Wikinews:Deletion requests/Archives/2013

April 17, 2013

 * Speedy-deleted as abandoned. --Pi zero (talk) 11:53, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Aussie Foreign Affairs Minister says no change in USA travel advice
Established editor started a review, removed a key verifying source. The review was not completed for 24 hours. It appears almost completely certain any subsequent review will have to wait at least that long before getting another review. Demoralizing as a writer and as a reviewer who is feeling overwhelmed by the student situation, and zero intention of resubmitting this article because I know it will not get reviewed in a way that will pass any timeliness criteria. This is one of those cases where writing feels like being set up for failure.

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--LauraHale (talk) 01:29, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

April 16, 2013

 * Speedy-deleted as abandoned. --Pi zero (talk) 11:52, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Boston Marathon rocked by 2 explosions near finish line

 * Duplicate adding zero to the already-published article. --Brian McNeil / talk 06:10, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * Just needed to get the message across; quit subbing this 'stub' for review. --Brian McNeil / talk 06:10, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Hopefully it'll be deleted as abandoned before formal DR process can complete, but just as well to have the formal process in parallel. --Pi zero (talk) 12:33, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Maoist attack on the train near Kamalur railway station Dantewada Chhattisgarh India.jpg
Unused file and licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5. Doesn't exactly qualify for speedy deletion as an unused fair use as far as I know and it's not a copyright violation since the uploader seems to own the copyright, so I figure it's best to list it here. There seems to be no reason for keeping it. — Mike moral  ♪♫  07:56, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * as nominator. — Mike moral  ♪♫  07:56, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Not useful for any purpose. Contributed by a user who chose not to attempt to work within our workflow.  --Pi zero (talk) 13:05, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
 * , apparently because no source given??? Therefore, likely speedy delete? -- Cirt (talk) 18:09, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It's not a reason for speedy deletion, though it really should be. — Mike moral  ♪♫  09:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * ... notify the uploader that s/he can put it on Commons, but since Wikinews is not using it, it is not within Wikinews' mandate to host the photo. --SVTCobra 02:12, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Onion the dog case set for Nevada high court oral argument
While it is probably a newsworthy topic, the date of the event is in the past and steps do not appear to have been taken to fix the things the article will need in order to pass review. The writer appears uncommunicative and appears to be treating the article like a Wikipedia article, with the assumption it will stay forever. The continued work makes it look hard to label as abandoned. --LauraHale (talk) 14:44, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * As nominator. --LauraHale (talk) 14:44, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Tagged abandoned. — Mike moral  ♪♫  01:21, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:Operating system
It seems to me what we have here is a cat that is more in the encyclopedic vein than a news category. It doesn't seem like an inherently useful way to categorise news; I'm reminded of a time when somebody tried to create cats for aircraft types and have them added to articles on accidents involving the type. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 02:31, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * Seems to me a category Operating systems would be acceptable. Whether it would be an article cat or an internal cat is another question.
 * Obviously we want news-suitable categories rather than encyclopedic categories; and we also want the categories we have to be naturally suggested by keywords likely to be linked in articles (so that w will aid in keeping the category populated). However, within that, we also want categories suitable for linking from keywords that are naturally linked, so as to maximize the local/foreign ratio of links in articles.  --Pi zero (talk) 03:06, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Target Cards Hacked
Not enough information. --StudiesWorld (talk) 22:51, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

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as nominator --StudiesWorld (talk) 22:51, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

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