far. Too much Simpson cruft on here anyway. --MacRusgail 20:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - This article is an invaluable source of information for anybody trying to locate a Simpsons episode with a particular theme. It is very detailed and accurate as well as being a list that's unique to the web, as far as I know. -- Kaizersoze 20:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC) (creator of article)

Ammendment - I also believe that with the 350+ individual articles on Simpsons episodes, there should be an article categorizing them, and this seems like the best way. The only other option I see would be to create categories for every theme ("Homer themed Simpsons episodes" category, "Marge themed Simpsons episodes" category, "Vacation themed Simpsons episodes" category, etc.) - Kaizersoze 20:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

There is an ongoing discussion about whether all lists of TV series are worthy/relevant enough to be included in Wikipedia at the moment, this might interest you: Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Television episodes --zerofoks 20:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Comment - I think in all due fairness to the AfD etiquette it should be stated that you are the creator of the article in question. --zerofoks 20:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• • Comment - Heh. If you're the creator, Kaizersoze, nice job, but why not just put it on a fansite or something? You're right that it's unique to the web, but Wikipedia is not a haven for rogue sites. Just submit it to SNPP or something. Devotchka 20:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete (originallyWeak Keep) - This is a great list but would be more suited to a fansite, not Wikipedia. On the other hand, if it can't be found anywhere else, I'm not sure we should delete it yet. Devotchka 20:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Comment -I wouldn't have nominated if I thought it could be expanded to something useful. Besides, letting it stay justifies other articles of the same kin to have their place here (List of StarTrek episodes by theme? List of Seinfeld episodes by theme?) --zerofoks 20:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Another Comment - As for other places where this could be listed, there are Simpsons Wikis out there for this. My point was that Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, as a collection of knowledge, not a pure data bin. --zerofoks 20:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, per zerofoks. Wikipedia is not here to see how many different ways someone can slice and dice information.--Isotope23 20:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Simpsoncruft (another neocruftism?). There is no theoretical limit to the number of different ways The Simpsons episodes can be sliced and diced, but these are the realm of fandom not an encyclopaedia. - Just zis Guy, you know? 20:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Just zis Guy, you know. Bjelleklang - talk 21:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I would say "meh" to be funny, but that might come off as bad Wikiquette. The truth of the matter is that someone put a good deal of time into a page that doesn't have a place on Wikipedia. --Jacqui ^{★ 23:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)}

I think it could be saved pretty easily to one of the many wikis for the Simpsons. The formatting isn't anything difficult to migrate. If anyone is interested in this thing, I'd suggest to make copies of this article elsewhere online, no matter whether the vote goes delete or keep. --zerofoks 00:20, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I wouldn't object to deleting the Simpsons episode articles, as well. --Carnildo 00:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Just zis Guy, you know?, too many themes. feydey 00:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Seriously. This is one of the interesting pages that makes Wikipedia such a fun place to visit.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.208.139 (talk • contribs)
• Delete, add it to one of the indie SimpsonsWikis. Andrew Levine 01:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Most people voting for 'Delete' on this page are not huge Simpsons fans. Take 'Carnildo' who posted 'I wouldn't object to deleting the Simpsons episode articles, as well'. Said opinions should be disregarded, as they are from sources whom wouldn't appreciate any article of 'The Simpsons'. The fact is, this article is an organised, and very useful summary of Simpsons episodes which is user friendly, and is great for reference, which is what Wikipedia is all about. 195.93.21.39 18:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • "Most people voting for 'Delete' on this page are not huge Simpsons fans"? I'm a card-carrying member in good standing of alt.nerd.obsessive, but I voted for deletion because this Wikipedia is not the place for an arbitrary taxonomy of Simpsons episodes. Andrew Levine 17:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep As others have said, this article is an invaluable source of information. Scott.
  • —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.50.218 (talk • contribs) --Optichan 14:51, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Because the two (!) users above have not done this, I want to state that the Afd etiquette states: Sign any recommendation or comment you add, by adding this at the end: ~~~~. Also, my argument was about Wikipedia's status as an encyclopedia, a collection of knowledge, not any fan data anybody could possibly think of. I am a big Simspons fan myself (earlier seasons), but that does not change the validity of the one major WP:WWINs I listed in my initial post: Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. There has got to be a reasonable border between what is general useful and interesting knowledge and simply information for diehard fans - otherwise Wikipedia will welcome all data bins one that can possibly be come up with. --zerofoks 14:26, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Keep this. I've done articles before on my site but this is ingenious

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.68.123.54 (talk • contribs)

• Comment: The information IS useful. At 350+ episodes, your average user wouldn't know where to BEGIN to search for a specific episode. With thematic divide, they can easily search for a particular episode via the sub-categories. It saves a lot of time for any user, and it is the type of thing many internet users would expect they could use Wikipedia for. Because it makes life much easier. Wikipedia is all about organised information, and this is exactly what this page is. Such a huge topic as 'The Simpsons' really does require this level of organisation, otherwise any other information becomes much less useful. 195.93.21.39 18:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Sure it is useful - somehow. Any type of information can be useful to someone (I doubt this article is useful to the average user, though). But is this encyclopedic? It has been pointed out that there are other, better places for this type of fan-info on the web. Sorting out rather unencyclopedic or very specific types of data to other wikimedia projects or other wiki communities has been a generally accepted and successful policy on Wikipedia so far. Letting this article stay will only help to allow other types of extreme "fancruft" to enter Wikipedia - and there is no reason that would detain anyone from saving this article to a more appropriate place on the web. But I am repeating myself....--zerofoks 18:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep: extremely informative, what with all the different themes in the show. I've never seen a list like this on any fansites, yet it is helpful. Squidward2602 09:59, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep my knee-jerk reaction was delete, but I looked at the list and it was good. Its actually interesting and informative, and maintainable. Roodog2k (Hello there!) 20:12, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm a Simpsons fan, but this is getting ridiculous. --Calton | Talk 00:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep I am not a Simpson fan, however this list is not easy to find. At least this page was useful for me. -- mymus 02:12, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 11:34, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of companies

Nominating all Lists of companies type articles (collected in Lists of companies) with named exceptions and others that may be proposed. Virtually all these violate WP:NOT on potentially a number of grounds, eg: not ... a repository of links point 2: "Mere collections of internal links, except for disambiguation pages when an article title is ambiguous, and for structured lists to assist with the organisation of articles." That they do so can be seen by the fact that almost all can be, and indeed many have been, supplemented or replaced by categories. Some, however, such as List of commercial pairs, seem just pointless. By the way, I know this may annoy people who've worked on those lists, and may have been discussed before and I missed it, in which case, sorry in advance.

