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The result was delete. - Daniel Bryant 08:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wii Shooting[edit]

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Subject has not been shown to meet notability criteria. No reliable sources have been provided after nearly a month from being tagged. The only verifiable information is a rumor that has been spread mostly on gaming blogs and fansites. Most of the content in the article constitues original research, which fails Wikipedia:Attribution. Many web search results for "Wii Shooting" refer to the Duck Hunt-style shooting demo at E3 that was incorporated into Wii Play, and not a separate game. Dancter 00:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. Dancter 00:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong delete per WP:NOT#CRYSTAL; the article itself even admits that "it is unlikely the game exists." Krimpet 00:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - The first line says it is a "rumored Wii game." The article, likewise, should not yet be released. ◄Zahakiel► 00:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong delete, especially since the only citation in the article comes from a blog.--TBCΦtalk? 00:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Lol, it doesn't even exist. Come on, guys? Alex43223 ^{T | C | E} 00:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Crystal balling. Even if it was definitely in development, it still would not meet our notability criteria. Not every game is notable. --- RockMFR 01:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I wouldn't agree with that, espeically since athletes who only compete in 1 game are considered notable. TJ Spyke 02:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Reliable source please? Original research and rumors in this article.--PrestonH^{(Review Me!) • (Sign Here!)} 01:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOT#CRYSTAL
• Delete since it is "unlikely to exist", obviously! — brighterorange (talk) 02:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete The article itself states why, it's a RUMORED game (i.e. doesn't exist). TJ Spyke 02:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete No verifiable information. Maxamegalon2000 05:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - do I hear the sound of a snowball heating up? --Action Jackson IV 07:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Yelling Delete while throwing a snowball at Action Jackson. :-) Real96 11:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Article is failing WP:NOT#CRYSTAL and could be seen as just a myth, failing WP:V because of the lack of sources.Tellyaddict 18:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• We're not ready for this yet. Delete per nom. Until this game is announced, I think we should delete this. Bigtop 22:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, and we may as well call WP:SNOWBALL on this one as well. Snowball's chance in hell of passing this AfD. There's nothing to indicate Nintendo has released information about this game. That means it automatically fails WP:V, because there's no possible way to verify it's existence, even as a development product. Cheers, Lankybugger 13:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:12Z

Online dating service clichés[edit]

Online dating service clichés (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Original research with no sources or references to verify any of the claims made in the article. The article also has numerous POV issues, as it doesn't explain how many times a line or photo has to be used in order for it to be considered a "cliché". TBCΦtalk? 00:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Entirely unverified, and leaves out, "Come to this website often?" ◄Zahakiel► 00:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as unsourced and NOT belonging here. Alex43223 ^{T | C | E} 00:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• DElete This article should be highly improved or deleted because of original reserch.--PrestonH^{(Review Me!) • (Sign Here!)} 01:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Seems to be OR. Definitely subjective (what is a cliche?) and unencylopedic (just why?). WjBscribe 03:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per above. /Blaxthos 09:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• 'Keep the above arguments about this being unsourced are wrong, because there is a source in the references section. Catchpole 10:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - If you actually read the source, you'll realize that only 4 clichés are listed on that website, and there are 18 in the article. Where did all the others come from? The WP article is entirely original research, not even properly deriving the verifiable information from the single (and insufficient) source it provides. ◄Zahakiel► 14:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect/delete - maybe some of this content could be merged with an online dating service article... or have the external link/reference put into that article... then redirect/delete.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 13:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I just put the reference into the online dating service article making this truly redundant.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 13:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Pretty obvious OR. WJBscribe's comments are spot on. Pax:Vobiscum 18:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. ⇒ SWATJester ^{On Belay!} 18:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Inaproppriate article failing WP:NOT, seems like the article is just being used as a site for a future rude website (by the headings).Tellyaddict 19:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 08:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as it appears to be a recreation of an already AFD'd List of cliches in personal ads (or something very similar to that title). I'll see if I can dig up the deletion log from last time. Cheers, Lankybugger 13:33, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Alright, here's the previous AFD I mentioned. It's not created by the same author, so it's probably going to have to be a new AFD... but this is relevant due to the fact that the bulk of the text here appears to be exactly the same. Cheers, Lankybugger 13:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus John Reaves (talk) 21:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of baseball nicknames, List of sportspeople by nickname, List of hockey nicknames. List of basketball nicknames, List of baseball nicknames[edit]

List of baseball nicknames (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Original research with no references or citations to verify any of the nicknames mentioned in the list. Also, it doesn't clarify how often a nickname has to be used in order for it to be considered an official nickname. TBCΦtalk? 00:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. I'm also nominating the following:
  • List of sportspeople by nickname
  • List of hockey nicknames
  • List of basketball nicknames
  • List of baseball nicknames--TBCΦtalk? 01:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete OR, NN, and really just plain NOT belonging here. Alex43223 ^{T | C | E} 00:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and Merge verified nicknames into the respective team articles, if not already done so. UnfriendlyFire 01:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep not inherently original research, I've certainly seen/read a lot of these nicknames used in legitimate publications. There's no requirement that every claim on Wikipedia be backed up with an inline citation or we delete the article... some of these are just obvious, like "The Tribe" for Cleveland Indians "The Bronx Bombers" for the Yankees. Useful and interesting lists for sports fans. If some of the nicknames are original research, that's a reason to improve the articles, not delete them. --W.marsh 01:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, there is a requirement on Wikipedia for citations. See WP:ATT. Also, I strongly disagree that "sports fans might like it" is a reason for keeping these articles.--TBCΦtalk? 01:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • There is not a requirement that every line in an article have an inline citation this very minute. Never has been, never will be. It needs to be reasonably shown that sources do exist, that's the thing. If you think the Cleveland Indians have never been called "The Tribe" in print, for example, you obviously know very little about baseball [1] --W.marsh 01:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • There is a requirement for citations if the content might be considered dubious. Regardless, the article also has numerous POV issues, as it doesn't clarify how much a nickname has to be used in order for its inclusion into the list.--TBCΦtalk? 03:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Luckily, there's an easy solution for that, we can just say "notable nicknames" and then follow the guidelines per WP:NOTABLE on any that are controversial. That takes care of any theoretical POV issues. --JayHenry 04:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The List of baseball nicknames, much of it seems to fail WP:ATT and WP:MADEUP. "The Tribe" sure, but stuff like "Sox Suxs" "Asstros" "Pond Scum" "Filthy Rich Dankees"? Do you think this stuff would appear in a reputable source? Neutral on the others, if they could have references added, they could be pretty good articles Citicat 01:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • So remove the ones that are inaccurate? What is it with people wanting to delete an entire list lately just because a few items are incorrect... it's not much different than deleting articles because a few claims have ((fact)) tags next to them. --W.marsh 01:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because I don't think there would be enough left over to make a worthwhile article. While might be a good article would be a list of major league baseball franchises, that could list prior team names and cities as well as nicknames. Citicat 18:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Kntrabssi 01:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yeah that could be used as justification to delete absolutely anything though... Bill Clinton, Outer space, Russia... those are pretty random topics! We can't collect them indiscriminately, can we? Is there any specific problem with this information other than the fact that you apparently don't like it? --W.marsh 01:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep all per WP:AFD-IS-NOT_WP:CLEANUP. Remove the inaccurate or controversial names; build a better encyclopedia instead of eradicating the less-than-perfect articles. - Neier 03:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • 'The article also has numerous POV issues, not just clean up ones. For example, how many times does a nickname have to be used in order for it to be considered an official nickname? Five times? A hundred? A thousand? --TBCΦtalk? 03:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • POV issues aern't a reason to delete, either. If you can turn on the radio/TV coverage of a baseball game and the announcers are using the nicknames without need for explanation (Big Red Machine, Tribe, Bronx Bombers, etc.) that's a pretty established nickname. There's no reason to suspect the article couldn't cover such information reliably. --W.marsh 03:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Though I admit that not all POV issues are a reason to delete, inherently POV issues—such as in this case—are. Also, the article doesn't establish how many times must a nickname be used by TV/radio announcers in order for it to be considered an official nickname. After all, there are countless people in mainstream media who have made up neologisms to describe teams, and Wikipedia is certaintly not the place to indiscriminately record all of them. --TBCΦtalk? 03:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • I'm just talking about turning on a random radio/tv broadcast. There are certain nicknames recognizable to baseball fans. Maybe this is something you actually have to follow sports to understand, I dunno. But there's a difference between established nicknames and the silly stuff sports columnists make up as filler and is forgotten quickly. It's not really an inherent POV issue, it just involves needing to improve the article. Everything you've said boils down to a need to improve the article, not a reason to delete it. --W.marsh 03:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • But the thing is, since it's entirely subjective, there's no way for us to determine how popular a neologism needs to be in order for it to be considered an actual nickname instead of, as you put it, "silly stuff sports columnists make up". As such, by all means these lists are inherently POV.--TBCΦtalk? 04:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As to how many times something has to be used. It has to be used by multiple, verifible, reliable sources. If that critereon can be met for some of this set, I see no reason to delete this, only to clean it up. Wintermut3 18:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • • • • • • I'm not following the reasoning that suggests it's entirely or inherently subjective. Some nicknames are adopted by the teams (see http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/cin/history/timeline3.jsp for one use of "Big Red Machine" on the team's home page), and the existence of just one such case should be enough to show that it is not a 100% subjective argument. Neier 04:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Strong Keep big difference between unverified and unverifiable. These lists need to be tagged for needing references, and from there a little clean-up and attention will do the trick. --JayHenry 04:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete as unencyclopaedic/trivial information. incorporate into each article, create a template entry for nickname. /Blaxthos 09:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • It looks like you are advocating the incorporation of "unencyclopaedic/trivial information" in articles? Doesn't that seem hypocritical? Neier 12:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I was unclear. Having an article of a list of nicknames is unencyclopaedic and trivial. Incorporating those nicknames into articles is useful (when referenced) -- we just don't need a indiscriminant and unverified list. /Blaxthos 18:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As seen below, parts of the lists are already verified. As for indiscriminant, is there some other way that you would classify or list baseball teams besides the 32 MLB teams which would make it more discriminant? It seems that indiscriminant is too often used as anything that I think is useless in AFD discussions. Neier 23:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. ⇒ SWATJester ^{On Belay!} 18:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The article is failing WP:NOT#IINFO as its just totally irrelevant information.Tellyaddict 19:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually, it's very relevant information. Sports journalists constantly refer to teams and players by their nicknames. Also, for people who keep saying "indiscriminate" I gently encourage you to actually look up the meaning of the word "indiscriminate" in a dictionary. These lists are not it. These lists pass WP:LIST, for 1) information and 2) navigation. The lists are easily verifiable and also notable as these nicknames are in constant use in sports journalism. If you want to redefine Wikipedia's policy on lists, AFD is not the place for it. --JayHenry 19:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • These articles are a lyrics database? They're travel guides? That's the only kind of things the page you've mentioned says are not to be included... and the articles in question clearly aren't any of those 8 things. People should really read these things before citing them. --W.marsh 20:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I've been going through the baseball article and adding references. There are about 20 now. I have to get back to real life, but I want to say, these nicknames are incredibly common. It's almost hard to find references because, for example, "Los Angeles" "Halos" returns over 1,000,000 hits on google, almost all of which are about the baseball team. Some of these nicknames even have books written about them -- about the actual nickname. There's an entire book about why the Dodgers are called the Boys of Summer. Also, I'm finding tons of non-trivial references such as "ESPN's List of Best Baseball Nicknames of All Time." As I do further research in this topic -- I'm not even interested in sports -- it's instantly obvious that sports nicknames are an integral part of sports culture and I'm changing my original vote to strong keep, and if not for the handful of delete votes, I'd change to speedy. These are blatantly valid lists. --JayHenry 20:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • Here's an academic paper on Baseball nicknames: Gmelch, George, "What's in a Baseball Nickname", NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2006, pp. 129-132. [2]
  • Baseball almanac's list of hall of famers and their nicknames: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/hof/hofnick.shtml
  • Baseball Nicknames: A Dictionary of Origins and Meanings (Hardcover), by James K. Skipper, [3]
  • Historical paper on Baseball nicknames: Nicknames of Baseball Clubs, Joseph Curtin Gephart, American Speech, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr., 1941), pp. 100-103 [4]
  • And honestly, I'll add these as I have the time. --JayHenry 20:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The nicknames should be only found in the articles that's it. --JForget 00:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Valuable indexes to information on Wikipedia. Fg2 00:40, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep weed out OR ones - valualbe index Mayumashu 02:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Very valuable information. Nevertheless, we could add a requirement for references, a la List of entertainers by nickname. Mrbluesky 03:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep Very valuable information, esp for people who know the nickname but not the real name. Otherwise, delete all lists of nicknames, pseudonyms, & the like (which I strong oppose, btw...). Trekphiler 09:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Get rid of the unproven nicknames, but keep the rest. Captain panda In vino veritas 01:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. This is not original research, but rather an issue of missing sources. The addition of multiple sources here shows this to be the case. -- Black Falcon 19:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. - Daniel Bryant 08:52, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of actors who play characters with the same names[edit]

