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Miscellany for deletion (MfD) is a place where Wikipedians decide what should be done with problematic pages in the namespaces which aren't covered by other specialized deletion discussion areas. Items sent here are usually discussed for seven days; then they are either deleted by an administrator or kept, based on community consensus as evident from the discussion, consistent with policy, and with careful judgment of the rough consensus if required.
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Information on the process
[edit]What may be nominated for deletion here:
- Pages not covered by other XFD venues, including pages in these namespaces: Draft:, Help:, Portal:, MediaWiki:, Wikipedia: (including WikiProjects), User:, TimedText:, MOS:,[a] Event: and the various Talk: namespaces
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Current discussions
[edit]- Pages currently being considered for deletion are indexed by the day on which they were first listed. Please place new listings at the top of the section for the current day. If no section for the current day is present, please start a new section.
August 2, 2025
[edit]- Draft:Rukmini Devi Institute of Advanced Studies (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
AI generated, COI, paid editor, no in-line citations and the general references do not support the article enough Sushidude21! (talk) 08:58, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- As per Indian educational standards, Rukmini Devi Institute of Advanced Studies (RDIAS) is a recognized institute, as it is affiliated with GGSIPU and has approval from AICTE. It is included in many public databases and has an 'A 'grade accreditation from NAAC. Significant coverage beyond press releases or insignificant mentions can be found in reliable, independent sources such as The Times of India, Financial Express, and other sites. ~~~~ RDResearcher2025 (talk) 10:11, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- It will be helpful if you can reply without the use of AI. If you have references, can you please add them as inline citations? TruenoCity (talk) 13:06, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Abstain drafts are not checked for notability. Reviewer declined the draft but not rejected. However, the writing is somewhat promotional in tone and is clearly written by AI. TruenoCity (talk) 13:15, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Question - What are the tells of artificial intelligence? Robert McClenon (talk) 16:22, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Robert McClenon: See revision 1286984331: It exhibits WP:MARKDOWN, WP:AICURLY, and WP:AITITLECASE. Combined with: redundant top content heading duplicating the page title, use of American English in a page about an Indian topic, the overall tone and style, and the paid editing context. —Alalch E. 21:33, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment - I see WP:AICURLY and WP:AITITLECASE. The latter doesn't persuade me, because I forget that stupid rule all the time. I see inconsistent use of headings, but I have seen that before LLMs became a problem. I don't see any specific evidence of Markdown, but maybe I don't know what to look for. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:27, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment - What it is doing with the quotes is worse than I had expected. It isn't even using the Unicode curly quotes characters, which MS Word supplies as an auto-correction and which have to be turned off. It is using magic markup to specify curly quotes. I will remember that as something to look for. It is doing the wrong thing by conscious effort. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:27, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Delete as produced by artificial intelligence. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:27, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
August 1, 2025
[edit]Translation into Korean from Galaxy AI per revision history Snowman304|talk 21:30, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- Weak Delete or Trans-Wikify - Just as in user space, copies of mainspace articles into draft space are redundant forks of content, unless the author wants to move this into the Korean Wikipedia. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:19, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
July 31, 2025
[edit]Userspace draft that is in Thai and does not seem to be encyclopedic; it seems to be about current infrastructure projects in Thailand and has promotional tone in some places. I can't rule out if it is LLM-generated or copy-pasted from a copyrighted government document.
The sandbox owner is a blocked sock of a user who used LLM, and at c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:1.2 Motorway สายบางขุนเทียน-บ้านแพ้ว และ บ้านแพ้ว –.png I raised concerns that the image seems to be AI-generated. (Several other images, probably similar in content, were deleted due to lack of licensing information.) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:34, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete for a combination of reasons:
- Sandbox of blocked sockpuppet.
- Possible use of AI. Next month will be eligible for G15.
- Non-submitted sandbox is not eligible for G13, so will not expire.
- No one is about to translate it into English. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:39, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment - If this user is blocked on Commons, as seems likely, and is blocked on Thai Wikipedia, a global ban will be in order. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:39, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
LLM-generated crap by a blocked sock of Abhichartt (talk · contribs), G5 contested twice. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:13, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Unsalvageable nonsense. silviaASH (inquire within) 08:45, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- It was declined, by User:Jlwoodwa, with advice to fix it and resubmit. It was not rejected. Reviewers or AfC processes should be reviewed, if this is what often happens. SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:36, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- Weak Delete:
- It really makes very little difference whether this is kept for six months or deleted, because the submitter is blocked and this page will go away in six months.
- The reviewer did not mean that this can be fixed. The reviewer had an option to decline as LLM output, and no option to reject as LLM output. The mere fact that a reviewer declined a draft does not mean that we at MFD should agree that it should be kept. This should have been rejected, except that the option of Contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia does not state our disapproval of LLM stuff.
- A consensus is developing that AI slop should be speedily deleted as G15. In the meantime, we can get into the habit of deleting AI slop. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:18, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- The reviewer did not mean what they wrote? Or, the reviewer did not mean what they caused to be written? Why is that different?
- The problem is that reviewers are not choosing Reject when Reject should be used. The boxed reasons for rejecting should be expanded. SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:42, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- The reviewer did not have an option of stating what they meant. What the reviewer almost certainly meant was that this draft is the product of artificial intelligence, and so should be rejected. That isn't a combination of options that the reviewer has. There are currently two reasons for rejection, a lack of notability, and inconsistency with the purpose of Wikipedia. There should be a third option, the use of artificial intelligence, which is inconsistent with the purpose of Wikipedia, but the reviewer needs to be able to flag it.
- The fact that a reviewer declined rather than rejected a draft should be of little interest to us at MFD, because the reviewer may have been mistaken in good faith. Our collective judgment should take into account the opinion of one reviewer, but we should be willing to reverse the judgment of the reviewer if our collective judgment differs from their individual judgment.
- A Decline does not always mean "fix and resubmit". It may mean that the reviewer has not decided whether the draft can be fixed, in which case it only means "Do not resubmit unless fixed". Robert McClenon (talk) 17:11, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Some reviewers would prefer to decline rather than reject, and when a reviewer is uncertain, it is best that they decline rather than reject
- Eh, weak delete - probably would have been better to just wait for G13 but since we're already here might as well delete it now. Sophisticatedevening(talk) 19:26, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
Yet another AI-generated slop page created by Abhichartt (talk · contribs); the last that isn't nominated for deletion. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:37, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- If it is so bad as to need deletion, it should not have been declined in AfC review. SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:39, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- Weak Delete:
- It really makes very little difference whether this is kept for six months or deleted, because the submitter is blocked and this page will go away in six months.
- The reviewer did not mean that this can be fixed. The reviewer had an option to decline as LLM output, and no option to reject as LLM output. The mere fact that a reviewer declined a draft does not mean that we at MFD should agree that it should be kept. This should have been rejected, except that the option of Contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia does not state our disapproval of LLM stuff.
- A consensus is developing that AI slop should be speedily deleted as G15. In the meantime, we can get into the habit of deleting AI slop. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:18, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
Per WP:COPIES and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ComparePages?page1=User%3ATheogjordie%2Fsandbox&rev1=&page2=Old+Alton+Bridge&rev2=914807484 Paradoctor (talk) 02:08, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete as a copy of article space to user space, which is a redundant fork. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:38, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
July 30, 2025
[edit]There is now an article at Christine Rosen, so this draft is no longer necessary and its creator has been banned. Jahaza (talk) 19:25, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- Redirect to Christine Rosen. This is not exactly a Speedy Redirect, but is similar enough that the answer is the same, to point to the article. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:08, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- I have redirected it and am willing to withdraw on that basis if that's possible. I don't really know all the procuedures here at MfD vs AfD. Jahaza (talk) 21:08, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
July 29, 2025
[edit]- Wikipedia:Project Content Gaps (Wenard Institute) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
Attempt to start a WikiProject that appears never to have gotten off the ground. The project page has only been edited by one user, and that user hasn't edited in over for years. No talk page activity (apart from a recent move request from a non-participant) or other signs the project ever did anything. It appears to be connected to an external institution, so it is unlikely anyone else could revive or that there is any value in merging/redirecting it to another wikiproject page. – Joe (talk) 19:34, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- A WikiProject is a group of editors that wants to work together. This appears to be an external organization's project, which they helpfully documented on wiki for us. See "Wenard Institute is a nonprofit organization, aiming to publish copyleft information where such information is not yet unavailable. This joint project with Wikipedia is an experiment that uses Wenard Institute’s resources to add to Wikipedia content in a few selected areas." The only editor was User:Ally at Wenard, who worked with User:凰兰时罗 and User:Eugene at Wenard (and maybe one or two others?) on the articles now in Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Wenard Institute.
