Wikinews:Deletion requests/Archives/2014

User:Azhar sabri
In my opinion, this seems like inappropriate use of the userspace based on my observations found here and here where there seemed to be a widespread "spam" attack of sorts. I've tried to warn the user to stick to the missions of English Wikinews, but I'm not sure if it's an appropriate attempt at communication or not given the circumstances, so I would like the community here to review that too. TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 20:20, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Template:Technorati ping
The links generated by it seems to be broken, and the result is that whatever usefulness it has provided for the articles that it is linked to is now gone. TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 21:53, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * w:ping looks like it would be more useful than that template, which seems to have lost its purpose in 2009. Subst the previous invocations of the template, delete it, and possibly replace with the enwiki equivalent. Microchip08 (talk) 06:27, 15 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I won't comment on the merits, or otherwise, of a ping template from The Other Place, but Technorati is one of those names I've not heard in - oh, about 4 years - so, yes, deletion. --Brian McNeil / talk 06:30, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Obsolete with no historical value. Also, it's, like, really old.  --Pi zero (talk) 04:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
 * B0rken, useless. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:07, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Cary Lee Peterson speaks at United Nations about social and economic development in the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific Region
This is just a glorified press release, with the author having a clear conflict of interest xe has been most-evasive regarding.

Nominated for deletion to send a clear message that Wikinews cannot be used to polish the image of people in this manner with non-news nonsense. --Brian McNeil / talk 03:40, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Comments

 * Please see the discussion page for the article; both Pi zero and myself have questioned the contributor's motives, and find them less-than-atruistic. Similarly, the remarks regarding the image uploaded to commons are the contributor being crazily inconsistent and lying to one, or both, wiki communities. --Brian McNeil / talk 03:40, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Admins may also peruse the contributor's past submissions (deleted). The record does not, afaics, suggest progress toward learning how to contribute to Wikinews.  --Pi zero (talk) 04:34, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Those past contributions would be:
 * Cary Lee Peterson, Feb 23, 2014; deleted not Wikipedia
 * Cary Lee Peterson Talks Motives in Micronesia for 2014 on Mission for U.N. Small Island Developing States, Febr 23, 2014; deleted, blatant copyright violation
 * ECCO2 GP Partnerships at United Nations Launch Expansion Plans in Small Island Nations and ACP-EU Member States, Feb 23, 2014; deleted, blatant copyright violation
 * Cary Lee Peterson plans for Micronesia in 2014, February 23, 2014; deleted.
 * Cary Lee Peterson discusses future plans of ECCO2 GP for Small Islands Developing States at PrepCom Meeting at the United Nations, deleted
 * Cary Lee Peterson makes a statement at United Nations PrepCom Meeting for Small Island Developing States, deleted
 * It paints a fairly-clear picture; a single-purpose account for the promotion of Cary Lee Peterson. Such a shame that this discussion is more-likely to be indexed by Google than their press releases. --Brian McNeil / talk 04:49, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Votes

 * this nonsense, the sooner the better. --Brian McNeil / talk 03:40, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * unfortunately. --Pi zero (talk) 04:34, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * as per above --RockerballAustralia c 08:32, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Portal:Georgia
It seems the day of the disambiguation portal has been and gone. No further use as we can and do use mainspace disambig pages now. BRS (Talk)   (Contribs) 13:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Votes

 * Somehow we've recently fallen out of the very-long-standing habit of putting these deletion nums under sections by date. I suspect this is a matter of not having a tool that helps with the technical operation of adding noms (I hope eventually to have such assistance for creating, closing, and archiving various kinds of noms, keeping in mind there are technical idiosyncrasies to particular kinds of noms).  --Pi zero (talk) 14:29, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * There's a framework in place for migrating to subpages (which would semi-automate all the opening and closing and archiving and votings and things), but that's something for the talk page. Date sections make less sense when there's very few deletion proposals each week. Microchip08 (talk) 07:49, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * They're handy for keeping track of when noms took place, which is useful all around. And taking it all to the talk page seems needlessly bureaucratic given, as you say, the low traffic involved.  --Pi zero (talk) 12:40, 6 May 2014 (UTC)


 * ; it does no harm, especially as the mainspace Georgia disambiguates between categories and not these portals. This only really needs to go if one of the Georgia portals gets deleted; at the moment it's serving a useful purpose. Microchip08 (talk) 07:49, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Portals as an entire class of pages on en.wn are deprecated in favor of categories. --Pi zero (talk) 12:40, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Category:Art
Art="The arts"=totally redundant to Category:Culture and entertainment. The usage note suggests this is an internal cat, like, say, category:musicians, but I don't see it as useful as such. Note that "art" as most often referred to by the word is dealt with by Category:Visual art. BRS (Talk)   (Contribs) 19:20, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Comments

 * There are some articles in it, despite the usage note about being internal. I suppose that's because it wasn't clear where else to put those articles.  It would only be useful as a internal category if it had a slew of subcats that were thereby prevented from cluttering up Category:Culture and entertainment; but that doesn't appear to be the case.  I'd like to see those articles moved to subcats before it's deleted.  Otherwise I'm happy to see the last of it.  --Pi zero (talk) 19:57, 29 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Seems to me we need a more coherent plan for this part of the category hierarchy. Right now, "Art" has subcats "Architecture", "Galleries", "Graphic art", and "Visual art".  But here's some of what w:Portal:Visual arts has to say &mdash; note, that's "arts" rather than "art", and mishandling that distinction may also be part of our problem here:
 * Visual arts are a class of art forms focusing on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, drawing, illustration, architecture, photography, graphic design, printmaking, and filmmaking. Those that involve moulding or modeling, such as sculpture, public art, and ceramics, are more narrowly referred to as plastic arts.
 * The visual arts are distinguished from the performing arts, language arts, culinary arts and other such classes of artwork, but those boundaries are not well defined. Many artistic endeavors combine aspects of visual arts with one or more non-visual art forms, such as music or spoken word.
 * The part about "not well defined" might suggest we should be rethinking at what level we have our cats. On the other hand, this also raises the possibility we'd have "Visual arts" in place of the current "Art", with several subcats including "Architecture", "Graphic arts", "Galeries".  The current "Visual art" would be replaced by some other subcat of Visual arts.  There could be siblings to "Visual arts" for, say, "Performing arts".  Perhaps a subcat of "Visual art" for the plastic arts &mdash; and at that point I get really alarmed.  "Plastic arts"???  Seriously?  Ugh.  That's a very unnatural name; only an expert in the taxonomy of this stuff would think that involved anything not made from.
 * I'm gonna give this some more thought. I'd really like this resolved; I don't fancy deleting a category every once in a while, leaving at least as much of a mess with a somewhat changed shape, and gradually migrating toward losing what organizational information we now have encoded in these cats.  --Pi zero (talk) 13:04, 30 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Trying to carefully and accurately categorise art is always going to be a pain, because the arts strive to break the boundaries between each other. But, that's a problem for the visual art cat and its subcats. For that reason I'm going to hold off going down this tempting tangent about how to handle it. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 10:55, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Articlefeedback-privacyurl
Unused interface message; as far as I can tell mw:Extension:ArticleFeedbackv5 hasn't been running on this site for a while – it only exists because created it manually. Microchip08 (talk) 18:40, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Votes
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 * in the absence of more learned souls than myself rushing to save it, I'm going to go ahead and agree it is unneeded/unused. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 10:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Category:JDL Page
Rarely used category; inappropriate for Wikinews. Microchip08 (talk) 22:53, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Votes
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 * per nom BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 10:51, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * --Pi zero (talk) 11:49, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * --Xania (talk) 22:31, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikinews interviews specialists on China, Iran, Russia support for al-Assad/fr
Here is English Wikinews. We don't need any article in French.--GZWDer (talk) 10:44, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It's tagged with Category:No publish; so, that's its status on en.wn. The article has no French interwiki, suggesting the translation never did make it to fr.wn (though I've not yet tried to look on fr.wn directly).
 * Various published articles in our archives have peripheral subpages of different kinds, which are no-published and eventually should be fully protected as a precaution since they're in mainspace; I'll protect this one for now, and an admin can later either delete it or remove the deletion tag. --Pi zero (talk) 11:29, 29 August 2014 (UTC)


 * This, as noted by Pi zero, isn't published. On that basis, I don't quite follow the nomination phrasing. The article itself was translated into three other languages, and is a local Featured Article. Just, as already noted, looks as-if translation to French wasn't completed fast-enough to stay fresh.
 * My inclination, on that basis (a working page, never published, cannot now be completed), is to see this deleted. I'm just hoping I'm being overly-sensitive to word-choice in how I read the nomination. --Brian McNeil / talk 07:56, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * On further consideration and consultation, I suggest we it.  It could conceivably be of use to someone wishing to use the article as a reference.  --Pi zero (talk) 13:39, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Template:!
Obsolete template replaced with a parser function. Microchip08 (talk) 11:15, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Votes

 * There's no need to delete, surely? We can use a soft redirect as on WIkipedia, presumably, which also allows categorization.  --Pi zero (talk) 14:07, 24 December 2014 (UTC)