Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians/results

November 2004

• VFD: RaD Man: see the interesting comments by deletionists

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• • Amazingly, this was put up for vote again just a few days after the close of the previous VfD.
• VfD: Hackcanada: Canadian Hacker site/organization. Turns up over 9,000 his on google.

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• VfD: TEXTFILES.COM: An extremely noteworthy archive site, akin to the Internet Archive, up for deletion minutes after the article creation for no apparent reason.

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• en:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/PinkPT Notable website.

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• en:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Tard Blog Website being censored because an admin doesn't like the name of it. → No Consensus
• en:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Terry Smiljanich Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, US Army captain. → No Consensus
• en:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Acid rap A highly-notable genre of hip-hop/rap music. As usual, the VfD nominator hadn't heard of it so he VfD'd it. This process needs change, BAD.

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• VFD: Northrop High School: very good school stub

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• VFD: Helen Mackenzie (wife of Sir Alexander Mackenzie)

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• VFD: Glasgow slang: messy article that should have been listed cleanup, not VFD

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• VFD: General Mayhem: even popular websites are not "notable" enough for deletionists → No Consensus
• VfD: New Utopia: messy article about notable libertarian micronation project investigated by the SEC. → No Consensus
• VfD: Elbow Cay: island in the Bahamas.

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• VfD: Planet Earth (and other tourist traps): webcomic

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• VfD: Clay Oliver Hill - non-joke non-vanity article about a real presidential candidate

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• VfD: Rosyth Primary School: Prominent school

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December 2004

• Vfd: Sail Inn: Notable dive bar.

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• VfD: Hayley Jensen: notable singer → No Consensus
• VfD: List of songs on Dance Dance Revolution MegaMix: List of songs on DDR MegaMix.

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• VfD: Jason Scott - hacker activist who also runs textfiles.com (see below) and is notable for a number of other reasons.

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• VfD: Phan Lien: Vietnamese royalty

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• VfD: William Greer: The driver of the presidential motorcade during the JFK assassination

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• VfD: Infidel Guy: A well known radio show host

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• VfD: Wack MC: Noteworthy term used by rap artists

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• VfD: Inglemoor High School: One of the largest schools in WA

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• VfD: Dickinson High School: School notable for its mascot

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• VfD: Vanier College (CEGEP): A stub for a French-Canadian college

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• VfD:Spence School: A notable all-girls college prep school

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• Vfd: Katie Fitzgerald: Jeopardy contestant

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• VfD: Adlai E. Stevenson High School: Another highly notable school being trashed by deletionists!

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• VfD: San Marin High School: A notably infamous highschool which has repeatedly been the focus of hatecrime, receiving mass media coverage.

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• VfD: Lost and Found: An American Christian-rock band which has released several albums!

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• VfD: Spotswood High School: Another noteworthy institution up for deletion.

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• VfD: List of video game music: And excellent catalog of music created for video games, now targeted for deletion.

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• VfD: Avoid the Noid: A 10-year old video game title spawned by Domino's Pizza.

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• VfD: Maxi Mounds: An adult film star on the chopping block.

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• VfD: Kents Hill School: A school which was established in 1824, one of the oldest schools in the country, now up for deletion.

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• VfD:Colegio de San Agustin: And yet another school, this time from the Philippines, being listed for deletion.

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• VfD: Supagroup a legitimate rock group

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• VfD: Sequoia High School The first school in the California bay area, est. 1895

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January 2005

• VfD: Criticism of Wikipedia Further attempts at CENSORSHIP by deletionists. This is a subject which has received widespread coverage in the press, and cites links to CNN, The Guardian, and other media outlets to justify its notability.

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• VfD: GNAA A famously known (or infamously known) organization. Annoying, but not as annoying as the deletionist trolls on Wikipedia. Over 11,000 hits on Google. [1]

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• Vfd: Blunsdon United: A policy-setting article? Maybe not. But it has the potential to become one of the most charming articles on Wikipedia. Please help out by watching it and improving the contributions the anons have been putting in, that's all I ask. (Vote for or against, as you like, but give people something good to judge.)

