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Wikitravel:Votes for deletion

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Nominating
Commenting
Deleting, or not
Archiving
[+] January 2008
[+] February 2008
[+] March 2008

This page contains lists of articles and images which are recommended for deletion. Any Wikitraveller can recommend an article or image for deletion, and any Wikitraveller can comment on the deletion nomination. Articles and images are presumed guilty until proven innocent. After fourteen (14) days of discussion, if a consensus is reached to retain an article, it won't be deleted. Otherwise it will be deleted by an administrator. Please read the Nominating and Commenting sections prior to nominating articles/images or commenting on nominations.

[edit] Nominating

The basic format for a deletion nomination is the following:

===[[Chicken]]===
* Delete.  Not a valid travel article topic. ~~~~

Please follow these steps when nominating an article or image for deletion:

First read the deletion policy and verify that the article or image really is a candidate for deletion. If you are unsure, bring up the issue on the talk page.
For the article or image being proposed for deletion, add a {{vfd}} tag so that people viewing the article will know that it is proposed for deletion. The {{vfd}} tag must be the very first thing in the article, right at the very top, before everything else.
Add a link to the article or image at the end of the list below, along with the reason why it is being listed for deletion. Sign your vote using four tildes ("~~~~"). List one article or image per entry.
If you're nominating an image for deletion, make sure it's actually located on the English Wikitravel... many images are located on Wikitravel Shared, in which case they should be nominated for deletion over there instead.

[edit] Commenting

All Wikitravellers are asked to state their opinion about articles and images listed for deletion. The format for comments is:

===[[Chicken]]===
* '''Delete'''.  Not a valid travel article topic. TravelNut 25:25, 31 Feb 2525 (EDT)
* '''Keep'''.  There is a town in [[Alaska]] called Chicken. ~~~~

When leaving comments:

First read the deletion policy and verify that the article or image really is a candidate for deletion.
You may vote to delete, keep, or redirect the article. If your opinion is that the article should be kept or redirected, please state why. Sign your vote using four tildes ("~~~~").

[edit] Deleting, or not

After fourteen (14) days of discussion, there will probably be consensus one way or the other. If the consensus is to keep, redirect or merge, then any Wikitraveller can do it. If you are redirecting, please remember to check for broken redirects or double redirects as a result of your move. Remove any VFD notices from that page, and archive the deletion discussion as described in the next section.

If the result is delete, then only an administrator can delete. Check if any article links to the image or article in question. After removing those links, delete the image or article. However, if the image is being deleted because it has been moved to the shared repository with the same name, do not remove links to the images, as the links will be automatically be pointed to the shared repository.

[edit] Archiving

After you keep/redirect/merge/delete the article, move the deletion discussion to the Archives page for the appropriate month. The root Archives page has a directory. Note that it's the month in which the action was taken, rather than when the nomination was first posted, that should be used for the archived discussion; that way, recourse to the deletion log can lead subsequent readers right to the discussion (at least for the pages that were deleted).

If the nominated article was not deleted, then place another (identical duplicate) copy of the deletion discussion on the talk page of the article being kept or redirected.

[edit] January 2008

[edit] Template:QuestionOnYourEdit

Delete. I think it's much more favorable to personal with questions, etc... I don't think we should get into creating a ton of communication templates for talk pages. – cacahuate ^talk 23:38, 18 January 2008 (EST)
Keep Some people may find it useful, so why not. It's standard and simple and anyone could easily type the same text. I assume one doesn't have to use it. --Wandering 15:20, 19 January 2008 (EST)
Delete. I suppose its nice to have a standard way of questioning an edit but it is hard enough keeping track of the templates and special pages anyway and this doesn't add a whole lot. --Wandering 12:46, 19 January 2008 (EST)

Wandering, if you believe it's nice to have a standard way of questioning an edit--why can't we work further on the template to make it easier to use (and choose a better name for it)? --DenisYurkin 12:57, 19 January 2008 (EST)

Let's think about it. The plus side of having a template is that the question is then framed neutrally, which, I think, is important. The minus is that most people will not know about it and the odds are that most people will not use it. Do you have an example of how it will work in practice and what does wikipedia do?--Wandering 14:02, 19 January 2008 (EST)

I only used the template once: SUBSTed it in [1] which invited Texugo to comment on [2]. --DenisYurkin 19:33, 19 January 2008 (EST)

As for Wikipedia, I would rather refer to Wiktionary templates (which is still bit too formal): wiktionary:Category:User_warning_templates. Wikipedia practice is really formal and templates-intensive; I don't think we want to go that far: wikipedia:Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace. --DenisYurkin 19:33, 19 January 2008 (EST)

Keep. It is useful; it saves time for a non-native speaker contributor; it helps to keep all article-related discussions on article talk page instead of scattering them across user talk pages. See also discussion that preceded the creation of the template. --DenisYurkin 12:57, 19 January 2008 (EST)

Just to clarify, my issue is with using templates in this manner at all, not whether the discussion takes place on the article talk page or a user talk page. I think it's impersonal (and on top of that lazy) to use templates for things like this rather than just typing a sentence. Denis, your English is fine, you don't need templates to get your point across ;) Wandering, I'm not vfd'ing this template just because I don't find it useful, but more because I don't think it sets a good precedent, and will almost certainly lead to more... My overall question is whether we want to start introducing a ton of generic communication templates, and I'm clearly voting no :) – cacahuate ^talk 15:34, 21 January 2008 (EST)

Well, for myself the choice (depending on whether the template exists) will be whether to address user on his talk page in addition to leaving a msg on article's talk page, or to not bother with talk:user and only use talk:article. I'd rather use my limited time on contributing more content to more articles than spending it on composing personal messages every time I have a comment on someone's edit. In reality, it is more likely that I will still use the same impersonal and neutral message, but instead of invoking a template I'll copy-paste the text from my user's page--and it will still take more of my time. And I would like that other contributors rather spend more time on articles rather on composing personal messages (or not address other users personally at all). --DenisYurkin 16:20, 21 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Sydney/Davidson

Not linked to from anywhere, not mentioned on Talk:Sydney or Talk:Sydney/DistrictsVsSuburbs or Talk:Sydney/ProblemsWithDistricts or Talk:Sydney/Refactoring, and ==Sleep== says: "no accommodation for tourists is on offer in Davidson". ~ 58.8.14.82 11:58, 24 January 2008 (EST)

An entirely legitimate page. Links from Davidson Wikipedia page; contains useful info for visitors. —The preceding comment was added by 58.107.1.85 (talk • contribs) 15:09, 30 January 2008.

[edit] Sydney/Belrose

Pseudo-Sydney/Davidson article. ~ 58.8.14.82 12:07, 24 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:F0001000005.jpg

Re-nominating this. Originally nominated as a copyvio prior to "permission" being posted on the Talk:Laurentides page. Appears to have been kept on a "See discussion above" basis, however outcome of that discussion was deletion.

Re-nominating it because:

The permission is for text only.
The statement applied to the image "This picture is not protected by copyright. The uploader owns the image and has released all rights. This applies worldwide." is obviously false.

~ 203.144.143.4 13:03, 25 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:Hotel Berati.jpg

No licence ~ 203.144.143.4 14:58, 25 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:Bostonskylinewinter.jpg

No licence ~ 203.144.143.4 14:58, 25 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:Puffling IMG 4288.jpg

No licence ~ 203.144.143.4 14:58, 25 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:20070626(008)M.jpg

No licence ~ 203.144.143.4 14:58, 25 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:BHOINGIR.jpg

No licence ~ 203.144.143.4 14:58, 25 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:IMG 3532.jpg

No licence ~ 203.144.143.4 14:58, 25 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:Chachachacha.JPG

No licence ~ 203.144.143.4 14:58, 25 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Image:DellsVacationLogo.jpg

A logo
No licence

~ 203.144.143.6 04:49, 26 January 2008 (EST)

delete Pashley 19:37, 11 March 2008 (EDT)