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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion

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 (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

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: DELETED. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥ 23:28, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Alireza Salehi Nejad

This article was {{prod}} because "No indication that this self-published entrepreneur is sufficiently notable." The tag was removed without explanation, which brings it here. — Ningauble (talk) 17:15, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

  • Vote closes: 18:00, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete as nom. I can't find any reliable independent sources that recognize his work, much less that indicate notability with substantive coverage. ~ Ningauble (talk) 17:15, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Keep he is a known figure locally. 151.242.13.215 17:40, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete does not meet notability requirements . 2601:3:3A00:270:FC27:7D1F:509D:FDF3
  • Keep According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited 459 times; these publications are verified by Thomson Reuters, EndNote, Scopus, and ORCID, and ResearchGate indicates 124 citations on their database.
    Considering that he is an Iranian, perhaps he should be looked-up by his Persian name as well. Arashtitan (talk) 17:16, 16 January 2015 (GMT)
    • This evidence does not hold up under scrutiny:
  1. The above linked Google Scholar results relate to technical fields that lie entirely outside the areas of study, interest, and professional activity indicated here and of the subjects website. I did a little checking and found that the citations for "A Salehi" do not refer to the same person, but to such diverse persons as, e.g., Professor Alireza Salehi at K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Alireza Salehi of the Epidemiology Department at Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research, Alireza Salehi of the Department of Forest Resource Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and an A Salehi of the Animal Science Department at Abureyhan College of Agriculture, to name a few.
  2. The list of citations here at Research Gate are mostly for the above mentioned Alireza Salehi, Professor in Electronics at K.N.Toosi University of Technology, who is very evidently a different person. The database actually does include a few citations for Alireza Salehi Nejad himself, but they are self-citations by Alireza Salehi Nejad citing himself.
Therefore, this Alireza (Arash) Salehi Nejad, a.k.a. Arash Titan, does not meet the "author of highly cited academic work" test for notability of academics. ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:26, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete, per nom and further research from Ningauble. ~ UDScott (talk) 21:06, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Deleye per nom. Eurodyne (talk) 19:09, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Keep keep it 46.225.218.201 10:19, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Note - I have temporarily semi-protected this page, due to the influx of SPA IP editors. BD2412 T 16:06, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete — I initially perceived this was unlikely to pass generally "notability" standards here, and have seen no convincing evidence that it does, or is likely to do so any time soon; within some policy limits the page creator could conceivably post many or all of the quotes as yet posted to the article on their user page, but the article itself is about a person who does not meet notability standards. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
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The result was: DELETED. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥ 02:16, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Jason Lee (actor)

This article was {{prod}} because "No sourced quotes." The tag was removed without curing the defect, which brings it here. — Ningauble (talk) 15:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

  • Vote closes: 16:00, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete as nom. If it ain't cited, it ain't a quote.(You can quote me on that.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:23, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Keep I have added the URL. OccultZone (talk) 17:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
    • I have several issues with the revised article:
  1. I do not see any connection whatsoever between the citation text (Tom Jones "I have a temper that frightens me Radio Times" 2 October 2000) and the linked web page.
  2. Several statements alleged to appear in that source do not, in fact, appear therein. I have tagged this false information accordingly.
  3. Of the quoted statements that actually do appear in the linked publicity puff piece, they do not have any of the qualities of quotability befitting a compendium of memorable quotations. I don't see any secondary sources that quote them.
Even if the factual errors and misrepresentations were removed, I would still vote to delete this material from Wikiquote. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:53, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete, problematic sourcing, per Ningauble, above. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 05:12, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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The result was: Kept after improvement.--Jusjih (talk) 04:00, 2 February 2015 (UTC).

Adnan Oktar

Page created by User:Adnan Oktar Harun Yahya, an obvious sole-purpose account. All quotes (minus one) are translations from Adnan Oktar (aka Harun Yahya)'s own website, thus their notability cannot be established. — Jeff5102 (talk) 08:20, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

  • Vote closes: 09:00, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Keep — I noted the unsuitability of the page's state soon after it was created, did a massive revision, and made it into a proper article. The person has a long standing Wikipedia article in which it is noted that in 2010 he was "selected as one of the top fifty of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan" and the quotes from his official site, of statements in some of his television addresses, providing a broad sampling of his views are very appropriate here. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC) + tweaks
  • Keep, per Kalki. ~ DanielTom (talk) 11:21, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete, spam / promotional material. Agree with assessment by Jeff5102, above. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 05:13, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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Bert Newton

Removed PROD since it had already been at Vfd once. But since the PROD tag has been put on twice, it seems that it needs another discussion. First Vfd in 2006 was a Keep] But since then tagged as unsourced in 2013, and PROD tag added twice in 2014. — Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥ 04:02, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

  • Vote closes: 05:00, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete No sourced quotes even though he has an article on Wikipedia English and awards. It can be re-created if someone finds notable quotes. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥ 04:16, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete. Zero sourced quotes. -- Cirt (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete, unless sourced quotes are provided. ~ UDScott (talk) 13:06, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete. Sources could be found that relate the incident, but as LrdChaos noted in the previous discussion, "the quote is pretty meaningless, but to give it meaning is to add a lot of non-quote explanation material". The present article's explanation that Ali considered it racist (which is a matter of intent) rather than malapropos (which is not) is not supportable, and I do not believe it is true. Giving a full and accurate explanation of the significance of an insignificant remark lies outside our mission of collecting notable quotes. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:54, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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This nomination also includes the following dependent pages:

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  • Vote closes: 17:00, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
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The result was: . DELETE Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥ 23:17, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Neglected Mario Characters

Quotability is lacking in this article. Specific citations are not provided. An article on this non-notable webcomic was deleted at Wikipedia. This was kept in a previous discussion at Votes for deletion archive/Neglected Mario Characters, but Wikiquote standards have changed since 2006. — Ningauble (talk) 17:28, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

  • Vote closes: 18:00, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble (talk) 17:28, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete, unless quotes are fully sourced and shown to have been quoted in reliable third-party publications before the end of this VfD period. BD2412 T 22:50, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 14:09, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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The result was: . DELETE Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥ 23:14, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Bawra Baba

I see nothing regarding this person to suggest notability. — UDScott (talk) 14:12, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

  • Vote closes: 15:00, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete. ~ UDScott (talk) 14:12, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete. I can't find any evidence of notability, and no sources are cited. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:13, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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