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Darth Traya

Should this be deleted? Kept? Or merged to List of Star Wars Sith characters? Or something completely different? 88 unique google hits are returned for this particular Sith character. --GRider\ 00:03, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Merge with something or keep. Kappa 01:06, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Unsure about the notability, but article is detailed and presumably accurate. - Jpo 01:42, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, notability not established. ComCat 02:12, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge with Minor villains in Star Wars. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:38, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep; no reason not to as Misplaced Pages is not Paper blah blah, and merging somehwere else would just muddy that article. Jgm 03:03, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, but with reservations. Article needs cleanup and expansion. Megan1967 03:28, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge, as per Riffsyphon, or perhaps just delete. If this guy is only from a video game then I'm leaning towards the latter. -R. fiend 06:47, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- He's still a character created by LucasArts, which I believe is at least worthy of a merge. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:53, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Merge as above. Be bold. Radiant! 09:18, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep as per Jgm.--Jacobw 10:16, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge though I hope somebody at Lucasfilm wises up to the fact that creating tons of new minor Darths takes away somewhat from the uniqueness of the truly great villain Darth Vader. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:35, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
If that someone has a beard and merchandising rights, I think your hope is wasted. Gazpacho
Comment. When I was younger, I used to have an encyclopedia of literary characters... perhaps Misplaced Pages should spin off a separate wiki for collections of fictitious characters and fictitious worlds (of which there are plenty here) - and restrict the regular Misplaced Pages to fictional characters and worlds that are notable to a significant population... i.e. that come up as pop culture references or the like. --BD2412 23:16, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Like "Wikicruft", or something. Might work. Anyways, I gotta say weak keep. For fairly notable characters in highly notable computer RPGs, which link up to a larger, ultra-notable universe, that's how it should be. See Sarevok and Minsc.-LtNOWIS 02:15, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Do you mean something akin to Memory Alpha? Uncle G 17:11, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
Keep or merge/redirect. -Sean Curtin 03:17, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
I am changing my vote to Keep, based upon the reasoning that GRider has been putting at least 10 SW articles of good quality up for deletion. To merge this with the Villians article would clutter it, as Jgm said previously. The article is large to hold its own. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:23, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
KeepThe article is fairly long and seems accurate. The person who wrote it must have gathered a lot of information, presumably from the video game he/she mentions at the beginning of the article. I would hate to see this article go, and maybe, as a user above mentions, there should be a Misplaced Pages for fictional things. Perhaps something like 'Wikific' or 'Wikifiction'.

User:KFan II 11:15 AM, March 11, 2005

Keep. Encyclopedic, interesting and even esoteric. I like it. - Lucky 6.9 09:30, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. I wouldn't fit Darth Traya into the Villains article anyways, as she's quite a complex character. Wakuseino 05:32, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. The character is notable in the Star Wars universe. Carbonite | Talk 05:51, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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FTOSX

Non-notable operating system by deleted Future Technologies (see Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Future Technologies).

Admittedly googling for FTOSX gets 57000 hits. But if you discount stuff by Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando (the founder of Future Technologies), all that's left is FTP directory trees. (Note that http://www.rpmparadaise.org belongs to Dr. Orlando.) I thought this was an indicative example.

Googling for FTOSX -FTP -wikipedia gets 20000 hits. Among these, the best I could find was , which refers in passing to FTOSX as a "dominant Linux distribution".

Delete. If this were notable, there would be loads of web sites by people other than Orlando talking about it. dbenbenn | talk 23:55, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Weak keep with that many Google hits, it seems to be widespread, even if much (all?) of the promotion is the result of one person. I'd keep it for now and revisit the issue in a few years to see whether it's stood the test of time. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:52, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Weak delete, because FTOSX certainly isn't "dominant" among Linux distributions, and after watching the field for years, I've never seen reason to believe that it's even "notable" in its area, let alone influential among society in general. 205.247.102.130 18:52, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Above vote was mine, not logged in. Barno 21:58, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, but with reservations. Article needs cleanup and expansion. Megan1967 07:53, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, concur with Dbenbenn. Radiant! 11:07, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete as ad. Weak keep only if verifiable third-party evidence that anyone gives two hoots can be added - David Gerard 00:37, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Notability not established. ElBenevolente 04:49, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. No evidence of notability, likely self-promotion. RadicalSubversiv E 09:34, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Muskogee County, Oklahoma, Bad Roads

A two-for-one special. Original research and a POV rant combined. Delete. Miss Pippa 00:13, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'll admit that it made me chuckle, but delete nonetheless. RidG (talk) 00:30, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete POV. pode 00:37, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Original research. - Jpo 01:40, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, POV original research. Megan1967 03:30, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, maybe encourage the author to add NPOV descriptions to the articles about the highways. --SPUI (talk) 03:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Remes 14:44, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete rant. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:54, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete for reasons stated. Seems like he should take up his beef with the county instead of here, eh? - Lucky 6.9 22:48, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Plus this guy sounds like he could run for mayor there. -- Riffsyphon1024 00:48, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Strong delete. This is a platform for a campaign for county highway commissioner, not an encyclopedia article. No realistic chance of becoming one, either. Sounds like he's not particularly proud to be from there, thus violating the important Merle Haggard Principle upon which all subsequent Oklahoman civilization has been based. Rlquall 03:40, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
What Rlquall said. With oak leaf clusters. Delete. Edeans 17:46, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Joe Costa

An apparent vanity page. See also related page Joseph H Costa. -Rholton 00:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete. I'm always amused to see a self-proclaimed "genious" unable to spell that relatively simple word. RidG (talk) 00:33, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Vanity. - Jpo 01:39, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Deeleete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:55, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, vanity --Jacobw 16:09, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Such a sad fate (fait) for a one-time "geniuos", but "delete" it is. Rlquall 05:32, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Vanity Tobycat 05:48, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Joseph H Costa

An apparent vanity page. See also related page Joe Costa. -Rholton 00:21, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Vanity. - Jpo 01:38, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Deeleete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:56, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Vanity. --Jacobw 16:08, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete with extreme predjudice. Not even good vainty. Beyond unencyclopedic. Rlquall 05:36, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Troy Simpson

Appears to be vanity. The second line is an unhelpful response to the request for expansion. - Banyan Tree 00:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

User 128.227.105.96 blanked the page since the VfD tag. May as well just speedy it, since it seems to be a possible user test. RidG (talk) 00:35, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable. possible vanity. Megan1967 03:32, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, nn vanity. (Also, it was cleared by 128.227.105.96, I've restored it. -- Plutor 17:05, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Vanity? Seems more like libel to me. Delete. Edeans 17:52, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Bordering on patent nonsense. RidG (talk) 00:40, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Well, it is the name of a movie, with Sean Penn I believe, so I'm sure it can be easily fixed. Adam Bishop 00:48, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Current content: "Richard Nixon was not assasinated. He died of a stroke on April 22, 1994". Since this is the title of a movie, the current content is irrelevant and could be speedy deleted. Or someone could fix it. Kappa 01:04, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Keep rewrite Kappa 09:40, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Comment I "fixed" it--well, made it into a stub about the movie, at least. Demi 02:03, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Delete, not a notable film. Megan1967 03:34, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Keep as edited. If a film has been released, it's notable. And even if it's soon to be released, it's often still notable. I've seen press about this movie already. 23skidoo 15:25, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep with edits by Demi. How is a movie with Sean Penn and Naomi Watts not notable? DaveTheRed 04:07, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Stong Keep. How Megan can vote delete for this yet keep on Honey Glaze is beyond me. Xezbeth 06:21, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Because I substantially expanded the Honey Glaze article. Would I vote against an article I put work into? Don't think so.. Megan1967 07:56, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Presumably people expand articles because they think they are worth keeping, not vice versa. -R. fiend 06:07, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Dude, Honey Glaze is by Michael Legge! The Michael Legge...need I say more? Anyway, keep this, as a film that by all indications passes wikipedia's very lax inclusion criteria for films. -R. fiend 06:52, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- As I've noted elsewhere, Megan likes to vote keep on articles that should be deleted and delete on articles that should be kept. Keep the rewrite. RickK 06:53, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
  - Keep it civil please. Radiant! 09:18, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
    - Civility still allows us to discuss other people's voting patterns. Kappa 09:40, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      - I agree with Kappa. And besides, asserting that a voter makes some apparently contradictory calls is not inherently uncivil. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:59, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep and clean up (Misplaced Pages:Check your fiction) - this film is about a real 1974 assassination attempt. --iMb~Mw 06:29, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, as currently rewritten, as an article about an adequately notable film. -- Curps 07:08, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I agree, the current rewrite rules. Keep. Thanks, Demi. — JIP | Talk 10:27, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - Xezbeth did most of the work. Demi 16:23, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Keep, thanks to the rewrite. Remes 14:47, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep as rewritten. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:56, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Good save. Edeans 17:58, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tyvokka

Initially I had tagged this for merge-- after a double take, I felt this would be best brought up for consideration on VfD. Should this article be kept, merged, or deleted? 113 unique google hits. --GRider\ 00:44, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

From the length of the article I'd suppose that this character was pretty important (just in case someone good with Star Wars should probably check for copyvios), keep and clean-up--nixie 02:27, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, but with reservations. Article needs cleanup and expansion. Megan1967 03:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge Looks like you were right Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:00, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep, cleanup, and check for copyvio. I'll check StarWars.com to make sure it wasn't copied. Other than that, there is enough here to make this character worthy of an article, however he would be a EU character of minimum importance. -- Riffsyphon1024 00:52, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
- Considering whether or not it needs to be merged with Minor Jedi characters in Star Wars. The question is whether or not its large and notable enough to hold its own. -- Riffsyphon1024 00:58, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Merge. Well, it's certainly a big enough article, but it that's probably becauseneeds trimming down and cleanup. We don't have a seperate article for Nomi Sunrider, and she's got 3,640 Google hits. Of course, age might be a factor here; ten years of nerd debates might drive that up. If the character doesn't appear outside comics, than they're not notable. Anyone got thorough knowledge of this topic? We might also want to demerge some of those articles, like maybe having 1 article on Leia's kids.-LtNOWIS 02:58, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've found no entry at SW.com for Tyvokka. Also I wish that this article be Transwikied to Star Wars Wiki. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:24, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
Keep but needs to be tagged for cleanup - I'm happy to keep all the Star Wars stuff somewhere however IMO v. minor characters like Commander Bly need to be merged into bigger articles like Miscellaneous minor characters in Star Wars -- Lochaber 17:41, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I think it's worth note at this point that I'm not that keen on the phrase "transwiki" being applied to moving stuff outside of Wikimedia projects... when you say transwiki to the Star Wars wiki do you mean you want the article deleted out of Misplaced Pages? b/c that is what would happen if you transwikied something to, for example, Wikimedia's Wiktionary -- Lochaber 17:47, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Quadrado

Non-notable or prank--6 displayed hits for Quadrado Paracho, all of which are WP mirrors/forks. Sole contrib is one of the anons that brought us Lars Olsen, above, as well as occasional vandalism. Niteowlneils 00:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Could this be speedied as patent nonsense? Otherwise delete--nixie 02:24, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, possible hoax. Megan1967 03:36, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete unless verification is presented. If only a few of them exist, there might be a notability issue even if true. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:04, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- The fact that only a few exist may make them notable, of course. There's only one Mona Lisa, after all. ☺ However, I cannot find anything that verifies the existence of this brand, and the supplied description is so generic that it even fits the picture at electric guitar. Delete. Uncle G 17:19, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was KEEP based on majority of voters or default because there was no concensus (9 keep, 4 delete). Mgm| 09:18, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

Mirza Ghulam Hafiz

Appears to be a vanity page.

