Misplaced Pages

Comment Happy holidays to everyone =P Deckiller 12:53, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - POV AFD ballot-box stuffing should be discouraged in the strongest manner possible. Ξxtreme Unction|_{yakkity yak} 12:54, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep It's early days. Avalon 13:05, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• The comment below was originally posted on the talk page. I have copied it over to the main vote because I feel it is extremely relevant. Ξxtreme Unction|_{yakkity yak} 13:33, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

• The keep votes so far:

1. Chooserr - asked to do so by Shanedidona
2. Hollow Wilerding - asked to do so by Shanedidona
3. Dominick - asked to do so by Shanedidona
4. Glenncando - asked to do so by 65.188.159.140
5. Maltesedog - asked to do so by Shanedidona
6. Avalon - asked to do so by Shanedidona
7. Activision45 - asked to do so by Shanedidona
8. Pitchka - received no notice of this mfd

Aecis 12:37, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Indeed, the pattern is obvious here. Misplaced Pages is not a place that should have factions like this, that require recruitment of members after the group is set up. Deckiller 13:09, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Deckiller, speak not what you know naught of.

I will quote verbatim what I was told, "Sorry to double-post... but anyway: Since you are listed as a Roman Catholic, I figured I'd send you this. Misplaced Pages:Catholic Alliance of wikipedia has been nominated for Deletion. Please vote and/or tell other people to vote to keep this organization on wikipedia. --Shanedidona 01:32, 25 December 2005 (UTC)". So as anyone can see I was not "asked to do so by Shanedidona" I was merely informed that it was up for deletion, and asked to vote. I could as easily have voted "delete" as "keep". I'm not sure if you have it in your babel, but there is one template saying "this user believes it's everyone's duty to vote". Well, I was informed of my duty...not as to say yea or nay. Chooserr 00:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment - So, you are saying that Please vote and/or tell other people to vote to keep this organization on wikipedia. was not asking you to vote Keep? -- Dalbury 00:45, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment - I highly doubt that it is telling people to keep, or even inspiring them to vote keep. Yes the sender seems to have a POV, but it is informing the user of the current vote first and foremost. Chooserr 01:52, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment - You were circumspect in the wording of your messages to Category:Roman Catholic Wikipedians asking them to participate in Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Gay rights in Iraq. I interpret Shanedidona's messages as clearly asking for Roman Catholic Wikipedians to support keeping this page. -- Dalbury 02:35, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

An example would be Darthgriz98's vote. Asked to vote, I believe, by one of the Catholic users. He voted. Chooserr 00:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Darthgriz98 was indeed asked by Shanedidona to vote to keep this organization on wikipedia. When (s)he voted to delete the CAoW, (s)he was almost immediately asked by Shanedidona to "please reread the CAoW page and reconsider your vote." If a delete voter is asked to reconsider his/her vote, all the messages Shanedidona left can mean only one thing: please vote to keep this organization. They are not requests to simply join in the discussion, they are requests to vote keep. Aecis 09:49, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• I have deleted this as "Not remotely compatible with Misplaced Pages's policy of neutrality." --Tony Sidaway|Talk 15:07, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

• I've undeleted this until consensus can be reached here. Tony's action was disrpectful to the opinions of all who have come here, and on his behalf, I apologize. While I agree with him on the lack of neutrality in this project, you don't use your administrative powers to push a content POV. karmafist 15:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

  Hear hear! Let's have deliberations, not unilateralism. Particularly, the "not remotely neutral" would be invoked for all the other pages I mentioned below, too. We do not short-circuit debates that are ongoing, and we ought not even when a candidate is an unambiguous speedy delete candidate (which this one was not): once people deliberate, let them form consensus. Geogre 16:04, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

