Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion
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Miscellany for deletion (MfD) is a place where Wikipedians decide what should be done with problematic pages in the namespaces which aren't covered by other specialized deletion discussion areas. Items sent here are usually discussed for seven days; then they are either deleted by an administrator or kept, based on community consensus as evident from the discussion, consistent with policy, and with careful judgment of the rough consensus if required.
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Archived discussions
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Current discussions
[edit]- Pages currently being considered for deletion are indexed by the day on which they were first listed. Please place new listings at the top of the section for the current day. If no section for the current day is present, please start a new section.
July 27, 2026
[edit]ErrorUserNotFound404 (talk) 20:59, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Cowboy Xbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
Article about a made-up character that's been placed under a Wikipedia project page. WP:A11 if it weren't in the project namespace. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 13:57, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
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The result of the discussion was: seek speedy deletion. @Astropulse: There is no need to nominate one's own sandbox (or, generally, other personal subpages) here. Also, in the future, please tag pages nominated at this venue with the appropriate deletion template (i.e. {{mfd}}; you seem to have reverted the notice for some reason) and provide (at least) a basic deletion rationale. That aside, I took the liberty of applying the appropriate criteria for speedy deletion template to the page on your behalf (the page is clearly eligible; however—on the extremely off-chance it is it is declined, I will reopen this discussion). (non-admin closure) — Godsy (TALKCONT) 11:12, 27 July 2026 (UTC) Astropulse (talk) 09:38, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
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page now actually exists... SBF2004 (talk) 02:41, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment you can just request deletion via CSD or by blanking the page since you created the draft. That being said the page that is now in mainspace likely needs to be moved to drafts as this is a clear cut case of WP:TOOSOON all sourcing is just regurgitation of announcements the company has made about it and there is no reliable secondary source showing production has begun. Sulfurboy (talk) 03:22, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment - Would have been eligible for speedy redirection, but is not now due to the initiation of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mobile Suit Gundam RG: XARX-ZERO. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 11:18, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep at this point because the article is not ready for article space, and can be deleted so that this draft can be left as is. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:38, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
July 26, 2026
[edit]- Wikipedia:Wikiproject heritage traffic and looting (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
This would be the root page of an ostensible "Wikiproject heritage traffic and looting", but since a WikiProject is a group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve Wikipedia by focusing on a specific topic area and is not a page, and because there is no such group in reality, this is a fake WikiProject page, i.e., a page representing a non-existent WikiProject in its title. However, regarding its content, it is yet something else: the projectspace analogue of a WP:FAKEARTICLE on the topic of "illegal trafficking of cultural heritage". The content is unsourced, and the page should not be turned into an article. —Alalch E. 12:43, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. I note that several editors contributed to this page, but all on the same day in 2023, and none of them have ever edited Wikipedia since then. The only edit since that day has been the nomination of the page for deletion. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 21:42, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as being either a fake WikiProject or a fake article. Since multiple editors contributed to the page on one day in February 2023, and never came back, this was probably a class project that ended when the class completed. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:33, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Catfurball (talk) 20:46, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
July 24, 2026
[edit]Unsourced BLP draft. Lavalizard101 (talk) WP:SOLIDARITY 10:57, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep. I added a reliable source, [1]. SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:54, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep for now, this draft was only created today and only contains one sentence. The creator has been blocked for username policy violation, but they could come back with a more appropriate username. TruenoCity (talk) 15:33, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep, the reason for deletion having been obviated. As a (sourced though incomplete) draft, it is unremarkable. Martinp (talk) 17:46, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Weak Keep as a useless draft. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:25, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
July 23, 2026
[edit]Sandbox copy-paste of Olivia Rodrigo, undergoing an apparent rewrite to change her name to "Livvy Girl" without adding any reliable sources to support that she uses that name at all (and Google offers up no other verification of any kind either.) It violates WP:BLP to falsely claim that she's known by a name that she isn't known by, and this violates rules about when it is or isn't appropriate to WP:COPYWITHIN as well. Bearcat (talk) 22:51, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as per nominator. Calling a living person by a pet name that they do not use and is not publicly associated with them is a biographies of living persons violation. It isn't important whether there is also a copying violation. BLP is often the quick fail for copying violations. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:16, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:55, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 00:10, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. — Sundostund mppria (talk / contribs) 03:49, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
July 21, 2026
[edit]- Wikipedia:Stern warning about promotion (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
This is a copy of a rude response to a COI editor at the Teahouse. It's not an essay that anyone can edit, because if you change anything, you're changing it to a misquotation. I thought about userifying it, but the page was created by someone other than the author, and the original is in the Teahouse archives anyway, so there's no need for a second copy. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:17, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: @Jéské Couriano should probably know about this, since he's the original author of the text (but isn't the page creator). I also left an mfd notice on the creator's talk page. Chess enjoyer (talk) 21:55, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: I thought it was useful to have this particular response with the other essays. I get that where I have done this, being able to edit changes the original message. But if people don't want it in the essays, then I guess it should go. Is there any place where notable Teahouse responses should go where they can't be edited, or a way to link to the Teahouse archives from where we link to essays?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:19, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- It's only linked on two pages (an AFD comment and on a User_talk: page), and the average page views are about once every two or three days, so I doubt there will be much interest in having links spread around. Anyone who really wants to link it in a comment can link to Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1160#c-Jéské Couriano-20220809232200-Bikashdaga09-20220808062200.