(Note: above nomination by Ragib)

Dead guys don't normally write vanity pages, its not written in an encyclopedic fashion but this guy does seem to have been the Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament 1979-1982, clean-up and keep'--nixie 02:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
keepRefdoc 02:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Ok, not vanity, but may be a whole lot of cleaning up. The page sounds like an advertisement rather than a biographical info. Also some claims are exaggarated quite a lot. Checking into Bangladesh history or politics, the claims in the article doesn't hold water. Also, some parts look quite odd ... more like a family-sponsored advertisement. So, definitely delete --Ragib 03:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, rantish, advertisement. Megan1967 03:37, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete as not verifiable (or, if you will, false) Radiant! 09:23, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep, and delete any individual parts that are demonstrably false. The main objection to this seems to be the non-neutral POV. I've therefore cleaned up the article, removed some of the more subjective or forward-looking claims, and attempted to make it a neutral POV throughout. (I've refrained from changing any of the factual information, since I'm not qualified to judge its accuracy.) Unless the original writer is making things up wholesale, Hafiz and his wife are both clearly notable. --Jacobw 10:46, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong keep. The subject was a high-ranking Bengladeshi politician. If that isn't notable, I don't know what is. Remes 14:52, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete agree with Ragib and Radiant. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:06, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep Jacobw's cleaned-up page, perhaps mark for requested further fact-checking. Revised article now establishes WP-worthy notability and removed the family and POV problems. Barno 16:11, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
As it is now, it looks perfectly keepworthy. Also, today is my birthday. DS 00:26, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep Provided that there can be some references and verification. Srcastic 06:48, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Still needs some more cleanup and verfication, but this guy is obviously notable. We should be very careful about our own systemic bias in considering nominations like these. RadicalSubversiv E 09:38, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Notable enough to be quoted on Bangladesh government website.

Whoosh_the_Ninja

Delete Looks like advertising. pode 00:50, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete Advertinanity. Demi 01:50, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Delete no hits on Google. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 02:00, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, ninjacruft. ComCat 02:13, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete until it can be verified that whoosh exists and is notable--nixie 02:15, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, advertsement, ninjacruft. Megan1967 03:38, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, a very ambiguous article -- vanity? not notable?... ! Tygar 04:28, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. (Or merge with something like List of things made by two people in 2005.) Miss Pippa 11:53, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Deletge. Tygar, is "ambiguous" a euphemism for "nonsense"? Remes 15:00, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ray the Flying Squirrel

Is every single character from the fictional universe of Sonic the Hedgehog inherently noteworthy? Or is Misplaced Pages actually a catalog of Nintendo and SEGA minutiae? With a mere 107 unique googles, what makes this subject notable and encyclopedic? --GRider\ 01:05, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comment. GRider, why do all your VfD candidates include a request for broad classification of similar Misplaced Pages entries? RidG (talk) 01:45, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- I imagine he's trying to see if he can set some precedents with certain votes. Oh and delete. Katefan0 14:59, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, trivial nanocruft. ComCat 02:14, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, sonicruft. Megan1967 03:40, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge or keep practically everything GRider nominates, including sonic-cruft. Kappa 09:36, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge with something like List of minor characters in Sonic the Hedgehog. Miss Pippa 11:50, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Thoroughly trivial. Remes 15:04, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep unless we already have a Sonic Characters article, in which case a merge would also suffice. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:07, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Fancruft. Martg76 20:44, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge. Grue 20:39, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete. Uncle G 11:57, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC) Per the deletion log:

03:52, 2005 Mar 9 DavidWBrooks deleted Darren lavelle

Darren lavelle

I believe this is vanity; article does not establish notability; I found some references to a Irish junior athelete on Google. Demi 01:35, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)

Could be speedied as an extremely short page, otherwise 'delete--nixie 02:17, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 03:40, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
It's gone. No need to waste our time on such obvious speedy-deleted material. - DavidWBrooks 03:53, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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"wichita falls"

There's already Wichita Falls, with obviously a ton more content. Should be deleted. RidG (talk) 01:55, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Merge and Redirect. I think this would be more appropriate, given that there is a tiny, tiny bit of information in the candidate article. Bratsche 02:08, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- Now that the merge is done, I change my vote to Delete, since it's true that no one is going to search with the quotes. Bratsche 03:03, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Merge is done now. I say Delete the redirect, it's not useful (lowercase and in quotes). -- Curps 02:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, noone is going to punctuate a search that way--nixie 02:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete;not a useful redirect. Jgm 03:01, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, concur with Jgm. Megan1967 03:41, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Unfortunately, people do punctuate their searches that way. They think that the search box in Misplaced Pages works in the way that search boxes at web sites commonly do, including having the widespread syntax for searching for whole phrases. Equally unfortunately, now that content from this article has been merged by Curps into Wichita Falls, it cannot be deleted without violating the requirements of the GFDL to retain full author attribution. (See WP:GVFD#Editing_an_article_nominated_for_deletion.) Redirect. Uncle G 12:53, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Redirect, like G said. Also, redirects are cheap. sjorford →•← 15:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Move over Wichita Falls (which has no history) and redirect from there. —Korath (Talk) 00:03, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
- Excellent solution! Uncle G 17:23, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
Delete. It's not a useful redirect punctuated like that. Jonathunder 04:18, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
Delete, no redirect. Neutrality 00:04, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was merge and redirect to Green Party of Canada candidates, 2004 federal election. Death phoenix 05:35, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Justin Dollimont

Non-notable. I don't think getting 3.5% percent of a provincial election qualifies one for a Misplaced Pages article. Delete. Bratsche 02:01, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete running for provincial office and failing is not notable, this article doesn't give any other reasons why this guy should be in wikipedia--nixie 02:14, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. He has been linked to in two articles on the election. "Justin Dollimont" returns 48 Google hits. --Ryan! | Talk 03:33, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, just under the bar of notability. Megan1967 03:58, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable. Radiant! 09:19, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete 3% does not even suggest a serious candidate Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:09, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- What did Ralph Nader or David Cobb get in the 2004 US general election? If either of them got 3% or less of the vote, what are their articles doing on Misplaced Pages? --Ryan! | Talk 15:43, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
  - Each got less than 1%, if I remember right. But, Nader is notable for other things besides his '04 candidacy, for example his numerous published books. Cobb isn't as notable as Nader, but he's getting a lot of press for his activity with the Ohio recount (which he's still pushing for, I believe). Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:31, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
  - Nader and Cobb were not provincial candidates. Gamaliel 19:31, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. The Green Party of Canada is notable. Their leader is notable. An otherwise undistinguished candidate who polled less than 3% in the race for a particular seat...isn't notable. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 18:52, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep --Spinboy 20:20, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, Canadacruft. 3% of the vote? Maybe if you're running for President or Prime Minister, but not Congress or Parliament. Isn't notable when it happens in the US, and it ain't notable when it happens in Canada. -R. fiend 20:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Article and web searches fail to spotlight anything notable about this person. - NormanEinstein 20:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge into Green Party of Canada candidates, 2004 federal election. Bearcat 03:27, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Gamaliel 19:31, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep He is someone in the public eye. --Mattwj2002 19:36, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've compressed the page to a redirect, leading to Green Party of Canada candidates, 2004 federal election. Deletion is no longer necessary.

Discussions about minor candidates like this have come up before (in fact, there was recently a Misplaced Pages forum discussion on the subject). The general consensus seems to be that (i) there is room on Misplaced Pages for some information about such figures, but (ii) they don't deserve individual bio pages. The compromise solution which most seem to accept is the creation of list pages, containing short biographies of candidates (or councillors, or whatever) who aren't quite notable enough to make the cut on their own.

(For those curious, the "Green Party candidates" page was started during the Chernushenko discussion about two weeks ago. It now has six entries, and is growing.) CJCurrie 23:51, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Howdy

A dictionary definition with no real hope for becoming an article. -Rholton 02:18, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Move to Wiktionary - Mailer Diablo 03:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, slang dictionary definition. Megan1967 03:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete.. Or Wiktionary. Tygar 04:29, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Wiktionary had had howdy for two months prior to the creation of this article. Delete. Uncle G 12:00, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Keep might be slang, but so is fuck and we have a good article on that. There's at least half a century of history to this term, let it grow. Article is just a stub but already has interesting cultural reference that wouldn't be found in a dictionary (i.e. its association with Texas A&M) Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:14, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- I think that the Texas A&M reference is a bit of parochial hijacking, to be honest. If the term symbolizes anything, it's far more likely to symbolize John Wayne. Uncle G 01:54, 2005 Mar 10 (UTC)
Delete. Dicdef and some crap written by a Texas A&M student that is not by any means encyclopedic. This is probably a speedy. -R. fiend 20:39, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete as per UncleG. Radiant! 10:29, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. If Wiktionary already has a definition of the phrase, I think that's enough. This could probably be expanded into something worthy of Misplaced Pages, but this article definitely isn't it, and I don't see anybody stepping up to do the necessary legwork on it. As it stands the article's just an Aggie vanity (and no, I'm not just saying that because I'm a Longhorn). Katefan0 15:11, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, nothing here except a dicdef and vanity trivia. Gazpacho 23:41, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete as per UncleG. Kim Bruning 01:14, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Probably much more associated in the public mind with Minnie Pearl than with Texas A&M; even so, "hat price tag" doesn't merit an article and neither does "Howdy". Aggiecruft. Rlquall 05:38, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Whoop

A dictionary definition (at best) with no real hope for becoming an article. -Rholton 02:17, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Move to Wiktionary - Mailer Diablo 03:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, dictionary definition. Megan1967 03:43, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, no sources. Kappa 09:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Wiktionary wouldn't want something like this. Wiktionary would want something like Wiktionary:whoop (which was written from scratch). Delete. Uncle G 12:07, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:17, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
...there it is. Delete, or add it to an American slang page. — RJH 19:58, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Flying Stone

Delete This is in violation of Misplaced Pages policy on promotion, major stealth ad. Take a look at who originally created the article on May 25,2003. You wonder why this person was protesting the VfD for the Portland Surrealist Group? Also, the very obvious fact is that this, "publication" is extremely non-notable. Also, I cannot find any credible reference source, newspapers, media, art galleries, museums, etc., that even mention this, "publication". Blatant web promotion.Classicjupiter2 02:28, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, advertisement. Megan1967 03:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete 2 issues in 4 years = likely not an encyclopedic publication Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:19, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. --Daniel C. Boyer 18:12, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Comment: Google for "Flying Stone" Portland -Misplaced Pages gets 98 hits, but the majority seem to unrelated to the subject of the article . -- Infrogmation 05:14, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete as ad or vanity. (User:Radiant!)
Delete this vanity/ad/surrealistcruft/whatever. Edeans 18:04, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Raspadoxpress

This is obviously an advertisement. Guan aco 02:51, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete, advertising. - Mailer Diablo 03:30, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I speedy-deleted it. No need to take up our time with debate: it's an obvious violation. - DavidWBrooks 03:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

ComputerLand

This was the article entitled "Vanstar", which was on VfD a few weeks ago; I have moved it to this location, but I am not sure that this company needs an article either. If it does, I hope that someone will add an actual explanation. No Vote (I'm not sure this is the right protocol for an article that has been moved.) Ben Standeven 02:21, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Keep. ComputerLand was very important in the history of the commoditization of the personal computer. I'm surprised the article is so utterly stubful. It was owned by Bill Millard, who had also founded IMSAI, and was the original testbed and source for WordStar (most of the original WordStar staff were ex-IMSAI). Millard essentially sucked IMSAI dry to the benefit of ComputerLand; the ensuing lawsuits resulted in Millard owing some $200 million to the plaintiffs. Then there are the est connections, as well as (get this) Grateful Dead and Courtney Love connections...Anyway, Bill deserves an article, as does ComputerLand, and for that matter IMSAI... --jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 04:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Add that to the article please :) Radiant! 09:20, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- well, I kinda like to avoid editing articles that I have strong and perhaps irrational and not completely informed biases about. I'm still pissed off at Millard for screwing me over 25 years ago... --jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 03:14, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep sounds notable Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:21, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 07:47, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep and expand, jpgordon is correct. Gazpacho 18:48, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Jpgordon is right. Article is awful in present state but ComputerLand is notable. Millard was an EST devotee and many ComputerLand employees were, too, or good imitations of same. They would do aggressive EST things like saying to each other in a stage whisper, "Oh, looks like a paying customer" when you walked in the door. I believe for a while they answered the phone with the phrase "Good day! Every day is a good day at ComputerLand." Dpbsmith (talk) 17:39, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ben Russo

Apparent vanity. -Rholton 03:05, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete, nn vanity. burnt in effigy 05:10, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Can you say "vanity"? Delete. --Slowking Man 07:45, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Delete. Edeans 18:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Mesmeric

Sub-stub dicdef. Delete JeremyA 03:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete, dictionary definition. Megan1967 03:59, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. But might there be any benefit from mentioning this fact in Pink Floyd? -- Brhaspati (_contribs) 04:10, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Redirect to Franz Mesmer. The word is not specific to Pink Floyd at all and instead refers to things which are in some ways evocative of the philosophy/practices of Mesmer.--Fastfission 06:42, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There was no need to bring this to VFD. You could have just been bold and replaced the article with a standard adjective→noun Redirect, as per Fastfission and the Misplaced Pages:naming conventions (adjectives). Uncle G 12:39, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Redirect agree with Uncle G Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Mesmerism already redirects to hypnosis. Mesmeric should redirect to the same place. -Sean Curtin 03:19, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