  Well done and well said, Karmafist. - Tεxτurε 18:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Strong Delete per nom, Tony Sidaway. KillerChihuahua 15:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This serves only to promote factionalism Pilatus 16:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Tony Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 17:06, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. The purpose of their group, as stated, threatens NPOV, and I cannot see a positive use to the project. It would be one thing if they were solely interested in improving information about the catholic church and related topics, but this is instead about pushing values in the decisionmaking process on Misplaced Pages. This runs directly counter to the project goals of Misplaced Pages, and regardless of the result of this vote, should be deleted for those reasons. As a sidenote, wikipedia should've probably been capitalised. --Improv 17:28, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, per Tony. That being said, I do think we should let vote finish, and the more deletes we accumulate the stronger the message that the community as a whole thinks this is rubbish. But WP:NPOV is quite non-negotiable. -- SCZenz 17:39, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete A Catholic Alliance should be dedicated to well written articles about catholicism, not about maintaing POV forks on Abortion. Serves no clear purpose focused on Accuracy or Neutrality, and can easly damage both.--Tznkai 18:00, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Divisive, operates against WP:NPOV, and most of the other reasons people have given above. FreplySpang (talk) 18:58, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per above. I have serious NPOV questions about this page. Ral315 (talk) 19:41, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Gamaliel 20:03, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. the wub "?!" 20:28, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Everyone is entitled to thier own views. It wont hurt to have this page. --Activision45 21:46, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
  • In everyday life, everyone is indeed entitled to their own views. But on wikipedia, only the neutral point of view counts. Aecis 21:49, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
    • The implementation is poor, but the sentiment is there to provide a way to talk about what needs work, part of that is rendering opinions in AfD discussions. I was not told HOW to vote, and my vote was not a simple keep. I know for a fact every human being has a PoV, nobody is born with NPoV. It is dishonest to think that a person has pure motives all the time. That being said, if it is NPoV to group together as lesbians, drug interested people, and other groups then these guys have a right to start. My suggestion was to merge not keep, and people who are Catholic often ask or solicit opinions of others, since Catholic theology is a specialized subject. Dominick 21:59, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
      • "Rendering opinions in AfD discussions" is not part of this alliance, it is this alliance. That is it's only goal, and that's why the alliance is explicitly described as "a readily summonable voting block in case a pro-life article is threatened." That means that this alliance has only one mission: articles about pro-life groups should not be deleted, we will make sure that they won't be deleted, and we will do so by swamping deletion discussions in an attempt to outnumber others. You said that you have not been told how to vote. Yet Shanedidone asked you "to vote to keep this organization on wikipedia." Aecis 22:08, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
      • I also want to note that by using NPOV, Misplaced Pages is not suggesting that it does not make one "pure" to have religious or political meanings. In many parts of life, these are a good thing -- personally I think that people who live life without some kind of value system are missing out on a big part of what it means to be human. Pure motives have nothing to do with it -- it's rather that on Misplaced Pages, in order to produce a good encyclopedia, we have a policy of NPOV that helps keep articles looking as they should and keeps our community as inclusive as we can expect to be. Our insistance on NPOV is not meant to be a sneer on people with a viewpoint, because, being human, most of us have viewpoints on these things too. It's just something we must insist on for the good of the project. --Improv 04:20, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. While there is nothing wrong with people getting together and co-ordinating work, this group is an example of what WikiProjects should avoid doing. The original wording that was used to describe the group sounded like POV pushing and that should not be allowed on Misplaced Pages. Zach 22:02, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• CommentOk, have we achieved consensus here? I think Tony was stretching, thus giving reasoning for those who voted Keep to feel they were shafted and they would be justified in recreating, but he's right, this should be deleted. karmafist 22:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
  • The current "score" is 26 33 deletes (when counting Tony's act of deleting as a delete vote) against 7 keeps. Aecis 22:31, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Kill it with fire. Ambi 23:33, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment Karmafist, unless you can see unquestionable grounds for speedying it, you'd better let it run the full course, so they can't claim they didn't have time to properly defend the entry.--SarekOfVulcan 00:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• Poxes on all houses: Let me explain. I am 100% against the deletionist page, the inclusionist page, the mergist page, Schoolwatch, and all other hitlist pages. I do not agree with busing voters, but there is something far more important here than that. Once an issue-oriented vote group forms, it becomes necessary to find things to vote on. Points are awarded for finding anti-Catholic sentiment. I.e. it is programmed from the start to find the issue, and if there is no issue, it will still be found. Further, it works to discourage independent thinking, and, most of all, its members are encouraged to not read the articles, not read the deliberations, not consider the arguments, but rather to save time by following the helpful link and astroturf a vote. This is the way to destroy Misplaced Pages. So, delete this, delete Schoolwatch, delete m:inclusionists, delete all instavote pages everywhere. I know it's tough, but people are just going to have to think for themselves and consider articles on a case by case basis. Geogre 01:40, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I'd say this is worse than inclusionists or deletionists. Both groups have an agenda about how to format the encyclopedia, which they think would improve it. This page has a real-world agenda, which they want to impose on Misplaced Pages. Big difference! -- SCZenz 03:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I agree that it's worse because it's issue oriented, and issue oriented "projects" find the issue in ever more unlikely places. (The countering systemic bias has fallen victim to that to some degree.) It's worse than the run of the mill issue oriented project, too, because it's an issue that isn't present but which they seek to impose. It's worse still because it's about only one part of one issue (abortion). So I agree that this is an extremely deletable page. I was just saying that, even if none of those things had been true, I would have been in favor of deleting on the basis of astroturf (US term for "false grassroots organizing"). Geogre 12:30, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • While I vote delete below, I disagree that the associations on Meta should also be deleted. Unlike this group, Inclusionism/Mergism/Deletionism have no real world POV that they are trying to push, they are views on how best to build an encyclopedia (why we all are here after all), nothing more. ++Lar 14:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete I can come up with any sane justification for the project in anything like it's current form.Geni 03:11, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete all POV-pushers. Oh, we can't delete the people? OK, delete the page. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 03:34, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete promotes divisions into factions. There ought not to be a catholic alliance of wikipedia nor a protestant alliance of wikipedia nor a muslim alliance of wikipedia nor anything else of this sort. --Pierremenard 03:53, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Geogre's reasoning. --Carnildo 08:35, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per above. —Locke Cole 10:16, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete all groups that aim to push a specific POV through vote-stacking. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:59, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge or transform into a proper wikiproject. (For the record, I find it very disturbing that people think it is wrong to notify potentially interested parties that a vote is going on. The notice on my talk page was simple and did not contain any incorrect characterization of this vote. Notices to demolish the Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass should be not posted only in the basement of the planning office on Alfa Centauri, nor should people only be informed in dolphin-speak.) With apolgies to Douglas Adams — Eoghanacht 13:55, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment it is clear that this is a vote rally by Shanedidona is going on; on Christmas Eve, the user was placing CAoW tags on about two or three users per minute for a total of a 50-60 users. Deckiller 14:07, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete bogdan 14:45, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, as a Catholic m'self. Misplaced Pages is factionalised enough as it is (and probably doomed to become more so). Deliberate efforts to speed up the process are not welcome. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 14:48, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Abstain but Comment. I have no interest in keeping or deleting this project. However, I think it was quite inappropriate to delete it while the voting was taking place, and I commend Karmafist for undeleting it (presumably only temporarily). I don't particularly like getting messages from people I don't know asking me to vote on something I've never heard of, though it doesn't send me into convulsions of fury either. But if canvassing for votes is condemned, then sending a request for help to an administrator who has previously shown himself to share one's views on such issues is perhaps a bit "iffy" as well. The validity of votes should depend on whether or not the voters are established members of the community, not on whether or not they found this page by themselves. I'm not going to vote to keep this alliance, but if I did, I would expect my vote to be treated as being absolutely as valid as anyone else's AnnH 15:50, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • • • Ann, I share your dislike of the premature deletion. I'll add, though, one point where we might disagree. Since deletion on WP is by consensus, not vote-counting, I believe the closing admin would be within his/her discretion to inquire whether a organized voting-lobby, admittedly built simply to influence these deletion debates, improperly affected the outcome. Discounting some "votes" by members of such a lobby might be in order as sound consensus-seeking process. Xoloz 19:47, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• KEEP The user who put this up for deletion has made anti-Christian statements on Misplaced Pages and has lied about me to other users. He also eavesdrops on other users talk pages and follows users around. The fact that this user is the one who nominated this section speaks volumes. Dwain 18:36, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - I don't see how the nominator's behavior is relevant to the merits of deleting this page. If the nominator has acted in bad faith, there are other channels for dealing with that. Making these accusations here looks to me like an attempt to obscure the issues under discussion. And by the way, how do you figure that it's improper to read other user's talk pages? There is no expectation of privacy in Misplaced Pages. -- Dalbury 19:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Off-topic, but out of curiosity: where have I made anti-christian statements? (Since this is unrelated to this mfd, could you answer at my talk page?)Aecis 20:45, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment - If you are Catholic and you wasted their time by voting to delete you get a nastygram on your user page. Endomion 22:27, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Delete.