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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 Jun Jul Aug Sep Total
CfD 0 65 104 63 232
TfD 0 0 0 14 14
MfD 0 0 0 0 0
FfD 0 0 30 22 52
RfD 0 0 0 39 39
AfD 0 0 0 116 116

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.

September 24, 2026

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MOS:Shark teeth with alphabets
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 delete per WP:G2. RL0919 (talk) 21:05, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply

MOS:Shark teeth with alphabets (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Not a page suitable for the MOS namespace, as it has nothing to do with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Mathguy2718 (talk) 03:00, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Ignore: This is probably G2, but also do note that WP:LUDA exist. Otherwise Delete or Sandboxify
🐴🌀[citation needed] 06:26, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
This looks like Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Gsthae with tempo!. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 10:06, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Speedy delete as a test page (G2) by either a new or long-term-abusive user. Martinp (talk) 10:44, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.

September 23, 2026

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Draft:Radarkpop (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

This is a non-notable news website that has been rejected, then deleted by the creator, then recreated and rejected again, but the page creator (who eventually declared their COI after much pulling of teeth) is still wasting everyone's time by continuing to work on the draft (edit for clarification: and repeatedly asking editors to undo the rejection after being told to stop working on the draft, see User talk:Panecashio#September 2026, Draft talk:Radarkpop#COI Edit Request: Review New Sources to Overturn Rejection, User talk:Helpful Raccoon#Draft:Radarkpop), which in this case means adding obvious spam as references. They asked on my talk page to overturn the rejection , I said no and that they should stop working on the draft, then afterwards they added even more spammy sources. The most recent one was published hours before it was added to the draft , indicating the creator is specifically asking people to publish spam in an attempt to get the draft approved. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 17:39, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Ignore Let the creator work on his draft. The "spam" he might be adding could be placeholders to new sources. And please also see WP:LUDA. Delete: Due to the tendentious history shown below, I have striken out my previous comment and had changed my !vote to Delete.
🐴🌀[citation needed] 22:13, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Very weak ignore (keep). This is borderline for the "tendentious resubmission" reason that blasts through WP:LUDA and provides a reason for deleting a draft. I can't compare the text that was deleted on Aug 29 (nor do I want to spend the time to do so...) so no opinion whether the most recent submission on Sept 10 was arguably disruptive already. However, you noncontroversially rejected it (again). The creator's continued editing of the draft since then, no matter how spammy, is pretty harmless in draftspace until and unless they'd make another poorly sourced AfC submission, and may harmlessly expire with a G13 in a few months time. So, narrowly, I end up on suggesting to let it be for now. Martinp (talk) 23:18, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
The disruption comes from repeatedly asking people to undo the rejection (which I didn't make clear in my nomination), so WP:LUDA does not apply. Draft talk:Radarkpop#COI Edit Request: Review New Sources to Overturn Rejection and User talk:Helpful Raccoon#Draft:Radarkpop, as well as the long discussion at User talk:Panecashio#September 2026, all occurred after my rejection. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 23:40, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Panecashio also created and attempted to submit Draft:Radarkpop (website)Draft:Radarkpop (website) after my rejection. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 00:31, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
The August 29 deletion was of a redirect-from-move to Draft:Radarkpop (K-Pop Radar). The G4 in that title's logs apparently refers to Radarkpop (Independent) (AfD discussion); the draft itself was only tagged G7. Those, the September 6 version deleted here, and the current version all have different text and references; all but the mainspace version were substantially shorter than the current, and of the refs I clicked on - one chosen arbitrarily from each version - only this from the other draft title so much as mentioned the subject.
The post-afd pattern here has clearly been to submit, then G7 and try again after each version has been declined or rejected a couple times. I count eight declines/rejections from eight different reviewers going back to August 2 on Draft:Radarpop (Independent) (sic); that's more than enough for me. —Cryptic 01:03, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Interesting, I didn't realize the history was this long. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 01:01, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Striking my keep and !voting Delete per the longer tendentious history described above. Martinp (talk) 10:40, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete as tendentious, per nom, per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Radarkpop (Independent), and due to the current references being WP:Reference bombing. Advise the proponent to not try again with any more than the WP:THREE best sources. SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:48, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Draft:The best school (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