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(as of 2004 Dec 27) 

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• vfD: fart fetishism: Sexual fetish

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• vfD: Haxxxor movies: Pornographic hacker movies

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April & May 2006

• w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/High-C minor but interesting/notable artist being mauled by deletionists, who propose delete or speedy delete every couple of days. Strike a blow for small bands everywhere. much thanks. Perle 23:22, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

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• w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Religious_fanaticism is up for AfD despite being an encyclopaedic topic on which it is perfectly possible to write NPOV article on the ground that it is POV in its current form. Looks like cleanup is set to be replaced by AfD. 59.93.210.232 08:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Immediate work is needed to prevent the deletion of multiple articles about large and notable local malls. I am a new AfD-watcher and find the current precedent on mall notability to be simple anti-mall bias. Please help! See AfD's here:
  • w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mayberry_Mall→ No Consensus
  • w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pennrose_Mall→ No Consensus
  • w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Mall_(Edgware)→ No Consensus
  • w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Miami_International_Mall→ No Consensus
  • w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Eden_Mall→ No Consensus

Thanks for anything you can do - Bobby P. Smith Sr. Jr. 22:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

• Hi everyone. I've been working on the List of ethnic slurs article for months, obtaining sources for the terms. Now they want to delete it.--Primetime 09:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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• Myson of Chen. The wisest man in the world according to the Oracle of Delphi, but he wasn't smart enough to stay off AFD. --BRIAN0918 22:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)→ No Consensus
• Hi guys. I have tried to expand the articles regarding conspiracies so that it includes events, groups and terms, but they are meet with great resistans, even if they are notable and verifiable. I have made a list of them on my guild, and the guild itself got AFD'd. Here is a list of the articles:
  • w:Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Conspiracies Guild

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• • w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/9-11: The Road to Tyranny→ No Consensus
  • w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Citizens' Commission on 9-11

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• • w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert M. Bowman→ No Consensus
  • w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Problem Reaction Solution

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• • w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Counter Misinformation Team

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• • w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scholars for 9/11 Truth (second nomination)→ No Consensus
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Thompson (researcher)

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• • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barrie Zwicker→ No Consensus
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jenna Orkin

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• • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media

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• • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lila Rajiva

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• --User:Striver 13:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• Steak and Blowjob Day - a famous parody holiday (second nomination) --Easyas12c 23:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

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w:User:Flameviper12/Randomness (Speech) - I made this to comment on the kind of randomness in speech (I LIKE CHEESE), but I need help to wikify it? Please?

• The Garment District (store) Store in Cambridge, Ma

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• Hootenanny (store) - store in Massachusetts

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• All Asia Cafe - Cafe in Cambridge Massachusetts

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• Diesel Cafe - Popular cafe in Massachusetts near tufts university

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• Pu Pu Hot Pot - Chinese Restaurant

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All nominated by the same person -_- 207.172.73.141 04:51, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

The following have been nominated en-masse today as part of what appears to be an orchestrated or semi-orchestrated campaign to target specific micronations and the individuals supporting them:

• Hutt River Province Principality - World's best known micronation after Sealand.

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• Principality of Marlborough - Micronation that received major national media coverage and popular support in Australia. A subject of university study.→ No Consensus
• Empire of Atlantium - FOURTH AFD for this article. Micronation has extensive international media coverage. Nomination seems tied to vendetta against Gene Poole.

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• Gay & Lesbian Kingdom... - FOURTH AFD for this article. Last one barely a month ago. Micronation has notable international media coverage.

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• Principality of Freedonia - libertarian group whose activities led to rioting and several deaths in Somaliland.

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• Sovereign State of Aeterna Lucina - Australian micronation involved in numerous court cases relating to immigration fraud. Major national media coverage.