List of things in Chennai

I had created this article in January when I was expanding the article on Chennai. This article was intended to hold the lists that the Chennai article then had. I now feel this is completely not suitable to clean-up. I would prefer this article to be deleted, unless someone really feels confident of getting it to shape as a companion/support article to Chennai. -- Brhaspati (_contribs) 03:40, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)

Delete, redundant/duplicate page. Megan1967 04:00, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete -- Sundar 04:07, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

I count 10 "delete" votes and 4 "keep" votes. Rossami (talk) 03:38, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Southwest Boulevard

This is already covered in the West Tulsa, Oklahoma article and is redundant unless the author posted something else to it. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:41, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Keep and allow for organic growth. --SPUI (talk) 03:47, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, roadcruft. Megan1967 04:01, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Non-notable road. I guess SPUI wants an article on every street in the world to go along with every school and every bowling alley. RickK 05:27, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- No, only the major ones. Sometimes I wonder how certain people get sysop status. --SPUI (talk) 05:49, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - Agreeing with you on matters of article content is not a prerequisite for adminship. --Slowking Man 07:44, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
    - Not being openly hostile should be though. --SPUI (talk) 09:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - Spui, keep it civil please. Radiant! 09:21, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
    - The same to RickK. --SPUI (talk) 09:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      - Much of what RickK said is essentially true though: you do seem to want articles for almost every road. See the Transportation section of Misplaced Pages:What's in, what's out Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:36, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
        Thanks to suburbanization, the vast majority of roads are non-notable and don't belong on Misplaced Pages. --SPUI (talk) 17:20, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Unnecessary stub; the subject is already covered elsewhere, and there isn't enough content to justify a separate article. Delete. --Slowking Man 07:44, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete as per Slowking. Radiant! 09:21, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep parts of Route 66 and allow for organic growth. Kappa 09:30, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete as duplicate information. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:39, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
First of all, this can hardly be the only "Southwest Boulevard" in the world. Furthermore, the article does not establish notability. Being "the most significant street in West Tulsa" does us no good if it doesn't give any indication of why. If it's just the main thoroughfare then who cares? If there's actually something notable about it, like there is with Broadway or Fleet Street (not that it has to be as significant as those), then mention what it is and let us vote based on that. Every city/town/village in the world has a most significant street (which can be a POV statement in itself), but if that's all that can be said about them then articles on them are worthless. Delete. -R. fiend 20:29, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- It should be moved to Southwest Boulevard (Tulsa) or something similar. --SPUI (talk) 22:52, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep I should have spent more time to add more detail to this article, but as I am trying to concentrate mainly on communities in West Tulsa, I skipped over many of the relevances this street has to the culture, history and economics of West Tulsa. Not only the Route 66 connection, but to oil, transportation, the history of Tulsa and Oklahoma. I did plan to expand upon the article, if no other Wikipedians from Tulsa or those working on Route 66, didn't help. I'm new, and would appreciate any assistance/advice anyone can give on how to preserve this article from deletion.AboutWestTulsa 04:27, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- If you can improve upon this article to where it is encyclopedic and proves that it is notable enough, then it will not be deleted. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:05, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. You've got to be kidding. Gamaliel 08:04, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, a road has to be pretty damn famous or significant to be notable in Misplaced Pages. DaveTheRed 21:23, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, but fix the title to include the location - David Gerard 00:42, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Route 66 is indeed notable, and accordingly has its own article. This doesn't seem to go beyond local interest. Delete. Edeans 18:24, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hypotenuse highway

As far as I can tell, this term is not used. I am a roadgeek and have never heard the term. Anything worth saying is already at bypass. --SPUI (talk) 03:43, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Google gives zero hits for "hypotenuse highway". -- Brhaspati (_contribs) 04:16, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
I clicked this hoping to read some interesting things about triangles or mathematics :( ... sigh. Other than that, it has relavent information at bypass. Delete. Tygar 04:32, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:45, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. SamuraiClinton is quickly confirming my suspicion that he's the neologism vandal. Rhobite 20:51, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Redirect to Bypass, I am sorry for creating this article, I never knew a setup of 2 existing words separated by a space would sometimes be considered a neologism to Misplaced Pages article standards. SamuraiClinton 21:36, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- I redirected the article to Bypass. Tygar 06:34, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
I'd still recommend deleting the redirect, given that the term was made-up. Though I'm not sure that keeping it would hurt. --SPUI (talk) 15:27, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
My suspicions are akin to Rhobite's, given both Special:Contributions/SamuraiClinton (which includes Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Vfd and Template:picneed amongst many others) and Wiktionary:Special:Contributions/SamuraiClinton. Speedy Delete the redirect. Uncle G 11:17, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
I have occasionally heard people use "hypoteneuse" as a slangy synonym for "bypass", but it's not in any sense a standard term that belongs in an encyclopedia. IME, it's largely restricted to mathgeeks who think they're being clever and witty. Redirecting to bypass was a good call. Bearcat 00:43, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of Google services and tools

This article is just a re-hash of the information on http://labs.google.com/ and http://www.google.com/options/index.html It has no encyclopedic content, just a list of services from a busniess, which will change over time.

By User:Marc omorain, fixed by Broken Segue

And...Keep. This article is a list of product made by a notable company. Instead of having an article on each one this list was made. Many of the products are significant and more information is given on this page than on google's, especially criticism and details. Broken Segue 04:18, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Misplaced Pages is not a sales catalog. Possibly copyvio. Radiant! 09:25, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- I'm fairly sure that this text isn't a copyvio. Broken Segue 15:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Having a collection of 30 of a company's logos on one page is definitely borderline copyvio if not blatant. --Alterego 16:52, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
Keep Google is central to how the Web works at this point, and their products are notable by association. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:46, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep: I know Misplaced Pages shouldn't be used for advertising per se, but I think Google is well-known enough to warrant a page listing its products. --Andrew 22:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, unless of course this is a copyvio. In that case, delete (extremely). —RaD Man (talk) 02:14, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep - too large to merge into Google. -Sean Curtin 03:21, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. One section of the article appeared to be a copyvio; I've excised that bit (can anyone find anything else that shouldn't be there?). We have lists of other company's products, where those companies and products are very well known and highly notable. (See List of IBM products, for example.) I think Google's products and services clear that bar. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 03:55, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Um, there is a big difference between that IBM page, which is simply a list, and this page on Google. Further, IBM is nearly one hundred years old, and some of the products they have produced, which you claim google "clears the bar", are notable for cataloguing the jews during the holocaust. No, I don't think Google is nearly as famous as IBM. --Alterego 16:50, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Keep Zellin 04:47, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Some listings really make me laugh. This is one. Keep, obviously. Dan100 22:15, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Keep -Frazzydee|✍ 04:31, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep The information on this page is too much to go on the page, and this information is important to understanding Google. - --mathwizxp 00:37, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep - Avnit 19:55, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC) : There is more information in the page in question than there is on the google services page. I see no reason to delete this page.
- 8th edit Broken Segue 15:01, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep - InnovationGuy 11:35, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC) : I see no reason to delete this page. From a research standpoint, it does offer a useful overview of Google's many products and services. It's also useful for the neophyte, which I think should always be an important consideration in deleting a page, i.e., would someone new to the topic or to Misplaced Pages find this useful?
- First edit Broken Segue 15:01, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. I've referred to this article a few times before. I wouldn't object to it being merged into one of the other Google articles, although it seems long enough to stand on its own. Definitely should not be lost. — Knowledge Seeker দ 03:33, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- This article used to be part of other Google articles but was moved here to make them shorter. Broken Segue 04:18, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- "make them shorter" is an understatement. It was spawned
Delete: This article is Misplaced Pages:fancruft and nothing else. I hereby cancel out all the keeps above and refer you to this page. /me wonders "can I really do that?" guess so! --Alterego 16:44, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Unnecessary detail; smacks of fancruft. Edeans 18:36, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. I hereby cancel out Alterego. Nelson Ricardo 01:54, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. I'm not happy with the current layout, but this article looks informative and useful to me. It should be brought to a higher standard though, I especially dislike the constant mix with external links. -Nikai 12:39, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. A bad article does not have to be deleted. -- Taku 15:06, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Comments

Look, this article is just fancruft plain and simple. It is overly large and the topic of Google on Misplaced Pages is overly divided and longwinded. Take a look at the Yahoo article, and notice that Yahoo is a) twice as large as google b) older than google c) has a lot more services than Google. If there weren't so many zealots around here worshipping Google we wouldn't have this problem. And this is where groupthink kicks in; what do you do when everyone in the vote is biased towards worshipping the same thing? How about some objectivity around here. It's obvious the article is just crap and possibly violating Google's rights by putting 30 of their corporate logos on a single page. --Alterego 16:59, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

In my understanding, I wouldn't consider this "fancruft", even if it were too detailed. But I do not believe that the comparison to Yahoo is relevant—if one feels that Yahoo has more services and is more notable, one is certainly free to expand that article, but I don't interpret such arguments to mean that the information on Google should be reduced. You are right in that most of the information in the article could probably be found by following your link, but then again all the information in Misplaced Pages should be able to be found elsewhere. Our job is to collect it and present it in an easily-understood format, from an outsider's view. For instance, the page you cite does not actually contain any information on the services; and even when I tried following the links on that page I still did not reach pages that were informative about the nature of the service. Furthermore, I would prefer reading about something on Misplaced Pages, where for instance Gmail's potential privacy concerns may be covered in a way a company's self-description wouldn't. As for what to do if everyone else is biased except you—you consider that perhaps you are the one who is biased. Perhaps not ("If there's nothing wrong with me, there must be something wrong with the universe"), but I don't think groupthink as I understand it really applies here, at least not until the last few votes. Certainly facing 5 or 6 keeps and no deletes might give someone pause, but it trend would already be clear (unlike in real-time discussions where opinions are shaped concurrently). In any case, it's good to have a difference of opinions to keep ourselves in check. — Knowledge Seeker দ 22:53, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) By the way, that quote was not meant to be an insult (and it turned out that there was something wrong with the universe) — Knowledge Seeker দ 23:06, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Zamil akhtar

Reads like a work of fiction - a google search on the subject produced nothing. JeremyA 04:36, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete, patent nonsense if you ask me. - Mustafaa 07:55, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, original research/essay. Megan1967 09:12, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete as per Mustafaa.--Jacobw 10:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete I'd say BJAODN if it wasn't so long and ponderous. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:50, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Dumb (song)

Article fails to establish notability. An album track that was never released as a single, thus not a hit nor notable. Those few sentences could possibly be merged with the In Utero article. JamesBurns 04:58, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Weak Keep. It may be an album track, but it still got a fair amount of airplay despite that. Eh, but I could really go either way. DaveTheRed 07:14, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge individual songs (unless exceptionally notable, which this one is not). Radiant! 09:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep or merge. Vfd is not votes for Keeption or mergion. Kappa 09:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep and rewrite. There was a song by The Beautiful South called Dumb that was actually a single. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:53, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep -- notable song by a notable band, Nirvana. - Longhair | Talk 21:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge, is wasn't a single for Nirvana--nixie 22:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Rhobite 23:36, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep. There is potential for expansion, here; the song has numerous veiled references to heroin which could be discussed. (My heart is broke / But I have some glue / Help me inhale / And mend it with you.) Psychonaut 02:24, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge to album - David Gerard 00:40, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep well-known song. Grue 20:41, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Jeffrey guterman

Delete. Non-notable, probably vanity. burnt in effigy 04:59, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete or userfy. -- Antaeus Feldspar 05:16, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Tygar 07:30, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:58, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Not notable. Jonathunder 04:16, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
Delete, Lower Case Surname Rule. Edeans 18:46, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Glen Nelson

Undistributed albums and unpublished books. Doesn't seem to be notable enough. Of course, with rap music sometimes music circulates widely outside of formal distribution channels, so it's possible he may be notable. -- Curps 05:10, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The lack of a face in the picture makes one pause. The article is also getting more and more crufty with each edit. Delete. Rick K 06:49, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 09:14, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
How could you delete an Intellectual with a capital I? In this case, yes we can delete. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 11:25, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete although, based on the picture, he seems to use the exact same popscreen that I do. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:57, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete because this seems very suspicious (particularly the photo). Written as largely vanity, puffs of unpublished works aren't notable or verifiable. If this album does appear, then he maywarrant an article (after all, rappers aren't exactly shy retiring types to hide their talents, so rampant egotism is probably a benefit in that field), but only once we have something concrete and verifiable. Average Earthman 16:50, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete - unverifiable, smells hoaxy. Probable vanity even if true. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:00, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete for not meeting the Notability and Music Guidelines. Tuf-Kat 22:33, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was merge and redirect to COM LAG (2plus2isfive). Also merged content with Knives Out. Death phoenix 05:39, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Fog (song)

Article fails to establish notability. Not a single, not a hit, nor notable. Those few sentences could possibly be merged with the Knives Out article. JamesBurns 05:15, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep or merge. Preserve content. Everyking 05:41, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- On what criteria do you believe this song should be kept? JamesBurns 05:46, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - I said either keep it or merge it. I have no particular preference as long as the content is preserved. Anyway, you're the one who has to justify deletion. Your justification is that it's not notable. Well, it's a song by a very famous and successful band. By my personal definition, that's on the borderline of notability for an individual article but unquestionably notable enough for inclusion somewhere. Everyking 06:54, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    - Just because the band maybe notable does not mean that the song is. Another way of looking at it, is that the VfD is for the song not the band. By your definition any "B-side" track (which is essentially what this song is) would be deemed notable - sorry but I won't buy into that argument. JamesBurns 08:24, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      - I don't understand your argument, I don't think. Are you saying you don't think this info is notable enough to be worth including anywhere on WP? I mean, initially you suggested a merge. And a merge would be fine with me. But so would a keep, since I expect a reasonable amount could be written about this song and I'm sure a large number of people are familiar with it. I have no preference. Everyking 08:34, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
        No, what I am suggesting is that it should be merged, as I have suggested, not kept as a seperate article. It has insufficient notability to warrant a seperate article. JamesBurns 08:40, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge individual songs (unless exceptionally notable, which this one is not). Radiant! 09:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Merge or keep. Preserve content. Kappa 09:27, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:00, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Merge. I agree with Radiant. Even the "keep" voters have not provided any evidence of notability beyond that of its artist. WP is not a music compendium or music review site. Barno 16:19, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge. And be bold. You don't need to come to VfD for permission to merge and redirect. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 18:58, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete nn. Leanne 07:15, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Theodore Keep

The article does not establish notability. A recording engineer. Even if he recorded multi-platinum albums, a recording engineer is not notable. Rick K 05:17, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Okay, keep the rewrite. Rick K 08:07, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Google returns 58 hits for "theodore keep" "liberty records". The article does not establish notability - did he do something cool like Delia Derbyshire? I shall now refrain from making the obvious pun about Theodore Delete. -- Brhaspati (_contribs) 05:29, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Well, one of us had to make that joke, and I'm glad you took the bullet for me. ~~Delete~~. Not all names appearing on some sort of album are notable. -R. fiend 06:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable. Megan1967 09:20, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Ted Keep was not just some engineer, but the one responsible for the The Chipmunks (the name Theoodore is not coincidental). As a co-founder of Liberty Records and multiple Grammy winner, the notability is there. --iMb~Mw 10:19, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep as per IMeowbot. --Jacobw 10:53, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep Grammy winner with a Chipmunk named after him. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:01, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep Keep and Expand to include notability as described by IMeowbot. Barno 16:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Comment: This guy was not "responsible" for the Chipmunks, but another guy at the record label who the Theodore character was named after. He didn't create the character, or voice him. The very best he deserves is a redirect to Liberty Records, which says more about him than this article does. -R. fiend 19:39, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep as per User:IMeowbot. —RaD Man (talk) 02:35, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Comment. This page says that Theodore Keep (chief engineer) was one of the three creators of Alvin and the Chipmunks which were named for the three creators. They won Grammy awards in the awards' first two years (1959 and 1960 for 1958 and 1959 work), both years for "Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical". The first year's "The Chipmunk Song" also won Grammys for Best Album for Children and Best Comedy Performance. A bit of Googling (including "Grammy" with Ted or Theodore Keep) answered the notability question easily for this one. Barno 03:05, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Um, no, it doesn't say that. It says they were created by Ross Bagdasarian, and one of them was named for Theodore Keep. Also, note that the site you linked to is a wikipedia mirror, so you'd be better off just citing the Alvin and the Chipmunks page, which isn't the best source for writing wikipedia articles. This guy was the engineer, which is not exactly a terribly notable profession. Can you name one famous sound engineer? I don't think we even have an article on that profession, specifically. A redirect says alot more than this article does. -R. fiend 04:26, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - Can you name one famous sound engineer? — For some reason, the name "Paddy Kingsland" immediately springs to mind. Uncle G 17:41, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
- Anyway, with the new rewrite I'm changing my vote to keep, not because he was an executive at Liberty Records, or because Theodore the Chipmunk was named for him, but because he evidently contributed several innovations to sound recording. However, there is a slightly ambiguous statement that is important. The article states that he "provided the synchronization process that allowed Ross Bagdasarian to combine his speed-doubled voice technique...", now did he just provide it, or did he invent it? If he hit the button on the effects component that made the sound, therefore "providing" the effect, that's hardly terribly notable. If he invented the process then that's different. -R. fiend 18:10, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - It's vague because there's more looking to do. He did build his own toys, but it's unclear exactly which ones. --iMb~Mw 18:13, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
keep' and expand Yuckfoo 02:04, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep the rewritten version. JamesMLane 03:23, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

chode:<english noun.>1.a vital reproductive organ attached to a boy 2. a very inportant baby making processor 3. very inportant sex toy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.187.74.29 (talk) 23:50, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was about evenly split between "transwiki" to Wiktionary and straight "delete". Noting that Wiktionary already has this dictionary, I am going to delete it as the final uncompleted step of the transwiki process. Rossami (talk) 04:28, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chode

This page seems to have been created on January 26 but never made it to the VfD page. I am bringing it here for resolution. Do not consider this a vote. Rick K 06:11, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Rubbish. Include Chodemaster & image in deletion please. 62.252.64.18 22:41, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Weak Keep. It is an informative page, as long as people add to it. Scott Gall 22:45, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Redirect to Body_parts_slang. JosephBarillari 05:50, 2005 Feb 17 (according to history Uncle G 13:55, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC))
Keep When confronted by this unfamiliar word on IRC I hit my usual s!wiki trigger and was highly surprised to find this informative, though brief, page. Martin 07:36, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) 81.156.238.143 07:36, 2005 Feb 26 (according to history Uncle G 13:55, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC))
- Excuse me, but I find it funny that you say that the "weak keep" is that it is an informative entry. Perhaps you could explain to me what the dictionary is for? If I am not mistaken, then the reason for the dictionary is to look up words that one does not know the meaning of. Sorry if I am supposed to leave more info about me here. I will check back soon in case I am. 66.75.192.16 23:39, 2005 Feb 28 (according to history Uncle G 13:55, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC))
- I suggest that you modify your trigger to aim at Wiktionary rather than at Misplaced Pages. Uncle G 13:55, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages is not a dictionary, it is an encyclopedia. --Fastfission 06:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Right. Please see Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not, especially Section 1.2 for more information. RidG (talk) 09:52, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Move to Wiktionary, let them decide if it is a useful definition or not. --Fastfission 06:46, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'm with Fastfission. Delete, and Let Wiktionary deal with this one. Tygar 07:31, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, slang dictionary definition. Appears to have been created in the 1990s so it's a borderline neologism. Megan1967 09:23, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Move to Wiktionary, as per above arguments. --Jacobw 10:48, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Note the existing wiktionary entry at the alternate spelling choad. —Korath (Talk) 11:47, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- Well spotted. I concur. Delete. Uncle G 13:55, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Delete, dodgy slang dicdef at most. Unhelpful. Wyss 01:28, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Transwiki to wiktionary or keep. —RaD Man (talk) 02:34, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. As Korath noted, Wiktionary already has it. DaveTheRed 04:17, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete as per Korath. Radiant! 10:29, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete -- also following Korath. Jonathunder 00:04, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
Delete as per Korath. This is just the suburban white gentile version of "putz", anyway. Edeans 18:54, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep it helped me what the term meant, let it help others. gordonfan
- What would help you, and others, in finding out what words mean is the dictionary. That's what it's there for. This is the encyclopaedia. Uncle G 17:59, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

