User:GabrielF/ConspiracyNoticeboard

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Introduction, purpose and inclusion criteria

This page is a noticeboard for editors interested in conspiracy-related AfDs. It began life as a tool to help users easily track the flood of 9/11 conspiracy theory AfDs that started around the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. These AfDs primarily targetted articles on subjects with little or no notability, which violated WP:NPOV, WP:OR and WP:V and which were created (in my opinion) for the purpose of promoting people, ideas, and books rather than for furthering wikipedia's mission. A great many wikipedians agreed with this assessment and as a result approx. 44 articles were deleted and approx. 8 AfDs did not reach a consensus. Because there is significant interest in tracking AfDs related to other conspiracy theories, I have broadened the page and renamed it GabrielF/ConspiracyNoticeboard. Below I am formally defining the scope of the page based on its past usage and discussion at talk.

What can be included:

Articles, templates or miscellaneous pages dealing with conspiracy theories and their proponents, provided that the nominator feels that these pages either

Are Non-notable
Are Misplaced Pages:Vanispamcruftisements
Violate WP:NPOV, WP:NOR or WP:V
Are so inherently flawed that they cannot be brought up to wikipedia standards

What cannot be included:

Nominations based purely on the editors dislike of the subject of the article and not on policy
Articles unrelated to conspiracy theories

Finally, just because an AfD is listed here doesn't mean that I support it.

Note to editors - discuss this on the talk page, not here. When you add or comment on an XfD, please sign your comments. Thanks. GabrielF 02:30, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Current XfDs:

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Yellowcake forgery Bush CT, and a damn good one at that. --Aaron 18:35, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Michael Rivero -- prepare for the whatreallyhappened.com Anschlüss. Morton devonshire 05:46, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Attempt to resurrect Andy Stephenson Tbeatty 18:51, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Pathological skepticism
Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jeff Rense (2nd nomination) --Strothra 05:44, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Clinton_Chronicles --NBGPWS 09:36, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Misc. Discussions of interest

Misplaced Pages talk:Single purpose account#SPA mention Not an AfD per se, but a discussion in which an inclusionist editor is attempting to get enough consensus to ban {{spa}} tags. This, of course, would be a disaster for anyone interested in nominating for AfD any article at all on any subject, since it would in essence make it against the guidelines to even bring up bad faith and obvious trolling, no matter how blatant. (See also the discussion in the section just above "SPA mention" on that page; it's roughly the same attempt by the same editor only a few days earlier. --Aaron 03:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Closed discussions

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Introduction, purpose and inclusion criteria

Current XfDs:

Misc. Discussions of interest

Closed discussions

Deleted

Merged

No Consensus

Kept

Deletion Review