- However, I question whether it would be good judgment to link to it. The situation at hand was a newcomer who had tried to add three (3) sentences to Wikipedia about their ed tech website. The edit got reverted less than 30 seconds later, and the newcomer promptly asked for advice at the Teahouse, where they openly disclosed their COI. Note that they did not revert anyone or say a single unpleasant word.
- The response, however, pretty much violates all of the Teahouse host expectations (which were research-based, BTW):
- Welcome everyone? No, that says that newcomers who disclose a COI are "barely tolerated". It then goes on to threaten a newcomer that a block for Wikipedia:No legal threats (a total overreaction). This is not welcoming behavior.
- Be polite and patient? No, it opens by speaking derogatorily about people's religion ("We're not interested at all in anything...your holy men have to say" – how is that relevant?) and ends with an assertion that the community will cause the newcomer "suffering".
- Keep it simple? No, it's more than 350 words long (roughly six times as long as either of the prior respondents), wanders off into the weeds about irrelevant subjects.
- Avoid over-linking? No, he put 16 links in that comment (IMO only two of them were relevant, and they'd both already been provided by @Cullen328).
- In short, I think this is just an unfortunate outburst, and the sensible, community-oriented thing to do is to remind ourselves that everyone has the occasional bad day, and although it didn't get reverted at the time, we can do our part by never mention its existence again. And possibly by collecting the Teahouse regulars and inquiring whether they need help with enforcing their expectations. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:39, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Insert preface information - This quote which is labeled as an essay is not really an essay and doesn't provide content. It should be preceded by a brief statement about what was asked at the Teahouse to which this was an answer. As an answer to a question, it reflects an attitude toward COI editors that is within the Overton window of attitudes of experienced editors toward COI editing. It is true that many experienced editors barely tolerate COI editors. Sometimes COI editors need to learn sooner rather than later that many experienced editors barely tolerate COI editors. On the one hand, it is true that User:Jéské Couriano broke the etiquette standards of the the Teahouse, but he spoke the truth that would have been welcomed in some other Wikipedia forums. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:56, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. I agree with all arguments from WhatamIdoing. This article does nothing to make Wikipedia a better place. Lova Falk (talk) 05:18, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Weak keep. We have quite a bit of leeway about user essays and redirects. The tone of this response is only slightly more harsh than the much-lauded WP:GOODBIAS. wound theology◈ 11:45, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Wound theology, unlike WP:GOODBIAS, this is neither a WP:USERESSAY nor a WP:REDIRECT. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:15, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- It is at least nominally a user essay and I did not claim it was a redirect. But it there is little difference between a userspace essay with a Wikipedia namespace redirect and an essay just in the Wikipedia namespace. wound theology◈ 00:13, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Wound theology, unlike WP:GOODBIAS, this is neither a WP:USERESSAY nor a WP:REDIRECT. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:15, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment I get this is not a good example of proper Teahouse behavior. It IS, however, a good example of someone getting fed up with promotional editing and I thought it was something some people ought to read. For some people who write promotional articles, it might be the message they need to see. How this would be accomplished, I'm not sure.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:58, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- You created this page two and a half years ago. Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:Stern warning about promotion doesn't show any evidence that you have ever linked to it in any discussion with any individual (whether they write promotional articles or otherwise). WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:23, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep. Not out of line for an essay, and while the (current) words are of one editor (interestingly not the one who memorialized them as an essay), it is a not unreasonable opinion shared by many. Personally, I think this is too harsh, and (admittedly at the risk of creating work for reviewers) it's only right to point COI editors at draftspace as one option. But that's my opinion, and others have different ones, and that's OK. We are struggling what to do with paid and other promotion and it is perfectly reasonable we have a range of opinions and wordings people want to use (e.g. the next one in the MFD queue). I do think either a preface (as @Robert McClenon mentions) or collaborative editing of the text would be helpful, as a good alternative to deletion. The latter, by the way, should of course preserve attribution of the original to Jeske, and not claim to be a quote if the wording is changed; that would the nominator's misquote concern editorially. Martinp (talk) 