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Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Islam:The Muslim Guild/Articles for deletion

This page is a blatant violation of advertising and soliciting meatpuppets which states:

It is considered highly inappropriate or unacceptable to advertise Misplaced Pages articles that are being debated in order to attract users with known views and bias, in order to strengthen one side of a debate. It is also considered highly inappropriate to ask friends or family members to create accounts for the purpose of giving additional support. Advertising or soliciting meatpuppet activity is not an acceptable practice on Misplaced Pages.

This page is clearly designed to rally members of the "Misplaced Pages Muslim guild" to game the page for deletion process by stacking votes. What occurs is that when a Muslim guild member nominates a page he wants deleted, he post the link on this page so that other members of the Muslim guild and like minded editors can go there and vote in line with the nominating member of the guild. This is clearly a tactic used to game the vote for deletion process through sheer force of numbers.

A recent example of this practice can be seen here. where members of the Muslim Guild or like minded editors like :user:Striver , user:BhaiSaab , Szvest, User:Itaqallah,User:Irishpunktom ,Nielswik one after the other followed the link to the afd and voted in support of the nominator of the AFD. CltFn 03:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy keep per this, this and this. You should also have noted that the most bottom afd is about a pro-Muslim article, afd'd by me. --Striver 03:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Although CltFn is wrong in saying that I arrived to the Anti-Dhimmitude afd via this page, I can see what he's trying to say. An appropriate substitute can be made on Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Deletion sorting, similar to the one that already exists for Judaism-related topics. BhaiSaab 04:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: And here we go: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Islam. BhaiSaab 04:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

And why is that project singled out as one not being allowed to list afd's it views relevant? If it is not disallowed, why are you voting delete? --Striver 10:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, I don't see why this page benefits the project in any way. The nomination says it all and this should go. --Terence Ong _{(T | C)} 04:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per user:Striver. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.183.114.179 (talk • contribs) .
• Keep it looks like a badly formatted and inefficient deletion sorting page. Seems rather useless to me, but the deletion rational being presented here is all wrong. I'd suggest that the group use a better format, such as what is found at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Deletion sorting. Vote stacking in bad, but deletion sorting is good. Sometimes it's a fine line, but from this page alone I can't see how this is any different from a del sort page. -- Ned Scott 06:47, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
  • After hearing more of the concerns being brought up I would like to retract my support for keep. -- Ned Scott 00:56, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, I generally don't have problem with such pages, provided that they are used fairly. There have been a number of instances where this page has been used unethically and for soliciting "delete" or "keep" votes. There have been instances provided in the first nomination of this page. , , , . Some other user nominates an article completely unrelated to Islam here. The page is used for advocacy, and here another administrator warns them against it. Here Mr. Stiver says that this article has nothing to do with Islam, but still he is nominating it. I wonder why? Again Mr. Striver is notifying other users unless you want ALL the Muslim list go away, vote here:. Vote here? AfDs are not votes. They are discussions and debates. One more. I don't see any reason why this page should be kept on wikipedia. This is organised abuse of the project and should be deleted with extreme prejudice. Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting is a fair project and not used for "vote advocacy" and for "gaming the system". Yes, the members can still continue with the abuse by the means of private communication, but I still do not want them to use Misplaced Pages as a convinient medium. Thank you all. — Nearly Headless Nick 11:26, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete, I detest all forms of soliciting votes, especially when they're pointing in a strong direction of influence like these ones. Concensus is a fundamental principle on Misplaced Pages, and anything that can maleform it, such as could be the result of these pages, is something that we must attempt to limit. This really isn't in the spirit of Misplaced Pages, and although I can't complain if this happens off-wiki, we need to limit this kind of material as much as possible. Sorry, but it has to go. Daniel.Bryant 11:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Conditional keep. There's nothing wrong with a page which simply lists AfDs relating to a specific subject. However, in this case the page requests or instructs editors to vote a particular way, which is a violation of the policy against campaigning. (Examples from the page: "Please vote on either to keep this article deleted or to have it undeleted and improved." "This is a usefull list… It needs many votes if its not going to be deleted." "Please vote to redirect Islamofascism to Neofascism and religion.") The page could be kept if the solicitations were removed. —Psychonaut 12:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