I was too vague with my previous CSD. In an effort to not look like a knucklehead, I'll just say what I meant; G11, only promotitive. | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 12:10, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Delete, a “test”, and is not a draft. SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:04, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
WP:G2 applies. SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:39, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Neutral This would probably not be WP:G11 either, as it is not very clear what this would have been promoting (maybe Monifieth High School?). This seems more like some test edit by an unlogged user and not any genuine attempt of a draft, but leave useless drafts alone. TruenoCity (talk) 14:26, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
yes, that what I meant it was promoting. | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 16:56, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Actually Delete per WP:G2, and the spirit of WP:G13 if it goes undeleted by the time 7 days pass as mentioned in my other comment TruenoCity (talk) 02:22, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Question If the draft was left untouched, it would have been automatically deleted around September 28 as the last edit before was on April 1. If no one makes any edits by the time this MFD ends, should we delete per the spirit of G13? The only edits made since were a declined CSD nomination and this MFD nomination. TruenoCity (talk) 14:26, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
I do think those count towards delaying G13 sadly | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 16:56, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Note that I've successfully modified the G13 criteria recently so that a MfD nomination does not itself reset the G13 clock. But a substantive CSD rejection does. Nevertheless, absent an unexpected argument, I'd be supportive of deleting this per the spirit of G13, as well as the other substantive arguments here, at the end of the discussion period (which will be after Sept 28). @OneReaction5890, welcome to deletion; it takes a while to learn some of the arcane stuff. I wouldn't be surprised that a clearly articulated G2 or a G11 speedy deletion nomination (rather than the nonspecific one you made) would have been successful. But if you nominate here, expect a discussion, and expect people to say their own stuff in their own words in a way that is a lot slower and more deliberative than a concise, criteria-specifying CSD nomination. For the record, I agree with a Delete. Martinp (talk) 23:26, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Don't worry, this isn't my first rodeo- although I may need to take a few more rodeos so I have experience. | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 13:50, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Speedy Delete per G2. This page is clearly a test page.The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 20:42, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Move to sandbox: Not G11, but probably G2. Sandboxifying the page would be the best decision when it come to the fate of this page. 🐴🌀[citation needed] 22:16, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
This draft was created and only edited by a temp account, so there is no user to sandboxify it to. TruenoCity (talk) 02:25, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply

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.) — 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
User:Josjh97/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:UP#GOALS - only mainspace edit by editor was this vandal edit. Bungle491 (talk) 05:21, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Comment - The original version of the sandbox seems to potentially contain content covering a rugby competitor who is a minor, see Special:Diff/1370245007. The new content seems to be a weird template-esque outline of coverage regarding the court case (real or not) of an individual. Thus, quite a broad range of things occurring in this sandbox. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 05:44, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Ignore: Even though the user has made one vandal on a mainspace article, and the weird layout of the sandbox, try seeing WP:LUDA. I think this user might update the draft soon, but if anything else happens, please notify me.
🐴🌀[citation needed] 07:08, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Ignore, i.e. Keep. A newish user has made a single and ill-advised edit to mainspace. The proper response is not to nuke their harmless user sandbox, but to hope that their next mainspace edit is better. (BTW, I would not be surprised editing-under-the-influence is a factor here). If the user does not become a editor, U6 will eventually delete this sandbox anyway. Martinp (talk) 10:55, 23 September 2026 (UTC)reply