21:26, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Userfy as a disputed single-author essay. Do not delete because it is a project related essay, and the possible perception of censorship of disliked project opinions is a bigger negative than a long term editor wanting to amplify a rude post by another. “No need” is a very weak argument for deletion. In userspace, it no longer implies the Voice of Wikipedia. Is it too rude? I think it is no more rude than WP:ENC. SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:58, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep in project space noting it has User:Pppery‘s support. SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:28, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep as per Martinp and I don't see the problem with having an essay that takes the kid gloves off; while that phraseology may have been inappropriate in the context of the Teahouse that doesn't mean it's appropriate in other places that might link to it. * Pppery * in solidarity 00:46, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- To be clear I Oppose userfication * Pppery * in solidarity 04:30, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- User:Pppery, why don’t to do a dummy edit and note support? SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:27, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- To be clear I Oppose userfication * Pppery * in solidarity 04:30, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Userfy to allow the page author a reasonable way to refer to the past post of another in a convenient manner as they would seemingly like. This preservation is being used to apparently champion agreement (not ostensibly in a defamatory fashion), leading to few overarching qualms about the situation on my end. There is enough support for it above that I cannot say that the opinion is so poor that it need not be reinvoked. If it gains more traction, then it may be considered for return to the projectspace in the future. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 07:56, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support userfy per nominator and above. I would agree that this doesn't really belong in projectspace as this is not a user essay, and is a poor example of a teahouse response to someone looking to promote on Wikipedia. TruenoCity (talk) 19:54, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. — Sundostund mppria (talk / contribs) 03:51, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete uneditable essay. It is uneditable in a way which circumvents the principle that Wikipedia shall maintain the character of a wiki and therefore does not permit ownership of content (WP:OWN): "All Wikipedia pages … are edited collaboratively by the Wikipedian community of volunteer contributors. No one, no matter what has the right to act as if they are the owner of a particular article (or any part of it)." The design of the page inherently means that the creator is the owner because he created the essay as solely consisting of a quote of a comment, and any edit to the comment would be misquoting the original author, which would be inappropriate. For a page that clearly expresses a viewpoint, and is indeed intended to be read and circulated as an essay, this is not acceptable; essays can represent minority viewpoints, but even as such they still must remain editable and cannot have an owner. As a result of the way this essay has been conceived, it is a page that would have to be editable and is not, and since this is irreconcilable with policy, it should be deleted. As an alternative, I am fine with userfication, but then the essay tag should be removed; instead, the page would be an archive of a single comment.—Alalch E. 13:07, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- There is a similar page in my userspace (User:Alalch E./Everything on the Main Page is featured), which is a copy of a long comment I made, with some formatting added (so that it wouldn't be the wall of text that it originally was) created only so that I could link easier to that comment if needed (and to make it more readable … someone had complained). However, I would welcome edits to this page, and because of OWN, I would never define that content as a quote/archive but as a copy, which then may be further edited by anyone. Essayified comments need to be treated as editable copies of the original talk content, not as special archive pages. —Alalch E. 13:18, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- I just demonstrated that it is editable. Quotations are often preceded by a preamble. SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:41, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- There is a similar page in my userspace (User:Alalch E./Everything on the Main Page is featured), which is a copy of a long comment I made, with some formatting added (so that it wouldn't be the wall of text that it originally was) created only so that I could link easier to that comment if needed (and to make it more readable … someone had complained). However, I would welcome edits to this page, and because of OWN, I would never define that content as a quote/archive but as a copy, which then may be further edited by anyone. Essayified comments need to be treated as editable copies of the original talk content, not as special archive pages. —Alalch E. 13:18, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Catfurball (talk) 20:43, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
Claims that any paid editing is a violation of WP:NOPROMO and is trying to do something which is explicitly forbidden.
Jerod Lycett (talk) 12:54, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- I'm completely baffled by the premise of this MfD. You're welcome to believe my opinion on paid editing is wrong, but it is clearly labelled as precisely that; an essay which is the opinion of one or more editors. What is the actual grounds for deletion here? WP:IDONTLIKEIT isn't a deletion reason. Athanelar (talk) 13:04, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
Essays ... that overtly contradict consensus, belong in the user namespace.
Consensus is that paid editing is allowed, not forbidden. Jerod Lycett (talk) 13:45, 21 July 2026 (UTC)- The sentence you are selectively quoting in the nomination starts with
If you are here to promote a company or individual [...]
. This essays is about expressing an opinion about paid editing and all the wrong reasons to do it that is far from a fringe position among the community. What this essay does not do, is plainly state that "paid editing is not allowed on Wikipedia"; this would beovertly contradict[ing] consensus
. Since it is an essay, it does not have to explain what kind of paid editing is okay or not. I am not sure what you are trying to achieve here, but I seriously urge you to reconsider, because what you are doing in practice is attempting to get rid of a page you disagree with while it contains nothing egregious. If you are seeking userfication, please adjust your nomination to reflect this. Choucas 🐦⬛ 14:27, 21 July 2026 (UTC)- It goes on to state
(and, if they are paying you to write an article about them, or otherwise asking you to do so as part of your capacity as their employee, then you definitely are)
which is stating that all paid editing is promotion, which is against consensus and is assuming bad faith on the part of any and all paid editors. I think that this essay, should it ever be sent to any user again, whether it's in user space or not, would be harmful. It has already once proven harmful. It needs removed to prevent future harm. It would require an entire rewrite with the removal of the core concept (that paid editing is promotion and is thus explicitly forbidden) to not be harmful. So given that I don't want it ever being presented again in order to prevent harm how would userfication meet that goal? I don't think it could, and thus deletion. Jerod Lycett (talk) 14:50, 21 July 2026 (UTC)- @Jerodlycett
It has already once proven harmful
How so? Athanelar (talk) 15:09, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Jerodlycett
- It goes on to state
- The sentence you are selectively quoting in the nomination starts with
- Comment this is an essay. I notice that you did not try to open a discussion on its talk page, or discussed your concerns with the creator of the essay, and instead immediately nominated it for deletion. If at least you had indicated in the nomination that you were seeking userfication, that could still have been fine by me; but since you did not, I think this is a pretty unfriendly way to go. Choucas 🐦⬛ 13:04, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep now that the nominator has made clear that zie is looking for deletion and not userfication. Were future consensus to bend towards userfication I would not be opposed to it; but deletion is a step too far and I am thoroughly unconvinced by the rationale presented above. Choucas 🐦⬛ 15:06, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep. Here's what the page creator says about the essay:
Basically a more 'sympathetic' combo of WP:YESPROMO and WP:PRPEOPLE to explain to corpo editors why this is the wrong place for what they're doing and they're wasting everybody's time by doing it
. As someone who tutored paid public relations professional User:CorporateM (in many ways a better wikipedian than I), my opinion is that this essay is totally in bounds. My other opinion is that formal processes are best commenced with attention to proper grammar, so the nominator's intent is made clear. BusterD (talk) 15:41, 21 July 2026 (UTC) - Keep per BusterD and this discussion at ANI.In solidarity, Miniapolis 22:12, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep, speedy close, and trout for the nom for what is blatantly a nomination on the basis of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:19, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep - I am puzzled about the references to things that are not permitted. Paid editing is not forbidden, only discouraged, and required to be disclosed. This essay correctly states that. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:38, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep. I find this a very helpful guide. Most paid editors fail at it, especially at submitting articles, this is just being honest. 331dot (talk) 11:51, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep - Essays are given a lot of leeway. This does not seem to anywhere close to the line where a consideration of deletion (or userfication) is merited. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 07:35, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
July 20, 2026
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The result of the discussion was: delete. RL0919 (talk) 20:24, 27 July 2026 (UTC) Promotional Sandbox, g11 declined. Lavalizard101 (talk) WP:SOLIDARITY 12:08, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
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July 19, 2026
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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Chess enjoyer (talk) 03:32, 27 July 2026 (UTC) Shkuru Afshar (talk · contribs) sent this draft to AfD with the rationale
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