Members of the 38th Canadian Parliament and same-sex marriage

Speculation. Anything which is not speculation and is not already there, should be merged into Same-sex marriage in Canada. Rick K 06:16, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete, spectulation, intresting work though. --User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 06:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Canada = notability . Delete. Speculation, and even if it were not, its encyclopedicness is highly suspect. Are we to have an article on Members of the US 136th Congress and tobacco subsidies? -R. fiend 07:01, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- A better analogy would be an article during the Clinton impeachment debate tracking the announced voting intentions of Senators or an article on voting intentions of British MPs on the foxhunting issue (which is BIG news in the UK). Tobacco subsidies are not a national issue dominating debate in the US, the same sex marriage issue is a national issue in Canada (and indeed has attracted significant attention in the US) and is dominating the front page. I think the move to delete this is yet another example of the Americentrism of various US based wikipedians. If it's not to do with the US then it's deletable.AndyL 18:59, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - - I object to Andy's attempt to paint me as Americacentric on the basis of this nomination. As I indicated, the reason why this should be deleted is because it is speculative, it has nothing to do with the lack of notability of the subject, because I DO NOT believe that the subject is not notable. Note that I didn't say to delete Same-sex marriage in Canada. THIS article, as it stands, is nothing more than opinion, because the votes have not been cast. Rick K 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
  - OK then, where is this phantom article on the 105th US Congress and the Clinton Impeachment? Is there one? If not, then that analogy sucks too. Looks like this article is another example of Canadian centrism of various Canada based wikipedians, who have also been writing articles on everyone who holds a local public office in the Toronto area (where are the ones for New York City?) among other things. And why isn't this information in the article on same-sex marriage in Canada? -R. fiend 19:23, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    - Even though I live in Toronto, I didn't particularly support having articles on individual Toronto city councillors (except ones who are notable for other reasons), but the fact is that the ones that were nominated for deletion legitimately survived the votes. And it wasn't because they were Canadian; it was because there is some support, like it or not, for the notion that city councillors do merit articles. The idea that Canadian-centrism is something that needs to be fought against is utterly absurd; in reality, Canadian subjects on VfD are regularly forced to meet a higher standard of notability than equivalent articles from the United States. If you believe that city councillors don't generally deserve encyclopedia articles, that's one thing (and one I'd actually agree with you on), but let's get the issue straight: nobody's expecting special treatment for Canadian topics; we Canadians expect our topics to be given equal consideration. And there are American cities for whom people have written articles on councillors, even if New York isn't one of them. I don't agree with it, but they do seem to survive VfD often enough. Bearcat 03:02, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, this takes a lot of work to do of which mulitple sources are used. A poll is never accurate, does this mean we should never poll? C'mon be fair guys.
- Above vote by 209.217.83.14 (talk • contribs) -- Curps 07:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, a fair amount of work, I'd really hesitate to just sweep it aside. The Canadian parliamentary vote will happen later this year, and after that the speculation and/or research will be likely be removed and only the record of the vote will remain. Maybe we could afford to bend the rules here if necessary and let this article live on in its present form for a few more months, given that the final version of this page after the vote will be more encyclopedic. -- Curps 07:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, obviously Earl Andrew 07:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete as speculation. Misplaced Pages is not a crystal ball. Radiant! 09:23, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep, but with reservations, Article needs cleanup. Megan1967 09:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Weak keep, could use more work, but an interesting start. It would probably only make sense to keep it if it were regularly updated with more information. Also - pretty tables. :) RidG (talk) 09:56, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Comment. It is very regularly updated, look at the edit history ;) - Jord 13:51, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Canadian-Parliamentcruft. Is there any kind of cruft that WP hasn't got? Miss Pippa 11:59, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep for the moment. Significant topic, verifiable. Kappa 12:28, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- How can you verify what somebody might do in the future? Rick K 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Keep and merge. I admit that I too had reservations when I first saw this page but it is a highly topical issue in Canada today. Perhaps, now that the bill has been introduced in the House (and therefore has a name) this should be merged with Bill C-38. - Jord 13:51, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Stong Keep. This is not speculation: it is based on the public statements of the MPs as to how they will vote, so it is verifable. It should be merged once the vote is taken. Kevintoronto 13:54, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong keep. This is a very useful page performing a valuable service. Somehow we get a lot of comments on VfD talking about how since WP isn't on paper, we can afford to have this video game character or that stretch of road, but when something comes up that actually untilizes our online, wiki nature, it's VfD'd and derided as cruft. This is a good use of Misplaced Pages and ought to be encouraged. Remes 15:16, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I don't think this is cruft. The subject is valid. THIS article is opinion and prediction. Rick K 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete it's about an interesting and important subject, and obviously very well researched, but, I'm sorry, I just don't think that speculation about how someone might vote belongs in an encyclopledia. Encyclopedias are all about facts, and this is just well-researched guesswork. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:07, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- I'd just like to point out, Andrew, that you voted to "keep" Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Great Jedi Purge, a battle in Star Wars. Star Wars is -- and I hesitate to risk the wrath of geeks everywhere (including my spouse) -- fiction, not fact. This page is an important comment on a major issue in Canada. In a short few months, the vote will have been taken, and this page will be updated to reflect it. Kevintoronto 14:48, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - Apples. Oranges. RickK 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
    - Aye, I don't really see how the two can be compared. There's a big difference between fiction and speculation, and I doubt that even the most hardcore deletionist would say that we need to remove all fiction from Misplaced Pages. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:26, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
      - I'm not suggesting that fiction should be removed from Misplaced Pages. I am only pointing out that because there is room on Misplaced Pages for buckets of articles on fictional characters and events that people are interested in, there should also be room for an article about a hugely important and controversial and real issue in Canada that a lot of people are interested in. The issue will soon be resolved and this page will be quickly and easily converted to a record of the vote. As noted, the article focuses on the verifiable, publicly-stated positions of the MPs. Speculation has been discouraged and reverted, as watchers of this page well know. And in response to RickK's stunning logic ("Apples. Oranges."), no, it isn't. Kevintoronto 18:02, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Speculation. The problem is not cruftiness, it's verifiability. Wait for the vote to occur, then there's no need to gauge likelihood. Misplaced Pages is not a crystal ball. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- The point is that this article has been prepared using public statements of MPs, so it is verifiable, and not speculation. Where speculation is used, it should be removed, just as with any other article. One or two bits of stray specualtion in an otherwise useful and frequently viewed article should not be grounds for deletion, but rather for editing.
- And by the way, there are 178 articles in the Category "Star Trek characters". Apparently there is room for them, why is there no room for this article? Kevintoronto 17:54, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - Those articles can be verified. This cannot. Rick K 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
  - I am afraid that not even MPs have the ability to predict the future. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:32, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    - And there are 60 articles and 17 subcategories in the Star Wars category. Just one of those seventeen sub-categories, "Star Wars characters" has 38 articles, plus an additional 78 articles in 6 sub-categories. And this is about something that is fictional! Canada, and its debate over same-sex marriage, is real. How can you be so upset about something that you call "speculative", when there is so much room taken up by fiction? Do we need more space for another sci-fi character who was on screen for 8 seconds in a movie made in 1975? Kevintoronto 16:16, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      - Fiction is not speculative. Those articles can be verified. This cannot. Note that I do not support the creation of all of those mini-articles, either, but the vote has already been lost there. Rick K 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
        Yep. You can verify the publicly-stated voting intentions of MPs by reading their statements in the Canadian media or on other website that are documenting those statements, such as www.marriagevote.ca. Or you can call their offices. Kevintoronto 18:02, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Not encyclopedic. Will we have these lists for every issue for every incarnation of every legislative body in every country? Will enough people be willing to maintain them? Stances on issues can be included in the articles of individual legislators. Gamaliel 17:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- "Will we have these lists for every issue?" No, only those that people are interested in writing about, just as there are articles on small towns that people are interested in writing about, but not about every small town in the world. Kevintoronto 18:02, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep Not speculation in that various surveys of MPs have been published in the press and numerous MPs have gone on the record on the issue, that makes this list far less speculative than public opinion polls which we keep track of during election campaigns. This is a big issue in Canada and the issue is topical. May be worth revisiting some time after the vote is taken but keep for now. AndyL 18:54, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep - SoM 20:08, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep and clean-up. Even if it just a template for the future votes. Right now it may just be speculation, but when the vote passes this article will become an important reference for the future. - Sepper 20:13, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- And then it will be a valid article. Rick K 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
- Then develop the article in user space and move it to the main encyclopedia space after the vote is taken. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:32, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep There are 178 articles on Star Trek characters, we can certainly keep this one. --Spinboy 20:21, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Apples. Oranges. Rick K 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Merge into Same-sex marriage in Canada. Martg76 20:48, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep - User:Fred A very interesting article that I refer to often. It is not speculation, because the MPs' likely votes are taken from sources such as their published statements on the subject.
- Above vote by 137.207.106.51 (talk · contributions) Smoddy (t) (e) (g) 22:07, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong keep I update this page often, and the vast majority of them that are speculation are listed as undecided. An MP can always change their mind without us knowing. That's why we have things called projected polls for example.
- Above vote by 134.117.40.252 (talk · contributions) Smoddy (t) (e) (g) 22:07, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- We have projected polls? On Misplaced Pages? Where? Rick K 20:36, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete - original research. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:50, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I have to note that when Ontario passed a bill within the past couple of weeks to bring provincial laws which made reference to marriage into accordance with the court decisions, there was some controversy specifically around the fact that it wasn't a recorded vote. People do seem to want to know how each individual politician votes on this. I'm not sure I agree that it needs to be a separate page from Same-sex marriage in Canada, but it's not original research or speculation, either. It's quite clearly based as much as possible on actual public record, the relatively few assumptions in the article are perfectly solid ones (I'm gay and Canadian, so trust me, I know what's a reasonable assumption on this topic, and there isn't a single bit of speculation in here that isn't supportable.) For that matter, final reading of the bill is only a few weeks away, so the article will be entirely documented fact in short order. Keep or merge into the main SSM article. Bearcat 04:17, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong keep This is a page I visit lots of times when I am on here, don't delete this. Jack Cox 18:23, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Speculation until actual vote takes place. kaal 05:25, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Until the vote occurs this is speculative. The government could even fall before this is voted on. This would be more appropriately tracked on a userpage and then streamlined and merged with Same-sex marriage in Canada. All that aside, wow, that's one heck of a table, and a tonne of work digging up all the data. - NormanEinstein 18:47, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Speculation on how the members might vote? Not encyclopedic. The topic of same sex marriage in Canada is already well covered in wikipedia. DaveTheRed 21:20, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. I have found this article very useful in getting updates on the position of MPs on the vote, and it really helps to have all the MPs positions all on one page. I find it very informative. It also helps to have a table to add up all the current votes of in favour and against. Having each MPs position on their own page would make adding up the totals very difficut and cumbersome. Also, articles on current events are allowed on Misplaced Pages, which is what this is. Current event articles can often be based on a certain amount of specualation. In fact, I would even argue that even the most encyclopedic articles may have a small amount of speccualtion in them. A little bit of specualtion should not discount and invalidate an entire article that is very informative and useful. Also note that indeed it is not complete specualtion, and is largely based on MPs acutal statements and positions. Brenj 21:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong Keep. This isn't speculation, it's a repository of verifiable information taken from public statements. If some sections of the page are speculative, the solution is to change them -- not to delete the entire thing. (In fact, I see that someone has recently corrected the page's speculative elements.) CJCurrie 00:17, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
KeepBut, remove unconfirmed reports.Habsfannova 02:45, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, but cleanup. The article, at its heart, is a record of MPs' stances on same-sex marriage and specfically Bill C-38, which has been drafted and does exist, which distinguishes this legislation from a hypothetical bill about tobacco lawsuits. Any information based on published reports of MPs' stances is not speculation. The comments and prognostications based on an MP's constituency, however, are ill-founded and the MPs in question should be listed as unknown in the absence of any verifiable statements. The Senate vote portion of the article is largely empty and should be done away with. Ianking 04:10, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
A proposal: this issue is taking up way too much time and energy. How about a 90-day moratorium on this question to give everyone a chance to think it over, at the end of which we can have a simple Keep/delete/merge vote? Kevintoronto 15:23, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I think that's a good idea. --Spinboy 17:03, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong Keep. Very informative article. The page's format is very well done. If you really want to use the word "speculation," then consider it speculation based on reliable sources. The "Crystal Ball" analogy insinuates that the sources are questionable/poor/etc. Sure, MPs can change their votes at the last minute, but is that argument good enough to invalidate all this data? I don't think so. —Mar·ka·ci:2005-03-12 01:36 Z
Delete. It's speculation. Completely unencyclopedic...and please don't confuse the issue of same sex marriage with whether or not this is encyclopedic. --Woohookitty 01:43, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I don't see anyone on this page having such confusion. The topic of the vote in parliament is completely immaterial (or should be) to the question of whether an article like this is appropriate for Misplaced Pages. Remes 17:15, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong keep. Some "speculation" by reliable sources and some verifiable data. Other speculation should be removed; however, data used for the speculation should be retained. —UTSRelativity 04:02, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Obviously a lot of work went into this article, and it is very informative/interesting. If the MPs' opinions are verifiable through press articles and other published reports, then it is not speculation. I would say though that the MPs whose stances on the issue are unknown/unverifiable should be listed as "unknown" rather than assuming that they would vote along party lines or the view held by their constituents. Darkcore 10:09, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. I'm of the view that this will be of negligible historical interest once the whole thing is settled. Lacrimosus 22:28, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge or Delete Reads like a historical investigation of the dubious future. An encyclopedia should include information about the 38th Canadian Parliament and about same sex marriage, and the reader should be left to draw his own conclusions. Halidecyphon 06:26, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Transwiki to the Wikibooks Voter's Guide, which is the perfect home for something like this. Tuf-Kat 22:36, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
- Support. Well there we have it. Glad to know there's a place for things like this. Halidecyphon 06:31, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose. Will be be transwiki'ing all election/political related martial then to this Voter's Guide? Where's the line that says what we do or don't transwiki? --Spinboy 16:58, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  - Anybody can transwiki anything, as long as the history is intact. What happens to it after transwikiing (both here and at the Voter's Guide) is subject to the ordinary rules of consensus. Tuf-Kat
Strong delete. Since when is the mere amount of work or craft in creating an article a factor either way on VfD? This is still obvious and speculative politicruft. Nothing against Canada here, as you can just as easily do the same thing for any major upcoming vote in the US Congress, the UK Parliament, the German Bundestag, the Japanese Diet, the Icelandic Althing, etc. Edeans 19:11, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Comment. Well, and if there's a particularly important vote in the Althing and someone wants to compile a similar page, I say, more power to 'em. The fact that this is an exercise that could be repeated in no way suggests that it shouldn't be allowed now or in the future. Remes 17:15, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Strong delete. This is pure speculation. It would make for a good newspaper article, but an encyclopedia is about facts, i.e. past events. UnHoly 21:23, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong Keep. Maybe I am biased as a Canadian, but I think this article is quite useful. I am following this issue very closely. TheArmadillo 02:04, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong Keep. I find this artical to be both encyclopedic, and verifiable, as it is a compilation based on comments regarding their stances made by the MPs themselves. Cdernings 20:20, 18 Mar 2005
Keep - a good and useful article. - SimonP 18:25, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

Keep - Useful & valuable now; even more so in the future ("But how did Parliament, the parties and MP's feel about it?") RsrchBoy 23:36, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep - Interesting compilation of public statements by MP's -- Webgeer 06:54, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong Keep - While a few contributors have been loose with including verifiable information (ie, so-and-so is from a rural district so they will likely vote yyy) the vast majority has been compiled legitimately from a pan-Canadian selection of information that would be impossible to do anywhere on the net except for Misplaced Pages. There could be more sourcing, yes, but this vote will be the biggest news story of the year here in Canada. Let's not deride it as cruft. Sidenote: Everyone saying merge into Bill C-38 or Same-sex marriage in Canada... well, these tables would be there, but that would put both pages way over the size limit. Think of this as a spinoff article on account of size limitations alone. -The Tom 17:34, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep - based on publically stated intentions of politicians; Also, as The Tom said, it would make any article it was merged with too long IMO. Dunro 10:06, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
- Comment: I was in there reverting vandalism and noticed that this article is already really big, beyond the recommended article size. Not that it should be made shorter, but it certainly shouldn't be merged. --Spinboy 16:42, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep - This page is very similar to the "future election campaign" pages that this website currently has. It might seem like speculation but it is still reporting facts and not opinions. Speculation would involve having a lot of opinions, but this article only has facts. Wiki Contributor 19:37, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Cu vi pretas?

Article fails to establish notability. An album track never released as a single. Allmusic.com has no listing either for the band or this song. Listed Gxangalo.com website no longer functioning. JamesBurns 06:18, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Merge individual songs (unless exceptionally notable, which this one is not). Radiant! 09:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete unverifiable. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:08, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, vanity ad. Wyss 01:27, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, does not establish notability. Tygar 06:37, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Merge with Dolchamar. Esperanto bands are not likely to be very famous :-) Kim Bruning 23:33, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge with Dolchamar. It may be interesting that an Esperanto hip hop band exists. This individual song, however, is not yet notable. Jonathunder 00:07, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
Merge per above. Kappa 23:35, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete nn vanity. Leanne 07:13, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Images and Words: Live in Tokyo / 5 Years in a LIVEtime

Make a one line entry at both Live in Tokyo and 5 Years in a LIVEtime. There is nothing else notable or new about this. Rick K 06:48, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Tempted to agree with RickK; an article whose title is two things does not need an entry separate from the 2 things as independent articles. Also "Live in Tokyo" should be a disambig, as its also the title of a PiL album. -R. fiend 07:06, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, fancruft. Megan1967 09:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Okay, I'll agree with this. My only reasons for creating the article in the first place were 1. it IS listed as a separate entry on DT's official discography, and 2. someone had already included the link in the main Dream Theater article. ;) I have made the relevant entries on the individual pages, so there's no need for this article at all. As far as disambiguation goes, I'm not sure how to do that, so someone else will have to handle that. --Durga2112 13:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:09, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, is all. Wyss 01:26, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. It can be expanded to a real article. The fact that it is stub is not a reason to delete the article. --Jannex 08:19, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Delete as per Durga. Radiant! 10:30, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
merge and redirect all 3 articles into 1 single article, where there'd be enough content to prevent further deletion. Kim Bruning 23:30, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I disagree with this. The LIT and 5YIALT articles are stubs at this point, but they both can easily be expanded upon, just like any album-related articles (well, they're not exactly albums, but close enough). --Durga2112 14:06, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comment It's a toughie, but the only difference between the VHS and DVD is the fact that the DVD has a commentary track, so I'm not sure what could be written in this article. I think the two main articles should remain seperate, but there is the possibility for this article to be expanded into something worthwhile. --plattopus (talk) 15:40, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

Kus

This appears to be a foreign Arabic dictionary definition. Either delete, or transwiki to the Arabic wikipedia, or transwiki to wiktionary. Sjakkalle 07:50, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) Just to make it clear, my primary vote on this one is delete since the English Wiktionary should in general be reserved for English words, and foreign words should have a very good reason for being there, as for example "quid pro quo". Transwiki to the Arabic version would require a translation to Arabic. Sjakkalle 11:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Transwiki to Wiktionary. — JIP | Talk 07:49, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, it's not even up to wiktionary standards. - Mustafaa 07:54, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, foreign dictionary definition. Megan1967 09:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, no transwiki. Tygar 10:19, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
No! Wiktionary's mandate is clear, and is right at the bottom of Wiktionary:Main Page. It is to include all words of all languages. The English Wiktionary will happily accept Arabic words, as long as the definitions are written in English. Being the English Wiktionary means that the articles are written in English and not that only the English language is covered. The other requirement is that the article title be the word written in the actual script of the language concerned. So the Wiktionary entry for this word would not be a romanization, as this article's title is. Figuring out the correct title is too much of a burden on the already overtaxed Transwiki system, which is not necessary dealt with by people fluent in transliteration. Delete and let Jelfar99, who obviously is fluent, write a dictionary definition in Wiktionary xemself, both for this word and for Zag. Homaid is somewhat suspect, too. Uncle G 13:33, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)

Alright, sorry, guess I should have read the Wiktionary policy better. Still I do not think that this particular word needs to be there, and yes I agree that moving this to Wiktionary would be a burden on the interwiki system. So I agree with you on just about everything and maintain my delete vote. Sjakkalle 13:49, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete. No transwiki. Jayjg 19:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, while the content is somewhat accurate, this is a foreign dicdef, not an article. Wyss 01:24, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A-macron

No potential to become encyclopedic. Ā is not an independently collated letter like Å, it's simply an ordinary A with a diacritic. No other vowel-macron combination has its own article, and the general topic of vowels with macrons is covered much better under macron. Jpatokal 08:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

To follow up: Å is interesting because it's not a mere diacritic (the ring cannot be applied to any other letter), the pronounciation (long O) is not obvious, it's the symbol of the angstrom and the Swedish/Finnish alphabets consider it a unique letter. I'll admit to not being aware that Latvian also considers Ā a unique letter — but is this factoid enough for an article? Jpatokal 03:13, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete, duplicate/redundant article. Megan1967 09:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete outright? Not even redirect to macron? And would you support deleting Å? -- Curps 10:33, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Wiktionary has articles for individual letters, and would probably be happy to have Wiktionary:Ā, to go along with Wiktionary:Å and all of the other articles in Wiktionary:Category:Latin letters. Redirect to macron, and carefully inspect all of the other hyperlinks in Template:Latin alphabet for dictionary-definition magnets. Uncle G 12:31, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Delete, not an article. Wyss 01:23, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete outright? Not even redirect to macron? And would you support deleting Å? -- Curps 10:33, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, it's a separate letter in the Latvian alphabet, and it's independently collated after A and before B. See and , and also see which shows baznīca before bārda. Other macron letters are also used in Latvian: E, I, U. It belongs in Category:Uncommon Latin letters. -- Curps 09:53, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Comment And why would collation even matter? After all ß is collated as "ss", yet we have a fine article for it. There's probably an encyclopedic article that can be written for every letter in Unicode's Latin Extended-A subset. -- Curps 10:33, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. ß has an interesting article because it has an interesting history, because its use was recently altered by the German spelling reform of 1996 and because it's one of very few letters in a Roman alphabet that has only a lowercase version, no uppercase version. Ā, on the other hand, is just A with a long mark, which indicates a long A. Nonnotable. --Angr 19:54, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete outright? Not even redirect to macron? And would you support deleting Å? -- Curps 01:49, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep for reasons outlined by User:Curps. Psychonaut 02:20, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. How on Earth is this not encyclopedic? - David Gerard 00:43, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge with macron. dab (ᛏ) 09:49, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. ElBenevolente 04:41, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Redirect to macron. The bulk of this article describes the macron in general (its use in romanized Japanese, for example, is not limited to A). — Gwalla | Talk 08:26, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep As my predecessors have so aptly demonstrated... whoknew?

Above user has nine edits, all to VfD pages. Rhobite 02:41, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Keep Ā is it is own letter in lativan alphabet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.224.34.146 (talk) 02:40, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Ziotaki language

Delete. Nonnotable conlang --Angr 09:39, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete, not notable. RidG (talk) 10:08, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
A fictional language with 60,000,000,000 fictional speakers on a fictional planet, apparently. It's unclear what the fictional universe that this language is a part of actually is. Since it's difficult to say any more about this subject than "X is a fictional language made up by Y as a hobby", this is an article with zero potentional to expand to a full article. Delete. Uncle G 13:03, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Delete, not enough fictional speakers for notability. Kappa 16:41, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:10, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, vanity ad, platform for a link, almost a speedy. Wyss 01:22, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, promo. Megan1967 06:33, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, non-notable conlang. Lacrimosus 00:00, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. A fictional language in a fictional world with many fictional speakers, but no evidence that enough real people care for it to be notable. Jonathunder 21:30, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)
Delete, not (yet) used by anyone. Article is only a couple of lines, and can be recreated if Ziotaki ever manages conquer the world at some later date. Kim Bruning 00:05, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Cis-3-hexen-1-ol

Comment, rather than a vote to delete. I'm no chemistry expert, but this (as a separate page) looks out of place on Misplaced Pages. Suggestions? RidG (talk) 10:04, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Article has no content, and individual chemical susbstances by formulaeic name do not generally deserve separate articles as such. Radiant! 10:24, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
You might find List of compounds interesting, in particular the introduction and the related talk page. Note that the VFD discussion there predates Category:Chemical compounds. Uncle G 12:50, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Merge single comment entry into List of compounds, where appropriate. Perhaps the later page should be a table of brief descriptions? — RJH 19:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, no article here. Wyss 01:21, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merge and redirect to List of compounds. Megan1967 06:35, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, no article there to recommend a keep. Tygar 06:40, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
merge and redirect to List of compounds for now. Google returns 533 hits. Pubmed returns 22 hits, many of which seem relevant. It's a biological compound that is used in a large number of olfactory experiments. At some point someone who is fanatic enough might want to take the time to write a more extended article :-) Kim Bruning 23:57, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep informative substubs on chemical compounds. Or merge. Kappa 23:37, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have made the single sentence into a real article, so there is now no question to keep it. Cacycle 21:28, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep, now a real article. Kim Bruning 22:57, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep This is a compound of interest, with "real-world" applications, and the article now has enough content to be useful. Also it is now linked from cis-3-hexenal. Walkerma 15:19, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Rad Pera

Actor who apparently had a number of small roles in some TV shows. 25 googles. NN. Radiant! 10:13, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Delete with a possible speedy. Apart from being not notable, it looks like most of the biography is lifted (with slight paraphrasing) from . RidG (talk) 10:48, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Keep actor with recurring major roles on more than one national network TV series, plus lots of guest spots. Copyright issue possible, but no notability problems. We need to figure out how much rewording is necessary before a bio paragraph is considered a new work. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:12, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Comment the IMDb biography is written by Rad Pera himself, and the original author of this article is anonymous. No evidence whether this article itself is vanity, but if he was vain enough to write his own bio for IMDb, then maybe... --Angr 20:09, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Neutral: I was just going to write exactly what Angr wrote above. For reference, here's the IMDB entry. At the very least, if this article is kept, it should be moved to Radames Pera. --Death phoenix 20:42, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, this is the horizon IMO. Wyss 01:20, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Radiant!, how could you? —RaD Man (talk) 22:45, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC) 02:15, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, just under the bar of notability, possible vanity. Megan1967 06:36, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

As I said, the horizon :) (could be vanity... could be helpful to someone who wants to know more about this actor though) Wyss 15:29, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep and move to "Radames Pera." I remember him from the old "Kung Fu" series. He played the young Caine in flashbacks. Article needs work, though. - Lucky 6.9 01:37, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was ambiguous. The majority decision is for "delete" but I am compelled to agree with Kappa that GFDL attribution will be most easily preserved through a redirect. Noting that redirects are cheap, I am going to exercise my discretion here and redirect it. Rossami (talk) 04:40, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

RIANZ Annual Top 50 Singles Chart

According to the article, this is a top 50 chart of singles that is yearly produced by the RIANZ. Circular reasoning, delete as such. Radiant! 10:17, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

No potential to become encyclopedic, delete. RidG (talk) 10:44, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is equivalent to the RIAA in the U.S., this should be edited and merged to an article for the RIANZ--nixie 11:50, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
(rewritten) Keep, we have an article for the Billboard Hot 100. BTW I don't follow the "circular reasoning" argument at all. Kappa 12:24, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've created Recording Industry Association of New Zealand and a re-direct to it from RIANZ, with this information. Delete as fork, inappropriate title. Wyss 01:00, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Redirect to where Wyss merged it. Kappa 01:57, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, fork. Megan1967 06:37, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thank you, Wyss. Delete of this top 50 thingy stands, because title is not a likely search term (because of length, capitalization issues, and possible hyphenation). Radiant! 11:06, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
- So have you guys checked for compliance with the GFDL? Kappa 11:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Why? Wyss 15:06, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Because removing the article removes the history, which removes the author attribution, which violates the GFDL. Did you read GFDL? - David Gerard 00:44, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

:) Given the (particular) history of the new article, I think my vote complies. Wyss 06:20, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep - David Gerard 00:44, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Edeans 19:30, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tattoology, tattoologist, and Joshua Andrews

Tattoology was coined in the year 2000 by Tattoologist Joshua Andrews, to aid the development of this newly emerging, multi-disciplinary inquiry into every facet of the world of tattooing. Neoligism -and- vanity -and- original research--nixie 11:36, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete. If the first two neologisms showed evidence of significant use I'd say redirect them to tattoo, but as a google for "Joshua Andrews" Tattoology gets just 21 hits, I suspect we're safe in deleting the lot. -- Infrogmation 15:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete — agreed, at least until drawology, paintology and sculptology come into widespread use. :) — RJH 19:40, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Welcome to the newly emerging, multi-disciplinary inquiry of Deleteology. -- 23:05, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete them all. Vanity neologisms, ads. Wyss 00:58, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
It will take more than an umlaut symbol to save this neologism. Delete all three. Fire Star 00:20, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. I concur with RJH, assuming, of course, this whole thing wasn't a hoax. In that event, delete with extreme prejudice. Edeans 20:04, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Robert Lacy

He was inserted into the list of famous Danes, but I have never heard of him, and I don't get any google hits for "Robert Lacy" "portraiture prize" and only one bad hit for "Robert Lacy" "Fish in a Barrel". Should be deleted as non-notable. (I am acting on points raised by User:Tarvin on talk:Denmark) Thue | talk 11:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My vote: Delete. TroelsArvin 11:53, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete. If this portraiture prize was so notable, he could have named it. Since he hasn't, we can't verify it. I can't find any reference to the book, either - Amazon has a number of books written by more than one Robert Lacy, but none were mentioned in this article, so quite possibly this individual is well down on the list of people called Robert Lacy who have written books. Average Earthman 16:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not encyclopedic. Wyss 00:57, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable. DaveTheRed 04:26, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I smell something rotten in the state of Denmark. Delete. Edeans 20:07, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I count 6 clear "delete" votes, 2 "redirect"s, 1 "delete or redirect" and only 1 "keep as is". Noting that redirects are cheap and that none of the straight delete votes alleged that the topic was itself false, I'm going to call this one as a simple redirect. (I see nothing to merge.) Rossami (talk) 04:49, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ricochet (comics)

No actual text, badly formed template box, doesn't establish anything about the character. Delete. - SoM 11:48, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep. The article should be kept for a while longer on the off-chance the original creator comes back to complete the details. Admittedly, I don't know anything about this particular character, so if it's a disposable villian or background character my vote would change. - NormanEinstein 00:37, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC) Delete. The creator of the article appears about to be banned so I'll change my vote. - NormanEinstein 07:36, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I probably would have speedy deleted it, given that it doesn't contain even an attempt at a sentence. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:38, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, could be speedied for no content, no context. Not an article. Wyss 00:56, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Redirect to Slingers, the series that this character is from. Nothing to merge. -Sean Curtin 03:46, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Comment. His special weapon is not "bouncing dicks" as it said in the article. Those are bouncing discs. I got a great laugh out of that error, though. (Yes, I fixed it.) Did a bit of looking around—Richochet was part of a spinoff from Spider-Man called Slingers. It only lasted for twelve issues in 1998-99. Given that tidbit, I find that we already have a Slingers article that could contain anything we need to say about this character. Merge. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 04:17, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, article does not establish notability. Megan1967 06:39, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. With the character Richochet being 'revived,' so to speak, for Brian K. Vaughan's current comic the Runaways, it would be a good idea to keep the article. FartInAirConditioner 21:09, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comment: Thing is though... there's nothing there. Unless someone expands it to at least a decent stub, it doesn't deserve to stick around, nor would it help anyone who got to "know him" through Runaways SoM 10:52, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete. This is simply not a standalone article. Edeans 20:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete or Redirect to Slingers (comics). Agree with Sean's comment. --Pc13 14:12, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comment - Slingers, not Slingers (comics). I found that page by chance, and it's far better written than s_(c), so I've redirected the latter to the former. SoM 16:36, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Simulacra and Simulation

Table of Contents of a book. Delete. utcursch | talk 12:31, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

I think this article can be encyclopedic (it isn't now). I remember this book (or is it a paper, or story or something) being the basis for some movie. My thoughts were first thirteenth floor, but it might be the matrix. Does this ring a bell for anyone? Such notability (and a better article) could really find a place in wikipedia Keep McKay 18:39, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The book appears in the Matrix; I wasn't aware it was real. Delete unless some content is provided. Meelar (talk) 20:11, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
~~If it is the basis for a movie (and not simply mentioned in The Matrix), then redirect to the movie. Otherwise delete. This is a borderline speedy.~~ Keep new stub, but delete the original article, ie the table of contents that is still included. -R. fiend 20:15, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Nevermind, I decided to be bold and so I removed it myself. Seems there was quite a conensus to do so. Keep article as is now. -R. fiend 19:28, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There's no content here. Delete. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:36, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, could be speedied as a contextless, low content fragment, else article offers nothing encyclopedic about this topic. Wyss 00:55, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hm. Jean Baudrillard is certainly highly notable, and Simulacra and Simulation is one of his best-known (and arguably most important) works. (Incidentally, Neo from The Matrix movies does happen to have a copy, and the Matrix movies draw on some of Baudrillard's ideas.) On the other hand, what's in the article right now is a table of contents that appears to be a cut and paste out of a library catalog or somesuch. Let's see if someone can put some real content there in the next five days, otherwise we're better off with a redlink: delete unless completely rewritten and expanded. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 04:27, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Keep the rewritten, expanded stub. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 03:16, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep but definitely definitely rewrite. Article as it stands is not encyclopaedic but I do see some merit on an article which discusses this book. Megan1967 06:41, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep and Re-write as notable and verifiably real Baudrillard book. Lacrimosus 22:12, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Not an encyclopedia article. Delete unless rewritten. - Mike Rosoft 23:06, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Changed my vote to keep after a rewrite. - Mike Rosoft 17:29, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Current contents besides the book's table of contents comprise a valid stub. The tidbit about appearing in the background of a scene in The Matrix isn't particularly important (I'm not sure whether it's Matrix fans that keep adding trivia to articles on modern philosophy to convince people of the film's intellectual worthiness, or philosophy enthusiasts adding it to philosophy articles to tie the subjects in with a popular culture reference point, or both, or what), but it is true and the whole thing is verifiable. The best known book by an important modern philosopher is definitely notable. — Gwalla | Talk 23:14, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. I added some content based on what I know of the novel, but now it is up to other Wikipedians to preserve this encyclopedic topic.Shutranm
Added some more info to what the book is about, about the famous Borges fable, and more info about the Matrix connection. I hope this was enough to keep the entry. Anonymous, 21:15, 22 March 2005
- Comment: Nice job on the rewrite! — Gwalla | Talk 08:46, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Definitely encyclopedic now after numerous people pitched in. - Banyan Tree 02:20, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The result of the debate was Speedy delete Uncle G 18:11, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC) Per the deletion log:

04:30, 2005 Mar 10 Neutrality deleted In your face (content was: '{{subst:vfd}}An alternative rock band from kent, UKDoing covers of songs such as 3 doors downs Kryptonite and Here Without You, and Green Day's Minority ...')

In your face

Band founded on 4 Marts 2005. Not yet notable. Should be deleted. Thue | talk 12:40, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Non-notable orphan, likely vanity. -- Infrogmation 15:38, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. A brand new band? Unless they have at least one member from a band that has toured internationally and has had significant distribution, then being new disqualifies them from being established and of note. Misplaced Pages is here to reflect note, not create it. Average Earthman 16:52, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Speedy delete. Earthman nailed it. A five-day-old band is encyclopedic? Just think: They'll be twice as old if this goes through the regular VfD process! :^P - Lucky 6.9 17:25, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Speedy delete. March 4!!! Jayjg 19:42, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
In their defence, they have released three albums, eight singles, and a concert tour DVD during those five days. Just kidding. Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:15, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, John Cage is suing them for infringing on 4'33". Delete. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 04:29, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, could be speedied as a user test (it's so out there), else as the utmost sort of vanity ad. Wyss 00:52, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comment: In the future, please manually edit the VfD nomination to link to a new sub-page such as VfD/pagename (2nd nomination). We really do want to preserve the prior discussions intact. Rossami (talk) 04:54, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

R.E. Lee Deville

This is what has happened to this article so far:

This page was initially created as vandalism; most likely an attack.
I nominated for deletion. (see below)
During the debate User:Remes made a commendable rewrite of the article, but apart of him, only one person, yours truly, commented on it (I changed my vote from delete to weak delete).
The article was deleted.
The article was undeleted (Misplaced Pages:Votes for undeletion#R.E. Lee Deville) with some doubts from several users.
I have now submitted this for deletion again for a new debate.

My vote is still delete. I know it may seem paradoxical that I keep voting keep on fictional Pokémon characters and delete on real people; but I think that fictional characters are often known to more people, and therefore more notable. I am not saying that they should be more notable, but I feel that they are. Sjakkalle 08:31, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This page was undeleted out of process. It's supposed to stay on VfU for 5 days before the article is undeleted. I see nothing notable about this person. Delete. Rick K 08:47, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, agree with the average college professor criterion. Demi /_C 09:15, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)
Keep but with reservations. Article needs expansion. Megan1967 10:22, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, notability not established (and no, having an Erdos number of 3 doesn't count). Radiant _* 10:48, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, unless there is evidence put forth he clears the average professor bar. I would encourage zealous admins to follow the VfU procedure. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 19:59, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Still not notable, and undeletion was out of process. Jayjg 20:13, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. 51 Google hits. 44 if references to the VfU/VfD discussions are omitted. Several of them are personal home pages and class schedules. His CV shows eight publications. To me, these don't add up to encyclopedic notability yet. Maybe in a few years... Dpbsmith (talk) 20:44, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Fails the average professor test. Out of process undeletion. jni 20:51, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Not more notable than the average professor. DaveTheRed 21:34, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Math professors are not inherently notable, and there is nothing in the article that indicates this one is exceptional. --BM 22:37, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Comment. First, to quote from my comment on the original VfD: "I have absolutely no knowledge of mathematics, so I can't say whether he's notable, although I doubt it, since essentially he's a postdoc at NYU." I'm not voting in this VfD, although I'm not going to be sad if it get deleted. It would be nice if someone who knew about academic mathematics could say whether his articles are notable or not, since I don't really accept a Google test as a reasonable gauge one way or the other in this case. Remes 19:13, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete I was among those who voted to undelete, as I figured it deserved another go as rewritten (the original was a silly attack page). While this is a vast improvement, the subject is just not notable enough. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:40, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Still not notable. Jayjg 23:10, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

R.E. Lee Deville

The article freely admits that Mr. Deville is "of little merit". THat does not sound particularily notable. I suggest that this article be deleted. Sjakkalle 15:13, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Vanity, or perhaps just nonsense. Remes 16:34, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Comment. I have just rewritten this article as a stub about the real R.E. Lee DeVille. I have absolutely no knowledge of mathematics, so I can't say whether he's notable, although I doubt it, since essentially he's a postdoc at NYU. Someone who knows more about math could look at it and comment here about whether he's worth keeping in. Also, my stub is really inadequate, because I can't really understand his CV or his research interest statement. Again, someone who knows more about math could do much better than I did. Anyway, I'm going to withhold a vote at all now, because while this is no longer the attack or nonsense that it was before, I'm still not sure whether he's sufficiently notable or not. Remes 22:58, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. This sounds like nonsense to me. Insufficient information to even contemplate verifying.Average Earthman 16:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete He's real, a research mathematician at NYU... but this article smells more like an attack page than an attempt to start a bio stub. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:16, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Looks like an attack, may not merit a page anyway. Jayjg 19:38, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, could be speedied as a personal attack/vandalism, else a rant. Wyss 00:49, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I was on the verge of nominating this for a speedy deletion, but I was a bit unsure. I was sure that this article merited a deletion or massive cleanup. Sjakkalle 07:25, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Still delete but weakened, Remes has made a valiant attempt at saving this page, and the page is no longer an attack (or perhaps a self-deprecating vanity?). I do not think that Deville passes the average college professor bar (I believe that has been the standard on whether to keep or delete such articles) for notability however, being an associate research scientist would suggest that he does not. Nonetheless, Remes should be thanked for his attempt. Sjakkalle 07:18, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of Human Atrocities

Inherently POV, non-encyclopedic, pointless. Created as a POV fork when the user couldn't push his POV entries into List of terrorist incidents. Jayjg 15:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Note 1. This article was also duplicated at Timeline of Human Atrocities, which has recently been listed for Speedy Deletion, and if that article is not Speedy deleted, it should be included under this VfD.