Just to clarify that this is a nomination for a class of articles, except where there are specific reasons to make an exception. I attached the AfD to the Lists of companies article because it surveys that class. I've also added notices in a couple of places - but not on every list that falls in this class. Further to clarify that this is not a nomination for immediate deletion, but for conversion to categories/merger with company articles. Rd232 ^talk 13:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Named exceptions:

• List of companies by revenue is useful and cannot easily be done in other ways;
• List of company name etymologies has a certain survey element that could be built on;
• Lists of corporate assets-related lists keep information from cluttering the respective company articles. Rd232 ^talk 12:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• List of missing company articles Rd232 ^talk 08:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Some examples of lists proposed for deletion (collected in Lists of companies) | categories they duplicate or overlap with

• List of Afghan companies | Category:Companies of Afghanistan
• List of Albanian companies | Category:Companies of Albania
• List of Algerian companies | Category:Companies of Algeria
• List of advertisement agencies | Category:Advertising agency
• List of aerial lift manufacturers
• List of aircraft engine manufacturers
• List of companies traded at BOVESPA
• List of companies traded at CAC | Category:Companies listed on the Euronext exchanges; Category:CAC 40

Delete. Any notable companies will have Wiki articles, and these can be collected via Categories. Lists are redundant and vulnerable to cruft. - Just zis Guy, you know? 12:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

There are still five FTSE 100 Index companies without articles so there must be huge numbers of major companies without artilces outside the English speaking world. Bhoeble 22:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

That's an argument for creating stubs, or possibly a list of companies that should have articles but don't (Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles), not to have these lists in general. Rd232 ^talk 22:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Incidentally it occurs to me I didn't make it clear that I would expect a Delete result to be implemented over a period of time, as companies are removed from lists when it is confirmed they are in appropriate categories. No loss of information is intended, only restructuring. Rd232 ^talk 22:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

To see which important companies remain to have an entry written on them, you can look at the entry on a stock market index, which will list its constituents. DocendoDiscimus 22:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I'd rather have red links in wikipedia to look at. Much easier, and I only need one web browser open. CalJW 01:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

If red links to identify missing articles are the aim then a list aimed specifically at that purpose will achieve it much better. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Let's stick with categories -- much, much easier to maintain. - Afelton 17:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep all Lists do not replace categories as they cannot have links. All the list can be improved with further information in the long run. As it is the country lists provide an overall alphabetical list, which the categories do not as they have been partially subdivided by sector. In any case the nomination should be void as the nominator doesn't seem to have tagged the articles. Bhoeble 21:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

"Lists do not replace categories as they cannot have links." - can you clarify that please.

I presume (s)he meant red links. CalJW 01:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Which means missing company articles, which brings me back to "List of missing company articles".

" All the lists can be improved with further information in the long run." - how? any detailed information on companies should go into company articles

The same as any other model list. They could contain a few basic details like sector and turnover so people can decide if they want to look at the article. I'm confident that these sorts of quality enhancements will become more common as wikipedia matures. CalJW 01:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Which will be even harder to maintain, especially as the lists continue to expand to cover the ever-increasing number of company articles. This goes in the direction of a database on companies, which a simple central, manually-maintained list is extraordinarily bad for. If we created lists by bot from company articles my objections to lists would disappear. They could exract data from templates to make lists with more data than just company names. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

"country lists provide an overall alphabetical list, which the categories do not as they have been partially subdivided by sector." - if we want an overall list (I'm not sure why we do - seems vaguely WP:NOTish) we can do that by listing companies in the top country category as well as subcategories, which would be much more maintainable.

That would be against the general policy on catgorisation, and there would be no way to ensure that it was done consistently and it would make a mess of things by pushing some of the subcategories off of the first page where there were more than 200 articles. CalJW 01:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

True. So perhaps have a Lists subcategory specifically to create alphabetised lists without conflicting with standard categorisation. Consistency of application is surely as bad or worse with categories as with lists. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

"In any case the nomination should be void as the nominator doesn't seem to have tagged the articles." - are you really suggesting that in order to debate the principle we need to tag every instance (of which there are dozens)? Rd232 ^talk 22:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't know about the other user, but I sometimes tag dozens of categories on Categories for deletion. If you want to wipe out a vast amount of other users' work, you owe them the courtesy of inviting them to participate in the debate. CalJW 01:45, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I posted this AfD at Wikipedia talk:Lists and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Business and Economics. I guess I didn't think the proposal was likely enough to succeed to go through tagging all the individual lists. Rd232 ^talk 07:40, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

If we created lists by bot, they would be a good deal less complete. And it isn't going to happen in the forseeable future. CalJW 19:46, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete - provided it is done such that no information is lost. Categories are much more flexible. - DocendoDiscimus 22:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

It cannot be done without losing information. Do you want them deleted, with information lost, or do you want them kept? Those are the options. CalJW 01:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

"It cannot be done without losing information." - my premise was that only lists whose content can be transferred to company articles should be deleted, once that has been done. Rd232 ^talk 07:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Categories are just automatically generated lists, and are less flexible in many ways and more flexible in none. Kappa 06:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment I'd like to vote, but despite that big paragraph up there, I'm really confused as to what I am actually voting on. Can this somehow be reformatted and/or name particular articles instead of saying "all of this type"? If I don't know what the names of all the articles up for deletion are, how can I know whether they are of any use or not? --Jacqui ^{★ 23:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)}
  • Weak keep I have tried to do some research, and I can't really see why these lists need to go. Then again, I still don't think I completely understand your arguments, at least partially due do the confusing format of this AfD. --Jacqui ^{★ 14:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)}
• Delete. This is an obvious case for categories, not lists. MCB 23:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Why? Must major subject areas use both. This subject area should for the usual reasons. CalJW 01:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep all. BlankVerse ∅ 23:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all, categories cannot provide structure or be annotated, in particular they cannot include alternate or old names for a single company. Users should not have to guess the contents of articles. Also this AFD is invalid because the pages in question have not been tagged and we can't even see them. Kappa 01:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Alternate or old names should be redirects, and mentioned in company articles, not buried on lists somewhere. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  I see, so people who only know the "wrong" name can find another encyclopedia. Kappa

