Misplaced Pages

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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 a user page for yourself.

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:

Template loop detected: Template:Db-reason

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
• 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

#Image:BikeOfCopenhagen.jpg Author requests deletion
Talk:Aetherometry/Archive1 Talk page of deleted article Helicoid 23:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Aetherometry/Archive2 Talk page of deleted article Helicoid 23:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Aetherometry/Archive3 Talk page of deleted article Helicoid 23:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Aetherometry/Archive4 Talk page of deleted article Helicoid 23:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Aetherometry Talk page of deleted article Helicoid 23:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Questioned speedy deletions

Martina Sindlerova

This page is wrong & already exists under the correct name of Martina Šindlerová, please delete! ZlatkoT 13:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

List of movie posters with lamps in them

If Misplaced Pages is not the media for exploring the relationship between the promotional aspect of the movie industry and lamps, then what is? Lampman 02:27, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree. It is of informational value, and it is not patent nonsense. There is no reason to delete. Nick 03:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate the support. Furthermore, the nomination was made before essential additions had been added to the page. Lampman 11:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Are you serious? Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 14:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Mach Pelican

If they have realeased full-length albums and their music was played on a television show, then they seem to be notable. Also, a song of theirs, "Wedding Day", appears to be on a CD that is listed on OCLC WorldCat. Ardric47 04:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

This appears to be a real band. It was already mentioned on the existing (since 12/2004) article for Guttermouth. Over 11,000 Google hits and 3 verifiable albums. Not a Speedy candidate. --Wtwilson3 09:24, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Agree that this is not a speedy candidate Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 14:09, 29 January 2006 (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