List of actors who play characters with the same names (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Indiscriminate collection of information. This is just a mixture of;

• characters who are fictionalized/comedy versions of the actors playing them (Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, etc)
• characters who are clearly named after the star of the show (Cybil, Roseanne, etc), which is a long-running tradition in sitcoms
• characters who coincidentally happen to have the same first name (or last name... or middle name) as the actor playing them (Jack Nicholson in The Shining, etc)
• characters' names that sound a little bit like the actors who are playing them, if you are hard of hearing, (Jackson Stewart played by Jason Earles, Jenna Rink played by Jennifer Garner, etc)

Mildly interesting trivia, but no real connection between all the items on this list, and no encyclopedic value. Saikokira 00:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Interesting perhaps, but as the nom mentioned, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.--TBCΦtalk? 01:04, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 01:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Saikokira's very impressive points. Noroton 02:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom, and could Saikokira please write my next AFD? -- Dhartung | Talk 03:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I could understand if it were different actors who played the same character, but as a movie fanatic, it seems pointless. Mghabmw 09:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per above. /Blaxthos 09:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per above. --MonkeyTimeBoy 14:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 14:09, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. ⇒ SWATJester ^{On Belay!} 18:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. The list does not live up to the title. There is not one actor on this list who plays a figure with the same full name, other than characters from shows that are named after their main actor or cases where only the first or last name matches. This is a bad indiscriminate collection of information.--DorisH 23:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all of this is just trivial info...--PrestonH^{(Review Me!) • (Sign Here!)} 23:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Not necessary to throw a long and interminable list like that, categories maybe would be better suited.--JForget 00:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. ⇒ SWATJester ^{On Belay!} 18:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Xtreme Hockey League[edit]

Xtreme Hockey League (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Utterly non-notable simulated hockey league. Also, take note of abusive nature of page's creator. Skudrafan1 01:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Xtreme delete as Wikipedia is not for hockey leagues made up in school one day, regardless of how "xtreme" they are. (and yes, I did steal the "xtreme delete" thing from JzG) --TBCΦtalk? 01:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete. It's not notable.. Come on, it's a sim league! --Deenoe 01:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• This edit says, "since obviously some people dont recognize this as a SIM hockey league and NOT real league and some of us are trying to have a little bit of fun, I have come to the conclussion that some of you have no life at all and have no sense of humor. That being said whoever is behind this proposed deletion can kiss my ass." OK, I have no life and no sense of humor, so I'm puckering up. Speedy delete. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 01:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Xtreme delete to the Max yo! per TBC's comments above. --Haemo 01:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Wow, sim hockey rocks.... xtreme dude. DMighton 01:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per all of the above and per WP:ATTACK. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 01:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as everyone has said already. Kaiser matias 02:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete because I live in Greensboro and cannot find any tickets to the Swordsman's playoff games. Said something about I cannot get them because I don't live in the SIM world. If you want to have some fun, create your own website, but this is an encyclopedia, and this page does not belong. Pparazorback 02:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as NN league. I do like sim hockey however. Alex43223 ^{T | C | E} 02:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete like totally, yo. Also someone should look at HFboards. JuJube 03:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per this little nugget at the end of the article: "since obviously some people dont recognize this as a SIM hockey league and NOT real league and some of us are trying to have a little bit of fun, I have come to the conclussion that some of you have no life at all and have no sense of humor. That being said whoever is behind this proposed deletion can kiss my ass." Thunderbunny 04:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Oops, somebody already noted it. Thunderbunny 04:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. If this is a SIM hockey league and not a real one, it can have an article in a SIM encyclopedia and not a real one. --Metropolitan90 04:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Maxamegalon2000 05:04, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. If we don't delete this, I'm creating an article about my fantasy football league. SkipSmith 05:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh yeah? Well I'll do you one better - consider List of Ambidextrious and Bisexual Self-Referential Athletes in SkipSmith's Fantasy League already under construction. --Action Jackson IV 06:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Delete - A7 with a dash (an Xtreme dash, might I add) of G1. --Action Jackson IV 06:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Don't delete - Alright look. This is a sim league. It's not real, ok? This was something we were doing to have a little fun. It doesn't link to any real sites or real people, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just a little fun, innocent thing we did that isn't hurting anyone. Why someone would even take the time to get so upset about something as trivial as this is beyond me and why you would even be LOOKING at this in the first place makes me wonder how much you have going on in your life. Anyway, bottom line is this article isnt hurting anyone and nobody can even see it unless they know what they are looking for...so who cares? And as a side note...even if it gets deleted, guess what? We got our page up on wikipedia for nearly a week and got exposure for it from people with no lives. Success! And as a response to the "someone should look at HFBoards" part...THAT is a real site. Leave it alone.— Danno2530 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • People on Wikipedia are like this when it comes to deleting articles that do not cite reliable sources, and meet the encyclopedia's standards for notability. I don't like the sarcastic tone that some people in this deletion discussion have used though, such as "XTreme Delete Dude!" - that's bordering on a personal attack and is not constructive or helpful.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 13:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - This is an encyclopedia. If you want to make a wiki about your league, fine: do it on wikispaces or pbwiki. Leave the real encyclopedia for articles about real leagues. As for the personal attacks: yes, I don't agree with the sarcastic deletion votes people are putting in, but I also don't agree with being repeatedly told I have no life because I want a pointless article about a meaningless league removed from Wikipedia. Skudrafan1 14:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• ninja style backflip delete with a double-allie (or however you spell it). /Blaxthos 10:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was a mess resulting in no consensus. Individual nominations might be better, potential merges or redirecting is left to editorial discretion. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 23:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command[edit]

List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

List of USAF Bomb Wings (P) Provisional assigned to Strategic Air Command (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) –

List of USAF Bomb Wings (P) Provisional assigned to Strategic Air Command was nominated for deletion but received no attention other than a suggestion to merge into this article. As I don't see how either list is encyclopaedic I'm relisting and expanding the nomination to include this list as well. Delete. Verification with reference to reliable sources is non-negotiable regardless of opinion here. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 02:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adding:

List of USAF Missile Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of USAF Strategic Missile Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of USAF Strategic Aerospace and Missile Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

to which the above seems to apply equally. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 02:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Original nomination for List of USAF Bomb Wings (P) Provisional assigned to Strategic Air Command[edit]

Non-notable stub as it is now, replicates only some of the information available at List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command Buckshot06 07:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC) •[reply]

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 12:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Transfer anything not already in List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command and delete, as this is not a likely search term. Alba 16:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Continued nomination below[edit]

Please let me add some context to this set of pages. Some should not be deleted, as they are subpages of Strategic Air Command wings, which user:R. E. Mixer spent a great deal of time and effort on (he formerly served with SAC and has written books on the subject) while others are mistaken repeat pages and can be safely culled. List of USAF Bomb Wings (P) Provisional assigneed to Strategic Air Command, List of USAF Strategic Wings (P) Provisional assigned to Strategic Air Command, and List of USAF Air Refueling Wings (P) Provisional assigned to Strategic Air Command can all be safely deleted, as they replicate single portions of List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command, which is notable itself. List of USAF Missile Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command and List of USAF Strategic Aerospace and Missile Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command can also both be deleted, because they deal with a single year`s history where the 321st Strategic Missile Wing was redesignated the 321st Missile Wing in 1990-91, but the main page for intercontinental missile (ICBM) wings, the List of USAF Strategic Missile Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command should not be deleted as it deals with all these organisations` history for nearly fifty years.

Buckshot06 13:17, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the verification for these articles, even before we consider any of that? --Sam Blanning^(talk) 01:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mr Mixer served inside this organisation, and wrote three books on it - see the bibliography on Strategic Air Command of about six months ago under M. On the web it is not complete, but do a google search for USAF lineage and you will get official sites replicating most of this. I am remote from my primary/secondary sources, but Air Force magazine, the magazine of the Air Force Association, does a yearly issue with the entire wiring diagram for the USAF. I've seen numerous 1990s (and earlier copies), mainly in New Zealand, but it will be able to be accessed elsewhere. Finally if you want a web general background look at the USAF organisation page at globalsecurity.org and at the Federation of American Scientists, FAS. Buckshot06 16:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Coredesat 03:06, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Coredesat 01:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• questions Following Buckshot06's comments: Does this have to be a (big, confusing) AfD? Could not someone BE BOLD and aggregate the information in a minimal number of pages and turn the others into redirects? If that works to the satisfaction of Buckshot06 & R. E. Mixer, then is there a problem? Cannot R. E. Mixer's books serve as reliable sources? Pete.Hurd 04:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• speedy close as malformed, confusing AFD. Obviously, with three listings having now occured and few/any comments (which, I assume, is due to it's complexity), this needs to be represented in an understandable form. /Blaxthos 09:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletions. -- Carom 05:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Am proceeding in line with user Pete Hurd's suggestions. Buckshot06 17:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:17Z

Sexile[edit]