202.171.182.138 03:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC) → Kept

• Prinsessakerho, an award winning Finnish exclusive club with artists, musicians and porn stars as members. Started as a VfD, but was changed to speedy very soon. Can we somehow request undeletion or atleast have a fair VfD? --Easyas12c 02:52, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

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• • Created an undeletion request --Easyas12c 21:27, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• List of Louisiana Baptist University people This list of alumni and people associated with LBU is similar to other university lists.Lists of people by university affiliation There are 60 lists of people, from a variety of schools, on the list. In short, the LBU list of people has lots of notable alumni and people on it, it's informative, and helpful. Currently, there are 7 votes to keep, 17 to delete, and about 5 to merge with the w:Louisiana Baptist University entry. --Jason Gastrich 02:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

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• Mike Randall is the president of a regionally accredited university. He is also a notable editor and scholar. However, there are more votes to delete than to keep. --Jason Gastrich 02:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

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• Ron Moseley is a notable author and the president of a university. However, there are more votes to delete than to keep. --Jason Gastrich 02:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

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• Literary punk genres' this entire listing, they're putting up for deleting every sub-genre of Cyberpunk: including Dieselpunk, Stonepunk, Mannerpunk, Nazipunk, Bronzepunk, Ironpunk, Middlepunk, Splatterpunk, Spacepunk, Clockpunk, Sandalpunk etc... out of pure insolence and ignorance. Piecraft 17:05, 23 December Friday 2005 (UTC)
• Chuckie Mullins (should more properly be spelled Chucky -- I've suggested that in my vote). College football player who died from injuries received during a game. Has been the subject of a documentary film and numerous articles; the College Charity Bowl was founded to pay his medical bills. Article (which does need a lot of work) is up for deletion as a non-notable memorial; currently six votes to delete, one to keep. Perodicticus 11:43, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

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• Eduard Einstein Schizophrenic son of Albert Einstein; subject of at least one biography; frequently cited example of an individual with scizophrenia. The deletionists are in full swing, with the only justification being that Eduard is not notable enought to justify an entry, despite the fact that he is famous. 69.180.51.7 22:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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• GH avisualagency a verifiable art and design collective with numerous sources cited. vote has been overrun by deletionists and corrupt administators who have hostiley ganged up on all the keep voters, mislabeling them all as sockpuppets without presenting proof, ie) tracing any of the IPs. vote has now been wrongly protected by deletionist admin Brookie to lock out further keep votes. this is totally unfair and wrong. please help! Inspectorpanther 00:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

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• 21 Society University of Virginia secret society. Was originally listed as unverifiable; numerous sources were cited, but people continue to vote "delete" with no other justification given besides "NN". It's an interesting, verifiable, non-vanity, NPOV article and I don't see how keeping it would be bad for Wikipedia. - AdelaMae 21:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

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• Lunch Money an award winning card game in VfD. --User:Easyas12c 23:08, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

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• Literary punk genres this entire listing, and category is not up for deletion, but it could be a group of editors from the Dark City article who have no previous understanding or knowledge of the literary genre of punk are attemtping to remove certain genres from the list which have notability. Please help and share your support by sharing comments and opinions on the talk page. Thanks in advance, and any help is appreciated - let's make Wikipedia better by keeping relevant articles and not deleting them just because it doesn't fall into the ideals of certain opponenets. Piecraft 16:40, 16 Friday 2005 (UTC)
• AfD: Obscurami this article I started is up for deletion before I or anyone else had the time to devote further time in expanding and adding further sources. If you believe it is relevant then please support it - otherwise allow it to burn. Piecraft 12:17, 3 Saturday 2005 (UTC)

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• VfD: Category:Dieselpunk this entire category, relevant in archiving elements which refer to the Dieselpunk genre is up for deletion for no true reason other than a member thinking it is a "bizarre collection of articles" - please do the right thing and help support keep this category in. It is as neccessary as Steampunk. Thanks. Piecraft 03:20, 3 Saturday 2005 (UTC)

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• w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grassroots coverage of Natalee Holloway Coverage of the blog coverage is up for deletion. One of the Association of Inclusionists voted to delete. 209.178.162.12 08:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

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• w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Inclusion is up for deletion! --Brian0918 19:07, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