  WTF? If you were a newbie I'd assume you didn't know what a redirect was. As it is, I've no idea what you're on about. Rd232 ^talk 11:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Are you familiar with the concept of an index? Kappa 14:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Indexes make sense in many offline paper contexts, but not in Wikipedia. If/when electronic books replace paper ones, they won't need indexes either. I refer the honourable gentleman again to WP:NOT "mirror or a repository of links" point 2. Rd232 ^talk 14:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Um if we don't need indexes, we don't need categories either. Kappa 15:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Categories aid in finding similar objects, if that's what people want. They're unobtrusive at the bottom of pages, and are more wiki because more decentralised. People working on company articles are for more likely to add it to appropriate categories than to update a list - not least because it doesn't require editing a separate page. Categories of this type are simply a more maintainable version of lists. Rd232 ^talk 18:28, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Categories are not wiki. They are easy to add to, but they are extremely difficult to reorganize, often requiring bots. They are an inferior version of lists, because they cannot include alternate names for the same thing, and cannot describe or disambiguate what the link target is. Kappa 03:39, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

  Then why have these types of category? I'd prefer deleting those to having a schizophrenic system. Ah forget it, the categories aren't going anywhere and neither are the lists. Why not at least have bots collect missing cat entries (maybe in separate file to avoid collision and mess, eg List/category but not list. Rd232 ^talk 07:13, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

  As I noted at the very top, Lists of companies surveys the class. If you want to look at instances of the class, go there. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep I had the second most edits in September because of the amount of categorisation work I did, but I had no intention of superseding lists. CalJW 01:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Your intention in September isn't an argument. Your basis for that intention is. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I have made a good deal of effort to explain that elsewhere, but you have brushed it all aside. I think the fact that being a proponent of categories in no way biases me against lists is relevant. I understand that the way wikipedia uses multiple organisation systems, some of which are preferred by some people, some by others, is one of its great strengths. You seem not to, and to want to wipe out the system which is not your personal favourite. CalJW 19:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
      • I don't have much use for either. But yes, it's clear that this schizophrenia is a result of some editors preferring lists and others categories. But I don't think having both doing the same thing half as well as picking one system and sticking with it helps readers. Rd232 ^talk 07:13, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment - is it really legit to put a whole series of articles up for deletion without adding AfD templates to the articles listed for deletion? I don't think this a valid listing. Guettarda 02:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Clearly enough people think this for it to be taken seriously - individual probably couldn't be deleted without individual AfDs. But if I'd picked an individual list as a test case (a) it would be an arbitrary choice (b)less people might have participated (c) it would risk confusing specifics with the general principle (d) if the decision to convert to categories were made, it might have been less effective as policy. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • So what would the outcome of a "Delete" vote be? Re-listing each individual article? And would a "Keep" vote in any way preclude listing inividual articles? Guettarda 12:42, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
      • I would expect it to be a strong precedent, no more, no less. If the result were Delete, I would suggest making a template to attach to each list explaining the conversion is happening and what it involves and that when done the article will be deleted. (Conversion being the gradual removal of links from the list as it is confirmed that the article is in the appropriate category.) If anybody felt that a particular list should be an exception (beyond those already identified and possibly additional ones still to be agreed), they could create an individual AfD to try and confirm consensus to that effect. (A note on that should be in the template.) Conversion would take some time so there would be plenty of opportunity for challenging individual cases. Rd232 ^talk 13:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
        • Ok, in that case I can't support this process. Guettarda 14:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all, I just found out about this vote. I must say Wikipedia isn't even quite as widespread as it could be. I feel its just too soon to write off this whole area as being bad. my sentiments would be keep it, give it more time. Areas that are growing and contributing something useful- can stay. Things that are going nowhere can be pruned/removed. As more persons come on board to Wikipedia, in time they'll contribute more knowledge on these companies. I have no problem with the proposal of certain bad articles up for delete or stub criteria, esp. if a company article looks totally like nothing more then an advertisement, but I think more companies will be added in the future. My findings are everything that should- be on Wikipedia probably wont be there overnight. CaribDigita 02:57, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Am I misreading you? It sounds like you think I'm suggesting we delete company articles, or company lists before the information is available elsewhere, neither fo which is the case. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy Keep All. This is a silly, invalid nomination. You want an article deleted, you nominate IT. Don't come here, asking for permission to wade through Wikipedia willy-nilly, deleting various lists that we won't have a full debate on because you don't feel like nominating them individually so we can review them individually. Unfocused 03:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  I never intended to do any wading myself, I just wanted a debate. Which we are having without the need for me to waste time tagging and untagging articles for which exactly the same arguments apply. If Delete, I would (have) expect(ed) others to implement the conversion, and there could always be additional AfDs on specific lists if there was disagreement. Rd232 ^talk 07:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, lists can sort articles in other ways than just alphabetically. They can contain redlinks to articles which should exist but don't. In other words: Categories don't replace lists. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  They can but most of these don't; I suggested keeping List of companies by revenue, which does. I also suggested List of missing company articles, and there are many variations on that more specific purpose which would be better than these generic lists. These lists can be replaced by categories. Rd232 ^talk 11:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  If "they can but [they] don't," then this is an argument for cleanup, not an AfD debate (or even a whole bunch hopelessly snarled together). Let's make the lists more useful instead of killing them off; you yourself said it was possible. --Jacqui ^{★ 14:24, 27 October 2005 (UTC}

  As more companies are added, companies merge, etc, these lists have to be updated. Typically (or should I say occasionally), this is done by the person who adds or changes an entry (pick a continental European country and look at the editing history of the list..). The information tends to come from the entries/categories, and is then added to the list (not the other way round). In other words, the lists are a (weak) mirror of the categories. The clean up you suggest will be futile - once all the information is added, it is out of date. DocendoDiscimus 15:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Jacqui may have misunderstood what I said. When I said "they can but most of these don't" I was responding to the statement that "lists can sort articles in other ways than just alphabetically". I see no good way to improve these lists with additional sorting that can't be done by (sub)categories. Any such improvement wouldn't be "cleanup" either, it would be structural development. However DocendoDiscimus' point about cleanup is well made and the fundamental reason for the proposal. Rd232 ^talk 18:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

That statemment borders on the absurd. Subcategories can only contain names in alphabetical lists with no additional information about the entries. Lists can be sorted in dozens of ways (turnover; location, sector, assets, structure, ownership, profitablity etc etc) and can contain several pieces of information about each item. There are some excellent lists on some other topics. It is a pity that Wikipedia's coverage of companies is one of its weakest areas, but there is plenty of time to improve it. CalJW 19:23, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I think you'll find your statement across the border from absurd. You can't possibly have seriously thought through the maintainability implications of doing this widely, much beyond just List of companies by revenue (which is just revenue, and just top global companies). Imagine List of British companies by turnover, List of British companies by location, List of British companies by sector, List of British companies by assets, List of British comapnies by profitability, List of British companies by employment, List of British companies by location and turnover.... That's a fricken' companies database (which I happen to have some familiarity with). Maintainability of the companies lists is bad enough with just names; how would it be with all that extra information to find and update on an annual or quarterly basis? And why should we keep lists that now do nothing that categories (supplemented with specialised redlink lists) can't because one day they might (pigs might fly) turn into the absurdity of a companies database maintained in wikitext form? If Wikipedia is ever to do something along those lines, it will have to involve templates and probably a software change. Wikipedia should only store detailed up-to-date company data in one place - the company article. Anything else is, well, absurd. Rd232 ^talk 21:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Hmmph, it seems that some people seriously believe Wiki can be like Bloomberg - but then without the 100's of paid staff to keep the database (semi)-complete. So who's going to be put up for NY mayor nomination? DocendoDiscimus 21:20, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - I don't support the idea of deleting articles en bloc. They should be nominated and considered individually. Guettarda 14:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  Since the intention is not to delete any information, but onyl change structure, I disagree. But I appear to be in the minority. Rd232 ^talk 18:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  There are for instance 84 lists of companies by country. Do you really think it makes sense to have 84 seperate discussions? DocendoDiscimus 15:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Every list is of different quality and of interest to different people. They should be treated the same way as any other article. But there is no need to have any of those 84 discussions, as there was no need for this one. This debate could have been about deleting all lists (with the odd named exception), without giving notice to the people who use the lists and are therefore stakeholders in them. Would that have been appropriate too? CalJW 19:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - As per the majority of comments above. --Vivenot 14:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Summary - the case is that lists which solely duplicate category functionality are better off as categories, especially if they duplicate actually existing categories. This is more maintainable. Lists should only exist as lists if there is a reason: eg List of companies by revenue and List of missing company articles. All others simply more work than categories to no great purpose. With voting at 8/4 keep/delete, I still see no convincing argument for preferring lists to categories. Rd232 ^talk 18:28, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Question - since a fair proportion of discussion is about process rather than substance, is it worth AfD'ing List of Afghan companies, List of aerial lift manufacturers and List of companies traded at BOVESPA as test cases? If yes, how many of the 84+ country and sector lists do we need to debate individually before the principle is established either way? Or should we just continue to debate in general terms? Rd232 ^talk 15:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • There is no need for any further debate. All you will do is waste a lot of other users' time which could be put to better use. Things like the Afghan list are valuable as a starting point for coverage of countries where Wikipedia is weak. There is no reasonable doubt which way the debate would go, so please don't behave like a school deletionist and merrily waste wikipedia's human resources on a lost cause. CalJW 18:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I think that's unwarranted because (a) school deletion is about notability, which is irrelevant here; (b) I was open to persuasion but nothing that anybody has said has convinced me to prefer lists instead of categories for these cases; (c) because lists are harder to maintain they long-term waste far more time than any AfD (d) a 2/3 - 1/3 vote is not a "lost cause" when the keep voting is based, as far as I can see, on no good arguments. For example, "Things like the Afghan list are valuable as a starting point" says absolutely nothing about why lists that can be converted to categories are better than categories, or why lists that duplicate categories should exist. Rd232 ^talk 19:06, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Because red links can be added to it of course, which is a lot easier than writing stubs, but does encourage others to do more. This is a basic point which has been made on articles for deletion scores of times. You need 70% support for deletion, you are now at 30%, and the early flurry of support was rather freakish as the principle that categories do not replace lists has been confirmed over and over again. CalJW 19:16, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
        • But Category:Companies of Afghanistan can easily have List of missing company articles (or List of missing Afghan companies) linked in its top blurb. And if the principle that categories do not replace lists is that well established why didn't (or doesn't) someone point out where this laid down or summarised? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents] would be one place, there are probably better ones. And just answer me this before I give up on this issue: why should we have both Category:Companies of Afghanistan and List of Afghan companies? If we shouldn't have both, which should we get rid of? Rd232 ^talk 21:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree with CalJW that the general opinion here seems to move towards a keep vote. I do hope that those who argue in favor of keeping the lists, will show the same fervour in actually improving them. The believe that some seem to have that the existence of certain lists will get people to add more and better articles is admirable, but in my mind rather naive. Should those 'keep' voter feel so inclined though, please do become member of the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Business and Economics improvement drive. DocendoDiscimus 19:24, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment - not sure where this vote/debate should lead, but added external link to Companies House web site for company info. to List of British companies, hope you'll all find this a useful primary source for British companies, at least. Sloman 19:03, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Sure. Links to that and things like Hoovers would be useful from List of missing company articles. Rd232 ^talk 19:06, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • We already have lists of missing company articles in the form of red links on the existing lists, which are more spedific and can therefore be more precisely categorised so they will be seen by more people with relevant knowledge. It is implausible that a single central list would be more effective. CalJW 19:27, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
      • I agree that a single central list doesn't make sense. But do you believe the red links that are currently in the lists are in any way a sign of missing articles? Most red links are put in as linkspam. One of the few ways of having some objectiveness in what constitutes a major company is the inclusion in a stock market index. And these index entries already (should) list their constituents, including red links. DocendoDiscimus 19:40, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
        • There are many valid red links. If some of the lists need be to cleaned up the appropriate response is to clean them up rather than to delete them. Any company which would surive afd is also a legitimate link, and any links for companies which would not that may exist are hardly taking up a lot of space or causing a major distraction. Not all major companies are listed by any means. There are many multi-billion dollar private and state owned companies, as well as many subsidiaries which merit articles, and indeed plenty of subsidiaries which have them (ASDA, Bank of Scotland and Abbey are three very large British examples). CalJW 19:54, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
          • I agree that in theory it sounds like a great plan - someone sees the list, adds companies (or subsidiaries) that are missing, and then later someone else sees there's a company without an entry, so (s)he starts writing it. Unfortunately, that's not how it has been done until now. Please check the histories of the lists, and you'll see that typically few people bother to add anything, unless it's because they've changed another entry. Having lists just because you hope that at one point in future they will actually have any purpose doesn't make sense IMHO. Instead of trying to get the lists to mirror the categories, people should focus their energies on adding company templates etc. - DocendoDiscimus 20:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and improve makes more sense than destroying what has already been done. Carina22 19:10, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep (just for now), as said before the general consensus seems to be to keep the lists. If they are a structured list, they can still be of help to some of us in developing categories. In keeping them we still have something to gain from them and nothing to lose. In deleting them, we have something to lose but nothing to gain. I say only delete them, if the majority of us no longer find them of any use.
• Comment - it appears that enough people wish to keep lists. But surely a proposal to delete the categories would fair even worse. Yet the present situation leads to the following:
  • List of Austrian companies lacks 14 existing articles that are in the cat, - eg Atomic Skis; and has two errors (AMAG not disambiged; Steyr links to town not company) whilst Category:Companies of Austria lacks 8 existing articles that are in the list, as well as the famous redlinked companies. Neither list nor cat links to the other. Even Lists of companies doesn't mention the existence of the categories. How is this schizophrenia productive? Rd232 ^talk 22:27, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Where was the proposal to delete categories?
    • Nowhere I know of. I said "would". Rd232 ^talk 23:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Suggestion - Wouldn't it be good practice to always have the lists linked to the categories and visa versa? I've seen this discipline in other topics and they seem to be a good double check for each other.
    • Better than nothing. Rd232 ^talk 23:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep for reasons already given. Honbicot 23:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • If I weren't so tired of this subject I'd ask you to state those reasons in your own words, because I still I don't see any good reason to duplicate categories with lists or vice versa. Never mind though. I have no objections to somebody closing this discussion as despite some support for the general idea it clearly isn't going anywhere. Rd232 ^talk 23:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all. Lots of red links, A lot of work to be done. NSR (talk) 11:00, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment While lists are certainly useful, even if there are categories, I find the list of companies too large, spam-targets and almost always incomplete (Note: This is from my own experience as I watch the List of Indian companies, which is fairly small.). It would be better to break down the list into smaller and more managable lists. But I am not in favour of and overnight deletion or a blanket policy. If it suits you, use it or if it doesn't, replace it with a better solution. --Pamri ^{• Talk • Reply} 17:51, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep All I found the 'article' very useful, although I would also support its replacement with a category containing all the same information. Dont just delete it unless you're prepared to replace it. 88.105.251.6

Categorizification for lists not retained was part of the deletion proposal. Rd232 ^talk 18:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. The lists by industry/sector may be the most productive ones. For those who don't want to use them, they may just igore them. IMHO, there is no point in having "List of missing company articles" in article namespace. It should be moved to Wikipedia:List of missing company articles or deleted. -- User:Docu
  • re namespace - I know, I was tired and in a hurry. Please move it if you think it worth keeping. Rd232 ^talk 00:30, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Ok, I moved it for now. -- User:Docu

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:43, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Luigi's Quest

This is a fan-made game made by hacking a ROM image. It's the videogame equivalent of fanfic. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 12:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. I saw a Hack of Mario 1 with The Smashing Pumpkins as the various characters. I remember back so many years ago playing it and thinking, "this is in no way encyclopedic."--CastAStone 13:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. And how could there possibly be voices in an NES hack? I doubt Charles Martinet would be voicing any characters in a game like this. --Optichan 13:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• delete; it's a fanfic hoax for cryin' out loud. — brighterorange (talk) 14:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Speedy Delete by Doc glasgow as nn-bio. --GraemeL ^(talk) 23:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mack Fisher

The page says he is a cinematographer from Seattle and that's it. Not on IMDb. JW 14:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - it is virtually impossible for any genuinely notable figure in cinema to escape the notice of IMDB! - Just zis Guy, you know? 14:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete. No attempt has been made to establish notability. TheMadBaron 14:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Devotchka 15:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete A7. Have tagged it as such. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 18:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as per WP:CSD A7. Hall Monitor 20:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete as per above.--Alhutch 20:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Magic Joe

Fixing nomination by User:Tiksustoo. Abstain. — JIP | Talk 11:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Non-notable. Sorry, but if a magician is performing at birthday parties, schools, and restaurants (per his Web site), he/she is non-notable. —Wayward ^Talk 14:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless it can be shown he invented a succesfull effect or that he wrote a book or performed in a big venue or for television. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:40, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not Wikiworthy. maybe doing excellent work but as he doesn't merit national or international media coverage isn't 'notable' for Wiki purposes. i say this in good faith having tidied up this guy's page before doing AfD; otherwise would've been 'speedy delete' candidate.Tiksustoo 15:33, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not worthy of an article. — Wackymacs

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The result of the debate was redir to FLCL. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:01, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Manga Vision

An article about a style of animation that appeared in a grand total of one animated series for a grand total of about three minutes. While the style was indeed remarkable, it's already discussed on the page for said series (FLCL), and the fact that it isn't used anywhere else makes it too unique for its own article, methinks. Garrett Albright 14:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Well, it appears in FLCL twice. Anyway, redirect this to FLCL. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 14:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect per AMIB. Nifboy 06:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:03, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Daniel

Made up writer, not in Amazon or through google to be found. feydey 23:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --JJay 01:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Vanity at best, complete hoax at worst, couldn't find any Google hits whatsoever on any of this person's works. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Save I have read some of his book "The Guide to Being a Man: A Fake Self Help Book", although it is true he is not on Amazon perhaps its not being distributed on a large scale yet.

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The result of the debate was keep and move to Masta Ace. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:05, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Master Ace

I don't believe he meets the notability criteria at WP:MUSIC. Despite that being a pretty big hamburger. Tempshill 22:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Shows up on Amazon under "Masta Ace" and seems pretty well represented around the web. That picture should be shrunk though. Devotchka 22:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. 366,000 google hits, Good Amazon sales, 5 Albums on mid level labels, major world tours, Major piece of Brroklyn scene, what part of WP:MUSIC does he fail? --CastAStone 22:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • P.S. I don't think that that is Master Ace in the picture at all.--CastAStone 22:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per WP:music, rename to Masta Ace and clean up. According to the Allmusic.com article on Masta Ace, he has recorded five albums and the last few have made the Billboard music charts see Allmusic.com [18]. Get rid of the pic as a Google images search shows that the picture in the article isn't him see [19]. Capitalistroadster 00:33, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Picture removed, thank you. Tempshill 05:54, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Correction, picture reverted, I hadn't noticed the hamburger pic had replaced a real pic. I'd withdraw this AFD nomination now if I could but oh well, we'll let it run its course and then it'll be kept. Thanks all. Tempshill 06:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:08, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Matchbox (song)

