Wikinews:Deletion requests/Archives/2016-2017

June 13, 2017
Speedy deleted as prepared article where the event happen more than 5 days ago. Any major media coverage on the Comey memo would have been months ago. —mikemoral (talk) 07:40, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikinews:Story preparation/Evidence of bias: Media coverage of Comey memos
Created in November 2016, about seven months ago. Has not developed since then. The article discusses Hilary Clinton and email circus stuff. I don't see the purpose of keeping it other than... prize possession or something. --George Ho (talk) 01:46, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

May 8, 2017
Creating user nominating for speedy deletion under A7. PokestarFan (talk) 19:00, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

"7. Self-requests by the author with no third-party edit history."

Template:Nosource
Not being sourced does not, in itself, fulfil a criterion for deletion, speedy or otherwise. As such, this template is superfluous. Microchip08 (talk) 07:33, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Votes

 * I'm in agreement with the nominator. --Pi zero (talk) 14:30, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

March 31, 2017

 * Article was deleted already. —mikemoral (talk) 20:18, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Why do children keep dying?
Sandbox testing, very obvious. PokestarFan (talk) 23:22, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

March 14, 2017

 * Taken care of. --Pi zero (talk) 12:30, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Upacking List
Non-newsworthy advert. --Cabayi (talk) 15:43, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Comments

 * Not to worry. The author requested temporary undeletion so they could retrieve their work, and now that it is done, I'll delete it again and all will be well.  --Pi zero (talk) 16:17, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

June 16, 2016

 * Delete; the abandonment process got there first in this case. --Pi zero (talk) 15:17, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

La Fest
This appears to be some article that might belong on Wikipedia if it were not so promotional. This does not seem newsworthy at all. --Peter SamFan (talk) 14:09, 16 June 2016 (UTC).

Votes

 * Not news, promotional and encyclopedia-like. –  Nascar1996  ( talk • cont ) 14:26, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yup. --Pi zero (talk) 16:47, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

June 7, 2016

 * Delete --Pi zero (talk) 15:17, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Brainwash of Sikhs
User working on this doesn't seem able to take a hint that we're not an encyclopedia, nor a platform for what might-well be construed as some sort of 'conspiracy theory'. I am hoping a DR will get the message across - or simply see us rid of the page. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:22, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Comments

 * Whilst the usual is to run a DR for seven days, I simply can't see this changing from consensus to remove the offending page. I've no problem whatsoever if that means someone simply closes this and removes the page; the only reason I've not done so is having been the nominator. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:30, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Votes

 * useless. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:22, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * as is, it's an opinion piece. To get from what it is to a news article would be a complete replacement of content, together with a completely different headline.  See .  Probably the article would simply become abandoned and get deleted in the normal course, but a formal deletion process will save argument in case that wouldn't happen on schedule.  --Pi zero (talk) 21:11, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * per above. –  Nascar1996  ( talk • cont ) 21:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * as completely unsuitable material for this website. Bencherlite (talk) 16:37, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Unnecessary controversial opinions which is not news. acagastya 16:49, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

December 30, 2017

 * Deleted. --Pi zero (talk) 22:34, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

File:Roland Nicholson, Jr. receiving KSBC Award.jpg
This image file is 10+ years old. It was uploaded for a failed article Roland Nicholson, Jr.. It is currently unused (orphaned) and it seems unlikely it would ever be needed for another article. Should that occur, there is another copy at, where it is also orphaned and currently tagged for transfer to. --SVTCobra 22:55, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Comments

 * Not that it matters, but, looks to me as if the mainspace page is a ; only other thing by same user, yes, but the mainspace page was created in May and promptly deleted by DragonFire1024 as spam, whilst the image was uploaded in July. --Pi zero (talk) 12:13, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Votes

 * Delete - per my own nomination. --SVTCobra 22:55, 30 December 2017 (UTC).
 * Delete it is well established that Commons is to serve as the repository for free media, with the exceptions of logos and maps which can change with time. (However, I cannot see EXIF data for an own work, and it is possible it is a copyvio.) •–• 06:11, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I tried a Google Image search, but I couldn't find a copy that was not on a Wiki project. If it was demonstrably a copy-vio, I would have speedy deleted it. However, I think the lack of EXIF data is likely due to it probably being a non-digital photograph that was then scanned. --SVTCobra 19:16, 31 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete; it serves us no news function to justify hosting it here, and as it's proposed for movement from Wikipedia to Commons anyway (haven't quite figured out how nominator noticed that), there's no loss to the sisterhood in deleting it here, either. --Pi zero (talk) 11:59, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm, that's how! ... No, it was Google's image search function. It is scary good; it analyzes the image and can find any other copy of it, even if it as been resized. --SVTCobra 12:12, 8 January 2018 (UTC)