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• w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references in Pokémon 3 Article up for deletion for third time in less than two months (after being kept the first two times). Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:00, 1 November 2005 (UTC) → No Consensus
• My first note here: w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Margaret Turnbull (2nd nomination) Verifiable, notable. But a tortured history: 2-1 AfD (which somehow went delete); 9-6 undelete and now a close vote on second AfD. 195.229.241.181 00:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

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• All of the Final Fantasy VI character articles are up for deletion. w:Terra_Branford. They can all be accessed from that page.PiccoloNamek 10:33, 15 October 2005 (UTC) → No Consensus
• w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Christopher_Burke_Gibson(January 22, 1954 - July 26, 2005) was an American sub-cultural phenomenon: raconteur, genius, modern day rhapsode, writer, skilled craftsman and autodidact. --Daniel Lotspeich 09:56, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

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• w:DoYouDo This one was labeled "spam" by several users due to irregular behavior by an anon. It is merely informational, rather than promotional. 205.217.105.2 16:32, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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• w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gallery_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_screenshots is up for deletion]. It shows the history of the advancement of video game graphics over time and are useful as a source of images for graphics for video game articles. --69.159.26.181 20:07, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

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• w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nerd Boy The most popular ASCII art comic up for deletion? OMGWTFBBQ! w:User:Grue217.67.124.2 05:25, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

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--Daniel Lotspeich 09:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• VfD: Salad Fingers theories - Perhaps one of the most analysed in-depth article which serves no harm but benefit being unfairly voted for deletion despite large support

→ Kept --80.2.175.184 15:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

• VfD: Black Pullet - an extremely important grimoire relevant to the occult! This was put up for deletion for no good reason. Piecraft 14:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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listed as a copyvio as well. - I have added a new revised version of this article please check it and support the continuation of keeping this relevant article upheld, thanks. Piecraft 21:38, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

• VfD: Hen that lays golden eggs - a notable cryptid in fairy tales and the occult is up for the chop without a decent reason. Piecraft 06:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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• VfD: Kuopion Lyseon lukio: One of the highest ranked schools in the nation of Finland! Up for deletion, of course.

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• w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sen'jin Very notable Warcraft character up for deletion

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• List of HTML decimal character references (2nd VFD attempt). This was first VFDd and kept, and a week later, it's already being VFDd again. --Brian0918 16:38, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

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• commons:List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm. Vital importance. This list and others like it are being pushed off of the entire Wikimedia project. It started at Wikipedia, where they were VFDd in favor of moving to Wikisource/Commons. Now they are being VFDd off Wikisource (they don't really belong there, since they are not original source texts), with people there saying they should be on WP/Commons, and it is also being VFDd on Commons, where people don't realize that Commons accepts texts (says so right on the Main Page). This will set a precedent for any lists created by users.

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• w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Defense of the Ancients Notable Warcraft custom map

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• w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Aeon of Strife Notable Warcraft custom map

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• w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Hero Siege Notable Warcraft custom map → No Consensus
• VfD:Sexy Miss Lizz a.k.a. Queen of Farts, An erotic actress specialised in amateur fart pornography.

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• en:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Members of MPA 2005 List of politicians

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• VfD:Amber Rose (porn star) The erotic actress staring in the movie Amber, The Lesbian Queefer.

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• WS VfD: List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm: Deleted from Wikipedia; people said to move it to Wikisource. Now it's being VfD'd on Wikisource.

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• VfD:Amber, The Lesbian Queefer An original "pornographic" queefing movie

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• VfD:David Madden Second Jeopardy contestant ever to win 9 consecutive games.

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• VfD:Comunleng 2 Sent back to VfD after passing a month ago.

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• VfD:Office_Etiquette - Usefull knowledge. So far no good reason to delete, but in majority right now.

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• VfD:Fate of Io - Slightly notable game for being a pioneering open-source project and has a somewhat unique community. Delection on grounds of "non notability".

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• VfU:Topological geometrodynamics - obscure physics topic deleted over a majority of anonymous keep votes by researchers.