The Beatles are surely the most influential group in rock history (and I love them to death) but is every single song they did inherently notable? Especially this: a cover and a B-side, completely unexpandable. StarryEyes 02:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as nominator StarryEyes 02:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. "Unexpandable", huh? - see if you like my rewrite. Notable in that John, Ringo, and Pete Best all sang lead at different times for the Beatles. The song also has a long blues history which i've only briefly touched on. (as for "is every song they did inherently notable?"- if they sneezed it was inherently notable!) Grutness...wha? 03:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I am impressed by your informative expansion of the article from a substub to its current form. I do stand by the AfD nomination, however, because I think the criteria for the inclusion of individual songs in an encyclopedia must involve extraordinary cultural impact (beyond "the Beatles did it"). I still don't think "Matchbox" cuts it, despite its long and colorful history. "Blue Suede Shoes", yes, "I Want To Hold Your Hand", yes, "Matchbox", no. StarryEyes 03:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Maybe it isn't a particularly notable Beatles song but it is a notable rockabilly/early rock and roll recording. 23skidoo 03:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep however needs a slight rewrite because the article is supposed to be about the song, and it was a Carl Perkins classic long before the Beatles touched it. I'll do a bit of work on it now. I agree with Grutness that Beatles recordings are inherently notable, however when creating articles on cover versions they did, care must be taken to discuss the history of the song before the Beatles did it. 23skidoo 03:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I was hoping someone would do that - good work 23. All my info was from several Beatles encyclopaedias (which, understandably, concentrated on their versions). Grutness...wha? 05:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep rewritten version by Grutness and 23skidoo and kudos to them for the rewrite. Capitalistroadster 03:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, Beatles song. Kappa 04:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, b-side songs and covers by highly notable bands who've proven to affect music for a significant period of time, can be notable on their own, provided encyclopedic info can be written. It still needs sourcing, but by this idea, the song qualifies. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I'm ambivalent about the encyclopedic nature of B-sides performed by notable bands, but this would be notable as a Carl Perkins song even if the Beatles hadn't ever touched it. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 11:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep in agreement with A Man in Black. Bonus to Grutness and 23skidoo. Barno 14:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as usual, no deletion required. Trollderella 16:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep all songs recorded by the Beatles are inherently notable. Fg2 03:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all songs recorded by the Beatles are inherently notable. Klonimus 05:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Beatles should not be the holy cow of Wikipedia.  Grue  14:18, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
  • What about as one of Carl Perkins's classics? The Beatules were covering it because it was already a noted song. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 21:53, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Well, I didn't even read the article :) I just disagree with the previous two votes.  Grue  07:33, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Please, please, please, please, please read the article first. I find myself disagreeing with some voters freqeunly, too, but it's important to not let that get in the way of business on AFD. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 11:09, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:40, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Matt and mookie band

Completely nn vanity. User also contributed Mookie perez and "Spookie" Mookie Perez, both up for deletion. Delete StarryEyes 03:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• "Spookie" has been sprung; "Mookie" isn't far behind. Can't speedy this one, so delete. - Lucky 6.9 03:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete vanity --Vsion 04:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 11:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete vanity dr.alf 11:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: It's totally new and will take a while to catch on, according to the article. Come back when you've caught on, lads. - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy NN vanity. PJM 20:26, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:09, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mattism

Funny, but not real and a little offensive. Lomacar 00:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep It shouldn't be deleted because for all we know, this could exist, the person who made this article did make some spelling mistakes, so we should edit that, but we shouldn't delete it. Jakewater
• Keep I researched the topic Mattism, and I found out that it is a real religon. Now I am convinced that this article should not be deleted. The person who made the article about Mattism put a few weird jokes in it, but we should fix that, but not delete the whole article!Jakewater
• NN, D. ComCat 00:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep real religion, important to its followers. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Unverifiable vanity hoax. Real religion? Don't think so. "The primary mode of worship for females is to get in contact with him, make out with him, and possibly give him a handjob. Matt beleives that at this current growing rate of beleivers, he will soon reach the fame of Ron Hubbard, creater of Scientology, and after that, Matt beleives he will earn status greater than that of the pope, and become ruler and savior of all mankind. Upon that great achievement, YHWH will come down to the earth in his buick/spaceship and allow all human beleivers to "hitch a ride to the cosmos"". Um, yeah. - Sensor 01:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• The article cites no sources, research turns up nothing, and Purplefeltangel provides no evidence that this is a real religion that has been accepted as such by the world at large. This is unverifiable original research. Delete. Uncle G 01:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete mildly amusing hoax. chowells 21:55, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Wicca has not been accepted by the world at large and we still have an article about it. By your standards we would have to delete every religion, since no religion has 6.5 billion followers. Religions are notable, and this is a religion, no matter how personal or silly. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Wrong. As the bottom of our article on it amply demonstrates, Wicca has been accepted as a religion by the world at large. In contrast, neither you nor the author have presented any evidence whatsoever that this purported religion has been accepted as a religion by anyone, or indeed even exists in the first place. Please cite sources to back up your claim that "this is a religion". By the way: "My standards" here are verifiability and no original research, as explicitly stated above. Asserting that they should not apply is not the way to construct an encyclopaedia. Uncle G 02:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Delete. This is obviously a hoax. For a religion to be worthy of a Wikipedia article, it should be noticed by the world at large, not necessarily accepted in a favorable sense. If the Pope, Billy Graham, and the Dalai Lama started giving sermons about how Mattism was the work of the devil and everyone should steer far away from Mattism, that would be a sign that Mattism was at least notable even if not accepted. But there is no evidence that this religion exists anywhere outside this Wikipedia article. --Metropolitan90 03:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Acceptablity is not the issue. NOTABILITY is the issue. This is not notable. Delete --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 02:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Acceptance by other people is part of the process outlined in Wikipedia:no original research. Notability is not the issue, as the question of notability only arises after the idea that there even is such a religion has been peer reviewed. Uncle G 02:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, it's not WP:V.--Isotope23 02:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, transparent hoax. I find only false positives googling for "mattism" or "mattist", and no hits at all for "Ozakuman", the supposed leader. —Cryptic (talk) 02:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as hoax / vanity --keepsleeping say what 02:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Vanity, hoax - cohesion | talk 02:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Nothing concrete from a google search, poorly written, absolutely obsurd, kinda funny though.
  • P.S. If this somehow turns out to be a real religion, then I am sincerly sorry if my comments offend anyone (More blood has been spilt in this world over religion than anything else, better safe than sorry)KnowledgeOfSelf 05:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete--Newyorktimescrossword 05:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per above dr.alf 11:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, this shouldn't even be a question of notability. There's no evidence this actually exists (as opposed to numerous publications about Wicca). Unverifiable hoax. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as patent nonsense. Barring objections, I plan to speedily delete this later today. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 12:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Obvious speedy delete. It's a joke top-to-bottom. Marskell 13:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• delete. I object to speedying because this text is not unsalvageably incoherent, which is what the patent nonsense CSD says. I think the nonsense CSD is overused, and is edging us towards a practice of deleting articles without oversight just because the administrator thinks the subject or article is stupid. (But note that I am in favor of deletion reform, and making these "obvious" deletions go faster, as long as there is some kind of oversight.) — brighterorange (talk) 13:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete rubbish - Just zis Guy, you know? 14:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete mere inches away from speedy as vanity. DJ Clayworth 21:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• What? Not a single BJAODN vote before mine? Borisblue 22:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, silly hoax/joke/vanity. Boris beat me to the BJAODN, though! MCB 22:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Mattism is a real religion to its followers, and deserves a small entry on the wikipedia.org Also, if you do a google search you will find approximately 650 hits for the various forms of Mattism. There is quite a bit of conflict over the basic ideas, but I think the general idea comes across. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.41.36.190 (talk • contribs) 03:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Fg2 03:12, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete hoax or nn or unverifiable or all of the above. -- DS1953 ^talk 06:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete clearly a fake. Should not have been nominated as "Non notable" though, completely bogus, nominator obviously couldnt be bothered to research it properly. Justinc 10:08, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. — JIP | Talk 17:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] McWords