--Sean|Black 23:57, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I was raised Catholic, and this Catholic League of Decency-style attempt to organize a Catholic-POV voting bloc (as User:Shanedidona's message made clear this is, is reprehensible on so many levels. And Chooserr's excuse for his and Shanedidona's attempt to stuff this ballot box are laughably transparent. --Calton | Talk 00:20, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Especially disturbing is this addition to the article, which was later deleted. 00:56, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Bjelleklang - talk 01:56, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. We condemn and declare it to be anathema. We declare anathema equally those who instigated this new error. - Outerlimits 02:08, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Oh, har, har. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 02:24, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, divisive.-gadfium 02:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete They are vandalising Jewish articles making them into christian ones, they are a cause of huge fights, the sooner they grow up the better. 220.233.48.200 02:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Note: Users without an account typically are not considered to be able to contribute to a consensus on AfD --Improv 03:44, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I, for one, would like to know more about which articles this happened on. -- SCZenz 14:15, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Bless it with the delete button. POV pushers. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 05:11, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete -- I've had a chance to look at the "Alliance" and its actions, and can find no good reason for it to exist. I'd like to suggest that users that are interested in this subject area look at the fairly small and somewhat less-than-active WikiProject Catholicism 101, and contribute to the Encyclopedia in a positive manner. Gentgeen 06:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete I am a Catholic, but this group obviously isn't meant to do much. Quote from the article's page: "The Catholic Alliance of wikipedia is an wiki-organisation intended to nurture and keep wikipedia's pro-life/pro-catholic articles and categories. It is not intended to eliminate all pro-choice articles, nor intended to skew any results." Even if all the group's members promise, and manage, to uphold that bit about no skewing, the group has a mission statement that is wrong. Considering all pro-Catholic articles pro-life is a fallacy. Yes, the Catholic church is pro-life. But this is not the Catholic church's only point of belief. This is plain wrong, and I would prefer if my religion's beliefs were not oversimplified like this (and it's even more disappointing to realize that this is a group of Roman Catholics doing this). Roman Catholicism deals with other things too. If this group were just about nurturing "pro-Catholic articles and categories," it might be worth keeping, but the WikiProject should do that I imagine. But this obviously goes against the mission of the group. I would have to say that this group almost seems to want to covertly work on pro-life by tacking on the pro-Catholic part, so it can seem more useful or more NPOV than it really is. Mred64 07:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Generally, I am pro-life, but in regards to this POV-pushing club I am pro-delete --Doc 11:51, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - if this is kept, I think I'll found an 'Association of LEGO fans' and push for the vast expansion of all pro LEGO articles ++Lar 14:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Terms like rallying voting, preservation of conservative values, Vote Pro-Life!, etc are statements that only politicians make! Cheers -- Szvest 15:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)  
• Delete - page seems to be advocating disruption of wiki standards novacatz 16:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete in accordance with process. Not during an AfD discussion. - Tεxτurε 17:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, per all above comments. Extraordinary Machine 19:34, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. -- User:Getcrunk 19:39, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Campaigning of this type against our policy of neutrality must be stamped out ruthlessly, deleted on sight. In accordance with this I again delete this project page. There is a clear and insurmountable consensus to delete this, and even if there were not it and every project page like it would still have to be deleted because of its conflict with that policy. Please do not restore this. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:10, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I concur with Tony on this. Campaigning against neutrality has no place on Misplaced Pages, regardless of consensus. It is heartening that people oppose it enough to vote delete on it so much, but things so obviously against a core tenet of our community should not even come to a vote. --Improv 20:14, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
    • I have undeleted it. I agree that there will certainly be consensus to delete this. That is a lousy reason to not let our consensus deletion process run its course. Thanks in advance for not trying to cut short the debate another time. Nandesuka 20:17, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as ballot-stuffing. If it can be re-organized as a way for Catholic Wikipedians to contribute to subjects which require specialized knowledge of Catholicism, then keep, but the current mission statement of the group suggests organized punditry. -Kyd 20:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Not encyclopedic...not an article...not a forum...no content...unreferenced....this is a speedy based on those reasons. The best option for the creator of this is to userify it.MONGO 20:17, 27 December 2005 (UTC)