Thank you for countering your own POV bias by bringing in this article since it clearly shows that the first entry was about "Roman" and not "Israeli" subject. See ]. This shows that your allegations are wrong, it is just that you are paranoid. As for the entry about Goldstein, this is a known fact and the Wiki article itself refers to him as "Jewish-American", "Zionist", and "Kahanist". I fail to see how these are a POV since he is all of these.A.Khalil 13:51, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Note 2. Since the article was listed for deletion, the creator has been entering in other items in an attempt to disguise his POV intent. Nevertheless, the whole concept is still POV. Jayjg 00:10, 4 Jan 2003 (UTC)
Delete. Jayjg 15:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Agree with Jayjg. -Hapsiainen 16:55, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete — Pretty much already covered by List of massacres. — RJH 17:19, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete DJ Clayworth 18:14, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete this atrocity of an article. DaveTheRed 20:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, fork, misleading since a good chunk of human history is one long atrocity etc. Wyss 00:48, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Rabidly POV. Binadot 04:16, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. POV-forkeritis. JFW | T@lk 11:53, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete - David Gerard 00:46, 13 Mar

2005 (UTC)

Delete - The article was created to store edits which Jayjg kept vandalizing. Since then, however, I've extracted my edits and saved them elsewhere. Thank you for your 'consideration' and the 'honesty' of your stance.A.Khalil 13:43, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Gado-gado

~~This appears to be promotion for an "open framework for a social bookmarking site" which is still in development and has no evidence of widespread use. Kappa 15:30, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)~~

Article has been re-written about a food, I vote to keep it now. Kappa 19:33, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comment: I think it may be notable as a food, however. Demi 18:42, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Delete and make Gado-gado, a requested article—Keep ~~unless someone actually transforms the article into a good stub~~ now that Uncle G has transformed the article into a good short article on the Indonesian peanut sauce and the salad made with it, prior to expiration of VfD. The website is nonnotable, the present article is advertising, and the amount of content on Gado-gado, the food, is a substub and not a useful start to an article. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:05, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I vote delete! 67.42.105.213 21:47, 2005 Mar 9 (according to history Uncle G 19:22, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC))
~~Concur with Dpbsmith. Delete without prejudice against the food topic. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:28, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)~~
- Keep replacement article on food topic. -- Cyrius|✎ 23:02, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, ad. Wyss 00:46, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Rewritten article. Try now. It's bloody difficult to not write what is tantamount to a recipe, though. I've put a pointer in to WikiBooks Cookbook to try to encourage recipe writing over there, however; and this might be a good stub for an encyclopaedia article if something other than a recipe can be said about it. Weak keep as long as it doesn't turn into a simple recipe. Uncle G 19:22, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
Keep. Excellent rewrite Uncle G! --Andylkl 19:32, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

2004 Pacific typhoon season

I tried, but without a single authority to get watches from, too large an area, and it being in the past (thus limiting access to advisories; they exist, but are not easily readable) I figure we should kill this now. I might try again in 2005 or 2006, but this article has no present reason to exist. --Golbez 16:47, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Incomplete to the point of being misleading, and I don't want to hear anything about "other people will expand it". They've had fiveish months already and have barely touched it. A well-intentioned effort, Golbez, but I've got to agree that it just didn't work. Delete. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:35, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, too crufty for me. Wyss 00:45, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Well how about that. "1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The canonical example is “This is standard old crufty DEC software”. In fact, one fanciful theory of the origin of crufty holds that was originally a mutation of ‘crusty’ applied to DEC software so old that the ‘s’ characters were tall and skinny, looking more like ‘f’ characters." And here I thought you were makin' words up. ;) --Golbez 02:08, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

I do think it's somehow related to crust... sometimes I picture random, obscuring crystalline growth, or dust under a bed. Wyss 02:32, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

VGundam

Starcraft player vanity. Non-encyclopedic. — JIP | Talk 17:01, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete any and all video-game player vanity. And besides, this is just silly: read the last two sentences especially: "saving the country of Ethiopia by making the world's largest bowl of chili ever". If anyone needs any more reason to delete this, Google for VGundam +Starcraft brings just 23 displayed hits, almost all forum posts. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:39, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete - I've also taken the liberty of merge/redirecting Vgundam to here - it was partly a duplicate, with a few more paragraphs that I copied to VGundam. So if/when this page goes away, the redirect should too, of course. CDC (talk) 20:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, yawn. Wyss 00:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, player vanity, starcraftcruft. Megan1967 06:45, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Mrwojo 14:58, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Working Group for 14–19 Reform

There is a problem with the dash character in the title of this page; I've made a duplicate with the correct title and ensure that articles link to the right version

Article nominated for deletion by User:Rayray, its creator and sole editor, who also created Working Group for 14-19 Reform minutes later. Speedy delete under criterion G7. Note that the article's title reads "Working Group for 14–19 Reform" when displayed. Uncle G 18:34, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)
I have Speedily deleted it as suggested by Uncle G. Just a technicality, nothing to vote. jni 18:39, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Brandon Freels

Delete Extremely Non-Notable The article was created by an Anon, 141.219.44.182, a member of the Portland Surrealist Group and friend of Brandon Freels as a means for web-promotion. The article is also a means of advertising this unknown, "author" of two chapbooks! The kind that sell for under $5.00. There is around 900 plus google hits for this Brandon Freels, who shares the same name as a Gamer, who is probably the one getting the share of google hits. Another Surrealismcruft Stealth Ad and Vanity Page written for a friend! Plus, I cannot find any credible and legitimate reference source from any notable sources, such as literary critics and literary reviews (no backslapping praises from bogus independent unknowns, either please!) that can tell us anything solid. A marginal and certainly to be considered as spam. Notice that this is also a member of the Portland Surrealist Group, where an anon yesterday went and removed the VfD tag from that article, (check that pages history).Classicjupiter2 17:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Once again you make assertions (141.219.44.182 is a member of the Portland Surrealist Group) without providing any basis for them, and thus these statements are entitled to be given the weight they deserve, which is to be utterly ignored. I would say that we should ignore everything here until you provide some support. Furthermore, putting "author" in quotes shows you don't know what quotation marks are for. He's the author of them, no matter how worthless they are. And why do you care how much books sell for? Keep until you bring up some actual, marginally-supported argument. --Daniel C. Boyer 18:08, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Noted. Dan, you just stated, "He's the author of them, no matter how worthless they are." You did just state that fact, and after looking at the obvious, with your own admission above, "worthless", all the more reason to delete! Are we going to give articles to everyone that all of a sudden is a self-described author? Dan, I want to work with you on this, but after what you just stated above, well, it is kind of downhill from there, you know.Classicjupiter2 18:17, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Any person with a brain would be able to correctly interpret this statement. It's not saying they are worthless, not saying they are valuable, not making any kind of statement on their quality. And what on earth do you mean by "self-described author"? "Author" isn't some kind of honorific; it just means that someone has written something, of whatever quality from horrible to wonderful. Your seemingly deliberate misinterpretation of my statement shows that the last thing you are interested in doing is working with me. --Daniel C. Boyer 18:46, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Oh brother! Take a look at who just removed (AGAIN) the VfD Notice tag from the Misplaced Pages article on the Portland Surrealist Group!!! Look at the history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Portland_Surrealist_Group&action=history

note that this is the second time that an ANON removed the VfD notice tag from that article. Classicjupiter2 18:24, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comment (no vote from me on this one): I find 375 hits for "Brandon Freels" without the word "Misplaced Pages". I note that poems by Brandon Freels have been published in Exquisite Corpse, a literary magazine of some note. I'll leave it to other Wikipedians to decide if this constitutes adiquate notability. I urge our Surrealist (or "Surrealism influenced") friends not to remove vfd notices from articles if those were placed according to proper Misplaced Pages VFD procedures. Continued removals of such will be considered vandalism and dealt with accordingly. -- Infrogmation 18:32, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- P.S.: If it is decided to delete this article, Image:BrandonFreels.jpg should be deleted at the same time. -- Infrogmation 21:34, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- noted, Infrogmation, about the Exquisite Corpse regarding publishing poems by Brandon Freels. Let it also be noted that this publication also accepts Submissions from New Writers, as indicated here, http://www.corpse.org/submit/index.html
- As does practically every other magazine known to man. What's your point? --Daniel C. Boyer 20:23, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Granted, Infrogmation, anyone here on Misplaced Pages can write up something, make up a resume of website submitted poetry, state they are a writer and then submit to Exquisite Corpse, but are they notable? Infrogmation, you too can submit to Exquisite Corpse, as can I. The facts presented to the Misplaced Pages Community are clear, Brandon Freels is a new writer, a self-identified (or self-labeled), "surrealist" and he wrote two chapbooks that sell for under $5 dollars. His chapbooks did get picked as, "Powell's staff picks", Powells is big bookseller store (kind of like a Barnes and Nobles) in Portland, Oregon., and wouldn't you know it, (talk about convenience!) Brandon Freels is from Portland, Oregon! I wonder if he works at Powells bookstore where his chapbooks are labeled as, "Powells staff picks". Hey Dan, do you have the dirt on this?Classicjupiter2 19:16, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please refrain from personal criticism, speculation, asking other users questions not of strict relevence, and similar rambles on VFD voting pages. -- Infrogmation 19:26, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Delete, I think. Your vendetta tone makes it hard to tease out the issues, ClassicJupiter2--it doesn't really do your argument any favors. In general, authors published in non-vanity presses are notable (or at least, that seems to be the precedent. I'm not sure it's true). However, this seems to be highly local. Is there any evidence these books are sold and read outside the Portland area? Just as a band with only local appeal is not notable, I think I have to come down on that side here. But I'd change my vote if it were demonstrated otherwise. Demi 19:58, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
Delete I agree with Demi. However, there's quite obviously some sort of feud going on here, and VfD really isn't the place for it. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:18, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, vanity ad, part of a wider spam attempt. Wyss 00:41, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete vanity more appropriate for a user page. --Death phoenix 01:06, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, vanity. What's up with all these surrealist nominations? Megan1967 06:47, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Why do people keep describing it as vanity when there's never even been a suggestion that Freels is the author of all or a significant part of this article? He may be non-notable, that's debatable, but I think we should discount all the "vanity" claims. --Daniel C. Boyer 14:26, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I said it's vanity because that's what I think it is. Wyss 15:10, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

On what basis? There is a general problem in Misplaced Pages, which one would expect to have some sort of objectivity, in which unsupported feelings that certain articles are "vanity" are the basis for possible deletion. In my opinion we should confine ourselves to the non-notability argument unless and until we have some basis for thinking this is vanity. --Daniel C. Boyer 17:45, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Whether an article is true vanity or merely non-notable barely matters, and to some degree the two are almost interchangable when talking about extremely obscure subjects. If a Kindergardener was going to write an article about how he's the all-time hopscotch champ at recess, would it really matter if he wrote the article himself or got his brother or best friend to do it? Either way, it would still be, in a sense, vanity. If an article is about a hoplessly obscure subject, the term "vanity" can be used, even without a signed confession from the article writer. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 03:08, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

What you're really promoting is a dilution of the integrity of Misplaced Pages. Absent any reasonable basis to believe or suspect that the subject of an article, or, more loosely, a friend, relative or associate wrote it, we shouldn't call it vanity, whether it "barely matters" or not. Your saying that an article about a hopelessly obscure subject can be called "vanity" is an endorsement of playing fast and loose, even an endorsement of dishonesty by recklessness. --Daniel C. Boyer 19:09, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well, fast and loose is how the game gets played here. This is VfD, not Dragnet... nobody here has time to do hours of research and detective work such as tracing IPs and the like to "prove" vanity. If it looks like vanity, smells like vanity, and the subject is thouroughly not-notable, chances are that, yep, it's vanity, no signed confession required. If we're wrong once in ten thousand times, so be it... it doesn't damage the integrity of WP any more than the supposed vanity article would have if kept. It's true that "vanity" can sometimes mean "the article subject has admitted that they themselves wrote the article", but far more often it's actually shorthand for "the article subject is so hopelessly obscure that I believe that only the subject themselves (or possibly family or friends) could have written it". Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:44, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Not notable. Ad. Likely vanity. Amazon sales rank of Freels Comes Alive, #1,580,100; of Who the Hell is Brandon Freels, #1,679,819. Amazon sales rank of one self-published book which is known to have sold less than fifty copies total, #1,204,605. My personal guideline is that a sales rank under 250,000 is non-notable. Sales rank numbers over a million are characteristic self-published or vanity press or highly specialized academic titles. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:00, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Not notable. Jonathunder 04:13, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)

The result of the debate was Speedy delete Uncle G 18:13, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC) Per the deletion log:

18:46, 2005 Mar 9 Deb deleted Scott leiper (patent nonsense)

Scott leiper

Sad, maybe. Not notable. Smoddy (t) (e) 17:46, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is just garbage and qualifies for speedy deletion. Deb 18:46, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Agree with speedy deletion. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:26, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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