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This page hosts local (i.e., Meta-Wiki) requests for page deletion. For requests for speedy deletion from global sysops or stewards, see Steward requests/Miscellaneous. Any language may be used on this page. Before commenting on this page, please read the deletion policy, in particular the criteria for speedy deletion, and the inclusion policy. Please place the template {{RFD}} on the page you are proposing for deletion, and then add an entry in an appropriate section below. As a courtesy, you may wish to inform the principal authors of the page about the request. After at least one week, an administrator will close and carry out the consensus or majority decision.

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Pages

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Meta:Only edit vandalism

No purpose, possibly negative effects. It isn't clearly enough out of scope for me to feel comfortable deleting it without discussion. Best, Vermont (talk) 01:54, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Argeed. Was considering RfDing this myself. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:00, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - not humorous at all and it is really counterproductive. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:02, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
delete ^^^ — billinghurst sDrewth 12:30, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – agreed. Hulged (talk) 11:37, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pages in Category:GlobalWiki test wiki pages

Out of scope of meta. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 10:54, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

delete ... seems way ahead of itself. No requirement for proof of concept, we know what a wiki looks like. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:29, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yup. Delete * Pppery * _{it has begun} 18:34, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete --MdsShakil (talk) 10:29, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Templates

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Template:JS migration

Per w:Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 March 21#Template:JS migration * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:56, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What about the pages where it is still in "use"? --MF-W 22:59, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It does nothing other than populate a maintenance category which is now useless (for the reasons I explained on enwiki) and should be removed in all of those cases. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 04:16, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Removed the template from some pages, but really a bot would be helpful. --MF-W 16:20, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I may be able to run a bot job on this soon. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:44, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned documentation pages

Template:BreakChar/doc
Template:Evaluation/Categories/Template/doc
- Agree, created in 2017 when it was documenting a former template (already deleted now). verdy_p (talk) 19:44, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Evaluation/Activity/Entry/doc
Template:Translation request/Languages/doc

Documentation pages of templates that have already been deleted (1, 2, 3, 4). Serve no purpose any more. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:06, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – no purpose to be kept here. Hulged (talk) 11:46, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Portal

Useless imported template, Meta doesn't even have a portal namespace. I generally have been tagging these as {{looks useless}}, but this one is actually used, albeit on pages that were blindly copied from other wikis and usually contain a ton of redlinked templates. If this is deleted, then the use on Category:Language templates should be removed, and the other uses can stay as is (since they are already broken) * Pppery * _{it has begun} 01:54, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Weather box

Template:Weather box (and its doc page)

Useless, almost-out-of-scope template dependent on module that seems to have never existed. This was previously used on 3 pages (Wikimania 2014 bids/Arusha, Wikimania 2015 bids/Arusha, Wikimania 2015 bids/Dar es Salaam), each of which was causing a script error, and I replaced them with the wikitable produced by expanding the template on the English Wikipedia. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 00:15, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

delete not needed — billinghurst sDrewth 12:34, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Indefblocked/sandbox

Q28 is the only contributer. TylerMagee (talk) 10:50, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep - invalid reason for deletion. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:01, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy keep What's wrong with Q28 being the only contributor? SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 07:05, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral It seems unclear that if such /sandbox subpages are required dynamically cleanup or not here. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:12, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

keep it is a sandbox to an existing template, why would we delete a sandbox? Seems pointless. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:32, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Collection

No idea what is this about, clearly without any purpose. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:13, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete OOS. SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 07:06, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

delete — billinghurst sDrewth 12:33, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, aren't some Wikibooks sites have this template? Though, as spammly created, I prefer delete. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template:114

Do we have any ideas on how VoIP service links are necessary on Meta? This template is nonsense to me if there aren't. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:35, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Categories

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Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016