  You give excellent reasons for a 'Delete' and then vote Conditional Keep. Maybe I'm missing some nuance, but from your comment, wouldn't you agree that a deletion-sorting page would be much better than what we have here? ImpuMozhi 01:16, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, unless this page can be used responsibly. If actual soliciting continues, this page cannot be used in a reasonable manner, and therefore needn't exist. Daveydweeb (/_patch) 12:05, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, WP:NOT. - Mailer Diablo 12:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - the same can be said of many other projects. What about our own India related notice board TerryJ-Ho 12:57, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Can you provide diffs so as to prove where that notice-board has been misused? There just might be a stray incident here and there, but responsible wikipedians from India do not indulge in this kind of unethical activities. We have our own opinions and we do not solicit for !votes on XfDs. I have already provided enough evidence that this page has been used irresponsibly. — Nearly Headless Nick 09:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• My feeling is similar to Psychonaut's - if it can be used responsibly, it should be kept, but I'm not sure if this page can do the trick properly. If there's some good faith word or evidence that it's being used in line with the relevant policies, keep it, otherwise, get rid of it. --badlydrawnjeff talk 13:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The purpose of this if to solicit votes for afds.--Jersey Devil 14:04, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Regarding expresing opinions in this kind of pages, people might want to look at the "Current XfDs:" section of User:GabrielF/ConspiracyNoticeboard, and then visit the result of its afd. --Striver 16:54, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination (once the confusion of the entire structure was sorted out) --Mhking 16:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Regarding expresing opinions in this kind of pages, people might want to look at the "Current XfDs:" section of User:GabrielF/ConspiracyNoticeboard, and then visit the result of its afd. If there is inappropriate comments, those are to be deleted, not the entire page, since it has the real function of informing people. And yes, anyone may put the page to their wachtlist. The page is a spin out of the main projects talk page, if deleted, it will simply move back there and clog up that page. Basically, it is nothing more than a legit break out sub-article. The content will remain in one form or another. If any user is putting unsuitable content, then that needs to be addressed.--Striver 16:54, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep- While putting one message in the talk page of different wikipedians is recognized as spam, then we need a place to put such messages. We need this page because wikipedia is a network community and whatever joints wikipedians together stronger is vital. Be sure if this page is deleted then wikipedians(Muslims and non-Muslims) use wikiproject Islam to solve this problem.--Sa.vakilian 18:43, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete - Used for nefarious purposes to turn wiki into a battleground. Also see precedent for other pages of this sort of purpose Misplaced Pages:Miscellany_for_deletion/Category:Patriotic_Indian_Wikipedian's_Guild and Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:AMbroodEY/Fundy Watch. Users from this org also have been solicited to back up Racist users on ANI. Users from this "guild" have been ganging up on innocent users like User:CltFn. User:Dangerous-Boy, and User:Blnguyen and this should be deleted immediately. I could care less about the Deletion sorting pages, because those are ok. - Bakaman _Bakatalk 00:51, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

What kind of baseless allegations are that? How is that relevant to the sub-page we are talking about? Please explain this to me, because i do not understand. --Striver 01:29, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Man, that was one HUGE bad faith allegation, NONE of the named individual are EVER mentioned in the page we are talking about! As for presedence, i have already provided this, and above, somebody else provided the India related project. Please refrain from using OTHER conflicts to smear THIS talk. --Striver 01:32, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Move to delsort|Islam - I thought the actual Muslim Guild thing was up for Afd. It should be move to delsort|Islam or whatever.Bakaman _Bakatalk 01:48, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Hehe. You make me laugh, Bakaman. — Nearly Headless Nick 09:11, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletions. -- BhaiSaab 03:10, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. This sort of partisanship has no place whatsoever in a scholarly enterprise.Proabivouac 05:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete - per Sir Nick and Daniel.Bryant. - Aksi_great (talk) 09:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• comment could somebody explain to me why User:GabrielF/ConspiracyNoticeboard gets a snowball keep, without even being a part of a project, while this gets all this deleted votes? I try not to assume anything, so could somebody explain to me why this is not double standard?--Striver 12:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete per Daniel Bryant. The only thing I can suggest to salvage this page is to move it out of the Muslim Guild and make it a subpage of both WikiProject Islam and WikiProject Deletion sorting. The page should be entirely modelled on the latter. This will perhaps help reduce the Muslim Guild's role (and/or a stigma) in maintaining this page and increase participation of others to create a neutral working system. Rama's arrow 13:00, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