Article is simply a list of words starting with a particular prefix (Mc-) and does not provide a solid basis or context for justifying encyclopedic status (cultural context, etc.). Delete Bumm13 19:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete McListcruft. - Just zis Guy, you know? 20:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep/Expand. This has possibility, once it's expanded. McDonald's is certainly a major cultural issue, and if expanded - specifically info on social implications of a "McDonald's culture", the page could be really good. Janet13 21:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. Not only is McDonald's a cultural issue, sometimes people use the prefix "Mc-" to mean something more broad -- about the consumerism of something. --Jacqui ^{★ 23:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)}
• Keep per Janet13. Denni☯ 03:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• RENAME to McLanguage 132.205.45.148 18:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup per Janet13. --Avery W. Krouse 07:43, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• LEAVE THE ARTICLE THE WAY IT IS No more Vandlisim to a super great article 216.77.193.150 15:31, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. This is a poor article. 1. There is not a single reference (see WP:V). 2. Most of the entries violate WP:NOR; many are neologisms. 3. The title is itself a neologism. It also likely does not accord with WP:MoS (singular preferred). If you remove all the neologisms, you'd have a handful of legitimate entries, such that I'm not convinced of the need for a separate page to list them. Why not list the legit entries in each of the legit "Mc-" articles, under "See also"? That way the readers who're actually interested in these phenomena have a much better chance of finding the legit entries, compared with the situation where they are tucked away on a separate page—under a neologism. The legit entries that I see are McDonaldization, McJob, McWorld, McLibel case, McMurder, McMansion, and probably McDojo. Someone interested in any of these will likely type in that word and get to the article, where they can be pointed to related phenomena that might interest them. If I wanted to read about the McLibel case I would not search for "McWords." For these reason, delete. encephalon 14:25, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. — JIP | Talk 17:23, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Metal Kor

• non-notable videogame character apparently from one of the Jak and Daxter games. Delete or if anyone is so inclined, redirect to Jak and Daxter (or appropriate installment of the series).--Isotope23 02:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• I don't know if this is worth a Redirect (to Jak and Daxter), because its so damn minor, but i dont think anything else called "Metal Kor" is coming along soon, so no harm in doing so.--CastAStone 02:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Jak and Daxter into a section on minor characters. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

If it's kept without merging someone should provide a lead sentence with more context. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Not suitable.--Newyorktimescrossword 23:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This is perfectally acceptable. -- SFH 05:42, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per WP:FICT. Radiant_>|< 17:14, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was keep. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:10, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Brady (musician)

NN, D. ComCat 00:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. The abysmal quality of the article might lead you to think it's vanity (as I did), but the guy has his own page on an Australian government site, [20]. He apparently hosts his own radio show, too. Notable enough for inclusion. StarryEyes 01:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per WP:music. "Up there Cazaly" was a #2 hit in Australia in 1979 and was used to promote Australian Rules Football for years afterwards. He financed the production of "Shaddap Your Face" which was #1 hit for the Joe Dolce Music Theatre in Australia in the summer of 1980/81 and a hit world wide in 1981. A book has been written about Mike Brady called Up There Mike Bradysee [21] BTW, our Joe Dolce article needs a lot of work. Capitalistroadster 03:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. Capitalistroadster 03:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Capitalistroadster's great rewrite for the above and below reasons. --rob 05:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as above --Camw 05:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Have expanded the article. No change of vote from Keep. "Up There Cazaly" in fact was number 1 for a week in Australia in September 1979. Capitalistroadster 10:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Capitalistroadster. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and Delete AFD Spammers. Trollderella 16:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep ter Molotov (talk) 16:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, obviously. Snottygobble | Talk 00:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nominator made no effort whatsoever to support this nomination. Bryan 00:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Reviewing my vote provides no reason to change it, the other "keep" voters have dug up ample evidence showing notability. Bryan 05:45, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This is quite possibly the most bizarre AfD nomination I've ever seen. Ambi 02:18, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Writer of iconic Australian songs (even though I hate football). Cnwb 02:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Extreme Keep. Agree with Ambi. JPD (talk) 10:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Honbicot 22:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep seems notable. I appreacite ComCat's work on AfD, but he should focus more on articles that will get deleted. Klonimus 05:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. "Up there Cazaly" is an important and iconic song to many Australians. --DarbyAsh 08:36, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep-- I cannot undertstand the reason for nomination. A very well known musician. -- Ian ≡ talk 00:37, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Definitely notable enough to Australians to keep. Maybe could be cleaned up a little. --Dalziel 86 14:05, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:39, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Calhoun

Bio for an apparently non-notable writer. Contentions for notability are not WP:V; Google and Amazon have never heard of him or his books: [22], [23]. Google also has never heard of the award he won: [24] . Possibly a hoax; certainly not verifiable. Delete. Also note that Kalamazoo College has a link here.--Isotope23 20:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. - Just zis Guy, you know? 21:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete if no verifiable information provided. Library of Congress hasn't heard of him either. --Tabor 00:25, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete HappyCamper 02:38, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Minnesota gang

Unverifiable. No search results for either "Minnesota Tyrants" or "Minnesota Kennedy Kings." Note that to actually read the article, you have to view the source, as the format is all messed up, which made me think it was a copyvio at first, but I couldn't find any source on the web. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 22:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. NN Devotchka 22:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, one of many hoax edits made by this same user. User:Zoe|^(talk) 01:29, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Speedied as nn single-person vanity

[edit] Mookie perez

not notable per WP:MUSIC cohesion | talk 03:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. See also "Spookie" Mookie Perez and Matt and mookie band StarryEyes 03:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Userfied, deleted resulting redirect after being moved to User:Mugheesbhatti HappyCamper 02:35, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mughees Bhatti