It does not look like this one is any different from Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon 2016, and the main category is named Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon without a mention of Nepal. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:59, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally listing Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016/ne. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:16, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Nirmal Dulal: can you help sort this one out? — xaosflux ^Talk 00:57, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think We can keep main category (Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon) and a new category named Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon in Nepal for specifying the country which organizing the event and delete empty categories. Nirmal Dulal (talk) 05:24, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! @1234qwer1234qwer4: any concerns left to just deleted the now empty collection here? — xaosflux ^Talk 12:46, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In case we are indeed dropping the by-year categorisation, then no. The following categories could be deleted then:

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 16:14, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates/Tabs

These aren't templates, and I'm not sure what this has to do with "tabs". Looks like all of these can be recategorised under Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter, which only cointains Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates at the moment, though it might be worth renaming it to Category:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group in line with the mainspace pages. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:08, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you insist to delete, it then at least can we simply rename it to Category:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group without moving, just so we can keep all the subpages intact? -—M@sssly^✉ 17:53, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I don't understand your request. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:06, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rename the categories to User Group rather than Chapter; and move everything in /Templates/Tabs to Category:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. (since they aren't templates; only the header/footer directly under Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates are. –SJ talk 18:47, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Category:Tools or Category:Tools and scripts

Currently, we have the two categories Category:Tools and Category:Tools and scripts, which are only linked to each other by a "see also" hatnote. The first one is categorised under Category:Software and Category:Infrastructure, while the second one belongs to Category:Documentation. Judging by the name though, it looks that both have essentially the same scope, so this splitting makes pages harder to find. While "Tools" is shorter and more concise, "Tools and scripts" appears to be slightly more inclusive, as well as having a significantly higher number of translations. I would lean towards deleting/redirecting the first one, though I am open to see additional arguments here. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:23, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are there anyone have ideas on how can a bot script or template populates one of both? If no such scripts or templates, I prefer merge 1st to 2nd. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:27, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:MassMessage

Seems redundant to Category:Global message delivery. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:24, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It exists due to Category:MassMessage/Translations and someone created the parent. So we probably need to find the automated categorisation and change that to Category:Global message delivery/Translations, and then do away with the subcat. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:46, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikidata Users

Misspelt and less populated version of Category:Wikidata users, created by the same editor. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:40, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can be converted into a redirect. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 13:15, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

deleted no value in a redirect to essentially same name — billinghurst sDrewth 12:37, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion is closed and will be archived shortly. Please do not modify it. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:56, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:দপ্তর সম্পাদক

Google translates this as "Office secretary", so I suppose the more specific (and populated) Category:Wikimedia Bangladesh Online Meeting already covers this aspect of categorisation. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:44, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

deleted --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 08:53, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion is closed and will be archived shortly. Please do not modify it. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:56, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Templates using ParserFunctions

Per w:Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 21#Category:Templates using ParserFunctions. The category's text even acknowledges its own obsolescence. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 19:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Pppery: still populated. Let us have a solution for the contents first. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:48, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just remove them? * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Support and Safety

SuSa renamed to T&S and the category has been empty ever since. Propose to remove it from translation and delete the subpages while redirecting this to Category:Trust and Safety. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 02:00, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all "translations", no senses for keeping. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:37, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Files

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Redirects

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Meta:Home

Meaningless redirect, main page isn't a homepage for Meta Namespace, it's for all namespaces. The redirect shouldn't exist in meta namespace anyway. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:12, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete pointless redirect. SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 07:06, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

deleted by Billinghurst. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion is closed and will be archived shortly. Please do not modify it. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:56, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Meta:Title blacklist

Title Blacklist isn't a meta blacklist, this makes no sense to redirect. It's also confusing per say. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:12, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

deleted by Billinghurst. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion is closed and will be archived shortly. Please do not modify it. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:56, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Meta:Page collection list

Useless crossnamespace redirect, clearly won't be used. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:12, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

deleted by Billinghurst. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion is closed and will be archived shortly. Please do not modify it. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:56, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for undeletion

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I just became aware of someone who prides himself in deleting Wikipedia articles and brags about it. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kgf0#Significant_contributions. If you go to this site you will see my name no. 17 Joe Zias in which the culprit brags about deleting much of what was written about me. I ask that the wikipedia article which was originally written about me reappear as it was.