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.

Please do not mark the edit as minor.
Use the edit summary to indicate the nomination; this can be as simple as "VFD".
You can check the "Watch this page" box to follow the page in your watchlist. This allows you to notice if the VfD tag is removed by a vandal.
Save the page.

II: Create the article's deletion discussion page.

Click the link saying "this article's entry" to open the deletion-debate page.

Copy the following: {{subst:vfd-new2|pg=PAGENAME|text=REASONING — ~~~~}}. Replace PAGENAME with the name of the page you're nominating, and REASONING with an explanation of why you think the page should be deleted. Note that the signature/timestamp characters (~~~~) are placed inside the braces {{ }}, not outside as with standard posts.
Explanations are important when nominating a page for deletion. While it may be obvious to you why a page should be deleted, not everyone will understand and you should provide a clear but concise explanation. Please remember to sign your comment by putting ~~~~ at the end.
Consider checking "Watch this page" to follow the progress of the debate.
Save the page.

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:

{{subst:vfd-new3|pg=PAGENAME}}

replacing PAGENAME appropriately.

Please include the name of the nominated page in the edit summary.
Save the page. Your insertion will be automatically expanded to the same form as the preceding lines in the file: {{Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/PAGENAME}}.
Consider also adding {{subst:VFDNote|PAGENAME}} ~~~~ to the talk page of the article's principal contributor(s).

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.

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

WQ:Make them blue

Seeking substantial discussion of this user essay, rather than speedy deletion. See my earlier deletion summary. Jaredscribe (talk) 18:39, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WQ:Make them blue is an opinionated essay by a contributor (me) new to wikiquote but experienced in wikisource, wikipedia, and wikiversity, explaining in his humble opinion Wikiquote:What wikiquote is from an "inclusionist" perspective. An admin of the "deletionist" persuasion, deleted it after nominating it for speedy deletion. He could have at least moved it to my userspace, if not even going through the process of VfD, if he really thought it was so patently useless as to warrant that. I recreated it, because w:WP:Essays are an accepted practice. He is free to write a polemical rebuttal essay if he disagrees, or he is free to ignore me. So I'm nominating my own apparently controversial essay for deletion, in hopes of having a discussion on questions of policy and culture that are substantially at issue in this dispute, questions which the deletionist wants to avoid because they directly challenge his POV. I will accept the judgement of the community on this. Jaredscribe (talk) 18:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I moved the essay to WQ:Blueify, which is a better translation of wikt:הכחיל "hichil" from hebrew, whose wikiprojects are the source for the linguistic usage/coinage on which this essay is based. Jaredscribe (talk) 19:13, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Vote closes: 19:00, 6 December 2023 (UTC).

"I wish that we could be like the skies..." This is a rambling fever dream of a blog post by a user who has made nearly no contributions to this project, and who clearly hasn't learned from blocks on other projects. It should be deleted, and if this user cannot contribute meaningfully then they should be blocked here as well. GMG ^talk 19:05, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If the sky is the limit, and if this is the limit our collect knowledge, then you are the sky because you are determined to limit discussion. If not blue, would you prefer to be gray, or red? (this is called a w:metaphor) Yes, we should clear the "clouds" of w:ignorance, by producing w:knowledge. That is what an w:WP:Encyclopedia is for - it is a compendium of knowledge. Why do you dispute this? Jaredscribe (talk) 19:17, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

We can do this by making WQ:Red links into blue links. Whereas your proposition is correct, GreenMeansGo, insofar as thats what it means in most Category:Road_traffic_management systems, blue means go on most wikiprojects. Hence my essay.

That was an example of a "meaninful contribution", therefore I hope you will retract your threat of blocking me from the project for having allegedly failed in that regard. As a friendly suggestion, your talents might also be put to use on wikiversity or wikisource, where I also continue to contribute meaningfully, in this and a few other languages.

Kind regards,

Jaredscribe (talk) 19:30, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@GreenMeansGo: I am afraid your opinion reads more like a personal attack on this new contributor rather than your opinion of the page they created. Just my $.02 + I trust I will not myself be blocked for posting this here?Ottawahitech (talk) 20:36, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I would consider looking into their cross wiki contributions, including going to projects where they don't seem to speak the language so they can post things like this in English. GMG ^talk 00:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Userify, not suitable for Wikiquote namespace. Lemonaka (talk) 00:26, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]