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I'm not sure if this warrants more than a wiktionary redirect Tejastheory 01:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as a neologism and a dicdef. --TBCΦtalk? 01:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Kntrabssi 01:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Neologism, I'm suprised this even made it in Wiktionary. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 02:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Wikipedia is not a dictionary, plus Wikitionary already has a definition on it, redundant to be here. Wooyi 02:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as dictionary definition. Alex43223 ^{T | C | E} 03:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I agree this is just a definition and belongs in Wiktionary, but feel obligated to point out it's not a neologism. Other than the references from the article, here's a published reference from 2004. Kevinsam 07:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking at that source as well, although it's not exactly an authoritative source: just a 'sex columnist' student writing on the subject. Tejastheory 07:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your point is well-taken. While the term is clearly widely used and not all that new, no academic I can find has bothered to write about it yet... Kevinsam 18:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• delete per above. /Blaxthos 09:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• As a strong inclusionist I'd like to be able to say keep, but ultimately this is the sort of thing that belongs in Urban Dictionary and, at best, Wiktionary.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and add to WP:BJAODN Al-Bargit 17:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note the deletion log, it's been inappropriately speedied twice. -- stillnotelf is invisible 03:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 10:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of sports clichés[edit]

List of sports clichés (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Original research with no sources or references to verify any of the claims made in the article. The article also has numerous POV issues, as it doesn't explain how many times a phrase has to be used in a sport in order for it to be considered a "cliché". TBCΦtalk? 01:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Weak Delete No inclusion criteria, no sources, WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 02:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • It has sources now and google shows it is not really indiscriminate, but still needs explicit inclusion criteria. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 00:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep If an article can be fixed, then AfD is not the route to go. See WP:Deletion policy, where it says: Problem with page ... [Item:] Can't verify information in article (e.g. article lacks source citations) I see this under "Solution:" Look for sources yourself and add citations for them to the article! Ask other editors for sources using the talk page and various citation request templates. If those don't work, come back here. If it is truly unverifiable, it may be deleted. A list of sports cliches can be put together without being WP:OR as long as sources are cited saying "such and such is a sports cliche" and the citation could be disputed with a simple Google search or Google News search showing that the cliche isn't repeated as much as one would think a sports cliche would be. Inclusion criteria is simple: Is it a cliche used in sports topics? Yes or no, in or out. I don't know what is meant by POV in a list like this. Noroton 02:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC) (added to my comment Noroton 02:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC))[reply]
  • The article doesn't only have cleanup issues, but POV issues as well. Determining which phrases are cliches is entirely subjective. After all, how many times must a phrase be used in order for it to be considered a "cliche"? Five times? One hundred times? One thousand times?--TBCΦtalk? 03:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TBC, you're not getting what I'm saying: those ghits I link to in my comment below are what someone identified as sports cliches. Get a respectable source, cite the respectable source, build your list The Wikipedia Way. I just went down that link a little bit and found "Best Sports Cliches Ever! (Paperback) by Don R. Powell" over at Amazon.com. It's got blurbs from Sports Illustrated and ESPN Magazine. If you disagree with what Mr. Donald Rasputinovich Powell or some other respectable source has to say, the burden's on you to prove him wrong, it seems to me. That's where a small number of Google hits may help, although no, I don't know how small. Anyway, you don't really have to decide, you just have to cite respectable sources.Noroton 05:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: I see 29,000 ghits for "sports cliches" here. Without going further, I think it's pretty clear there are adequate sources out there. Noroton 02:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete for above reasons. Indiscriminate collection of information. Arkyan 06:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per WP:NOT. /Blaxthos 09:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete nn cruft. Gandoman 17:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- Noroton 18:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - I completely reworked this page. Every cliche has a ref, and the page has multiple refs, so notability for each cliche, and the page itself is established. The OR is removed, and as for how many times makes a cliche, that's up to the reliable sources. - Peregrine Fisher 18:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Great work Peregrine! Noroton 21:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - WP:NOTABILITY, multiple non-trivial sources to establish notability, compliant with WP:ATT, WP:NOT#PAPER. --Matthew
• Keep. The article was completely rewritten a few hours ago.--DorisH 23:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Nowt wrong with this article now. I might even add a few myself. EliminatorJR ^Talk 23:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - I was going to put keep, but then I looked up List of sports idioms and English language idioms derived from baseball and these seem more than adequate. Mghabmw 06:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete-Beyond fixing.--74.104.224.214 22:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - not all idioms have become cliched. Also recommend discarding the delete votes prior to the massive re-write. Neier 00:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, because lists like these are convenient and fascinating to sports fans and casual readers alike! :) --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 22:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• KEEP There are TONS of lists on Wikipedia. If it's to be encyclopedic, it should be here. Just figure out how to get a workable list
• Delete it with 110% effort one day at a time. Bucketsofg 04:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:18Z

List of scream queens[edit]

List of scream queens (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

List of Scream Queens (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (added by closing admin)

Inherently POV/original research. Introduction states a scream queen is "an actress who has become closely associated with horror films." "Closely associated" in whose opinion? The editors who added the actresses names to this list? The general public? And exactly how many horror films does an actress have to appear in before she is closely associated with them?

Apparently Paris Hilton, Julianne Moore,Katie Rosales and Joan Collins are all "closely associated with horror films." Really?! That just shows how this list will always suffer from POV issues. Just because Scream queen is a notable topic does not necessarily mean that a list of scream queens should also exist. Saikokira 01:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per POV problems, and lack of inclusion criteria. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 02:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Delete (see my comments below) the way to deal with Saikokira's questions and objections is the way Wikipedia generally lets us deal with POV: report what responsible sources say. A list of scream queens could be made from among the 1,030 references found here. Since a list can be made, deletion is inappropriate, at least not until after other solutions have been tried (so says Wikipedia:Deletion policy. Noroton 04:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I'm changing to delete. After I wrote the comment above, which I still think is correct in general, I looked at the history of the article: Started 13 December 2005, poor-citation tag slapped on since 26 February 2006, number of citations made since then, ZERO. Attempting to get the contributing editors to cite sources has failed, and nominating for deletion is the proper next step. If the editors who have been adding to the list ever since February of '06 can't get their act together enough to find the sources, then it's time to light a fire under them or throw their article onto the trash heap. No sources, no article. Noroton 04:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete original research/WP:NOT a list. /Blaxthos 09:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as inherently subjective and not very useful. --Lockley 20:20, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Merge to Fantastic art. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:19Z

Fantasy painting[edit]

Fantasy painting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

This page lacks substantive information. It appears to be some unreferenced rambles on the topic. And we already have Fantastic art. Goldfritha 01:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Agree that article is more or less incoherent and that subject matter duplicates Fantastic art. In addition, there still seems some problems with copyright for the images—the Tanguy painting on the page, for instance, is less than 70 years old. Deor 02:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per deor. /Blaxthos 09:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect with fantastic art for the time being. FWIW, I suspect that fantasy painting could support a separate article from fantastic art; when I see fantasy painting, I think instead of "paintings made to illustrate fantasy literature", like Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, Julie Bell, and so forth. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• There's an existing article about "paintings made to illustrate fantasy literature" at Fantasy art. Deor 14:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• In that case, perhaps a disambiguation is needed. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge and redirect per above.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Wikipedia is not an image gallery, and while the images are nice, this is little more than an image gallery article. --Dennisthe2 20:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. No article content.--ZayZayEM 03:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Keep. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:21Z

Medical slang[edit]

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WP:NOT#DICT Kntrabssi 23:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Keep, with complete rewrite. Liking the work of this so far, but every jargon word should have a reference to accompany it. Looks good guys! Kntrabssi 02:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete change to STRONG KEEP (for reason, see comment below Uncle G's comment below) Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Noroton 02:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. For reasons mentioned above. Besides, article has no sources. --Blueag9 (Talk | contribs) 03:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete sources/WP:NOT /Blaxthos 09:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per above. Real96 11:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Keep, but rewrite There are sources, for sure, see [5] for example. I'm sure there are others. But my vote is based on the fact that WP is not a dictionary. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 14:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Update upon rethinking. The phenomenon of Medical slang is real. WP having an article about it, maybe citing an example or two, but more discussing it's existence, how it is viewed by the medical profession, etc., could be notable and appropriate for WP. If the long lists were taken out, and some references added, this could be a good article. So keep, based on just removing the lists. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 14:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: The current version of this article is a list of swear-words. Unreferenced on top of that. The fact that professional slang per se exists should be discussed in slang. So maybe merge the descriptive part into slang. If the lists are kept, I think every single expression should be referenced and it should be indicated what country it is used in.--DorisH 23:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • All of that is solvable by ordinary editors doing ordinary editing, and does not require an administrator to use any administrator tools. Editors should have the boldness to excise unverifiable dictionaries of slang and write proper articles themselves. AFD is not cleanup. Uncle G 12:57, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• I added the citation for Fox et al. to this article back in September 2006. There is an encyclopaedia article to be had on this subject, but the actual encyclopaedia content has been overshadowed by the collection of original research, the vast dictionary of slang, that the article itself made excuses for not complying with our Wikipedia:Attribution and Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary content policies. As demonstrated, fixing the problems with this article requires nothing more than the simple use of ordinary editing tools by ordinary editors to hold it to our content policies. Sources on the subject exist. AFD is not cleanup. Keep. Uncle G 12:57, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work, Uncle G, you changed my vote. This is exactly what we should be doing with articles, preferrably before they're put up for AfD nomination, but if necessary, after. Noroton 00:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • If we could have references of usage for all of these slang terms, I would uggest keeping it, but at the moment this is all original research and a list of slang, which violates What Wikipedia is Not. Kntrabssi 00:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep. this article has the right idea. It appears to be about medical slang, not an indiscriminate list. Good job lads. requires clean up and TLC, not deletion.--ZayZayEM 03:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Uncle G and due to rewrite. ≈≈Carolfrog≈≈♦тос♦ 07:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 23:17, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jack_Yan[edit]

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Vanity page, not noteable, not written in a neutral point of view, references minor and rubbish, content is nonsense Randomkiwi 02:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Seems notable enough. POV seems pretty much neutral, and NPOV is not criteria for deletion, but more for rewriting. Kntrabssi 02:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. I don't agree that POV is neutral, and suggest a clear COI between the original article author and the subject. Article claims subject had a "distinguished academic history" at primary and secondary schools--no reference to distinction. Acquisition of two university degrees does not constitute distinction.

Article claims subject is a "distant relative" of other notable people, with no references. Claims he has an interest in politics, but no evidence of any notability in this area, other than a planned speech to a minor party not represented in Parliament. Books listed include a book he may be a contributor to, but I can't find any evidence of this. References cited are not independent, reliable sources, or mainly appear to mention him only in passing. His IMDB profile lists a few appearances on New Zealand television. Google hits do come up with a large response, but almost entirely are from his own publishing company and mirrors. Randomkiwi 04:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Cleanup and remove claims not supported by sources. /Blaxthos 09:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Article has several sources and seems relatively notabe. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 08:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Cleanup and keep. I had been editing the page and removing POV, and perhaps my efforts have not been comprehensive enough. Naturally, I am happy to be guided by fellow editors as suggested at Wikipedia: I'm happy to modify anything that can't be independently verified. I will begin cleanup now based on points raised.

Answering Randomkiwi's points: the "distant relative" claim is in a source but I cannot enter the foreign characters (Chinese). Maybe a Chinese editor can assist if I scanned the book. All the books that he wrote are in the National Library of New Zealand's records, other than the one published in the UK. (You may know that New Zealand publishers are not as good at getting titles on to Amazon and are, consequently, less visible. I do not think this to be a reason to limit New Zealanders' titles.) His work on the British book can be easily found at Amazon UK. On your point about politics, you failed to mention that he had founded a now-defunct political party, which is listed in Wikipedia.

If Googling, I suggest doing -site commands on his own sites: I still managed 109,000 references, but I could not locate mirrors. Next to Raybon Kan, he is probably the most visible male Chinese New Zealander in the country.

Of the footnoted references, he wrote two. I have removed the references where Jack Yan was cited as the author. I disagree that the other references (CNN, The Daily Telegraph) are minor and he would not have been approached if he were not notable. Some other sources have since been added, but I disagree that the ones that were there were unreliable.

I believe the subject is one of the better known brand strategists in New Zealand, was the first digital typeface designer in New Zealand (easily more notable than some in that profession who are in Wikipedia: if he is removed, then quite a few others would have to as well). I trust the above answers your concerns.—Stombs 11:04, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Cleaned up page features sources from notable media

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The result was merge somewhere. Prodego ^talk 23:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of worlds in Kya: Dark Lineage[edit]

List of worlds in Kya: Dark Lineage (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Original research & video game cruft. Poorly-written article appears to have been created by someone playing this game and adding their observations to Wikipedia. I am nominating 2 other related articles for the same reasons:

List of items in Kya: Dark Lineage (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of characters in Kya: Dark Lineage (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Saikokira 02:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• delete per nom. /Blaxthos 09:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all - Wikipedia is not a game guide. Don't forget to nuke all the thirty or so fair use images too. MER-C 10:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge any possible useful content if there is any, then delete/redirect. The article - and I'm not being sarcastic here - reads as though it was written by a child.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First off i think i fixed the list of characters, second i took the pictures with my own camera and tv and video game of kya, i never intended it to make it sound like a game guide and have gotten rid of it on the list of characters, do you guys even like kya? because you could help fix it too-hotspot

• Comment. It should be noted that Hotspot, the article's creator, has vandalized this AfD by altering MER-C's comments to make them less critical [6]. I have now replaced them. Saikokira 04:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge after condensing into a list and removing the huge amount of images into respective umbrella pages. As it is right now, it doesn't warrent its own article and it does seem too much like a guide. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 08:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete All While Kya: Dark Lineage was an excellent game, a list of the various items and locations in the game isn't really warranted. Cheers, Lankybugger 13:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editing mercs post was an accident i didn't mean to do that, and how is it vandalism to say something about the article that is not vandalism it is disscussing with you. and also i took time out of my life to take pictures jus t for kya and you guys are trying to get rid of the pictures, and also what is the problem with list of worlds in kya dark lineage? can we atleast keep the worlds of kya dark lineage i think that it is the best article that i made out of the three-hotspot

• Comment. Deleting someone's critical comments in an AfD and replacing them with your own is considered vandalism. And if you want to add your own comments in this AfD then place them underneath the previous comments, as you would do on a talk page. This is the second time I have had to fix them. Saikokira 05:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• For some reason i thought the new edits were up i don't know why but that's what i thought, I think we should delete the items list and add a few items to the main article, but only the most important items like kya's boomy, today i will be fixing up the worlds in kya dark lineage.-hotspot

• Merge with Kya: Dark Lineage, after deleting game guide information, to create a proper 'setting' section. --User:Krator (t c) 17:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge all into List of characters, places, and items in Kya: Dark Lineage per WP:FICT point 2, which allows the existence of such lists if they get too long. Alternatively, a selective merge into Kya: Dark Lineage can be performed as none of the 3 articles or the main one is particularly long. If the consensus is to merge, I am willing to perform the merge to the appropriate target. Just please leave me note on my talk page. Thanks, Black Falcon 19:59, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Keep. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:22Z

Haven Middle School[edit]

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Delete. I put this one up for speedy, but another user asked me to put it on AfD. Not even the smallest claim of notability. (They do teach math, though) --דניאל - Danielrocks123 ^contribs 02:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, No sign that the subject meets any inclusion guideline. However, I hear they have great fish sticks. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 03:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep this two-day-old article. Give the creator time, and don't bite the newbies. Noroton 03:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletions. -- Noroton 03:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Weak Keep per WP:A and WP:N. Notepad and /sandbox are for developing articles. Wikipedia is for stubs and up. Revised and much expanded version remains routine and nonnotable IMHO except as far as the architecture is concerned, but I think it's a keeper on that basis. Still, nobody will complain about school sub-stubs at http://myschool.wikia.com. --Butseriouslyfolks 04:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per above. /Blaxthos 09:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: this entry has as much, if not more, notability than other schools on here and is referenced. All i can see wrong with it is the fact it is ugly and poorly written, which is easily fixed. Jonomacdrones 20:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Has innovative science programs, and has been a shooting location for several major motion pictures. Found several reference. Edison 21:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Sure needs some work but several notable features. The Business and Science initiatives are unusual for a middle school and interesting, as is the film set - someone viewing the film may well want to find out about the school. Plenty of scope for expansion. TerriersFan 01:12, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The article makes explicit claims of notability, using reliable and verifiable spurces to establish notability. Alansohn 03:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep It seems that the articles been improved since originally nominated, since it's starting to look pretty good now. --Maelwys 13:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Alansohn and Jonomacdrones. Explicit claims to notability are made, so any attempt to speedy delete this was completely unfounded. Yamaguchi先生 05:47, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. - Daniel Bryant 08:54, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cyber prima[edit]

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We don't need an article on every Yu-Gi-Oh card ever produced. As a standalone entity, it isn't notable (WP:N) and is rather crufty. Crystallina 03:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom (cruft/WP:N) /Blaxthos 09:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - almost incomprehensible, nobody cares. MER-C 10:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong delete - incoherent, non-NPOV and unattributed.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Delete. No claim to notability. Stebbins 23:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Delete. Completely non notable --Maelwys 13:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. Just because other pages violate notability criteria does not give this page a free pass to. Put those pages on AfD as well. Prodego ^talk 23:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another Anime Convention[edit]

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Wikipedia is not a directory. No reliable independent third-party sources provided or found to indicate notability. Only sources that can be found are the convention's website, its press release, and its listing on AnimeCons.com's directory, which aren't enough to even come close to passing WP:ORG. --Farix (Talk) 03:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Another Anime Convention — result: Delete

• Strong Keep - Your argument would also mean that Ai-Kon, AVCon, Animaritime, Animazement, Anime Banzai, Anime Detour, Anime Evolution, Anime Festival Wichita, Anime Mid-Atlantic, Anime_NebrasKon, Anime Punch!, Anime USA, Anime Vegas, AnimeFest, AnimeNEXT, should all be deleted (there are more!). Notability is not a policy on Wikipedia, but it is only a Guideline, and although guidelines are important, they have their exceptions. Deleting this article, and the similar articles I mentioned are against the spirit (and policies!) of Wikipedia! The information is attributed, and with that sort of information you should, whatever you do, try to preserve information. Furthermore, wikipedia is not paper and there is no practical limit to the amount of information we can have here. The information contained in this article is useful to several people, people looking for encyclopedic, reliable information about anime conventionss, Anime, or more. Kopf1988 03:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - I forgot to mention that Another Anime Convention is the largest anime convention in New Hampshire. Should that make it a little more notable?? Kopf1988 22:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete then, delete now - completely non-notable new convention. MikeWazowski 07:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the Anime and manga deletion discussions.

You seem to have missed my point. Click on each of those convention links, and tell me how they're notable please? Absolutely none of them at the time of my post had ANY sources to satisfy notability. It is a completely ridiculous idea to think that this article, and by extension all those others, should be deleted from Wikipedia! whatever you do, try to preserve information.Kopf1988 17:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You keep mentioning that you want to "try to preserve information" and link to Wikipedia:Editing policy. Maybe you should look at WP:ABOUTEVERYTHING and WP:ALLORNOTHING for a clearer view on "preserving" everything. --PatrickD 21:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For one, my reference towards preserving information was to a Wikipedia Policy, while you mention only an Essay! Yes, it is true that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, but the information here is useful, verified, and more than just a phone-book directory listing. Kopf1988 22:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The "preserve information" bit means that if part of an article is bad, the good parts should be kept. If the subject itself is not article-worthy, that doesn't really apply. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 00:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's one interpretation, however I see it as information should be preserved in general, including topics too. Kopf1988 17:27, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That philosophy will only lead to cruft. We need to make editorial decisions as to what information is relevant and should be kept and what is simply trivial and unimportant. And if the only reliable sources you can provided is to prove that the convention exists, then its trivial information. --Farix (Talk) 15:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Why should this article be an exception to the guideline? There is a criteria for listing Anime conventions as outlined by the Conventions work group. One of which is meeting Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). How about citing an article from the local New Hampshire newspaper about the event? A listing on AnimeCons.com isn't enough. --Squilibob 07:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Look closely at all the other Anime Convention links I provided (or randomly select a couple!) NONE of them have anything more than AnimeCons.com and the official website to claim notability. Are you telling me that these should all be deleted? Anime Conventions are rarely covered by news media, and they are a fairly new thing. Another Anime Convention has more references than OVER HALF of the articles in the anime conventions category. Kopf1988 17:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, some cons are missing references, but those aren't being nominated for deletion because -- at least for most of them -- people feel that we can find some reliable sources if we actually sit down and look. (We have been slowly plugging through the con articles adding references, but it takes time.) If you want to nominate them for deletion, nobody's stopping you. ...but I really don't think an AfD on AnimeNEXT (one of your examples) would get far considering it's the 10th largest con in the US and is fairly well known and has received a lot of press coverage. Also, WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a good argument to keep an article. This AfD is about Another Anime Convention, not some other articles. --PatrickD 21:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"(We have been slowly plugging through the con articles adding references, but it takes time.)" Again, you missed my main point, and it isn't that other stuff exists, but it is that this article is more referenced than half the stuff that I mentioned! It hasn't got much coverage yet because its new, but it's still in pretty good shape. Kopf1988 22:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the references, however, are not from reliable sources. And the ones that are do are actually directory listings and do not confer notability to the convention. As for pointing out that other convention articles have sourcing problems of their own, you are comparing apples and oranges. Most of those articles have several reliable sources available, but they go cited in the articles. But as for AAC, such reliable sources don't exist to begin with outside of the directory/event listings, such as AnimeCons.com. --Farix (Talk) 15:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete WP:N /Blaxthos 09:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I attended the convention, I enjoyed the convention, I made new friends at the convention, and I am looking forward to returning to the convention this year...but in no way, shape, or form does it satisfy WP:CORP. --PatrickD 14:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Patrick, I noticed you arguing that it would not be fair to "not list an event just because it hasn't happened yet". Wouldn't those conventions be even more non-notable? For reference, I'm referring to your edit to Talk:List of anime conventions at 04:24, 25 December 2005 (UTC). Kopf1988 17:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That was something I said in December 2005. I no longer feel that way. It goes against WP:CRYSTAL...and that's not relevant to this AfD anyway since this convention HAS happened. I'm not sure why you even bothered to bring it up. --PatrickD 21:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Much as I'd like to see this article cleaned up and preserved, I cannot agree to even a weak keep, for a number of reasons.

1. The Primary Notability Criterion states, "A topic is notable if it has been the subject of at least one substantial or multiple, non-trivial published works from sources that are reliable and independent of the subject and of each other." The article in question fails the second half of that sentence. Anime-Cons.com is merely a repository of information from press releases and other data that comes directly from the Convention committees. As such, the information there is not independent from the subject.
2. The other references provided within the article do not satisfy "non-trivial" mentions. The Anime-Mania.net listing is a mere list of upcoming conventions, The AnimeNewsNetwork article is a copy of a press release which is not independent, and the oasismag.com article is a blog entry of one person's account of the convention, without any assertion of press credential.
3. The article does not contain any information that is not duplicated on the Convention's website, or on AnimeCons.com. What is the encyclopedic purpose of having an article on Wikipedia if it's just a mirror of other reference materials?
4. And on the subject of "Notability is not policy," guidelines can and more often than not do result in better articles than this one being deleted. In fact the only difference between a policy and a guideline is that the policy is less likely to have exceptions. You have not proven that this article needs an exception.

The best solution that I see is to have the convention contact a number of local newspapers and television stations, give out a few press passes, have them write articles on the convention, and THEN and ONLY THEN, will you have the information to write an article on -- RoninBK _{T C} 05:20, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the reason I would say that this article should be an exception is because it is the biggest anime convention in New Hampshire. That seems pretty notable. Kopf1988 01:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...but apparently it wasn't notable enough for Mikkakan, NH's first anime con and the largest in New England until Anime Boston came along. --PatrickD 03:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And I'm saying that the people who suggested deleting that article were wrong. Kopf1988 03:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with this. If Notability is "generally permanent", then Mikkakan will always have the distinction of being the first con in its state (New Hampshire), and the first New England con (as it claims) to have an invited industry guest, even if surpassed in attendance in the New England region by Anime Boston, and now by the convention which is the subject of this very article. The former reason was enough for keeping No Brand Con. I would like to repeat the idea of merging the old Mikkakan articles and this one if a deletion seems likely. ~ SeanOrange 05:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure that's a good plan if possible, although I hope this article isn't deleted... it seems so much easier these days to delete information than to add it on WP. Kopf1988 21:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that it is the largest in the area does not excuse the article from not having the required sources. If the article for Anime Expo didn't have any secondary sources, it would be deleted too. -- RoninBK _{T C} 09:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I still like to see an independent, non-trivial, reliable source stating that. --Farix (Talk) 15:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There you go, they have been added.(View Diff) Kopf1988 16:00, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Your sources are mostly blogs and/or trivial mentions in directories or listings. They hardly confer any notability on the event - only show that it happened, which is not notable in and of itself. Please read the guidelines on what kinds of sources are required. Nothing you've added has changed my original opinion that this is a non-notable event at this time, and my original recommendation stands. MikeWazowski 16:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mike, I'm not sure which part of this discussion you are commenting about. My statement that they have been added is referring to This Edit, in reply to Farix's request for independent, non-trivial, reliable sources stating that. That referred all the way back to my assertion that AAC is the largest anime convention in the state. Kopf1988 17:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The like you provided (as shown in that diff, may be from an independent source - however, it's definitely a trivial mention, as it's only a listing that the convention takes place, and likely taken directly from information provided by the convention itself. The page you link to does not make the claim, as you state, that the convention is the largest one in the state - it is merely a listing of conventions, and your assertion is your own opinion based on information found on that page, and therefore original research, which should not be used. In any event, both this link and this link from that page are definitely trivial mentions, and do not confer any notability or independent editorial opinion about the event in question. The claim on the convention's own website is puffery, and also should not be used without verification by legitimate sources. Either way, it's a non-issue, as I do not believ the article will survive this AfD - I've certainly not seen anything here to change my opinion. MikeWazowski 17:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You claim that I used original research, but the AAC homepage makes the claim. You say that the claim is puffery, but I provided two sources to validate the claim made on this page. If I did not make the claim, but instead only provided the references to validate it, then it is not original research. I suggest you take another look at the original research policy to realize that the claim is not Unpublished synthesis of published material, because the claim came from this page. Kopf1988 22:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't quite see where the two links from AnimeCons.com support the claim that it is the largest in NH. The first one is a search result, which is by nature a trivial mention. The second is the AnimeCons.com listing, which we've already established that while it may help prove some facts, it can't support subjective claims like "the largest in X."

The point is, you are trying to use primary sources, (i.e. the convention's own words,) to prove what the convention claims. By our policies, we need second-hand accounts from reliable sources.

Trust me when I say that I am not unsympathetic to what you are doing. But I really think that maybe you need to take a step back, and think about this. Do you maybe have a conflict of interest? Trust me, if it was my favorite convention up for AfD, I'd be upset too.

Look, if this ends up getting deleted, why don't you copy the page to a user subpage, and keep it until you can find some news coverage to back it up, ok? -- RoninBK _{T C} 05:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have never been to this convention, or even in the state of New Hampshire, for that matter. My favorite convention is AnimeIowa. Furthermore, as for the references, these are the requirements to say that I have used original research:

* introduces a theory, method of solution, or any other original idea;

It is not being introduced, as it has already been claimed.

* defines or introduces new terms (neologisms), or provides new definitions of existing terms;

Irrelevant here.

* introduces an argument without citing a reliable source who has made that argument in relation to the topic of the article; or

Sources have been cited. One to make the claim, two to back it up.

* introduces an analysis, synthesis, or interpretation of published facts, opinions, or arguments without attributing that analysis, synthesis, or interpretation to a reliable source who has published the material in relation to the topic of the article.

I didn't come up with the claim, they did.

The two sources provided show that AAC's claim as the only/largest convention is true, by showing that it can not be so far proved false. Importantly, content must be verifiable, not necessarily verified. If I claimed that I was the only Computer Repair Company in the entire state of Iowa, and multiple phonebooks proved it, that would be good enough verification for wikipedia, right? Kopf1988 06:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I want to say 'keep' since it's notable as New Hampshire's (first?) only Anime con as far as I've been able to determine, but given the already-stated near-complete lack of supporting information about it from secondary sources. The only source I could find was Trancelab.com, but it says nothing about the convention other than it happened, and they took pictures. ~ SeanOrange 06:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The first convention in New Hampshire was Mikkakan in 2001. Mikkakan's wikipedia article was deleted last month. --PatrickD 13:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's really bizarre, to delete an article for (what appeared to be) such a significant convention in the area. Such deletions make it difficult to independently verify this sort of information, especially given how fickle the internet can be as a resource for something that people are no longer talking about... Another Anime Convention is still the largest/only New Hampshire con at this moment in time, and it's still ongoing. If these events don't warrant their own individual entries, perhaps we should find a way to merge them into an article about New Hampshire anime conventions, instead of just deleting them? Making the explicit connection to Anime Boston (if sources can be found to support the claim) might also be of some value. ~ SeanOrange 14:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was speedy delete as edits by a banned user (CSD G5). - Mailer Diablo 10:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hindu (Culture)[edit]

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Despite its name, the article is just a POV fork/original research/personal essay created and edited by three suspected socks of Maleabroad (namely Summam, TypeEditor1 and Abcde0) after previous sustained attempts (by other socks of the user) to insert similar text in Hindu article were rejected (see for example). FYI, this blocked user has created similar POV fork articles before; see for example [7], [8]. Abecedare 03:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• delete per nominator. /Blaxthos 09:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete as a POV fork --Apyule 13:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete and userfy, this fails WP:CITE at the very least, and as such has to be assumed to be WP:OR, but in theory the author may be able to salvage some of this for another article. The problem here is that the title is most certainly of an encyclopedic subject so redirect to Culture of India (which is where Hindu culture currently redirects as well). -Markeer 14:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per above. This is not the first time this tactic has been used via sockpuppets of Maleabroad, see also [9]. Gouranga(UK) 20:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I know that Hindu would deserve to have an article about its culture but considering it is POV and it is made by a sock, I opt for the delete. Maybe if someone can start up an article that makes more sense and more NPOV, it would be much better.--JForget 00:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, then recreate as a redirect to Culture of India as suggested by Markeer. Or just make it a redirect, I guess the text is already in the wiki database about a thousand times thanks to the revert warring this user indulges in. Orpheus 08:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. - Daniel Bryant 08:54, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hank J. Wimbleton[edit]

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As per the afd Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Madness Combat, Hank J. Wimbleton is a character in Madness Combat. Since Madness Combat was deleted and protected from recreation, it follows that Hank J. Wimbledon should likewise be deleted. Dugwiki 22:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following pages for the same reason (characters in Madness Combat):

1337 Crew (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Dugwiki 22:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Rebelguys2 ^talk 03:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• delete per nom. Pete.Hurd 04:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per above. /Blaxthos 09:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 14:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete -- per nomination. Are we reflecting on two articles here, or one? I feel both 1337 Crew and Hank J. Wimbleton should be deleted. Keesiewonder ^talk 00:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom, and I agree with above that both articles should be deleted. If the main article cannot survive AfD, it's child articles shouldn't either. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 08:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom.--Aldux 21:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Redirect to Iraqi legislative election, December 2005. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:23Z

Furation-Human Rights[edit]

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Political party which contested 2005 election in Iraq but no since then no info listed on how it did or if it is still functioning. Questionable notablity PrincessBrat 17:57, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete, almost no attributable sources exist in English. According to the official results of the 2005 elections here they failed to win any seats on the national council (they may be active at the provincial level, they seem to be connected with Babil/Babylon). -- Dhartung | Talk 04:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete unless this becomes more attributable. /Blaxthos 09:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:24Z

Mermaid music[edit]

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This article is a combination of original research (WP:OR and an advertisement WP:SPAM, neither of which is desirable. There isn't anything salvageable here that I can see. Crystallina 03:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete It also is heavily not about mermaids, and so not about mermaid music. Goldfritha 04:04, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete spam. /Blaxthos 09:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Original research. Sounds like a school paper. Pax:Vobiscum 09:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as it reads as though it was written by someone with no knowledge of what Wikipedia is not.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Appears to be an OR essay, not an encyclopedia entry. --Maelwys 13:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 03:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Family Christian Center[edit]

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Non notable church. Article was previously nominated in December 2006 (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Family Christian Center) when it was kept, based on the claims that it had been featured in "notable media" (except the only URL provided was for a Northwest Indiana local website which contained a brief article that was little more than an advertizing write-up, and nwi.com is not "notable media"). I don't see multiple, non-trivial references to this place.

The other reason was that we should "give the stub its time" even though it was 4 months old. Well now it's nearly 7 months, the stub has been given enough time and it is still less than 20 words long. Time to delete it. Saikokira 04:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Non-notable, and I don't think this stub will ever be expanded. I also noticed that the article for the pastor of this church, Steve Munsey, appears to be a non-notable stub and probably should also be nominated for deletion. SkipSmith 05:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete no progress, recentism made this appear more notable than it really is. /Blaxthos 09:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - you might want to nominate the pastor of this church's article as well.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Does anyone actually do research whilke they are "waiting" for an article to grow?? I found 2 Wall Street journal references and one in Time magazine in 5 minutes. I expeect that papers in the state where it is located would have ample coverage to write a longer article. Edison 21:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - passes WP:CHURCH (which despite rejection is still a help), and is sourced and has notability as a megachurch. JRG 21:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  No, it's not particularly helpful. WP:N handles this ably. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 21:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  As AMIB says; perhaps it's time to stop beating that particular dead horse. At any rate, delete as nn, since article has no encyclopedic content. >Radiant< 09:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment The 2 "references" added to the article after I nominated it are to print publications, are these available anywhere online? It would be useful to be able to confirm them, and to ensure these are not just passing references to the Center. If these references were so easy to find it would have been helpful to have added them after the previous AfD nomination, to address the earlier questions of notability. Saikokira 04:30, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep To quote from the article, "You can help Wikipedia by expanding it" Cloveoil 14:15, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - the first citation (Time) is of an article describing how they installed a Starbuck's in the church lobby. It's an odd form of notability and not one I'd care to claim, but it may work. I'm agnostic for now. -- BPMullins | Talk 14:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep Although the references are weak, it seems to be noticed and with further research adequate references should be findable. Tag for references. --Kevin Murray 17:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Needs to be greatly expanded, however. Notability is not equal to "number of links on the Internet," and that was an odd argument for deletion. Links to other Websites is not a WP policy requirement in confering notability, AFAIK. A paragraph on the Starbucks is warranted, and clearly gives this church notability (and "notoriety" which I suspect is what some mean when they say "notability") since this is a rare and controversial phenomenon. - Nhprman 19:15, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was no consensus. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 04:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glenn Rubenstein[edit]

Glenn Rubenstein (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Vanity page for a probably non-notable journalist with a lot of unverifiable claims Vartan84 04:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • It seems that your initial suggestion that you should recuse yourself was the better thought. Go with your initial gut feeling. --Kevin Murray 16:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep I'm very dubious about many of the claims. A Google News Archive search confirms that in 1994 he had a syndicated videogame column for the Examiner, and he was listed as a "contributor" at WIRED[10] as late as '99. It's rather interesting to be an underage newspaper columnist.[11] Oh, EW profiled him[12], which seems to tilt toward notability.-- Dhartung | Talk 07:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as unattributable claims (a lot of this seems pretty dubious to me). If we can't verify, it's gotta go. /Blaxthos 09:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Glen is a part of the history of LonelyGirl15. He's also a songwriter and has other achievements which make him worthy of Wikipedia. I think the move to delete is politically motivated. If the article needs fact-checking and cleaning up, then we can do it. I can clean up the poor writing in a matter of minutes. I am not personally a fan of Mr. Rubenstein and I support his firing from the ARG. Removing him from Wikipedia is a different matter entirely.24.7.78.127 16:39, 17 March 2007 (UTC) — 24.7.78.127 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
  • Comment Lol politically motivated? Wow that's a new one, so is he also like an elected official because that could make him notable. Also the creators of LG15 don't have their own wikipedia pages let alone the person who joined them later.Vartan84 00:27, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Unlike the other creators of LG15, Glenn has over a decade's worth of professional media experience and accomplishments. Everyone knows you don't care for Glenn, HyeMew (Vartan84). But this shameless attempt to mess with him shows just how juvenille (and jealous) you really are. I'm sure it pains you that you'll never get a chance to even smell Jessica Rose in person, yet Glenn has directed her many times. And JayHenry should watch what statements he makes when affiliating himself with LG15, because there has been no statement to date that says Glenn is no longer affiliated with the show.
      • Comment I'd like to know where you get off making such rash and imflammatory claims. I didn't even make this nomination out of some sort of "jealous" but after a group decision with many other people. It wasn't even my idea, but they got me to do it. For you to anonymously (despite clearly being the Glenn Rubenstein this very article is about) to lambast the nominator like this and to further threaten another LG15 fan and LGpedia admin is out of control. I can't even believe the vile your spewing here on your own page. It's downright embarassing. Vartan84 17:47, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep A simple Google search backs up the facts on many of these claims. That link to a game review? It's in the first issue of Wired. If you have the issue in your possession (which I do because it's a collector's item) he is listed on the masthead as a Contributing Editor). JayHenry and Vartan84 are two bitter fans of LonelyGirl15 who are thrilled that a writer and director for the show that they don't care for may have been removed from one of his duties. He is still employed by the show (and if you check, the post where it was announced that he was removed as PM of the ARG has been removed, so he may have been given back that job title as well). Being a teenage video game reviewer is a notable accomplishment, and it's clear that the subject of this article has had a long and varied professional career. And regarding what was written above, consistent month to month bylines on the same subject, under the same column title should be enough to warrant the columnist tag. The Entertainment Weekly article mentions many of his accomplishments as well, as does his appearance on the PBS show Computer Chronicles.VanillaThrice 08:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep It appears that while not yet important, the subject has been noticed on the net and in multiple credible sources now shown in the reference section. Oddly few journalists receive much personal press and based on my experience at AfD, this subject has more recognition than others we have kept. Per BIO this is a borderline keeper. Contrary to JayHenry's assertions elsewhere this does not seem to create a precedent to lower the bar. --Kevin Murray 16:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • After voting last night I've received several threats, off wikipedia, because of my vote. This is absolutely ridiculous and I want nothing to do with this. --JayHenry 19:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete It seems obvious to me that this page was created, edited, maintained and now defended from deletion by the SUBJECT OF THE ARTICLE. Besides that simple fact, to hear that he is now making threats "off wikipedia" is unacceptable. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.114.130.106 (talk) 03:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC). — 85.114.130.106 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
  • Note. This is this user's first and only edit on Wikipedia. -- Black Falcon 20:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Dhartung. The sources establish notability. Also, the use of terms like "Vanity page" in a nomination is discouraged. -- Black Falcon 20:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:27Z

Reverse-solarity[edit]

Reverse-solarity (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

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Looks at first sight to be a perpetual motion machine. Zero references. Zero related google hits. Prod was removed by the only author. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 04:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's a middle school student's science project. An electrical circuit with three power sources (solar panel and two batteries) and no load. I'll leave a message on the talk page - this is a Handle With Care case. Cbdorsett 04:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Hoax/CoI. Looks like either a comedy attempt at a perpetual motion type machine or an attempt to coin a neologism for the function of solar panels. Either way, it's WP:NFT. -- IslaySolomon | talk 04:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as OR or NFT. But concur with Cbdorsett about feedback to author about the process of invention. DMacks 06:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete as likely hoax, OR. /Blaxthos 09:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:HOAX/WP:COI and delete corresponding image file. Irene Ringworm 19:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Speedy deleted per CSD A everything (A7, A12 for the start). Duja► 16:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dražen cerović[edit]

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Not sufficiently notable; article reads like a résumé or Who's Who entry Cbdorsett 04:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy delete after admin review -- current load shows a foreign language page with a copyright warning banner. /Blaxthos 09:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete now per WP:SNOW.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Keep - Richard Cavell 00:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gerard Cafesjian[edit]

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Non-notable businessman. Contested speedy. Denni^talk 04:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete no assertion of notability. /Blaxthos 09:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep If he was the true owner of West Publishing, the article should stay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.52.82 (talk • contribs) 16:50, 14 March 2007
• Keep. I added some references which establish notability, but dealing with his philanthropy and his purchase of real estate. --Eastmain 19:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. His activities have been noteworthy, he had made major contributions to the Armenian Republic and for general philanthropic causes, and is named in the List of prominent Armenians. The Myotis 23:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Armenia-related deletions. -- Black Falcon 20:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:30Z

Major Streets in Mobile[edit]

Major Streets in Mobile (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Prod contested with no reasoning by anon IP, relisted here for full WP:AFD. Non-notable article, wikipedia is WP:NOT an indiscriminant list of information. Forever un-WP:ATTributable because of WP:N problems. /Blaxthos 03:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per original WP:PROD nominator, as full WP:AFD nominator. /Blaxthos 03:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. SkipSmith 17:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 17:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Johnny Webb[edit]

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Prod contested with the rationale of "as, though an independant wrestler, he is indeed influential when it comes to hardcore wrestling", hopefully this will be free of similar arguments. Barely notable wrestler, worked a few independent promotions and has since worked Wrestling Society X which is basically cancelled by MTV. Notability is questionable at best, working a few shows for a short-lived promotion on MTV doesn't really meet WP:BIO in my opinion. However it's WP:A where this really falls down, there are no reliable sources that allow a proper encyclopedic article to be created. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 04:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - This wrestler isn't notable. --Silverhand^Talk 05:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete WP:N /Blaxthos 09:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. This has gone on long enough and has degenerated into an argument over WP:COI (the community is not a battleground). Editors do not have to explicitly state that they have no COI, and assuming that all editors arguing to delete an article have it is failure to assume good faith. Aside from all that, there's a near-unanimous consensus to delete here. --Coredesat 23:40, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eliot Bernstein[edit]

Eliot Bernstein (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Blatant autobiography of a guy involved in digital imaging and a lot of litigation. Is he actually notable? -- RHaworth 04:57, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure whether this guy is notable, and he's made some effort in terms of sources etc following email discussions with me, but the style of this is about as POV as it could be, jimfbleak 06:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. It's just possible that Iviewit could be an article, but there are very few independent and reliable sources out there. Almost all of the information about the patent theft story comes from WP:COI sources. Even the sources in the article are things like this pdf of a 7-year-old industry article that doesn't mention the company at all, annotated with boxes making claims that this is the problem the company solved. If the sources existed -- CNet or John Dvorak or somebody writing "Iviewit solved the internet video problem!" -- they wouldn't have to do that. -- Dhartung | Talk 07:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• delete per dhartung. /Blaxthos 09:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In response to your comments please take note that these seem to be changes that can made to change the article but are not reason to delete without the changes. The article referenced [http://www.iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/pr5.pdf this pdf is to show that prior to the inventions and even after while it was in filing stage, the problem was existent that video could not be streamed over low bandwidths without severe distortion. It is essential to understand what the inventions solved for, the other articles on the page have others explaining the "holy grail" discoveries such as, Grabbing The Holy Grail of Webcasting. Digital Webcast (August 2000), Stephen Schleicher. I think this editor who claims nobody has written this other than myself is wrong and should read all of the articles that were written.

The patent theft story I am more than happy to remove any reference and point the reader to external sources for that such as Iviewit. As that relates to Dingell forwarding to the Judiciary Committee and ongoing investigations of crimes against the United States & foreign nations, this is public information that should cause no problem as it is factual.

One also need to review the patent office suspensions that clearly show that the IP is under investigation and suspended pending investigations by federal authorities.

As to the statement that I am in a lot of litigation, I ask what exactly you are referring to, my company is in no litigation and I personally am not in litigation, is there something I do not know. I am involved in hosts of ongoing state, federal and international investigations which may prove later to turn into very serious litigations. Also, the art of patent is a litigious game but we are not quite at that point.

Again, I appreciate everyone's help and suggestions in getting this most pivotal invention story documented according to factual history. There are many more evidences of who invented the processes and verifications of such, such as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, licensing with contracts and for example http://www.iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/colter%20letter%20to%20Calkins.pdf that led to a signed license for use. There are many others but I cited three or four of them that while old they validate the inventions and the correct time frame. I have tried to leave the criminal elements and accusations from the article but will post a new edit of it in a while where I make some of the suggested changes. Iviewit 21:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I wrote to the first editor (see below) and asked him to note any conflicts he may have with the story before acting as an editor due to the nature of the issue, not anything based on his advise. I noted he commented here without acknowledging if conflict exists and I would also ask any other editors to note if they have any similar conflicts before editing, this is to prevent any undisclosed conflicts upfront.

---

The suggestion is that you should wait until someone with no conflict of interest writes the article for you. -- RHaworth 03:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC) Per the Wikipedia guidlines

I responded

"This does not mean, however, that it is impossible to write a neutral, verifiable autobiography, or that they are strictly forbidden. It is just that people tend to promote themselves, either clearly (like saying "I'm great") or more subtly (like not including important, verifiable negative incidents in their lives, or adding lots of unsourced positive incidents, or giving the negative incidents too little weight). Many people do not have the humility required to write a neutral article that sticks only to published information. Because of this, writing autobiographies is highly discouraged. If one wants to write an autobiography it is advisable to discuss it with the community and seek consensus first."

I had submitted for editing an entry on Iviewit initially and it was edited to become the biography Eliot Bernstein while we worked on the form of the initial Iviewit entry. This was worked on and submitted to the prior editor who made several key points we worked until it appeared neutral and to tell both about the inventions, the inventors and those who surrounded these most pivotal inventions to the digital imaging and video worlds. It is very difficult in this instance to have others get involved on a public basis to aid Iviewit in any way that could put themselves and their families in harms way, this must be considered in how the article is written and by whom. Further, it would appear that if you could core into your issues we could get to a mutual resolution as to how make it work under the allowable guidlines, under special circumstances.

I was unclear if your comments were to Eliot Bernstein and Iviewit or just Eliot Bernstein, if we could put the comments on each article that would be preferable to make the changes that way if no trouble to you.

Regarding the conflict of interest, as this is a sensitive subject under hosts of investigations, I politely ask if you have any conflicts with any of the people found on the homepage, ie law firms, lawyers, accountants, shareholders, etc. Or do you have any other interest in these matters other than from an unbiased editorial point of view? Sorry to ask but you can see by the proposed bill submitted to Senator Dianne Feinstein referenced in Iviewit and Eliot Bernstein, we have even asked the President or signatory on the bill to sign similar conflict waiver before undertaking the matters.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Iviewit 04:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Let us see what other editors think. -- RHaworth 05:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC) I think I'm the editor referred to above. I don't know enough about the technology to know if this article meets the notability guidelines, but it certainly not neutral and encyclopaedic in tone. "heralded as being such grail" "an amazing start" "in a miraculous fit," "Instead the system that was to protect them instead is on trial for attempting to steal them." jimfbleak 06:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC) Thanks Jim! That was the kind of suggestion I was looking for. As you can see by the articles I did not herald it as the grail but rather others did. Either way I see that it could be considered not neutral and I can make those changes. By the way, where did the article go to make the changes. Thanks again. Iviewit 14:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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Iviewit 21:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have reposted the article with changes to hopefully accomodate all. There are several reliable newspaper articles linked, sun sentinel, variety, and the others already mentioned. I have removed the statements that I thought were possibily interpreted as not neutral. Any other suggestions for changes. --Iviewit 23:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This is so poorly written, it is unbelievable. You really want this representing you? This, imo, is one of the most difficult things about writing an article about yourself, you really cannot see how you presented yourself to the world. I will try to edit it down, and others can debate whether to keep or not. Please reconsider whether you want to write your own article on Wikipedia. If you are notable, you deserve much better than this, and leaving it up to regular Wikipedia editors will improve the article. It would be a hundred times better if you took a breath and took the time to read Wikipedia policies and guidelines about articles, because they have been crafted over the years to help writers producer useful and readable articles. KP Botany 01:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Well, I tried with the first 5 paragraphs or so. I don't know, because of the heavy usage of fluffed peacock terms that the artice can be rewritten accurately. I am concerned, also, about the unsourced comments related to the fraud accusations. It might be best left as a single paragraph or deleted. KP Botany 02:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you KP Botany! I made some minor changes for accuracy but I appreciate your help in editing out the non-neutral parts, etc. I agree it is very hard to do an auto but under the circumstances not many are willing to come forward yet to help me until the mess is cleared. I usually tell all those that attempt that it could be life threatening as it has been for me and others before. Heck, I am so stressed by all this but more so it is hard to even take the kids to school this morning without fearing the car will blow up again killing them and that makes most days harder to focus on things like this. Thus, when someone takes a moment to aid me in any way, especially in a public forum, I count my blessings and say THANK YOU!!! If I can ever be of service to you please do not hesitate to call me. I am writing a book, "The Fight for the Grail" [13] if you want to help me edit it... Also thank you again for your help and input Jimfbleak and all the other editors that have participated. --67.126.206.24 14:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Fails WP:BIO —SaxTeacher (talk) 19:54, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I ask all those editors contributing to clarify before comment if they have any conflicts with these matters in anyway. Under Wikipedia guidlines, it would be an editor conflict I am worried about and it could easily and politely cleared with a simple statement of no conflict prior to comments. I have asked the initial editor to disclose and I got no response and further comments, this seems a bit odd. As for deleting the entry as an autobiography that is not a reason for deletion unless the article is biased. I have worked with editors to remove any elements of it and if you have a comment about that please be specific as to the reason in the article. Otherwise blanket deletes do nothing to improve the article to make it a viable autobio. --Iviewit 15:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete unless verifiable references regarding this person come forward during the AFD period. Press releases don't cut it for my concerns. At present, the article doesn't indicate notability as per WP:BIO. (And considering I've never heard of this person before, and came here after looking at a deletion review request regarding the company, no, I don't have a conflict.) Tony Fox (arf!) 22:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. We can't really use press releases. for notability. And it's certainly possible to write non-biased articles that should still be deleted; if I wrote an article covering an argument I had a while ago with one of my teachers during high school and gave both sides, it'd be deleted. Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 23:05, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The references are press releases? Geeze, I used to write press releases, the FIRST rule of a press release is you NEVER write anything negative. It's like using a television commercial as the source of factual information on something. Thanks, Veinor, for the wholesale deletion of extraneous information when I stopped with just a few paragraphs. KP Botany 00:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There were press releases and there are articles from reputable papers, if a press release is not allowed those will be removed, please advise as to the rule that is under. The other articles are newspaper articles from reputable papers. I do not know or never have heard of Tony Fox, thus he must not be an editor. As for press releases not being negative, many press releases are filled with factual information, like -- John Dingell forwarded the allegations of fraud to the House Judiciary Committee for review -- this comes from verifiable letters from Dingell's office to the Judiciary Committee. Press releases that the founders of Adelphia were implicated in crime are not positive or that Libby is going down or Gonsalvez but must be released for the facts for compliance. KP you are next in line after Tony Snow for + spin on the Bush admininstration. --LIBBY CONVICTED BUT GLASS HALF FULL AS MANY HAPPY PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON ARE HAPPY THEY WERE NOT-- Many press releases are negative so I wonder if there is a rule as to if + or - or no press releases are allowed, they were allowed by the PR Companies who also edit. I do appreciate Tony's comments and all others should not be relevant until they state if they have conflict with these matters. Thanks Tony. Come on folks, lets edit it to the rules, clear up any rule violations and let it stand as to the facts. If there are suggestions to make it acceptable under the rules, great. As for the TV commercial being factual, am I to take it that Lavitra does not cause drowsiness when the commercial states that fact or that cigarette smokes kills when TRUTH tells me the # of Americans dead or that Drunk Driving... The articles (misreferenced as Press Releases) already cited above were from newspapers printing articles independently on the technologies: Sun Sentinel, Variety, Digital Webcast, etc. I do not have a lot of time for nonsense editing in my life, what I see here are mostly comments that are wholly false as to the articles, claims that there are no factual references despite that several articles were written by top papers independently and verifying the technologies and the inventors. If the editors would read all the articles and then comment on the page, it would help this discussion. In fact, I am shocked that out of the several articles from reliable papers, the editors here appear to have only read certain articles and ignored the others, this seems like slighted editing in attempt to cause hurried opinions by editors in this forum. --69.229.114.20 04:36, 18 March 2007 (UTC) Who ever deleted the newspaper articles from reliable sources mentioned above please return them to the article as they are factual sources. Not sure who made those changes, who ever did that please state your reason for removing them and trying to call them press releases or put them back accordingly. so that they validate the claims.--Iviewit 04:51, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

KP - re eliot bernstein discussion you removed newspaper articles from verified sources such as Variety, Sun Sentinel, digital webcast all independent articles written by journalistic staff and cited them as press release which was not the case for much of what you removed. Also is there are a rule for press releases you can cite, say one that states no negative press releases. Removing the sources that verify the article I am sure was not your intent. Finally all of your edits should be put back until you state if you have any conflicts with these matters. I am suprised that you did not so state no conflict before making more edits, especially where you removed the articles from reliable sources and after repeated requests for disclosure. Also if you removed the childrens names, many bios have these and in fact the reference to Joshua contains valuable information regarding dating the inventions. --Iviewit 05:18, 18 March 2007 (UTC) Why are we removing factual information such as that Wayne Huizenga (billionaire Miami Dolphins, Blockbuster, Waste Management) made seed investment and who the strategic partners and other licensees were. Sounds like our editors are removing facts, what is the wikirule from the wikidecider on this. It is interesting that eiditors who refuse to admit or deny conflict when asked - bad wikimanners - who ask for reliable sources and facts are then removing news articles and other facts, whassabe?--Iviewit 05:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC) Let's put the original article back up until all editors disclose that they have no conflict and then perhaps we can begin according to the rules. "If it looks like a duck..."--Iviewit 05:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Delete KP Botany 06:00, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Nowhere in WP:COI does it dictate that all editors must disclose that they have a lack of conflict of interest. This discussion has proceeded entirely according to the rules so far. Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 16:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, bias increases with questioning conflicts. There are rules for conflict both for an editor and contributor for a reason. What is editing if conflict exists? When asked if you have conflict, failure to disclose and increasing your rating to strong delete are indications that conflict exists. No conflict equals no problem in disclosure, all other actions to conceal conflict once requested is an indication of biased editing. All editors must adhere to conflict rules or else Wikipedia lacks any integrity. From the Wikirules A Wikipedia conflict of interest is an incompatibility between the purpose of Wikipedia, to produce a neutral encyclopedia, and the aims of individual editors. These include editing for the sake of promoting oneself, other individuals, causes, organizations, companies, or products, as well as suppressing negative information, and criticizing competitors.

In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a clear conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. Of special concern are organizational conflicts of interest.[1] Failure to follow these guidelines may put the editor at serious risk of embarrassing himself or his client.

Wikipedia is "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit", but if you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with, participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors, linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and you must always:

avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, attribution, and autobiography. Conflict of interest often raises questions as to whether material should be included in the encyclopedia or not. It also can be a cause, or contributing factor, in disputes over whether editors have an agenda that undermines the mission of Wikipedia. Editors who may have a conflict of interest This section of the guideline is aimed at editors who may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a clear conflict of interest, or where such a conflict can be reasonably assumed, are strongly discouraged. Significantly biased edits are forbidden.

[edit] Declaring an interest Some editors declare an interest in a particular topic area. They do this in various ways. Many Wikipedians show their allegiances and affiliations on their user pages. You may choose to reveal something about yourself in a talk page discussion. Disclaimer: Wikipedia gives no advice about whether or how to use its pages to post personal details. This guideline will only raise some pros and cons.

Advantages:

By declaring an interest, you pre-empt anyone outing you or questioning your good faith. Most editors will appreciate your honesty. You lay the basis for requesting help in having others post material for you, and/or to audit/approve material you wish to post yourself. Disadvantages:

Your declaration may be invoked against you at some point. Your edits to the area in question may attract extra attention. Your declaration will give you no rights as an advocate. You may even be cautioned or, in extreme cases, told to stay away from certain topics.[4] In the case of commercial editing (editing on behalf of a company):

a disclosure enables you to ask openly for help in getting material posted and edited, but once your position is known, you will have to adhere stringently to neutral edits of affected articles, or no edits at all. Note that if you only correct bias against your company and its interests, and not bias in its favour, your editing will be different from that of a regular Wikipedian, who would be expected to do both.

[edit] Defending interests In a few cases, outside interests coincide with Wikipedia’s interests. An important example is that unsupported defamatory material appearing in articles may be removed at once. Anyone may do this, and should do this, and this guideline applies widely to any unsourced or poorly sourced potentially libelous postings. In this case it is unproblematic to defend the interest of the person or institution involved. An entire article that presents as an attack piece or hostile journalism can be nominated for speedy deletion and will be removed promptly from the site. Those who post here in this fashion will be subject to administrative sanction. Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons gives details on how biographical articles on living persons should be written.

On the other hand, the removal of reliably sourced critical material is not permitted. Accounts of public controversies, if backed by reliable sources, form an integral part of Wikipedia's coverage. Slanting the balance of articles as a form of defence of some figure, group, institution, or product is bad for the encyclopedia.

[edit] Conflict of interest noticeboard A noticeboard for reporting and discussing incidents that require editors' intervention related to the application of conflict of interest guidelines is available at:

Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard.

I am stunned that as editors of Wikipedia you all continue to fail to disclose if you are conflicted with the subject, that you are removing reliable sources to smear and entry and your degree of bias increases with each request for conflict disclosure. Maybe you don't have to disclose but if you don't you discredit Wikipedia as a reliable source of anything. Trying to delete the article by citing no sources, after removing newspaper publications is damning to the efforts this company has tried to establish. Lets elevate these matters.--69.229.114.20 17:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC) KP thanks for the message of no conflict. No personal attacks were levied it was merely a request for that disclosure before further editing and like with Jim I look forward to working with you now to get this article in an unbiased light regarding important inventions of our times. Since the inventions are notable on a historical basis that have had major impact on our world I think that it is an absolute encyclopedia entry in substance.--Iviewit 18:02, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I suggest that the sooner this article is deleted and this editor sanctioned the sooner Wikipedians can get on with creating an encyclopedia. I do have a Conflict of Interest now, I am seriously personally biased against anyone at Wikipedia being further manipulated by this editor. KP Botany 18:18, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

KP are we resorting to personal editorial attacks? Have you asked for sanctions and on what grounds? Now that you have stated that you are conflicted, please remove your edits and further conflict and personal attacks do not seem to advance this discussion.--Iviewit 18:36, 18 March 2007 (UTC) Iviewit 19:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As you have stated you are conflicted please remove ALL of your edits from the article. Once you have done that, I will gladly do the same. KP Botany 19:18, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newspaper articles cited in press releases No, cite the newspaper article, not the internal press release.

"Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought: Original research refers to material that is not attributable to a reliable, published source. This includes unpublished facts, arguments, ideas, statements, and neologisms; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that appears to advance a position. Material added to articles must be directly and explicitly supported by the cited sources."

This is precisely what a press release is:

"A news release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as having news value."

If you disagree with the substance of my edits, please say so on the article's talk page, by explicitly stating why you think your edit version should stand and why mine shouldn't. But please do so without any personal attacks on me. Just because Wikipedia has a set of guidelines you disagree with doesn't mean that editors trying to follow those guidelines are doing so because they have a conflict of interest. I have no COI with your or this article. I don't know you, and I've never heard of you until this article, and it will not be a requirement of this article that every editor satisfy your personal requirements for editing. I've been editing Wikipedia for a while now, and other editors know that this is the type of article I generally fight to keep, and work with other editors to produce a good article, namely small biographies. Making accusations against me isn't going to get you what you want, or appear to want, namely your article in Wikipedia. Working with other editors and learning Wikipedia's style and policy guidelines would be a much better tactic.

I did work with a hostile editor once and eventually, with a group of other editors, produced a top notch biography that recently went to good article status. I put up with personal accusations to get a good, well-written, factually acurate, nicely layed out, enjoyable to read article. But I won't do it again.

There are excellent guidelines available all over Wikipedia about how to write articles, but please start with WP:A.

KP Botany 05:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC) KP again thanks for the conflict statement. On Eliot Bernstein article I did state that the three news paper articles you removed were in fact not press releases but articles written by the paper and unbiased news journalists and asked they be put back in. As for press releases if they are unusable we will delete. But then can we use the actual correspondence from Lowey and Dingell and cite those as links or whatever to the actual letters? I am not hostile but I did find other editors on that article and this one avoiding the conflict question and as you know now, there are some who never want the truth about these inventions to be told to the public. As for the other issues on Eliot Bernstein I would appreciate that for each deletion we discuss prior to change so that we reach agreement. --Iviewit 18:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

As you are demanding I leave for COI reasons, please remove all of your edits from this article immediately, and I will be glad to follow your lead. KP Botany 19:20, 18 March 2007 (UTC) KP I have stated my conflict for discussion and the reason that authoring such could endanger an authors life, since my and family's lives are already in grave danger... Your new conflict seems predicated on anger and spite for unknown reasons. You should not wait for others to make right actions before you do what is right for you. I did not demand you leave, you stated a conflict in a mean and hostile tone and that should be cause for recusal. --Iviewit 19:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

My conflict arose purely because of the mean and hostile tone you took with me when you disagreed with my removing press releases from your article. When I made an edit you liked, I was a great editor. You are the one concerned about COIs, and you keep raising them. I suggest that the surest way to alleviate your concerns is to remove the biggest COI from the article: yourself. This is enough on the topic. KP Botany 19:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I did not assume hostile tone at you, I found removing articles from reliable sources citing them as as press release was wrong and asked for help in understanding your changes. I disputed your cliam that press release are positive and made a joke about tony snow. Your comments came with another editor who made reference to gay voting, any comments ion retort to that were not directed at you. When you denied conflict prior to stating conflict , I wrote to you that your comments could stand, at least to me, as you had stated no conflict, then seeing you change course I made my statements that you should recuse.--Iviewit 20:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC)--Iviewit --Iviewit 20:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newspaper articles cited in press releases[edit]

No, cite the newspaper article, not the internal press release.

"Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought: Original research refers to material that is not attributable to a reliable, published source. This includes unpublished facts, arguments, ideas, statements, and neologisms; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that appears to advance a position. Material added to articles must be directly and explicitly supported by the cited sources."

This is precisely what a press release is:

"A news release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as having news value."

If you disagree with the substance of my edits, please say so on the article's talk page, by explicitly stating why you think your edit version should stand and why mine shouldn't. But please do so without any personal attacks on me. Just because Wikipedia has a set of guidelines you disagree with doesn't mean that editors trying to follow those guidelines are doing so because they have a conflict of interest. I have no COI with your or this article. I don't know you, and I've never heard of you until this article, and it will not be a requirement of this article that every editor satisfy your personal requirements for editing. I've been editing Wikipedia for a while now, and other editors know that this is the type of article I generally fight to keep, and work with other editors to produce a good article, namely small biographies. Making accusations against me isn't going to get you what you want, or appear to want, namely your article in Wikipedia. Working with other editors and learning Wikipedia's style and policy guidelines would be a much better tactic.

I did work with a hostile editor once and eventually, with a group of other editors, produced a top notch biography that recently went to good article status. I put up with personal accusations to get a good, well-written, factually acurate, nicely layed out, enjoyable to read article. But I won't do it again.

There are excellent guidelines available all over Wikipedia about how to write articles, but please start with WP:A.

KP Botany 05:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC) KP again thanks for the conflict statement. On Eliot Bernstein article I did state that the three news paper articles you removed were in fact not press releases but articles written by the paper and unbiased news journalists and asked they be put back in. As for press releases if they are unusable we will delete. But then can we use the actual correspondence from Lowey and Dingell and cite those as links or whatever to the actual letters? I am not hostile but I did find other editors on that article and this one avoiding the conflict question and as you know now, there are some who never want the truth about these inventions to be told to the public. As for the other issues on Eliot Bernstein I would appreciate that for each deletion we discuss prior to change so that we reach agreement. --Iviewit 18:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As you are demanding I leave for COI reasons, please remove all of your edits from this article immediately, and I will be glad to follow your lead. KP Botany 19:20, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

KP I have stated my conflict for discussion and the reason that authoring such could endanger an authors life, since my and family's lives are already in grave danger... Your new conflict seems predicated on anger and spite for unknown reasons. You should not wait for others to make right actions before you do what is right for you. I did not demand you leave, you stated a conflict in a mean and hostile tone and that should be cause for recusal. --Iviewit 19:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My conflict arose purely because of the mean and hostile tone you took with me when you disagreed with my removing press releases from your article. When I made an edit you liked, I was a great editor. You are the one concerned about COIs, and you keep raising them. I suggest that the surest way to alleviate your concerns is to remove the biggest COI from the article: yourself. This is enough on the topic. KP Botany 19:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did not assume hostile tone at you, I found removing articles from reliable sources citing them as as press release was wrong and asked for help in understanding your changes. I disputed your cliam that press release are positive and made a joke about tony snow. Your comments came with another editor who made reference to gay voting, any comments ion retort to that were not directed at you. When you denied conflict prior to stating conflict , I wrote to you that your comments could stand, at least to me, as you had stated no conflict, then seeing you change course I made my statements that you should recuse.--Iviewit 20:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC) --Iviewit 20:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC) --Iviewit 20:22, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete and redirect to Ageless. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:32Z

Never grow old[edit]

Never grow old (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

This seems to be just some random nightclub or bar. No independent sources are provided to establish notability, and in my mind it hardly even makes a claim to notability. This seems somewhat similar to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Phyrst which I nominated a while back. It was de-prodded with comment "contesting prod, as there aren't very many Finnish nightclubs on Wikipedia as it is, also added category Oulu." I disagree that there's anything inherently notable about nightclubs, and I disagree even more strongly that Finnish nightclubs should be accorded treatment any different from others, regardless of their representation on Wikipedia. Deranged bulbasaur 05:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• delete per WP:CORP /Blaxthos 09:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete No sources, lack of notability and the fact that it is just a bar makes this unworthy of wikipedia.

ANHL 10:09, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• If deleted, redirect to Ageless as possible search term? -- saberwyn 10:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect per Saberwyn as unattributed non-notable substub.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 15:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-18 08:35Z

Advertising Cyprus[edit]

Advertising Cyprus (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

NN, as per WP:WEB. Only 2 inward links at Google[14]. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 05:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as nom. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 05:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• I will edit the article more towards wikipedia's guidlines, I am new at this and I understand why I have been red flagged —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Damcy (talk • contribs) 05:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

• Delete spam. /Blaxthos 09:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Spam. Real96 11:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOT.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 15:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a personal article Ok the article needs to be revamped however to remove my article with such malice is not justified—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Damcy (talk

• Delete There's no pitchforks and torches here. It's not notable and it reads like spam. --Silverhand^Talk 18:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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