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• vfD: Disney DVD

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• I do not know where else to post this but I created a page (Wikipedia:Checkers) that I can understand would need to be deleted; however, the page was blanked out without even being sent through to VfD. THAT is what I have a problem with! Also, Chess is here in the Dep't of Fun and who complains?? 70.152.128.107 20:38, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • It shouldn't have been deleted. Send me a reminder at w:User talk:Brian0918 and I'll restore it. --Brian0918 22:14, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• vfD: Tristan Louis Minor figure in the early fight against regulation of the Internet in the United States.

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• en:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jeffrey W. Parker Notable Fauquier County Circuit Court judge and former law partner of U.S. Senator and possible 2008 Presidential candidate George Felix Allen.

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• en:Assumption by Russia of the Soviet Union's seat in the United Nations Good beginning to a new article on an oft-overlooked legal question that could well affect future successions.

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• en:Protocol Amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936 An important treaty; vfd'ed because RickK thought the name was too long, and wrongly accused the creator of sockpuppetry.

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• en:List of incidents that have been considered great blunders A wonderfully useful article and the subject of a number of books and documentaries. Viciously attacked by deletionists people unaware of the intricacies of the NPOV policy. It does have a few supporters, but our voices are being drowned out. Please help save this article!

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• en:Criticism of the Iraq War

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• VfD: Oh My Gods!

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• VfD: 100 Greatest Cartoons RickK is also claiming that a list of names of cartoons can be copyrighted. -Brian0918

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• en:Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Radio KoL One of the most unique radiostations is listed for deletion. -Grue.

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• en:Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/FlashGet. This is useful download manager software whose article is trying to be deleted. Please help!
• Wikipedia:How to wash your car Maybe they're right with saying that Wikipedia is not a place for how-to's. I hope not...

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• VfD: Ivan Cherevko: Completely correct article, low Google count. Speedied at first, now VfDed.

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• • Comment - As an inclusionist who voted to delete, I ask you to review the article before voting to keep. Matthewcieplak - 128.125.240.137 10:25, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• VfD: F11

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• VfD: Fake news

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• VfD: Eyuboglu High School: A distinguished school in Turkey which offers the International Baccalaureate.

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• VfD: Robert Frost Middle School: A well written article for a noteworthy middle school under attack by deletionists.

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• VfD: Hagen Kleinert: A highly notable German physics professor

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• VfD: Jason Kottke: And another famous individual, highly notable within his field of blogging

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• VfD: paniq: A distinguished demoscene musician out of Germany.

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• VfD:East Leyden High School: And another attempt at censoring another noteworthy highschool.

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• VfD:Horace Mann Elementary School: Yet another school being thrown into the fire by the deletionists.

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• VfD:Terman Middle School: A controversially re-erected middle school, up for deletion. → No Consensus
• VfD:Alexander Graham Bell School: Yet another public school, up for deletion.

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(despite rewrite) 

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Anti-Censorship Yet another censorship attempt.

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• VfD: Claims of hate speach or hate acts against holocaust deniers Although official policy says, don't delete even if POV. Can be merged.

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(decision was to merge, but there was no unique, verifiable content to merge)

• VfD: Norway Model United Nations Society

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• VfU: André Nilsen - chairman of the Oxford Council on Good Governance {{subst:aiw still deleted}}
• VfU: User:IndigoGenius/Micronation - user subpage deleted by VfD
• VfD: Tossed Salad: Yet another example of someone trying to "sanitize" Wikipedia.

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(as of 2004 Dec 11)

Comment: It appears that the concensus was to disambiguate and redirect although this was not done by Pcb21. Someone may want to address this.

• en:Kent Middle School A middle school in California. Might turn into a precedent-setting keep? Dbenbenn 04:18, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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• VfD: Dead This Year, Dead Career, or Allegedly Queer: This is from a nationally-known (USA) radio show.

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• Walmarting
• w:Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Types of Vandalism This is a good article and has legitimate descritions, in-depth, of different types of vandalism. Its link has been removed from Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Vandalism multiple times although it has all the vandalism types listed in the aforementioned page. I do not understand why my page must die! Thanks, MfD'd in Michigan
• AfD: Colors (band) and AfD: Voice Male, two popular music groups in Utah. I don't think people are properly researching the groups before voting to delete.