Wikiquote:Votes for deletion
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Votes for deletion is the process where the community discusses whether a page should be deleted or not, depending on the consensus of the discussion.
Please read and understand the Wikiquote deletion policy before editing this page.
- Explain your reasoning for every page you list here, even if you think it is obvious.
- Always be sure to sign your entry or vote, or it will not be counted.
The process
Requesting deletions
To list a single article for deletion for the first time, follow this three-step process:
| I: Put the deletion tag on the article. |
Insert the {{vfd-new}} tag at the top of the page.
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| II: Create the article's deletion discussion page. |
Click the link saying "this article's entry" to open the deletion-debate page.
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| III: Notify users who monitor VfD discussion. |
Copy the tag below, and then click THIS LINK to open the deletion log page. At the bottom of the log page, insert:
replacing PAGENAME appropriately.
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Note: Suggestions for requesting deletion of multiple pages, non-article pages, and repeat nominations may be found at VFD tips.
Voting on deletions
Once listed, the entire Wikiquote community is invited to vote on whether to keep or delete each page, or take some other action on it. Many candidate articles will have specific dates by which to vote; if none is given, you can assume at least seven days after the article is listed before the votes are tallied.
To vote, jump or scroll down to the entry you wish to vote on, click its "edit" link, and add your vote to the end of the list, like one of these:
- Keep. ~~~~
- Delete. ~~~~
- (other actions; explain) ~~~~
- Comment (not including action) ~~~~
Possible other actions include Merge, Rename, Redirect, Move to (sister project). Please be clear and concise when describing your action.
The four tildes (~~~~) will automatically add your user ID and a timestamp to your vote. This is necessary to ensure each Wikiquotian gets only a single vote. You can add some comments to your vote (before the tildes) to explain your reasons, but it is not required. However, it may help others to decide which way to vote.
Please do not add a vote after the closing date and time; any late vote may be struck out and ignored by the closing admin.
NOTE: Although we use the term "vote", VfD is not specifically a democratic process, as we have no way of verifying "one person, one vote". It is designed to "take the temperature" of the community on a subject. Sysops have the responsibility of judging the results based on a variety of factors, including (besides the votes) policies, practices, precedents, arguments, compromises between conflicting positions, and seriousness of the participants.
Closing votes and deleting articles
Sysops have the responsibility to review the list and determine what articles have achieved a consensus, whether it is for deletion, preservation, or some other action. All candidate articles should be listed here at least seven days before the votes are tallied. Many VfD entries will have "Vote closes" notices to indicate when the votes will be tallied.
- The sysop tallying the vote should add a "vote closed" header with the result of the vote, and sign it.
- If consensus is for deletion, the sysop should follow the deletion process to delete the article.
- If it is to keep, or if there is no consensus for action, the sysop should remove the
{{Vfd-new}}tag from the article and post a notice on the article's talk page about the completed VfD, including a link to the VfD discussion on that article. The{{Vfd-kept-new}}template can be used for a standard notice. - There may also be a vote to move (rename) or otherwise change the article. The sysop's actions will depend on the specific situation in these cases. In those cases, a notice should also be posted on the talk page documenting the decision.
To avoid conflict of interest, a sysop should never close a VfD that he or she started. However, a sysop may close a VfD in which he or she has voted.
After a reasonable time, a sysop will then move the entire entry into the appropriate month page of the VfD log. (Some old discussions are available only in the old Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive.)
Note: In the interest of cross-wiki cooperation, please check Wikipedia to make sure their articles don't link back to an article that has just been deleted. Also de-link any other language edition articles (though if you find that daunting, EVula is more than happy to do so).
Reviewing closed votes
All closed votes will be archived indefinitely in per-month pages at Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Log. (A few are still found only in the old Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive.) See that page for details.
Deletion candidates
Mark of shame
There seems to be no reason for this redirect pointing to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The only links to the redirect were (until I edited them out just now) a random quote from the Baldur's Gate series that used the phrase "mark of shame", and the one quote that uses the phrase in the Pahlavi article itself. I have no idea why this redirect was even made, or wikilinks to it added to an unrelated article and to the article the redirect points to - but the redirect clearly serves no purpose, and even besides that, the Pahlavi article is not a logical or predictable destination for such a redirect. — V2Blast (talk) 04:02, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Unrelated redirect which still wouldn't make sense if pointed to right destination. dibbydib (T · C) Project Stub 00:57, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Vote closes: 01:00, 5 May 2020 (UTC).
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, dibbydib (T · C) Project Stub 00:57, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Vaibhav Mahadeo Palhade
Vanity page without any potential to become a proper Wikiquote page. GeneralNotability (talk) 12:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Vote closes: 13:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- Delete because no quotes, without which it simply is not a Wikiquote article, even if the subject were not repeatedly deleted and salted at Wikipedia. ~ Ningauble (talk) 00:10, 4 September 2020 (UTC)