Meta:Requests for deletion

Requests for deletion

This page hosts local (i.e., Meta-Wiki) requests for page deletion. For requests for speedy deletion from global sysops or stewards, see Steward requests/Miscellaneous. Any language may be used on this page. Before commenting on this page, please read the deletion policy, in particular the criteria for speedy deletion, and the inclusion policy. Please place the template {{RFD}} on the page you are proposing for deletion, and then add an entry in an appropriate section below. As a courtesy, you may wish to inform the principal authors of the page about the request. After at least one week, an administrator will close and carry out the consensus or majority decision.

Articles that qualify for speedy deletion should be tagged with {{delete}} or {{delete|reason}}, and should not be listed here. (See also speedy deletion candidates.) Files with no sources should be tagged with {{no source}} and need not be listed here, either. To request undeletion, see #Requests for undeletion. See Meta:Inclusion policy for a general list of what does not belong on the Meta-Wiki.

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Pages[edit]

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Template:Extension[edit]

Was blanked by Izno. As a general rule we should not keep blank templates, but delete them if they are no longer useful. The remaining uses in userspace can either be ignored (since Special:WantedTemplates is huge already) or removed. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 21:26, 14 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Stomping grounds[edit]

No meaningful content or historical value. Speedy declined in 2007, thus nominating here. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:41, 3 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Delete * Pppery * _{it has begun} 01:00, 4 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Druryhunter36[edit]

The contents of the page is out of scope of user pages. Currently, this nonsense is being displayed from meta to the user's user pages in all other projects. Their user page has already been deleted here twice, but always recreated with some other nonsense contents, so I suggest its protecting from recreation. Note that the user seems to consider Wikimedia projects to be a toy, as he creates similar nonsense pages created across many Wikimedia projects or uploads nonsense files to Commons (see [User talk:Druryhunter36 here]). They have also been indefblocked in English Wikimedia. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 21:22, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Delete as cross-wiki nonsense. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 12:14, 14 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Deleted and user blocked. --MF-W 13:08, 14 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:32, 14 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Templates[edit]

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Template:Info[edit]

Quasi-identical to Template:Notice. I suggest merging {{info}} → {{notice}} and either redirect info to notice or delete info afterwards. Thank you, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:31, 8 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Merge into Template:Notice. The visible differences (User:MarcoAurelio/Sandbox 5) are close to none (info icon being a bit larger in Notice or Mbox than in Info, but we can expand Template:Notice code to allow customisation if needed. No reason to keep two identical templates around. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:40, 8 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Template:R from shortcut[edit]

Questionable scope. The creator also doesn't know why they created this template. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 11:04, 13 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Speedily deleted by Johannnes89. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 12:13, 14 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 12:13, 14 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Categories[edit]

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Category:News 2002 and all “News YYYY”[edit]

Categories “News YYYY” (from Category:News 2002 to Category:News 2022) in Category:News look pretty useless. Years categories (e.g. Category:2002) are sufficient, according to me. I ping Verdy p, their author. --Pols12 (talk) 14:04, 2 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

They were categorizing by year, like all other years in the series. Note that there should be other members for each related year. This was done for some years, but the simple Category:2002 for example would contain things not related to (Wikimedia) news but also for other things or events. Many of these categories have multiple pages. But they may also be grouped in "News by year", to avoid overpopulating "Category:News". Over time, the number of pages has increased, and there are subtopic in "Category:News" that are also dated and could have also their members sorted by year. There's been an old project to trace the history of Wikiemdia and make it summarizable and easily searchable. verdy_p (talk) 21:03, 2 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Files[edit]

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Redirects[edit]

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Requests for undeletion[edit]

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