No evidence of notability, probably a misplaced user page - Just zis Guy, you know? 11:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Userfy and delete The person in question has been working on the page since the nom and actually removed the notice. I will leave him a message. Marskell 12:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable. Bjelleklang - talk 12:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Userfy and delete. TheMadBaron 14:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Userfy and delete. This would quslify for a speedy delete under WP:CSD A7, but I am holding off in case this person really wants this as a user page, whcih I agree is likely. I have left him a message offerign to move it to his user page, which is currently a red link. I also reduced the display size of the huge image. DES ^(talk) 16:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was to keep. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Multimedia literacy

DELETE. The article doubles up on information found in other articles, article should be deleted or content moved and page redirected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.96.120.254 (talk • contribs) 00:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• It would help understand the criticism if you indicate where it should be placed, or where it is already covered? Travers 12:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. No opinion. —Cryptic (talk) 08:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as an incomplete mishmash of postmodernist nonsense that attempts to 'explain' a suspected neologism by reference to the methods used. Eddie.willers 11:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Well, Eddie, todays neologism (newly coined word or phrase) is sometimes tomorrow's dictionary entry. A quick search on multimedia literacy will show that it is in the title of many books and university courses. This doesn't prove that it means anything of course, but maybe it deserves a little attention, even if it is to put a critical and reasoned point of view. Travers 12:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep unless more evidence provided of its duplicating other articles. I despise these pseudo-academic fads, but it does appear to have at least some currency. - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, WP:NOR. Radiant_>|< 17:17, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep- The person who proposed the article for deletion made constructive edits to the page and then proposed it for deletion. Seems a bit strange to me. Regardless the article seems to have valuable content, as far as I understand it describes the process of combining new technologies with traditional understandings of literacy. Author should however consider better linking the article in with other literacy and education articles.Perhaps this article should be marked for cleanup rather than deletion. AdelaideRandel 02:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Keep artilce doesn't seem to be Original research nor a "mishmash of postmodernist nonsense".129.96.120.254 07:13, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

• Strong Keep- This is not a pseudo-academic fad nor is it a mishmash of postmodernist nonsense. Anyone with a bit of investigative skills and common sense to see it for what it is would realise that the area of multimedia literacy is becoming widely reported on from many sources besides academics alone. Do an online search, the last Google search I did with exact phrase "multimedia literacy" produced 40800 hits (although I did not sit down to read them all). The Federal Government in Australia (and other countries) spends massive amounts of money researching this area annually at some level of use by the population. It has even been included into the school curriculum at the expense of millions of Australian tax payer funded dollars. Yes I agree that some areas cross over and could be linked better, but how about we give Travers a break and let him get on top of it by editing it and addressing this issue. After all the page itself has only recently been created and has so much potential. I would like to add that the IP Address for which this article has been recommended for deletion is a Flinders University IP and the author has not signed his request by having logged in. I wonder is this a student of Travers causing mischief and mayhem at his expense. This is an assumption on my behalf as the first name of Travers appears to have been used in one edit comment on the history page & a university IP address was logged at the time of this entry (see page history @ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?

title=Multimedia_literacy&action=history). The unidentified author is from an address that has been reported for vandalism to another file (solar system) see page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:129.96.120.254 to confirm. I reiterate again "STRONG KEEP", but amend/edit. Just A Girl 00:32, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I wonder if "Just A Girl" is a student of Travers engading in a bit of brown nosing.

Wouldn't be a Wednesday morning tutorial student being malicious by any chance IP 129.96.120.254 would you? (time seems to fit then) maybe you shouldn't swipe you student card at the door and make these attacks on a PC that you personally have logged onto, easy enough to trace, lets face it the internet is not as anonymous as you might think. Let us hope Travers lets you get away with this one, but you should be more careful in future. Don't go stuffing it up for the rest of us and get us blocked with your malicious work. 138.217.216.144 01:37, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I think enough has been said in this little debate, could an administrator archive this page and remove the AFD, I think it may be a tad supercilious. As a side note if people wish to engage in flame wars or whatever please find a more appropriate forum. I have struckout the sections above that I would regard as inappropriate for inclusion in this section as they add nothing to the debate. AdelaideRandel 06:37, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was redire to Vampire Counts. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Necrarch Bloodline

Gamecruft Jdavidb (talk) 17:42, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom. There is little of value. --Reflex Reaction 18:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Vampire Counts. I'm not happy with having articles on each of the armies from WHFB, but for now that's the place this should point to. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 19:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 04:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Necrozoophilia

This article purports to be about a psychological condition, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence that the term is actually used anywhere except possibly as a joke or hoax. A Google search shows 500 hits ... largely Wikipedia mirrors and bootlegs. I think this article is a hoax. FOo 05:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, I don't think a fetishism of dead animals is particularly common to merit its own article. — JIP | Talk 09:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not a real disorder dr.alf 11:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unverifiable. sɪzlæk [ +t, +c, +m, +e ] 11:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unverifiable, probably a neologism. - Just zis Guy, you know? 15:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect merge anything worthy, and redirect to Necrobestiality with note on Necrobestiality about Necrozoophilia, which will require removing the darn redirect which currently exists from Necrobestiality to Necrozoophilia. No one said this would be simple, sigh. I agree its rare, and its icky, but it's real, and definately not a neologism. This term itself is not well documented on the 'net, but there is Paraphalia on MedicalGeo , Paraphilia on AnxietyZone, as well as about a thousand on the more common term Necrobestiality (which should lay to rest your concerns about the reality of the practice itself.) Its sex with dead animals, which is not something that hard to comprehend when you know about necrophilia, sex with dead people, and bestiality, sex with live animals. This is precisely the kind of thing that makes WikiPedia such a valuable resource - what if someone really wanted to know about this, and we'd deleted it because we were hasty or lazy and didn't research it before relegating it incorrectly to "hoax" or "neologism" status? KillerChihuahua 15:37, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

also:

[25] (Section 5) and Psychcentral and Google for "Necrobestiality paraphilia". This is not a neologism. necrozoophilia is one of four paraphilias considered common to seriel killers, and it is noteable. KillerChihuahua 11:14, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Transwiki to wiktionary - dicdef. --MacRusgail 20:15, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, neologism. -feydey 23:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect as per KillerChihuahua. TheMadBaron 20:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was SPEEDY DEL. — brighterorange (talk) 01:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ned dutton

NN, D. ComCat 00:39, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy delete, as per Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion/Articles criterion 7. --Kwekubo 00:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Author keeps removing the AfD tag, but I nominated it for a speedy. As I wrote there, "nn bio, seriously stepping up close to nonsense and pure vandalism. Consider salting the earth so nothing ever grows again." Speedy delete CanadianCaesar 00:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete StarryEyes 01:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep real person. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 01:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
• speedied as nn-bio. — brighterorange (talk) 01:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)