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If you've come here having recently created a page which has just been marked to say it may soon be deleted, then please understand that we mean no harm in deleting your page. In fact, welcome to Misplaced Pages. We're delighted to have you, but the page you created seemed to be something other than an encyclopedia article. If it was a test, congratulations – you succeeded in creating a page. Please use the sandbox for further testing, or create yourself a user page.

If your article was not a test, you may have created a page that met the criteria for speedy deletion. If so, please see our guidelines on writing perfect stubs to see how you could improve the page to something that will not be instantly deletable.

For more information, please read our deletion policy.

Using this page

For articles that need deletion, add {{deletebecause|Reason.}} or {{db|Reason.}} to the top of the page. You should not wipe out the contents as it helps to check the contents to be deleted without having to look at the page history. This expands to:

If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Misplaced Pages:Speedy deletions. If this page obviously does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice, but do not remove this notice from articles that you have created yourself.

Replace Reason with the reason why the page should be deleted under the speedy deletion criteria.

Other templates available that give a reason include {{nonsense}} and {{db-bio}}. They may be used where appropriate.

(You can also use {{delete}} or {{d}} if you prefer not to provide a reason, but it is generally a good idea to provide a reason, even where it seems "obvious" to you.)

Note that if you just replace the content with {{db|reason}} the prior content will not be automatically added to the deletion log summary when the page is deleted.

See below for instructions regarding the deletion of personal subpages.

For articles that do not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, please use Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion. Please do not list pages here that are already listed there.

Advice for administrators

• Review our admin deletion guidelines
• Use Category:Candidates for speedy deletion for a list of pages
• Use What links here for Template:Delete (This is an older method superseded by categorisation, but temporarily still in use until full switch is possible.)
• Check talk pages, page history, what links here (especially for potentially controversial user pages), etc. If there is a dispute over whether the page should be deleted, consider first listing it on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion
• If the page to be deleted is directly related to a specific user or that user's activities, consider moving the page to that user's personal userspace (and deleting the redirect) instead of deleting it outright.
• Don't worry too much — new pages patrol is unpleasant, and people will make mistakes. Misplaced Pages:Speedy deletion patrol goes through the deletion logs to catch stuff that shouldn't have been speedied, without rancor or excessive red tape. Feel free to be efficient!

Deletion of personal pages

Unless you are a sysop, it is not possible to delete your own user pages and subpages, so they must be listed here. If you are a sysop, it is recommended that you also list your pages here so they can be deleted by another sysop. For your main user or talk pages, you must list them here, not delete them yourself, to avoid the appearance that sysops can delete to hide negative comments, while others can't.

Only post pages from your own personal page, and only if you have a genuine reason for requesting a personal page of yours be deleted, please list it here.

Please see Misplaced Pages:User page for further instructions, and Misplaced Pages talk:Personal subpages to be deleted for past discussion on this issue.

Requested pages

Don Ritter

Note: Please list only user pages and subpages below this line. For all other pages, please add {{deletebecause|Reason.}} or {{db|Reason.}} as mentioned above.

• User:YixilTesiphon/Wikiproject Article Review Abandoning this idea. Thanks. --YixilTesiphon 21:18, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• User:Dunemaire/Campeni I've finished the article I was using it for, so I don't need it anymore. Dunemaire 22:35, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• User:Dunemaire/Ţara Moţilor Same as above Dunemaire 15:31, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

• User talk:Davidpdx/Special Arbitration Discussion Johnski I am no longer using this page. Davidpdx 23:26, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Questioned speedy deletions

• Solutiioneyes - my speedy tag was removed twice by the creator of the article. I have asked them on their Talk page not to. --Whouk (talk) 12:29, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
• I Love Music - my speedy tag was removed. I have replaced it but flagging it here in case it goes again. --Whouk (talk) 17:00, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
• Hell.com - please see its talk page before taking action.
• Communist Youth Federation of Spain, Speedy Deletion tag posted 3 minutes after creation of article on the grounds "It is an empty or very short article providing little or no context.". Perhaps a stub-tag would be more fitting? --Soman 18:32, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Southern Ivies. See Talk:Southern_Ivies#Probably_should_not_be_speedied. Boilerplate for speedies still says to list them "please explain why on its talk page or at Misplaced Pages:Speedy deletions," so just to be sure I'm listing it here, too. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:12, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Rober ot Basevorn. I put merge template on because other article, Robert of Basevorn, was similar, but not identical, and apparent typos may actually reflect attempt to spell "correct" 14th century spelling. See talk page. Pete.Hurd 06:02, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Dewey_Decimal_System and subpages. OCLC does not allow free use of DDC. They may tolerate DDC use in Misplaced Pages but you cannot use DDC under terms of GFDL so we have to remove it or Misplaced Pages becomes non-free. By the way I asked them half a year ago if the first three digits are free. They are not. OCLC just tolerates the use in some cases. This is not open content. Sorry. -- Nichtich 08:57, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Geoffrey C. Grabowski is very active in the roleplaying game field, and two pages about related RPG authors (Rich Dansky and Rebecca Borgstrom) already link to him. This page is a very likely candidate for expansion, while certainly remaining a bit sparse right now. Kit 17:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Cloud Starchaser I do not believe this page to be a candidate for speedy deletion, and certainly not because it is nonsense, as it is clearly not undecipherable text but instead is an article.

• Anonymous editor 71.111.51.95 has added my uploaded images "Redcly1666.jpg", "Redcly167.jpg" and "Redcly168.jpg" the speedy deletion page. As mentioned in the talk page, I have received permission to use these images from the owners at Glasgow Digital Library and Gallagher Memorial Library. So please remove these images from the list of those for speedy deletion.Camillus 11:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

The policy on "non-commercial" images has been explained to me by User:DESiegel. These are not for "speedy deletion", but go under WP:PUI.Camillus 23:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

• User CJCurry's edit wars have led me to the conclusion that my article(s) are untenable on Misplaced Pages. The article on Gregory Lauder-Frost, the bulk of which I wrote, I believe was a fair and reasonable potted biography of him. CJCurry's attempts to demonise him and change the article I wrote with very old half-truths lifted from known left-wing newspapers with axes to grind against Lauder-Frost goes against all Misplaced Pages's ideals. The media rarely report the full facts. It is my belief that CJCurry at least (he has directed others to his 'reseach') will not give up in his efforts and that therefore the article should be taken down. Robert I 11:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

• Carlo Giuseppe Testore This article is a freshly created stub on a luthier of some note. It will be expanded if it lasts long enough for me to get a night of sleep. --Dschor 12:02, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

• Hamedah Hasan - This article may indeed be a non-notable bio, if you only consider the person involved. But it describes something much more important : a justice system that may seem no longer just. I didn't know about this case, but a search on Google seems to confirm the facts in this bio. All this, make this bio important enough to keep, or even to be expanded. JoJan 20:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

• larvatus - The party making the request for speedy deletion of the larvatus article is Tim Pierce, publicly identified as an adversary of Net.legends . However, Mr Pierce is himself a notable Usenet personality boasting his own listing () on the Net.Legends.FAQ (Noticeable Phenomena Of UseNet) in the category of Lesser Lights, halfway down from the listing dedicated to the subject of this article (), memorialized therein since its origins (). Having participated in numerous public altercations with the subject of this article (, , , , , etc.), Mr Pierce appears to motivate his instant request for speedy deletion by sheer vindictiveness. Usenet culture and its prominent participants (, ) richly deserve to be commemorated, nowhere more so than in this illustrious venue. Accordingly, far from reciprocating Mr Pierce's malice, I am inagurating a Misplaced Pages article in his honor. I urge all Misplaced Pages editors to follow suit by creating additional articles dedicated to notable Usenet personalities and phenomena. Larvatus 05:34, 14 December 2005 (UTC)larvatus
  • Restored. Sounds like its nomination here was a personal vendetta on the part of Pierce/24.153.210.31 (talk · contribs). I encourage Larvatus to bring the article up to wiki/encyclopedic standards though. FeloniousMonk 06:29, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
• Post-Adolescent Narcissism The subject of this stub is a particularly vile form of Pathological Narcissism. Gentlemen, this is a work in progress. Please exercise some restraint and patience. Certainly not "nonsense." WolframSiever 22:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  • The tag is the nonsense in this case. WOOKIEwantMEDAL 22:40, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

See also

• Articles for deletion
• Speedy redirection - Similar to speedy deletion.
• Speedy deletion patrol - for catching errors in deletion without rancor or excessive red tape

• Speedy deletion
• Misplaced Pages deletion