So that is a "merge"? I don't care were the info is, as long as it is somewhere. --Striver 13:16, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not saying "merge" because I don't know if this is actually a practical idea that will solve anything, but its something we should explore a bit. I certainly don't think only a "merge" will solve the problem. What I suggest to the editors who want to keep this page is that you allow for this page to be deleted but work under and with community support from WikiProject Deletion sorting - make a fresh endeavour and create a new, better-organized, open and impartial process instead of protecting a broken one. Rama's arrow 13:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

And I certainly don't see the point of having 2 deletion sorting processes, one under MG and another from WP Islam. Rama's arrow 13:33, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

C'mon, what "impartial process"? Stop pretending that this is an exclusive page for an exclusive project! Even if it was on a UserPage, it should get a snowball keep, ffs, this is not even on a userpage, its on PROJECT page! I am starting to get really angry at this bias! If you want to move it under WP:Islam, then fine, but stop accusing me of being a biased *** who is only interseted in gaming the rules. FFS, i do NOT deserve this bad-faith accusations! --Striver 14:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comment- i would just like to note, as on the admin's noticeboard, that CltFn has been rather economical with the truth when labelling users whom he believes accessed the relevant AfD through that page, and the claims seem to be little more than an extreme case of bad-faith on his part. ITAQALLAH 13:41, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

WTF? Has he gone to daddy to whine? And he lies on the procces?! That really pisses me of!--Striver 14:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep: It is a venue for discussion for the people interested in Islamic related topic. --- ابراهيم 13:42, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment man, i did it again, i commented while i was angry... i appreciate if you pretend i said the above in a civil way... sorry... --Striver 14:40, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

The point, is, the allegedly inappropriate comments that are being used as an argument to delete this page, rather then to move it or keep it, could have been done anywhere'. Even if this project was under WP Islam or anywhere else, the comments could still have been done. Would we then had deleted the entire page then, no matter where it was, or just deleted the inappropriate comments? Why did'nt anybody tell me that such a comment was inappropriate at the time i made them? Why month later? Remove the comments if you want, but don't delete something i have given time to build. And anyway, the closing admin of afd's do not count simple "votes does he? So why is it so damn bad for me to give my opinion, if afd's are not a vote anyway? Anyway, if somebody had told me to stop it, i would, but nobody did. And to delete THE ENTIRE page is way overreacting to some comments that nobody cared about when they were relevant. --Striver 14:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment: I urge to to remain civil and calm. Do not edit wikipedia on impulse. The reason why Deletion stub sorting page would be appropriate for this, is because only the AfDs for the linked articles would be shown, instead of other users commenting on it. This is the only way we will see it as fair. — Nearly Headless Nick 15:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, so are we going to delete User:GabrielF/ConspiracyNoticeboard as well, or is this argument only applicable to Islam-related afd-pages? --Striver 15:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't see any specific problem with that page. If you are so keen on it, why not nominate it for MfD? Although, review WP:POINT before doing that. — Nearly Headless Nick 16:06, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, so that page listing afd's and and making comments is not a problem, but this one is? --Striver 16:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Where are the comments? Diffs? Start another MfD by all means, but I don't see a reason why that would be deleted. — Nearly Headless Nick 10:26, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

How about "non-notable conspiracy cruft term known only within conspiracy theory walled-garden of blogs" and... ah, who cares... --Striver 11:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - per Nearly Headless Nick and Daniel.Bryant. Deletion sorting is the place to notify about AfDs. As Nick has pointed out, such a process is more appropriate as it eliminates the issue of personal comments.--thunderboltz 15:52, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• If the page is being used to solicit votes, delete.--§hanel 16:11, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete factionalising -Doc 16:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: I think most of our users and editors are sufficiently intelligent to watch relevant AfDs and decide independently of their respective stand. They certainly do not require a special space to be coaxed to learn, form opinion or to get opinionated based on the comments on this page, and then move to the AfD pages to record their comments, and vote for or against a deletion. This page and similar pages are perhaps an insult to the collective wisdom of the community of wikipedians to understand and decide issues relating to AfDs. --Bhadani 18:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per N-H-Nick and Bhadaniji. Also, the respective AfD pages are the designated forum for debating any particular deletion proposal. What is the rationale for another (and avowedly communal) forum of debate? If the purpose is only to inform a group about current proposals, a deletion-sorting page is all that is needed. ImpuMozhi 01:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)