- I think we need this page, even if Template:Wenard attribution could be subst'd or merged with a generic template, to explain what they were doing and what the license information is. But I don't think it was ever a real WikiProject; it feels more like a WP:GLAM project. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:04, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete - This is not and has not been a WikiProject. It has a useful purpose, but the WikiProject was started without any sort of planning and without any sort of support from the Wikipedia community. I mostly agree with WhatamIdoing that it is a good conceptual idea, but that isn't a reason for keeping it as a WikiProject. At this point it seems more straightforward to delete it and decide how to implement it if Wenard Institute still wants to implement it, rather than figuring out what to move this page to. Not all noble ideas are ready for WikiProjects. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:02, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- I hesitate to delete this because there is Wikipedia:License information in their template, which says:
This article is based on the text donated by the Wenard Institute under CC-BY-4.0 license.
- and which links to this page. If we don't have this page, then what should that link to? WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:02, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
The text in this userbox is almost identical to Template:User css-4, which indicates expert knowledge. The "-N" templates for programming languages have long been treated as a joke, since the "native speaker" wording is not really applicable to them. The associated categories have already been deleted multiple times — see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 January 12#c-Timrollpickering-2012-01-21T01:56:00.000Z-Category:User_pas-N. I believe the appropriate solution is to replace all uses with "User css-4" and either delete this template or reclassify it as a joke template, as an analogous ones (Template:User pas-N and similar in Category:Humorous user templates) still exist. Solidest (talk) 08:43, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Comment In case someone missed the title of this page, there was a previous nomination of this at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User css-N. Justjourney (talk | contribs) 02:54, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- User:Corkythehornetfan/Userboxes/SupportTrump (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
Per WP:UBDIVISIVE, userbox serves no other purpose than to soapbox and divide people LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 02:05, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Fully agree and also note not all wikipedians live in the USA! Bduke (talk)
- Keep: While I sympathise with the merits of removing editor partisan politics from Wikipedia, removing a vanilla support for a sitting politician is going too far. It is more likely to cause Wikipedia harm to be accused of bias due to removing this than for allowing it. This user box mere reflects the bias of the editor, and is proper. SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:38, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Comment Which word(s) meets WP:UBDIVISIVE? Can it alternatively be reworded?—Bagumba (talk) 08:45, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep — while I don’t edit much any more (nor do I agree with the politics of said president any longer), I agree with Smokey. It’s a pretty neutral userbox, doesn’t have anything offensive (except to those who despise the man), and serves no harm. There’s no reason to delete. Corky 21:17, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Per WP:UBDIVISIVE, userbox serves no other purpose than to soapbox and divide people LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 02:04, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Comment - User:UBX/Obama exists. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 06:52, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Id nom that as well LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 11:35, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep: A simple support/oppose userbox is within the current standards as it is not sufficiently divisive. I sympathize with the idea of limiting political userboxes, but do not think we should be singling out any one politician; they should go at the same time, as there is no difference between this and the rest in Category:United States politician fan user templates. Curbon7 (talk) 23:43, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep per Curbon7. I think the two most consistent positions would be to either delete all political userboxes or to keep all of them. The WP:UBDIVISIVE policy essentially says that negative verb phrases are not allowed. It really doesn't say anything else. Showing support for Donald Trump (or any politician) is a positive action, not a negative action. I thus don't see how the userbox violates WP:UBDIVISIVE. I don't see or know of any other policies that are violated by political userboxes, so I think keeping all of the political userboxes is the more reasonable of the two most consistent positions. Zero Contradictions (talk) 10:14, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
Per WP:UBDIVISIVE, userbox serves no other purpose than to soapbox and divide people LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 02:03, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Completely forgot I made that, I don't care if it gets removed but am I still able to see the edits on the userbox in my edit history if it gets removed? I still like to look back at any old edits I made whether I find it cringe or not Jerry (talk) 03:14, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Jerry: If the userbox is deleted, then any edits to it will be deleted as well. If you want to keep a record of them in case this gets deleted, you might want to copy them to an off-wiki page now. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:09, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep: A simple support/oppose userbox is within the current standards as it is not sufficiently divisive. I sympathize with the idea of limiting political userboxes, but do not think we should be singling out any one politician; they should go at the same time, as there is no difference between this and the rest in Category:United States politician fan user templates. Curbon7 (talk) 23:41, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep per Curbon7. I think the two most consistent positions would be to either delete all political userboxes or to keep all of them. The WP:UBDIVISIVE policy essentially says that negative verb phrases are not allowed. It really doesn't say anything else. Showing support for Donald Trump (or any politician) is a positive action, not a negative action. I thus don't see how the userbox violates WP:UBDIVISIVE. I don't see or know of any other policies that are violated by political userboxes, so I think keeping all of the political userboxes is the more reasonable of the two most consistent positions. Zero Contradictions (talk) 10:18, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
Per WP:UBDIVISIVE, userbox serves no other purpose than to soapbox and divide people LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 02:03, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete:I forgot I made it as its been so long but given theres several others of the same thing, feel free to delete. ShadowDragon343 (talk) 00:41, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- User:Blitziko/Userboxes/User opposes Donald Trump (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
Per WP:UBDIVISIVE, userbox serves no other purpose than to soapbox and divide people LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 02:03, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
July 28, 2025
[edit]- User:UBX/User Trump Worst President Ever (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
WP:UBDIVISIVE WP:POLEMIC no intelligent discussion results from rhetoric like this; just distracting. This is irrespective of the opinion expressed; I despise Trump but don't engage like this with others grapesurgeon (seefooddiet) (talk) 20:04, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. I also don't like Trump, but any userboxes indicating one's political team colors are detrimental to collaboration. silviaASH (inquire within) 20:42, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete: Too negative. SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:42, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- User:Casspedia/userboxes/User hates trump (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
WP:UBDIVISIVE WP:POLEMIC no intelligent discussion results from rhetoric like this; just distracting. This is irrespective of the opinion expressed; I despise Trump but don't engage like this with others grapesurgeon (seefooddiet) (talk) 20:00, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Unhelpful to productive collaboration. silviaASH (inquire within) 20:43, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete as useless as the opposite userbox. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:49, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete: NOHATE Userboxes. Too negative by a long way. SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:43, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Per WP:UBDIVISIVE, this is definitely a negative comparison that serves no other purpose than to soapbox and divide people. Sophisticatedevening(talk) 19:35, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Violates WP:POLEMIC. silviaASH (inquire within) 19:40, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- DeletePer nom, as a side note, this happened after I mentioned in the Discord that I think the entire category of Donald Trump user boxes should be nuked. I was not told to come to this MfD.
- Delete: Too personal. It might be ok to state the reason for opposing Kamala. SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:44, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Old business
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June 18, 2025
[edit]- User:YSec/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
- User:YSec/sandbox0 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:YSec/sandbox1 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:YSec/sandbox2 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:YSec/sandbox3 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:YSec/sandbox4 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:YSec/sandbox5 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:YSec/sandbox6 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:YSec/sandbox7 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- (Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) Salvio giuliano 18:12, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
This user edits primarily in user space and has declined to engage in discussion about this on their user page. The nominated sandboxes are an interlinked set of pages which appear to form a hoax about a non-existent media executive named Nathan Holton and a Batman spinoff named Wayne. These could probably all be speedily deleted under WP:U5 but I thought it would be better to leave an audit trail. – Fayenatic London 20:25, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hey there, really sorry for not getting back to you on my Talk page back in October. I definitely didn't mean to completely ghost you. I think I saw your message and intended to reply, but then it just totally slipped my mind. My bad! Also, I'm not even sure if I'm supposed to be writing this here or on my Talk page, so apologies if this is the wrong spot. And yeah, I can totally confirm these pages are 100% about made-up stuff. It's all fictional characters and concepts that actually helped me through some personal struggles a few years back, and I just kept updating them for fun.
- Thanks so much for not deleting everything right away; it allowed me to grab a personal backup of all the pages. I know it's fake and a clear violation of the terms, and it probably sounds silly, but the content on those pages means a lot to me, and just having a backup is a huge deal.
- I'll really try my best to slowly get more active and contribute to pages in a more meaningful way. I'm just pretty slow and awkward when it comes to being social or jumping into online communities. I suppose all this will be deleted pretty soon, right? Cheers! YSec (talk) 21:26, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
- @YSec: There are several sites online that allow you to create your own Wikis/Wikias if that helps? It could be a good idea to move them there so it can still help your mental health? ☺️ DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:28, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: more participation and more policy-based discussion is needed before closing the discussion
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Salvio giuliano 18:12, 31 July 2025 (UTC)