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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.

Filtered versions of the page are available at

Information on the process

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What may be nominated for deletion here:

  • Pages not covered by other XFD venues, including pages in these namespaces: Draft:, Help:, Portal:, MediaWiki:, Wikipedia: (including WikiProjects), User:, TimedText:, MOS:,[a] Event: and the various Talk: namespaces
  • Userboxes, regardless of the namespace
  • File description pages when the file itself is hosted on Commons
  • Any other page, that is not in article space, where there is dispute as to the correct XFD venue.

Requests to undelete pages deleted after discussion here, and debate whether discussions here have been properly closed, both take place at Wikipedia:Deletion review, in accordance with Wikipedia's undeletion policy.

Notes

  1. ↑ The vast majority of pages in the MOS: namespace are redirects, which should be discussed at RfD. MfD is only applicable for the handful of its non-redirect pages.

Before nominating a page for deletion

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Before nominating a page for deletion, please consider these guidelines:

Deleting pages in your own userspace
  • If you want to have your own userpage or a draft you created deleted, there is no need to list it here; simply tag it with {{db-userreq}} or {{db-u1}} if it is a userpage, or {{db-author}} or {{db-g7}} if it is a draft. If you wish to clear your user talk page or sandbox, just blank it.
Deletions in draftspace
  • Unlike articles, drafts are generally not deleted solely due to lack of demonstrated notability or context.
  • Drafts that have not been edited in six months may be deleted under criterion for speedy deletion G13 and do not need nomination here.
  • Duplications in draftspace are usually satisfactorily fixed by redirection. If the material is in mainspace, redirect the draft to the article, or a section of the article. If multiple draft pages on the same topic have been created, tag them for merging. See WP:SRE.
  • For further information on draft deletion, including when nomination here is appropriate, see WP:NMFD
Deleting pages in other people's userspace
  • Consider explaining your concerns on the user's talk page with a personal note or by adding {{subst:Uw-userpage}} ~~~~  to their talk page. This step assumes good faith and civility; often the user is simply unaware of the guidelines, and the page can either be fixed or speedily deleted using {{db-userreq}}.
  • Take care not to bite newcomers – sometimes using the {{subst:welcome}} or {{subst:welcomeg}} template and a pointer to WP:UP would be best first.
  • Problematic userspace material is often addressed by the User pages guidelines including in some cases removal by any user or tagging to clarify the content or to prevent external search engine indexing. (Examples include copies of old, deleted, or disputed material, problematic drafts, promotional material, offensive material, inappropriate links, 'spoofing' of the MediaWiki interface, disruptive HTML, invitations or advocacy of disruption, certain kinds of images and image galleries, etc) If your concern relates to these areas consider these approaches as well, or instead of, deletion.
  • User pages about Wikipedia-related matters by established users usually do not qualify for deletion.
  • Articles that were recently deleted at AfD and then moved to userspace are generally not deleted unless they have lingered in userspace for an extended period of time without improvement to address the concerns that resulted in their deletion at AfD, or their content otherwise violates a global content policy such as our policies on Biographies of living persons that applies to any namespace.
Policies, guidelines and process pages
  • Established pages and their sub-pages should not be nominated, as such nominations will probably be considered disruptive, and the ensuing discussions closed early. This is not a forum for modifying or revoking policy. Instead consider tagging the page as {{historical}} and/or moving it into the historical archive, or redirecting it somewhere.
  • Proposals still under discussion generally should not be nominated. If you oppose a proposal, discuss it on the policy page's discussion page. Consider being bold and improving the proposal. Modify the proposal so that it gains consensus. Also note that even if a policy fails to gain consensus, it is often useful to retain it as a historical record, for the benefit of future editors.
WikiProjects and their subpages
  • It is generally preferable that inactive WikiProjects not be deleted, but instead be marked as {{WikiProject status|inactive}}, redirected to a relevant WikiProject, or changed to a task force of a parent WikiProject, unless the WikiProject was incompletely created or is entirely undesirable.
  • WikiProjects that were never very active and which do not have substantial historical discussions (meaning multiple discussions over an extended period of time) on the project talk page should not be tagged as {{historical}}; reserve this tag for historically active projects that have, over time, been replaced by other processes or that contain substantial discussion (as defined above) of the organization of a significant area of Wikipedia. Before deletion of an inactive project with a founder or other formerly active members who are active elsewhere on Wikipedia, consider moving it into the historical archive, or userfication.
  • Notify the main WikiProject talk page when nominating any WikiProject subpage, in addition to standard notification of the page creator.
Alternatives to deletion
  • Normal editing that does not require the use of any administrator tools, such as merging the page into another page or renaming it, can often resolve problems.
  • Pages in the wrong namespace (e.g. an article in Wikipedia namespace), can simply be moved and then tag the redirect for speedy deletion using {{db-g6|rationale= it's a redirect left after a cross-namespace move}}. Notify the author of the original article of the cross-namespace move.
Alternatives to MfD
  • Speedy deletion If the page clearly satisfies a "general" or "user" speedy deletion criterion, tag it with the appropriate template. Be sure to read the entire criterion, as some do not apply in the user space.

Please familiarize yourself with the following policies

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How to list pages for deletion

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Please check the aforementioned list of deletion discussion areas to check that you are in the right area. Then follow these instructions:

Administrator instructions

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XFD backlog
V Jul Aug Sep Oct Total
CfD 24 15 76 0 115
TfD 0 0 44 0 44
MfD 0 0 0 0 0
FfD 0 27 22 0 49
RfD 0 0 54 0 54
AfD 0 0 11 0 11

Administrator instructions for closing and relisting discussions can be found here.

Archived discussions

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A list of archived discussions can be located at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates.

Current discussions

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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.

October 2, 2026

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User:Apsarastotle/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

U7 declined, AI-generated essay. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 09:00, 2 October 2026 (UTC)reply

Speedy delete/Speedy redirect to Khmer Empire: For speedy delete, G15. For speedy redirect, it is an essay about the Khmer Empire, and we have article about that, so it's best to redirect it there. Guythatlikeshorses2talk 10:28, 2 October 2026 (UTC)reply
It doesn't qualify for G15. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 10:42, 2 October 2026 (UTC)reply
Keep. A user sandbox, which can plausibly be notes for their encyclopedic editing. No disruption asserted in the deletion nomination, so no reason to delete. Creator has made encyclopedic edits, which is why U7 got declined. Not unambiguous enough as LLM use for a G15. If creator goes inactive, U6 will take care of it in due course, in the meanwhile it is harmless. (General comment: LLM use is harmful when it gets into Main or Wikipedia space, or if it is used in inter-user communications. It is not worth seeking out in user sandboxes, which are a form of jot notes. If a user chooses to use an LLM in their preparatory notes, and then checks the results and rewrites it in their encyclopedic editing, nothing bad has happened.) Martinp (talk) 13:26, 2 October 2026 (UTC)reply

October 1, 2026

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AELECT header subpages

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Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Header (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)
Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Header (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Header (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Header (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Header (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)​
(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) In solidarity, Gommeh (talk 🎮 sign) 20:15, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) — Godsy (TALKCONT) 05:27, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply

See Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections#Header subpage. This means that Wikipedia:Administrator elections/March 2027/Header (for the March 2027 elections) would never need to be created. GTrang (talk) 15:27, 9 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Delete, per the rationale given in my original post at WT:AELECT. I also wouldn't object to expediting with G6 and G7 as suggested above. Mr. Starfleet Command (talk) 16:59, 9 September 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Merge: If a new, more general header already exists, it's best to merge the rest of the headers simply for the fact that the headers listed here are technically subheaders.
🐴🌀[citation needed] 21:55, 9 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Archive, do not delete. Archive, whether by blanking and tagging as an archive, or by converting to a redirect. They have non-trivial histories, so G6 should not be used. Deletion of once-functional project pages should be reserved for things that should never have been created. Administrator elections are a whole community matter, and so hiding some of the history from nonadmins is a bad thing to do. SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:43, 10 September 2026 (UTC)reply
@SmokeyJoe: Deletion of once-functional project pages should be reserved for things that should never have been created. So you're ok with deleting the most recent one, then? It never had utility and was created in error (a perfectly reasonable mistake, of course); in fact the author indicated that she would be fine if it were G7ed. And it was the only one I initially suggested should be deleted before this discussion was formally opened.
Just seeking clarity on your stance :) Mr. Starfleet Command (talk) 21:52, 10 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Yes. The last one was not used, was made by mistake, and the author consents (its G7 eligible). SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:24, 10 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Godsy (TALKCONT) 05:27, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, In solidarity, Gommeh (talk 🎮 sign) 20:15, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Gommeh/Archives/2025/February
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure) Wikipedian Talk to me! or not… 21:30, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply

User talk:Gommeh/Archives/2025/February (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

This page is just a duplicate of User talk:Gommeh/Archives/2015/August, no reason to duplicate it. In solidarity, Gommeh (talk 🎮 sign) 20:40, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply

Withdrawing. In solidarity, Gommeh (talk 🎮 sign) 20:46, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
May I ask why you decided to instantly withdraw it?
Wikipedian Talk to me! or not… 21:24, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
@Gommeh: Nevermind.
Wikipedian Talk to me! or not… 21:27, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:30 September 2026 Israel-bound flight incident
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: speedy redirect to Flydubai Flight 1073 (WP:SRE). No prejudice against a speedy deletion per G15 if the draft would have met that criterion. @Dclemens1971: No prejudice against a speedy renomination at RfD, if desired (that venue is much better suited to deliberate if LLM-content within redirect page histories poses a reasonable risk of migrating to the mainspace). (non-admin closure) — Godsy (TALKCONT) 04:25, 2 October 2026 (UTC)reply

Draft:30 September 2026 Israel-bound flight incident (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

AI-generated fork/duplicate of an article that already exists at Flydubai Flight 1073. (WP:AISIGNS are present in prose and one source URL doesn't exist.) In addition to the WP:NOLLM violation, there is no reason to keep this draft around as a temptation for someone else to move to mainspace. Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:14, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply

Speedy close followed by redirect as an editorial action. No reason under the circumstances to spend days discussing here, especially in a fast moving topic. Let's just get everyone working on the same article. One is not supposed to move or redirect a page while a discussion is in progress, so the quickest solution would be for @Dclemens1971 to withdraw his nomination, allowing a speedy close, and a noncontroversial redirect from the draft to the article to then be put in place. Martinp (talk) 13:53, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
A redirect can be done from the mainspace version of this title, but it would be good to have the AI-generated content deleted to help prevent its migration to mainspace content, and consensus is required for that. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:00, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
I would just blank it, with an explanatory comment, and a friendly note to the creator. Not sure expunging from history warrants keeping it around for days and having a discussion? For the record, I'm fine deleting it if a discussion is warranted/required; I may be missing something. Martinp (talk) 14:23, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
DeletePer above. already an article. Magikarp Fan, Arenghtqru888 lol ( hopefully I don't get trouted...) 19:35, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
Speedy redirect to Flydubai Flight 1073: If a page with the same topic gets made, it’s best to redirect it to the original, especially if the dupe is LLM generated Guythatlikeshorses2talk 21:55, 1 October 2026 (UTC)reply
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September 29, 2026

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Draft:Dead is not enoug. (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:NOT - Uploader's personal screenplay. Will never make it out of draft space. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:59, 29 September 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Weak Keep - Drafts that will never make it out of draft space will never make it out of draft space. Nominating them for MFD uses more editor time to review them than is used in allowing them to be ignored and expire. Most of the criteria for What Wikipedia Is Not are reasons for declining or rejecting drafts rather than deleting them. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:02, 29 September 2026 (UTC)reply

September 28, 2026

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Talk:Monty Hall problem/RfC (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Created 14 years ago while we were trying to decide how to word an RfC. I now know to do this sort of thing in my userspace. Alas, a now-blocked IP added a comment, so not eligible for a G7 speedy. Guy Macon (talk) 19:44, 28 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Archive: Because we know how RFC’s can be worded, it is safe to archive. Don’t delete though, since this could be a bit beneficial to some. 🐴🌀[citation needed] 21:54, 28 September 2026 (UTC)reply

September 27, 2026

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Draft:Diploma in Building Surveying (Glasgow) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Was deleted by G13 several times after being restored through RFU. Latest RFU was declined. This isn't going anywhere. SALT recommended. - In solidarity, UtherSRG (talk) 03:00, 27 September 2026 (UTC)reply

September 26, 2026

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Draft:William J Kincaid, Retired USAF WSO (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:NOTFORUM International Fujita scale (talk) 11:45, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Same !vote as here. 🐴🌀[citation needed] 21:49, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Draft:John Lynch (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:NOTFORUM International Fujita scale (talk) 11:42, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Wikipedia:Fundraising/issues (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

LLM-written. Signs: bolded text, numbered headings, and "code to copy" intended as a message to the LLM user. This is not worth keeping in Wikipedia namespace, is inappropriate as a subpage of Wikipedia:Fundraising, and as the product of an LLM and not a human is not worth keeping as even a user page.

Note that Sohom_Datta attempted to blank and redirect this article on July 5, 2026, to User:Guy Macon/Wikipedia has Cancer but this was reverted by the original author. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 04:36, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Nota bene* Speedy delete: This falls under G15, but this is subject to change in the future.
🐴🌀[citation needed] 05:36, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Keep Very serious project topic that outweighs the LLM allegation. SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:32, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Speedy delete: G15. A non-LLM version can and absolutely does exist.
Wikipedian Talk to me! or not… 09:40, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Speedy delete per above; G15 —Leaf.Sheap ⇖ /.°°.\ ⇗ (They•Them) 20:56, 27 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete per G15, as much as I recognize that this is a topic that some folks would like to keep around, I don't see this LLM barf of mismatched arguments being useful to community. -- Sohom (talk) 11:46, 28 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete per all of the above. Also, looking at the what links here page and the implausibility of this as a search term, I oppose redirecting this to WP:CANCER. I have stashed away a copy and will eventually get around to searching it to see if there is a Shetland pony hiding under this pile of manure that I can use in my essay, but don't hold your breath. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:25, 29 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Thank you.
I support more attention on the financial issues you’ve raise, and so balked at speedy deleting some in the space.
Delete per User:Guy Macon. SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:30, 29 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Comment: Technically, this doesn’t fall under G15, as G15 is only reserved for where there are unmistakable clear‐cut signs of LLM usage, and there’s a weak argument to be made that “code to copy” is also intended for anyone wanting to know what to copy to show solidarity. Wikipedian Talk to me! or not… 02:29, 30 September 2026 (UTC)reply
WP:G15 is about obvious AI generation and we can come to a consensus about obvious AI generation even without the traditional AI signs. Sohom (talk) 09:17, 30 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Just nuke it. Obvious AI is obvious. Obvious WP:LOUT is obvious. Obvious attempt to hide this page among the legit pages listed at is obvious. --Guy Macon (talk) 12:10, 30 September 2026 (UTC)reply

September 25, 2026

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:The Greenfield rule
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: delete. Salvio giuliano 11:12, 2 October 2026 (UTC)reply

Wikipedia:The Greenfield rule (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Does not have content after 6 years despite author claiming content is comming soon ibicdlcod (talk) 10:43, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Delete. Abandoned with no content ever provided. This is sufficiently rare we don't have a CSD for this (A3 applies only in article space), so an MfD discussion is the appropriate mechanism for getting rid of it, but it's pretty noncontroversial I think. Martinp (talk) 13:49, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Now that you mention it, why isn't there a G version of A3? 🐴🌀[citation needed] 21:40, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Probably because this is rare in project space, can be ignored in user space, and will expire in draft space. So there are few enough cases where such a criterion would be useful that it isn't worth amending A3 into GN. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:20, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete uncontroversial cleanup of a page with no content TruenoCity (talk) 16:21, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Userfy. Unworthy of projectspace, it should never have been put there. Stuff like this belongs in userspace. SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:39, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Red XN Delete: Basically a draft version of A3. It isn't A3 itself, due to it being a draft, but it is close to qualifying it for. 🐴🌀[citation needed] 00:13, 26 September 2026 (UTC)reply
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Draft:How to download new versions of Minecraft (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Wikipedia is not a how-to guide. |)are2|_eap (Talk) 07:11, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Red XN Delete: Nominator has a point.
🐴🌀[citation needed] 07:40, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Magikarp Fan, Arenghtqru888 lol ( hopefully I don't get trouted...) 20:03, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Delete per NOTHOWTO. it’s not that this draft is offensive, but Wikipedia has a purpose, and this is outside of that purpose. SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:32, 25 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Old business

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Closed discussions

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates