Wikinews:Deletion requests

= Deletion requests =

825 sxw-files
As a result of the discussion on Water_cooler/assistance I suggest to delete 825 sxw-files. For all of the files there is a similar pdf-file.

401 of the files can be seen in Category:Print Edition (SXW). The rest of the files can be found on User:MGA73/Sandbox. If concensus is that files can be deleted a better list can be provided.

I have an open bot request on Bots/Requests/MGA73bot and if approved I can make sure all the files end in Category:Print Edition (SXW). I have not marked the files with a dr but I can do that if required and bot flag is granted. --MGA73 (talk) 14:50, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments
4 files have been deleted because they were duplicates (misspelled). --MGA73 (talk) 19:00, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Original discussion is now in Water_cooler/assistance/archives/2023/August. --MGA73 (talk) 14:23, 6 October 2023 (UTC)


 * To me, there seems to be no point in keeping these around as LibreOffice supports PDF (even for editing). However, Cspurrier, who is now inactive but was the user most responsible for the Print Edition in the 2000s, may be able to shed light on this. Heavy Water (talk) 21:53, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
 * The print edition was created each day in LibreOffice. At the time these were created, the open-source tools available for editing PDFs were few and had major limitations. Providing the SXW file was a way to provide an editable source file for it. --Cspurrier (talk) 15:20, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Are we sure all of the SXW files exist in PDF? If yes, I'll vote for delete. --SVTCobra 23:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * User:SVTCobra You can see it in this old version of my sandbox. There are no red "pdf-link". Meaning for each sxw there is a pdf but not the other way around. --MGA73 (talk) 14:01, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * We only have two votes for now, but if it succeeds, I feel it is a huge task to delete 825 files. Are there any tools to assist with such a task? SVTCobra 08:33, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * We have Special:Nuke but I do not think it will work here. I know that User:Rillke once had a gadget (ping in hope for a tip) :-) --MGA73 (talk) 10:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi. One can use the pywikibot delete script to automate it or AWB/JWB to semi-automate it (will have to click delete 825 times). Not aware of any other ways that can be used here. -- CptViraj (talk) 19:33, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Votes

 * In light of Cspurrier's comment, I don't see a need for keeping these around. I don't think it's urgent to delete them, either. Heavy Water (talk) 17:22, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I guess it safe to delete them. --SVTCobra 22:16, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * There are now some files that have been deleted since the list was generated (both SXW and PDF are red links). Not sure if that will force an error in any automated tool, but might be worth considering. Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 23:11, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I think those are all from the set of duplicates that got speedy-deleted. Heavy Water (talk) 00:00, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, there were a few duplicates that were deleted. The sxw-files are now in Category:Print Edition (SXW) but if they need to be in a list it is possible to make a new list without red links. --MGA73 (talk) 05:37, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Category:Women
Overly broad. There was near-unanimous agreement in 2018 on the talk page this cat is not suitable as-is.

There, Pi stated something, in fact, I've long thought of this cat: "Few articles get added to this category for much the same reason few get added to Category:World: if interpreted in a simplistic way they would be so absurdly inclusive that they would be useless, so the only way there's any point to populating them at all is they're given some narrower interpretation — but the name of the category gives no obvious support to any narrower interpretation, leaving it up to individuals to occasionally put things here as it's not clear what else to do with them."

I see this as an unsuitable sort of union of a few cats: Women's rights, e.g. Arizona bans abortion for genetic abnormalities, the Wikimedia gender gap, e.g. Wikimedian Cindy Ashley-Nelson dies at conference in Berlin, and, as discussed on the talk, some as-yet nonexistent third cat for articles like Qatar appoints four women to its law-drafting Shura Council which don't exactly relate to women's rights but are more "women breaking glass ceilings". I'm unsure what we should call the hypothetical third cat &mdash; perhaps "Gender politics" (in the spirit of Category:Gun politics) &mdash; but I think it should replace this one. Heavy Water (talk) 04:25, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Votes

 * I vaguely recall the 2018 vote, but keeping this will inevitably invite more gendered categories. --SVTCobra 23:43, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * as outlined above. Alextejthompson (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 19:02, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * and replace with "Gender politics" as suggested by Heavy Water Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 23:15, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

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For reference, it is currently July 29, 2024.