September 21, 2026

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User:Ria Jordan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:STALEDRAFT (19 years old) GoingBatty (talk) 00:13, 21 September 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Blank with {{userspace blanked}} if desired. Not of poor enough character or repugnant enough quality to warrant deletion here, and there is no time limit (contemplating whether a subject may or may not ever rise to mainspace standards is not a task this venue is fond of taking up). Blanking also remedies any potential fake article concerns (given that the username is similar to the topic at hand), a yet un-raised concern which I am sympathetic to. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 04:22, 21 September 2026 (UTC)reply
  • As per the page cited in the nomination: if the draft is not problematic (e.g. no BLP, reliability, promotional issues) but not ready for mainspace, let it be. Agree with blanking given there are no citations, though. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 12:14, 21 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Blank with userspace blanked, there is a case for a WP:FAKEARTICLE here but I don't think it's worth deleting. -Samoht27, forever with the workingfellow. (talk! and see!) ( 14:51, 21 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Blank with userspace blank: This nominated page is a userspace, meaning no time limit is imposed, but at the same time, it has no citations and fails WP:FAKEARTICLE, so blanking it is honestly the best option. 🐴🌀[citation needed] 21:34, 21 September 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete as fake information. There is no sitcom Shelby, and no such character. This is enough of a problem to justify deletion, although next time, just blank these things on discovery, without fanfare. SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:58, 24 September 2026 (UTC)reply

September 19, 2026

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Draft:BURGA (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Straight advertising, and it probably meets G11, plus the user who created the page was blocked, and this draft is straight up unsuitable. Cosmic-840≈ ● ✒️ 14:24, 19 September 2026 (UTC)reply

It is quite simply bolded text (''' ''') with a bulletpoint (*). 🫀 Crash // Organhaver ( it / he | talk to me, maybe? ) 20:25, 20 September 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Keep. This is most certainly not G11, at least from the standards of the page I saw. Unless this draft was created in violation of the user's block (per G5), then there is absolutely no reason for deletion.
    A draft being "unsuitable" is not a reason it itself for deletion. Please also see WP:Leave useless drafts alone, and correct me if I'm wrong for any of this. 🫀 Crash // Organhaver ( it / he | talk to me, maybe? ) 23:37, 19 September 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Ignore. It has been REJECTED, with no further edits. This is standard AfC processing. Don’t rob the author and spectators of being able to read the Reject notice. MfD is the next step after they keep working poorly with it. SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:19, 20 September 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Ignore - There is no need to delete drafts that have already been rejected once, unless the draft is tendentiously resubmitted. Rejected drafts that are ignored for six months will go away. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:50, 20 September 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Ignore, i.e. Keep, per WP:LUDA. If it doesn't actually qualify under G11 (and in my opinion it doesn't) or G5 (it doesn't, the creator was blocked after creating the page, and a different user(name) has been editing since and submitting at AfC), it's ok that it ages in draftspace. Whether it's suitable for inclusion is precisely what the AfC gate is designed to assess, and G13 will harmlessly take care of drafts the gate stops that do not improve. Drafts should come here for discussion only if they are more actively disruptive, and neither the AfC gate (+G13 as backstop) nor speedy deletion is adequate to take care of it. Here processes are working exactly as intended. Martinp (talk) 11:24, 20 September 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Keep per those above. If eligible for a csd, anyone may press the button (to submit for consideration or actually delete). Failing that, leave it be for the soul bag that is G13. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 04:32, 21 September 2026 (UTC)reply
User:Nameclips/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Similar case to Draft:Republic Of Lyrasa and Draft:Microjapan in that it is perhaps not a blatant hoax but it is still a hoax or at least WP:MADEUP. The only coverage I can find in searches is this Teahouse archive, where another user says I recommend you tag for deletion your declined draft Draft:Nekesistema about an imaginary micronation. No hits for "Jewish Nekesistema" or "Federation of Nekesistema". A violation of WP:NOTWEBHOST and WP:UP#GOALS #4. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 08:22, 19 September 2026 (UTC)reply

Old business

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Closed discussions

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates