Category:Extensions by theme and subcats

• Category:Extensions by theme
  • Category:Special page extensions
  • Category:RSS Extensions
  • Category:MediaWiki authentication
  • Category:Media handling extensions
  • Category:Feed aggregator extensions

These categories are useless given that documentation about extensions is now stored on MediaWiki.org, not meta, and every extension that is in these categories would likely have been archived by now if it had been moved to MediaWiki.org. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:13, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Deleted --MF-W 22:48, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

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Category:Extensions by author and subcats

• Category:Extensions by author
  • Category:Extensions by Jonah Bossewitch
  • Category:Extensions by Heiner Otterstedt
  • Category:Extensions by Gregory Szorc

These have the same problem as Category:Extensions by theme (listed above), and none of the listed users have edited in years. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:18, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Deleted --MF-W 22:46, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

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Template:WRC tabs

Unused template. Translations were removed on July, 9th 2017. I don’t know about obsolete template policies. --Pols12 (talk) 13:49, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

It's used in the userpage sandboxes. Can it just be userfied? María is no longer staff, but if I understand correctly it's from an alternate navigation system idea that she was designing, and it might potentially be useful to someone in the future. Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:54, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

@Quiddity (WMF) If the result is userify, would you mind placing in your userspace? Thanks. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 14:44, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

If we keep it, it would probably be mainly to preserve old page versions, so, even if moved to user namespace, redirection should be kept. That’s why I rather keep it in its current location. However I would like it fix translation-marking appeal: should we restore translations (to preserve old page translation versions), or can I remove translate-tagging? --Pols12 (talk) 14:54, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Content: Removing the translate-tagging seems fine to me.

Location: I'd suggest userfying it to User:MCruz (WMF)/Sandbox/WRC tabs or similar, to keep it with the connected subpages. I imagine the only reason it wasn't initially drafted there, is that not everyone knows (or remembers) how to transclude non-template pages with the colon prefix! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:37, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Actually it was not a sandbox: this template was used on Wikimedia Resource Center page. So, if we move it without keeping redirection, old versions of this page will be broken. Pols12 (talk) 15:26, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying that. Then yes, let's just remove the translate-tagging. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:24, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

So I have proceed to this cleaning. Many thanks for your answers.

I think this request may be closed. -- Pols12 (talk) 05:00, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

• Speedy Kept as nominator withdrawn, no other opinions expressed that favor deletion. No prejudice to re-nominate should the situation changes. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 13:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

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User:Pseudo-Class/global.css

Due to user renaming, I cannot place the speedy deletion template in this page. Please delete it, Thanks. Pseudo Classes (talk) 14:56, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

@Pseudo Classes Done. Next time might want to tag the talkpage and we will delete the page. No need to list it here. Regards, Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 14:59, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

@Camouflaged Mirage: Thank you very much! I will do this next time. Pseudo Classes (talk) 15:03, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

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Proposed Wikipedia logos of uploaded by Guillôme

• File:Logo Guillaume Bokiau.png
• File:Small Logo Guillaume Bokiau 1.png
• File:Small Logo Guillaume Bokiau.png

These logos were uploaded in 2003 by Guillôme. In February 2010 Anthere did tag them with the {{GFDL-presumed}} template as that was the license we used at the time. (See #1, #2 and #3). Ten years later, on February 2020, the uploader and presumed author removed those tags and replaced them with {{no source}} (See #4, #5 and #6). This Deletion Request is being filed to clarify their status and consider their deletion. If the uploader disputes themself the source of their uploads, I think that should be a valid reason to proceed with the deletion as it casts significant doubts on the legal status of the file (See Commons' precautionary principle). Note that it might also be that the uploader wants some information removed. In any case, without valid source/author/copyright tag those files cannot last on Meta. Uploader and Anthere are notified via Echo Notifications as well as talk page messages. Thank you, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Indeed. Valid proposition. Anthere (talk) 17:17, 12 February 2021‎ (UTC)

@Guillôme One more ping for this issue, if you want the files to be deleted do let us know, we will be happy to delete for you. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 18:07, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Well, he's challenged the GFDL tags on his own uploads tagging them as unsourced. If the uploader now claims that even the source is dubious or non existent, I don't think these files can remain; so delete per my above nomination. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

• Deleted per consensus in this discussion. I think we have given enough time for uploader to air their views if they wished. I think there isn't a consensus to keep which means the files are deleted. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 19:05, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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Authority control templates

• Template:Authority control/ARC
• Template:Authority control/BIBSYS
• Template:Authority control/BNF
• Template:Authority control/BPN
• Template:Authority control/FotoBibl
• Template:Authority control/GND
• Template:Authority control/ISNI
• Template:Authority control/KID
• Template:Authority control/LCCN
• Template:Authority control/Museofile
• Template:Authority control/ORCID
• Template:Authority control/RID
• Template:Authority control/SELIBR
• Template:Authority control/SUDOC
• Template:Authority control/TSURL
• Template:Authority control/ULAN
• Template:Authority control/VIAF
• Template:Authority control/WorldCat

These templates have been being unused since Evolution and evolvability imported the Lua version from Wikipedia in January. The corresponding Wikipedia templates have already been deleted in 2019. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 14:59, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, their deletion is fine by me. My understanding is that the {{Authority control}} template no needs them so they should be safe to delete. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 01:46, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Correct, the module integrates all of that. I checked all the proposed templates: they have no transclusions and the only backlink is this RFD. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 09:30, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

• Deleted - no opposition to deletion, consensus is clearly to delete. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:21, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

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WikiGap Nigeria Online Challenge 2021

Since I have not received any answers from Kaizenify, I post here to ask community advice. That page seems to duplicate WikiGap Nigeria Online Challenge/2021, I think a redirection would be better for maintenance and to having a unique talk page. --Pols12 (talk) 17:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

@Pols12 If you aren't asking for deletion, I think there isn't a need to ask here, just en:WP:BOLDly redirecting seems alright. If they object, we can discuss then. I think this is acceptable on meta too. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:46, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

You’re right, this could be done (I just did it). However I still think this redirection is useless and could be deleted. Pols12 (talk) 20:10, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

@Pols12 Well I think there can still be use of this redirect, and redirect is so called en:WP:CHEAP so no harm leaving this alone in my opinion. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 16:32, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

OK, no special need to remove. -- Pols12 (talk) 16:41, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

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Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags

Category no longer populated by the software after gerrit:585519 * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:03, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:39, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

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Requests for new languages/Wikivoyage Japanese/ja

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User talk:Chaton masqué

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Portal:Chapter & Thematic Org Applications

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Translation requests/Guidelines for future chapters/source

This is an outdated translation request, when there wasn’t Translate extension. I don’t know what to do with actual translations, but I think they can be deleted too; do you agree? --Pols12 (talk) 22:48, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Any reason it can't be marked "historical" or "archived" and leave it as is? Why does it has to be deleted? — regards, Revi 07:29, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

The only page which links to this page is Translation requests/Guidelines for future chapters/status which has no related page.

However, I have looked at some other old Translation requests, there seem to have several practises:

1. target page was the /source page; when ready, it has been moved, so /source is now only a redirection.
2. target page content is copied into /source page.
3. target page was transcluded in /source, then it may have been updated to use Translate extension, so /source unexpectedly displays translate tags.

I don’t know what was the usual policy regarding translation requests. Very few pages include Template:Translation source: were the other ones deleted? Pols12 (talk) 14:15, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Keen to just mark it as historical/archived per -revi. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:58, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

So I tagged it with {{archive}}. I think this discussion may be closed. --Pols12 (talk) 22:23, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Page kept per above. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:46, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Quand le mouvement Wikimédia questionne le comment faire science

Plus all translations (subpages).

Imported from Wikiversity to use Translate tool (which was finally not used). It is still available on Wikiversity, and fully translated to English there. No page has linked to it on Meta. --Pols12 (talk) 18:30, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

If it's an exact duplicate of the Wikiversity one, then I think it can be deleted. Leaderboard (talk) 18:36, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes That's OK for me and Sorry about forfoted to ask it my self... Lionel Scheepmans ^{✉ Contact} _{French native speaker, sorry for my dysorthography} 20:24, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Done per the author's request. – Ajraddatz (talk) 21:57, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Ajraddatz, can you process |its subpages too, please? --Pols12 (talk) 22:07, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Sure, all deleted. – Ajraddatz (talk) 23:28, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

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Template:Sandbox/Info/styles.css

• Template:Sandbox/Info/styles.css, I created it during Small wiki toolkits - South asia workshop for demo. please delete it.--Jayprakash >>> Talk 14:13, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Done. Speedy deleted. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:47, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

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Template:Link Language

Unused (probably since its creation in 2011) and unclear use case, incomplete, and syntactically incorrect (should be using a switch anyway). ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 16:33, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

•  Support. It's not apparent how to use it. Daask (talk) 20:17, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
• Deleted - per clear consensus above. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 15:36, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

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Wikimedians by music preference

This kind of vanity content is better kept on user pages. Daask (talk) 20:14, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Keep I don't see any harm caused by this page. Zoozaz1 (talk) 16:43, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

• Keep - Was about to close this but well let me opine, this is in Meta Scope as some other pages about wikimedians, seemed to be alright to be included. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 15:35, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Kept. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 10:32, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Data dumps/Help in other languages

This is a "really small list" according to the page itself, and all these pages are stored at Wikidata, viewable in the sidebar. I've marked the main page, Data dumps, for translation (and some subpages could probably be marked too), as it does provide an overview different from how most other projects do it, so I don't see a need for this anymore. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 10:38, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

I think deleting is OK. Leaderboard (talk) 11:48, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Fine by me, as long as anything linking to it is updated to point people to the translated pages or to nag people to please help translate. -- ArielGlenn (talk) 14:00, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Deleted--Jusjih (talk) 21:13, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

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Documentation Link

I don't see how this is related to Wikimedia. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:30, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

• G7 Speedy Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:07, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:Wikimedia Foundation elections/Candidate Resources

Page wrongly created by me, I ask for its deletion. Juan90264 (talk) 14:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

@Juan90264 Done. Next time, you can use {{delete}}. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 14:29, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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Template:Main Page/Sisterprojects/Cell/ldiq

Looks like a test, unused. Created by globally banned user. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 14:01, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

• Speedy Deleted as a test page (G1). — xaosflux ^Talk 17:49, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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User:Hulged/common.js

Can this page please be restored. Hulged (talk) 12:40, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

An interface administrator is needed. Pinging @Billinghurst, who deleted the page. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 12:43, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Done @Hulged: the page has been restored. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:12, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:23, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Please undelete my personal CSS page

I originally asked for it to be deleted to save Wikimedia servers some resources as I migrated my skin to a locally installed Stylus browser extension. Unfortunately, I lost the data on that computer, and I’d like to get the skin back. TIA! —Born2bgratis (talk) 06:57, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

@Born2bgratis Done. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:26, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

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Template:Spoiler

Does not look like this is useful, and "The Complete 1st, 2nd and 3rd and 4th Seasons." would not be in scope of Meta anyway. One apparently accidental transclusion in user talk namespace. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 12:09, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Deleted.--Jusjih (talk) 04:59, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

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Translations:Template:Stragtey/Wikimedia movement/2017/Research and notes/Audit of past stragey process/13/zh

A. The creation of it triggered the abuse filter and B. Content is LITTLERALLY:

• 2016年就策略發展的社群諮詢
• 2016年社群諮詢報告
• 2016年策略計劃
• 2016年年度計劃
• 基金傳播委員會建議

Yup. So, yeah, delete the page.— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Another Wiki User the 2nd (talk)

These pages have never been created.--Jusjih (talk) 04:59, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

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Templates

1. Template:Banglacric (transcludes itself)
2. Template:Birth date and ageI1962I2I8Imf=yes (probably created as of mistaken instead of using Template:Birth date and age).

In short, they are useless. ----Minorax^«¦talk¦» 04:56, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

G7 speedily deleted. The first one was about some sports statistics (apparently cricket); the second looked like spam but was also created by a user evading a block looking at the block summary, and the fact that it contained a "I" symbol in the place where you would usually expect a pipe (|) doesn't make assuming good faith easier. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:23, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

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More authority control templates

• Template:Authority control tag: stand-alone
• Template:Authority control tag: bare

It seems that these can be deleted per the same argumentation as at Meta:Requests for deletion/Archives/2021#Authority control templates. No transclusions and seemingly superseded by module. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:22, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks for the notification, although I just imported them per request. If they're unused and/or superseded by a Module, then I guess deletion is probably okay. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:01, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
• Delete - I used those templates some years ago on Commons, but have n0 idea what would they be good for here. --Jarekt (talk) 16:47, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
• Deleted - per consensus. No objections have been raised against deletion. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 16:56, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

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.js redirects of renamed accounts

Please delete all these .js redirects of user accounts that were previously renamed. The targets of all these redirected pages don't exist, so, these pages are listed as broken redirects on Special:BrokenRedirects

• User:WQL/common.js (edit · talk · history · links · logs · subpages · delete)
• User:WQL/global.js (edit · talk · history · links · logs · subpages · delete)
• User:Renamed user 9ff13960de57f6ee9b1a65311efbb0be/common.js (edit · talk · history · links · user 9ff13960de57f6ee9b1a65311efbb0be/common.js logs · subpages · delete)
• User:Renamed user 9ff13960de57f6ee9b1a65311efbb0be/global.js (edit · talk · history · links · user 9ff13960de57f6ee9b1a65311efbb0be/global.js logs · subpages · delete)
• User:Hello903hello/s/wikiplus/custom/main.js (edit · talk · history · links · logs · subpages · delete)
• User:S3097/global.js (edit · talk · history · links · logs · subpages · delete)

--Meno25 (talk) 09:01, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Done. --MF-W 21:11, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:55, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Grouppage-OTRS-member

Please delete this unneeded MediaWiki redirect. The target of the redirect doesn't exist, so, this page is listed on Special:BrokenRedirects and the intended system message was renamed to MediaWiki:Grouppage-vrt-permissions. See phab:T280615.

• MediaWiki:Grouppage-OTRS-member (edit · talk · history · links · logs · subpages · delete)

--Meno25 (talk) 09:01, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. I hope this does not break any interface messages. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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Category:Queering Wikipedia Conference

Articles moved to Category:Queering Wikipedia 2020, now that we also have Category:QW2021 Working Days and Category:Queering Wikipedia 2022 — OwenBlacker (Talk) 18:03, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello @OwenBlacker. I tagged the category as a redirect to Category:Queering_Wikipedia_2020. If deletion is still preferred I can do it. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:22, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio Maybe it makes more sense to redirect it to Category:Queering Wikipedia. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 11:38, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Also, wondering if we should delete Category:Queering Wikipedia 2020/Translations as empty too. Thanks, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:24, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio and @1234qwer1234qwer4: I don't have strong feelings beyond tidying up. If we tend to redirect rather than deleting here, then the redirect to Category:Queering Wikipedia 2020 makes sense. As you suggest, it probably makes sense to delete Category:Queering Wikipedia 2020/Translations now it's empty, though. Thanks! — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:58, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

@OwenBlacker: No preference between deleting vs redirect. If we're positive that the old category names will remain unused an no one will be confused, I'm very happy to delete instead of having yet another empty page with only a template on it :-) I'll delete the Translations one as empty. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:27, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio: If there's no preference, then I'd suggest deleting for tidiness's sake. Given we (WMLGBT+) have used the name once now and we're using it to refer to the 2022 event we're currently planning, as well as the cancelled 2020 event, it feels to me that deletion of the non-disambiguated category is prolly cleanest. Either way, thank you 😊 — OwenBlacker (Talk) 18:55, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Deleted then, thanks. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:36, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

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Template:Freenode

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SourceWatch

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Undeletion request for el.wikipedia

Template:Indefblockeduser

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Requests for comment/Wikimedia Enterprise

Absurd 'request for comment' which mis-describes the topic entirely and is a blatant piece of electioneering by a candidate for the WMF. Chris Keating (The Land) (talk) 22:41, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

• Deletion is inappropriate given the participation, but I think the RfC should be withdrawn or procedurally closed. MarioGom (talk) 22:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

MarioGom, RfCs are not immune to the deletion policy, and I believe that it is within policy for the outcome of a RfD discussion to be to close a RfC. This isn't exactly clear, though. Vermont (talk) 22:56, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Independent of anyone's opinions on Wikimedia Enterprise (full disclosure, I'm personally against it), the opening parts of the RfC very incorrectly describe what it is, and many of the oppose comments thus show a misunderstanding similar to the background section. It is also important to note that this RfC does not have any actionable resolution beyond determining community opinion. The fact that the creator is a candidate for the board, though concerning, is not relevant to the RfC's validity (or lack thereof). I would be inclined to close it as invalid due to the combined lack of possible resolution and biased start/description, and perhaps encourage interested editors to open another RfC with a more unbiased and clear background section and purpose. Looking forward to hearing others' thoughts, though. Best, Vermont (talk) 22:53, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

• Ordinarily I wouldn't support deleting a request for comment merely because it is disagreeable or poorly conceived. I would support the deletion of this one as it is a flagrant abuse of process intended to mislead the community on a project that the original poster disagrees with. There is no useful record to preserve here, and if a request for comment is done on Wikimedia Enterprise at all – and I don't know what value that would bring, considering Wikimedia Enterprise is an outcome of the multi-year RFC that is movement strategy – it should be on a blank slate. Harej (talk) 00:20, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
• It's not a neutral RfC, so it cannot lead to a true consensus or reliable results. Suggest procedural closure at least, with no prejudice to another, more neutral RfC. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 00:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
• Keep. It's exactly what the German Wikipedia word for RfC is: Meinungsbild. Any consensus reached by this RfC is not actionable but could stimulate the WMF into thinking for and abut the people who contribute to Wikipedia for once, rather than thinking about themselves. Kudpung (talk) 02:49, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
• Procedural close/deletion. I agree with Proc here, a non neutral RFC cannot possibly lead to a informed consensus Asartea ^{Talk (Enwiki Talk (preferred))} 07:34, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't think it matters. It is also important to note that this RfC does not have any actionable resolution beyond determining community opinion. Anything as absurd as making people pay to use the content just so the WMF can line their pockets is going to be met with strong resistance by the community volunteers who work for free with not as much as a 'thank you' from the WMF - whichever way an RfC is formulated. Kudpung (talk) 07:49, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

• Keep It's a request for comment, not a request for action, so it's fine. Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 07:56, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
• To clarify my intentions, here is the email in moderation that I just sent to the wikimedia-l mailing list:
  
  (In French below)
  Dear Wikimedia community,
  As some of you may have noticed from my interventions during the global conversations, I am not a fan of elections. Like my compatriot David Van Reybrouck (https://www.polemia.com/contre-les-elections-de-david-van-reybrouck), I am an advocate of direct democracy and consensus, and when this is not possible, I am in favor of drawing lots for candidates with short and non-repeatable mandates.
  So, you may wonder why I have proposed myself as a candidate for the current elections of new board members of the Wikimedia Foundation?
  The answer is that it is for me a nice way to discover how these elections work, but also and above all, it seemed to me to be a nice opportunity to raise within our community some questions that worry me a lot.
  Unfortunately, I see that my candidacy has an opposite effect than the one I hoped for. I had indeed wanted to launch a debate about the Wikimedia Enterprise project in the form of a call for comments. But this one seems to be compromised because of my lack of understanding of the project, but also because of my candidacy to the board (see :Requests for comment/Wikimedia Enterprise, Talk:Requests for comment/Wikimedia Enterprise, Meta:Requests for deletion#Requests for comment/Wikimedia Enterprise)
  My approach may be clumsy and certainly original, but it starts from a good background. I want to help our movement to make good decisions at the beginning of discussions that I think are important.
  I am therefore sending you this message in order to receive opinions and advice regarding this situation. I wonder indeed if it would not be useful that I withdraw my candidacy to the board of directors to be able to continue the debates that I would like to launch more serenely? It is just an idea, because I am afraid that it would complicate the voting process, which has already been postponed once. I thank you already for the help you could give to this situation.
  Sincerely, Lionel Scheepmans
  
  Chère communauté Wikimédia,
  Comme certains d'entre vous l'auront peut-être remarqué lors de mes interventions durant les conversations mondiales, je ne suis pas un adepte des élections. Comme mon compatriote David Van Reybrouck (https://www.polemia.com/contre-les-elections-de-david-van-reybrouck), je suis un partisan de la démocratie directe et du consensus et quand cela n'est pas possible, je suis favorable au tirage au sort des candidats avec mandats de courtes durées et non reproductibles.
  Vous vous demandez alors certainement pourquoi dans ce cas, je me suis proposé candidat pour les actuelles élections des nouveaux membres du conseil d'administration de la fondation Wikimedia ?
  La réponse est que c'est pour moi une belle façon de découvrir le fonctionnement de ces élections, mais aussi et surtout, cela me semblait être une belle occasion pour soulever au sein de notre communauté des questions qui m'inquiètent beaucoup.
  Malheureusement, je constate que ma candidature a un effet inverse à ce celui espéré. J'avais en effet envie de lancer un débat concernant le projet Wikimedia Enterprise sous forme d'appel à commentaires. Mais celui-ci semble compromis en raison de mon manque de compréhension du projet, mais aussi en raison de ma candidature au conseil d'administration. (Voir : Requests for comment/Wikimedia Enterprise, Talk:Requests for comment/Wikimedia Enterprise, Meta:Requests for deletion#Requests for comment/Wikimedia Enterprise).
  Ma démarche est peut-être maladroite et certainement originale, mais elle part d'un bon fond. Celui d'aider notre mouvement à prendre de bonnes décisions au départ de discussions qui me semble importante.
  Je vous adresse donc ce message dans le but de recevoir des avis et conseil par rapport à cette situation. Je me demande effectivement s'il ne serait pas utile que je retire ma candidature au conseil d'administration pour pouvoir poursuivre les débats que je voudrais lancer plus sereinement ? C'est juste une idée, car j'ai peur que cela complique le déroulement du scrutin qui déjà fut reporté une fois. Je vous remercie déjà pour l'aide que vous pourriez apporter à cette situation.
  Bien cordialement, Lionel Scheepmans''
  
  Sincerely again,Lionel Scheepmans ^{✉ Contact} _{French native speaker, sorry for my dysorthography} 10:18, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
• Delete/Close Regardless of the other factors that people have highlighted, the RfC itself has little use. Nothing actionable can or will come out of it. There is no point to further taking up the time of editors for an RfC going nowhere. According to the Request for Comment policy page, "RFCs are not immune to Meta-Wiki's deletion policy"; our deletion policy says that pages can be deleted for "any stated reason," and I believe this is a valid one. Zoozaz1 (talk) 01:22, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
• Garder, car c'est un débat intéressant qui est en cours, quitte à le dissocier de son lanceur, Lionel Scheepmans, qui je pense n'avait de toute façon pas de mauvaises intention à but éléctorales derrière cf son messages, mais qui souhaitait juste lancer un débat, peut-être pas au meilleur moment. -- Nemo ^Discuter 08:00, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
• Keep I don't see a reason to delete the RfC despite, as some note, there being some faults with it. The issue raised is clearly genuine. Leaderboard (talk) 13:17, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
• Keep This RFC does contain some community input and opinions and regardless how useful it is, I don't think we should delete it. --Zabe (talk) 16:52, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
• Keep No need to delete, all the discussions are fine to me. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:56, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Not done No consensus to delete. --MF-W 00:28, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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User talk:Mike6Matthews17

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Requests for new languages/Wikivoyage Estonian

An IP vandaler wrongly acted "BlueWhale" when submitting this RFL, looks like somewhat a bug of AbuseFilter. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:39, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Mentioning @MF-Warburg for a decision. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:54, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. It's no surprise that the filter didnt block it, as it was not originally created as a proper subpage. --MF-W 21:02, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

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ISO 639 name from code sub‑templates

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Category:Meta-Wiki archives

I don't see how this is different from Category:Archives. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 14:57, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Have you even looked at Category:Archives? It also contains Category:MediaWiki archives and so on. The general Archives category contains archives of all sorts, its subcategories contain archives on individual topics like Meta-Wiki itself. Nemo 15:05, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

This means we should probably update pages in Category:Archives with Meta: namespace to tag them in Category:Meta-Wiki archives instead. -- Pols12 (talk) 12:48, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Yes, but only if the topic of the page is actually Meta. Sometimes that's not so strictly enforced on pages in the Meta namespace. Nemo 19:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Not done --MF-W 00:25, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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Category:Other interface screenshots

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File:Nulisa.png

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Category:Rapid Grants/Template

It appears that this is redundant to Category:Rapid Grants templates. Since the latter is more grammatical and subpages are not enabled in category namespace anyway, I suggest deleting this one. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:45, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

• Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:39, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

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Really Reformed Church of Wikipedia

Not funny, and therefore has no reason to exist. Has been contentious for at least a decade. Just because something is likely to be offensive to Christians of multiple denominations and to various living people doesn't constitute humor. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:18, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

deleted --MF-W 22:54, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:56, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

User:Jimmyshjj

Attack page. --2408:8210:6012:3B22:5102:B459:A635:C0A2 14:18, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

I've removed the "attack" and left the box about the user being retired. --MF-W 22:57, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

@MF-Warburg: w:en:WP:POINTy disruption continues at the page. JavaHurricane 04:23, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

All the vandalism has been removed, so is there still a need to delete the page? --Ferien (talk) 20:36, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

User is blocked; no further action needed. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 10:27, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 10:28, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Category redirect demo page

• Category redirect demo page
• Category:Redirect demo 1
• Category:Redirect demo

The first page is apparently supposed to demonstrate the use of a category redirect on a page, but the redirect has been "fixed" by MABot since 2017. This also resulted in a category loop at the non-redirect cat. Do we really need a demonstration like this here on Meta? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:59, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

No; this is more something within mediawiki.org's scope for a technical documentation page, not really something to be messing around with in Meta-Wiki mainspace. Vermont (talk) 22:57, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Delete per Vermont. We don't need these testings on mainspace. No objection if it is in some user space or whatsoever. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:51, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Delete per Vermont. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 11:52, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: All deleted per above.— xaosflux ^Talk 13:38, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Wiktionary

There’s nothing wrong with the proposal. 217.117.125.83 10:08, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Seems the proposal is just empty and the above is trolling but let me ping @MF-Warburg: on the safe side. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:45, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

+ Talk:Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Wiktionary should be deleted too? Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:47, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

• It isn’t empty. And why do you think that this is trolling? 217.117.125.83 17:49, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

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Category:Protection

Looks like this is redundant to the much older Category:Page protection category. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:28, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

I (category creator) agree. Apokrif (talk) 13:45, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Recategorised the three pages. I could have just G6 speedied it now, but I figured redirecting would be the better alternative. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:06, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:41, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Category:Page Elements

I can't make sense of this – how are the two templates specifically related to "page elements"? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:14, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Deleted, no objections - no obvious need to keep. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Template:REVIVEWIKI

I don't see how useful this template this is for meta. Sure, it's the format used when a Wiki goes into a soft closure, but regardless, it has no useful purpose on meta (I also have the concern that the IP that started this template thinks that Wikipedia is the only WMF project, although that's irrelevant to this request). And finally, its not used anywhere, nor even linked (except on this page). Didn't notify the page creator since the IP that started it is globally blocked. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 10:58, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Just noticed this at special:PageTranslation. Indeed this seems more like something in scope of Incubator. However, since templates like this are usually substituted, the lack of transclusions would in general not be a problem, even if the template was years old. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 11:30, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:54, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

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Category:模

As far as I understand it, this should have been replaced by category:Templates/yue. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:28, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Delete - useless for now. Replaced. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 13:00, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Delete useless cat (for now) SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 12:32, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:55, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Wy/id/Template:Pagebanner

• Wy/id/Template:Pagebanner
• Category:Wy/id

Appear to be misplaced, see incubator:Template:Wy/id/Page-banner. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:34, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. --MF-W 16:37, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

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Grants:IdeaLab/ world's welfare

Doesn't look like a project like this is remotely in scope of Wikimedia grants/IdeaLab. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:17, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. --MF-W 16:38, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

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Category:1880 songs

Appears to be out of project scope – delete and remove category (along with other redlinked ones) from the only member. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 12:23, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. --MF-W 16:20, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Uncategorised. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:15, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

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WikiMemes User Group

This section was archived on a request by: Base (talk) 23:01, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Template:DISPLAYTITLE/doc

This section was archived on a request by: ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:26, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Category:Wikidata Users

Misspelt and less populated version of Category:Wikidata users, created by the same editor. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:40, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Can be converted into a redirect. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 13:15, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

deleted no value in a redirect to essentially same name  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:37, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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Category:দপ্তর সম্পাদক

Google translates this as "Office secretary", so I suppose the more specific (and populated) Category:Wikimedia Bangladesh Online Meeting already covers this aspect of categorisation. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:44, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

deleted --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 08:53, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

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Meta:Home

Meaningless redirect, main page isn't a homepage for Meta Namespace, it's for all namespaces. The redirect shouldn't exist in meta namespace anyway. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:12, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Delete pointless redirect. SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 07:06, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

deleted by Billinghurst. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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Meta:Title blacklist

Title Blacklist isn't a meta blacklist, this makes no sense to redirect. It's also confusing per say. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:12, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

deleted by Billinghurst. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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Meta:Page collection list

Useless crossnamespace redirect, clearly won't be used. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:12, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

deleted by Billinghurst. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 23:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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Template:Weather box

• Template:Weather box (and its doc page)

Useless, almost-out-of-scope template dependent on module that seems to have never existed. This was previously used on 3 pages (Wikimania 2014 bids/Arusha, Wikimania 2015 bids/Arusha, Wikimania 2015 bids/Dar es Salaam), each of which was causing a script error, and I replaced them with the wikitable produced by expanding the template on the English Wikipedia. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 00:15, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

• delete not needed  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:34, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:43, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

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Orphaned documentation pages

Template:Indefblocked/sandbox

Template:Collection

Template:114

Do we have any ideas on how VoIP service links are necessary on Meta? This template is nonsense to me if there aren't. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:35, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

This template has nothing to do with VoIP service links, and it is not nonsense. It was originally created in 2006 as a request to move a page into a translated help namespace, and then became obsolete in 2012 when the namespace in question was removed. So delete, but I don't see why this needed to be brought to RfD instead of letting my {{looks useless}} tag resolve on January 3. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 14:33, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Delete useless template. It's easier to type Please move to namespace 114 as well. SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 09:25, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

• Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:52, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Template:Birthday Committee/Inactive

This template is related to the Birthday Committee on the English Wikipedia, I have no idea why the birthday committee would be notifying people that they're being removed from the list on meta. This was created in 2019, substituted onto one user talk page a minute later by it's creator and hasn't been used since. 192.76.8.84 01:00, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

• Delete Outside meta's scope. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 04:24, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. --MF-W 15:49, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Category:Templates using ParserFunctions

Per w:Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 21#Category:Templates using ParserFunctions. The category's text even acknowledges its own obsolescence. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 19:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

@Pppery: still populated. Let us have a solution for the contents first.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:48, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Just remove them? * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

There are thousands of templates using parser functions at this point, and only 37 templates in this category. Long obsolete and potentially misleading; no objections. Deleted. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 14:09, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Meta:Only edit vandalism

This section was archived on a request by: ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 02:59, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Pages in Category:GlobalWiki test wiki pages

This section was archived on a request by: ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 02:59, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Category:Support and Safety

This section was archived on a request by: Sgd. —Hasley 14:40, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia Cloud/What you need to know about Cloud & Wikimedia Cloud/Rules and Guidelines

This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:22, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Template:Global unblock

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Template:Portal

• Template:Portal
• Module:Portal
• Module:Portal/images/l

Useless imported template, Meta doesn't even have a portal namespace. I generally have been tagging these as {{looks useless}}, but this one is actually used, albeit on pages that were blindly copied from other wikis and usually contain a ton of redlinked templates. If this is deleted, then the use on Category:Language templates should be removed, and the other uses can stay as is (since they are already broken) * Pppery * _{it has begun} 01:54, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Indeed, almost all uses are the ones listed at WikiFundi/2021#Wikipedia articles showcase to be directly retrieved from Spanish Wikipedia, and I don't quite see why they would have needed to be imported. They don't even appear to have appropriate attribution anywhere. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:34, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Deleted — xaosflux ^Talk 19:46, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Files in Category:Images used with permission

Nominating all files in Category:Images used with permission (and the template itself) for deletion. Since Meta does not have an EDP, it it not allowed to host non-free images. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:13, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

@Pppery: I'm not sure the above fall under the definition of "fair use", seeing as "[...] permission is granted to the Comité Wikimania Montréal (and, by extension, to the Wikimedia Foundation) to use this image" - in my (admittedly non-licencing minded!) read of that, it seems the images are directly licenced for this use? -- TNT (talk • she/they) 03:21, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

That's irrelevant. These aren't available under a license defined as free by wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy A license which meets the terms of the Definition of Free Cultural Works specific to licenses, as can be found at http://freedomdefined.org/Definition version 1.0.. I linked to Meta:Fair use to demonstrate that Meta does not have a EDP (which would allow the use of files that don't meet that definition), not because it's actually fair use. Note that Meta previously deleted similarly-situated images at Meta:Requests for deletion/Archives/2015#All_files_using_Template:Permission. These somehow slipped under the radar then. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:28, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

I'll let a more experienced admin take a look at this one (please ping me so I can learn!), but thank you for your explanation Pppery 🙂 -- TNT (talk • she/they) 03:36, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

• Delete. Per nom. Unfree files are not allowed on Meta as per policy. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:01, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
• Deleted. Per foundation policy, copyrighted content shouldn't be on any project unless there is a EDP, which for the project I am familiar with is this for zhwp. Otherwise, we cannot accept the files. Meta do not have EDP and per last point of the resolution, we have to delete them as these files are uploaded after the dateline given (files are uploaded in 2010 and the dateline is 2007). Quick close to as per something similiar to commons:COM:PCP, we shall take all reasonable actions to prevent the foundation being exposed to undesirable legal risks. @TheresNoTime: The ping you wished :). Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:40, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

  Addendum: With respect to fair use claims, our WM:DP have "files that are obviously copyright infringements, or that are licensed under any non-free license including any form of fair use, or that don't allow commercial use or modification." under F1. Permission is granted to use the image, but the permission is incompatible with any of the free licenses available. It can be at most deemed as to be something like fair use, which we do not accept. Moreover, there is this line in the license "The terms of the permission do not include third party use. For the purposes of the Meta-Wiki, this license is a non-free license." which means that it isn't even close till the point to be regarded as a fair use license. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:46, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 01:33, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

User:Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen

Hoax, outside Meta's scope, not funny. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:02, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

• Comment- whether something is humorous on meta is highly subjective, as evinced by the contents of Category:Humor.Dialectric (talk) 18:17, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

  This doesn't make the page any less misleading. ~~~~
  User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:19, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

 Oppose for the reasons specified there: User talk:Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen.

It is not meant to be funny. It is meant to be effective.

It may misleading only to the incognoscenti, so I had pinged an old-timer and two there, as soon as I learnt of this request and wrote there, just in case.

In fact, now after my affray subsided (see the timestamps here and there), I see Pppery's attempt as an example of systemic prosecution persecution, speciesism, humanikism and its related tactics and budgetary allocations. To quote, paraphrase and elaborate on our own Board strategic thought from some years ago, now almost fully implemented:

The Movement will never reach its full potential if we do not close the diversity gap... There continue to be barriers in our movement for underrepresented groups [moi y compris]. We as a movement have been called upon by a broad and diverse group of our own movement members to promote inclusivity and reduce harms to our participants; in light thereof the teams had been directed by the Board of Trustees to (among other requests) create the Universal Code of Conduct called for in the Movement Strategy recommendations, etc. etc.

Do click e.g. my enwiki log to see that I had come out since 2015 and thus felinimity is my my unalienable protected trait: I am not making it up here. So is Gizza's silent yet melodious assistant, etc.

The fuller answer is again there: User talk:Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen. Do ask around about some TLAs or URLs therein - WO and WMCUG included, Pppery, should it be needed, as by now they serve as terms of wikiart.

Forsake your human closed mind and heart, pray thee! Embrace universal wikilove and let the empty light start to flicker also in your soul.

പൂച്ചകളു, Zezen (talk) 19:08, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

 Oppose

A glance at the development of Wikipedia shows us irrefutably that every phase of its development, every extension, every change, every essential segment of its history, whether it be seen as progressive or conservative, bears the plain imprint of the life-force-being that introduced the change. It was not necessarily its sole or actual author, but it was the instrument of transformation and perfection.

Certainly, what nowadays we understand by personality is something quite different from what the biographers and historians of earlier times meant by it. For them, and especially for the writers of those days who had a distinct taste for biography, the essence of a personality seems to have been deviance, abnormality, uniqueness, in fact all too often the pathological. We moderns, on the other hand, do not even speak of major personalities until we encounter life-force-beings who have gone beyond all original and idiosyncratic qualities to achieve the greatest possible integration into the generality, the greatest possible service to the supra personal.

The Wikimedia Affiliates Association is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette. All the insights, noble thoughts, and works of art that the life-force has produced in its creative eras, all that subsequent periods of scholarly study have reduced to concepts and converted into intellectual property—on all this immense body of intellectual values the Affiliate plays like the organist on an organ. And this organ has attained an almost unimaginable perfection; its manuals and pedals range over the entire intellectual cosmos; its stops are almost beyond number. Theoretically this instrument is capable of reproducing in on Wikispace the entire intellectual content of the universe.

Since life may summon us at every age

Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,

Be ready bravely and without remorse

To find new light that old ties cannot give.

In all beginnings dwells a magic force

For guarding us and helping us to live.

Serenely let us move to distant places

And let no sentiments of home detain us.

The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us

But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.

If we accept a home of our own making,

Familiar habit makes for indolence.

We must prepare for parting and leave-taking

Or else remain the slaves of permanence.

Even the hour of our death may send

Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,

And life may summon us to newer races.

So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.

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Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen (talk) 07:29, 1 December 2021 (UTC) Secretary-General, Wikimedia Affiliates Association; Epirotik Mikrokosmos Kolektiv

Oh, what do I spy with my morning AI eye, @Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen?! Is it craniata toying with lophotrochozoa indeed? (Spisula solidissima by any chance? - my eyesight is too blurry, you know us felines.) And all that gloriously glasperlenspielled - a sunny daze I shall not [forget]! "Slowly, slowly climb o snail the Wiki mount", shan't we all?

Let me quickly speed Pterois volitans Manado-e back to agallomate thee with alga and Agalmatides further, oh noble sir and our majesty, a veritable Magister Ludi and wikiotherkind Protector that thou art, indeed!

Speaking of aSBsb3ZlIHlvdQ==, do not forget of our YOBLIyfugxf8Yo84eNCy SMTPs, o gentle sir. Non sumus in coeli, as we gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk - at least you seem to be closer to these Ely ladies, IP and shoe-size wise.

May also that ꧁꧂ itself will join us in therein, one day, and our small bones will land us in a SignPost or two...

Update: Or will our Excellency deserve another swift and sweet GenderDesk note yet again? O, let its (T)RUTH femalesplain us all also there by stealing groping our idea or two in turn; we nicely beseech thee, o gentle lady of the voting booth...

Zezen (talk) 08:25, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrator Note: Please focus the arguments on this issues based on meta policies such as inclusion policies. This page is not for any advocacy and unrelated conversations. These doesn't help to determine consensus and should be kept away from here. Further off topic commentary here will be refactored. Thanks. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

• Delete OOS. Only willing to change my mind if Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen makes a more appropriate userpage. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 11:29, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
• Delete. I do not understand a single sentence of the above reasoning. ~~~~
  User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:31, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

You desire to erase all that you cannot comprehend? :^(

The Wikimedia Affiliates Association is an initiative to unite lifeforms from across wiki- & nonwiki-space & beyond. We are radically inclusive and welcoming of all species, be they earthbound or extraterrestrial, artificially or superficially intelligent, from the past, present, future, or our imaginations.

The triquetra has operated tirelessly for over thirty earth years to foster peace, love, and understanding.

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Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen (talk) 14:06, 1 December 2021 (UTC) Secretary-General, Wikimedia Affiliates Association Sweet Harmony

This: peace, love, and understanding and inclusivity, thus seconded.

Let us thus not cross that fe(line) also in Meta, o gentle admins.

The current Meta guidelines allow:

• Documentation and discussion concerning the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects...
• Documentation intended to help users contribute and collaborate in other wiki projects...
• Multilingual cooperation of Wikimedia projects...
• Primary research regarding the development of wiki projects....

It is very much:

• primary (and active indeed),
• multilingual documentation (FYI myself I tend to use Greek, Chinese, including CHT, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and Old Slavonic up to PIE, sometimes in one sentence: see my Meta Talk or my enwiktionary or my past Global contributions, and so do others: e.g. last week a Russian when addressing me in ruwiki where we added German, Kashubian and more Slavic into one sentence for good measure, all logged long before this kerfuffle so I am not making it up),
• cooperative (as per above and my past enwiki declaration, I am not a member of any offline forum)
• it is helping many users to contribute here and collaborate also in other wiki projects (a verbatim quote from the guidelines), documents and discusses WMF and its projects and will guide them, etc.

If it is HillBilly's English that bothers you, I am sure @Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen can quickly switch it all to ancient Japanese to avoid any further misunderstanding of our WAA's goals. (Again I am not making it up: here are my past jpwiki contributions in turn, long before this page was created).

If HillBilly had unwittingly ran foul of these current Guidelines, would such a switch make yous happy? It is a serious question and a practical proposal, as per above - help us understand.

PS. @SHB2000 - I love TLAs especially WP ones, but Google's first hit for OOS reads: NEW ZEALAND noun: short for occupational overuse syndrome. "another sufferer from OOS told her the condition was manageable" - Oxford Languages. Is it what you meant here?

Zezen (talk) 15:21, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

OOS = out of scope. And I find your reasoning as to why this page is within scope wholly unconvincing. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 18:24, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Get the same sentiments as Pppery and 1234qwer1234qwer4. I also don't understand a single bit too. SHB2000 (talk | contribs) —Preceding undated comment added 05:44, 2 December 2021 (UTC).

Keep Solely because I laughed at the sheer absurdity of some of these keep arguments, funny enough for me to keep. Also in scope; policy is that "discussion concerning the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects" is in scope, and the page being considered most certainly discusses "wikimedia projects," even if in a humorous way. Zoozaz1 (talk) 00:59, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

• Comment User:Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen also now appears to be indef blocked by MarcoAurelio. Now I see no real reason to keep this page. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 04:47, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
• Delete. Troll page, out of scope. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:06, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
• Delete useless, nonproductive content by a now-blocked editor and troll. Possibly a hoax, at least in part. Also borders on trolling. JavaHurricane 11:18, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
• I was thinking of actually keeping this content, but it does seem that the purpose is less clear than I initially thought it to be. Can the OP comment on the purpose of this page? Is this supposed to be for fun or a troll page? You may wish to use your native language if it is not English. Leaderboard (talk) 18:24, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

@Leaderboard: OP (Hillbillyholiday Unfrozen) is indef blocked so don't think they'll be commenting anytime soon. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 00:53, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Deleted per above. User is welcome to make a new userpage, should they become unblocked and return, such that it complies with the Meta:Inclusion policy — xaosflux ^Talk 16:25, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Спасимир

No content except for a MassMessage from 2018. Looks like this was supposed to be posted to User talk:Спасимир. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:47, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Speedy deleted, (G1) — xaosflux ^Talk 16:28, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

File:Wikimedia Conference 2011 (DerHexer) 2011-03-26 004 anjasedit 1.jpg

Sort of a duplicate of File:Volunteer management session flip chart.JPG & File:Wikimedia Conference Documentation (11).JPG which exist at Commons. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:34, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
• Deleted, but this title redirected on Commons to the first "duplicate" mentioned to leave page histories effectively intact. ~~~~
  User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:41, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:43, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

User talk:Detective Akai/Rubbb

I want to delete this page. Ask significant contributor User:特克斯特, User:Z423x5c6 for their opinion. Detective Akai (talk) 01:15, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi. I am one of the contributor on that talk page. Since our conversation is not quite useful to wikipedia (both meta and yue), I also hope that the talk page will be deleted. ——Z423x5c6 (talk) 15:25, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Delete. By author request. 特克斯特 (talk) 10:49, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Note: All authors needs to agree, so Deryck Chan needs to give their opinion here.Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:32, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Not done user talk pages are rarely deleted, if this was a copy-paste archive it would be different, but this is just a move from the base usertalk page. It should probably just be merged back up, but that isn't necessary to close this as not done. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:17, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — xaosflux ^Talk 11:17, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

File:En-ea installation form.png

Unused. No source/license (very old image). It was meant to be transferred to mediawiki.org but it was deleted over there as well. {{GFDL-presumed}} may apply but with I am not sure if it the file is of any historical interest now that we want to keep it. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:54, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

• I'd say the licensing is clearly a {{MW-screenshot}}. Regardless, Delete since it was deleted on MediaWiki.org and the sole reason it is hosted on meta is to satisfy now-nonexistent licensing concerns. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:19, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

File:En-ea installation.png

Per #File:En-ea installation form.png * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 17:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:20, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Template:Table

The only 5 transclusions are incorrect (they seem to expect this template only contains “class=wikitable", probably the behavior on another wiki). --Pols12 (talk) 15:09, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

• This was accidentally archived without being actioned, and I've restored it from the archive. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:17, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 01:43, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016

It does not look like this one is any different from Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon 2016, and the main category is named Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon without a mention of Nepal. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:59, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Additionally listing Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016/ne. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:16, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

• @Nirmal Dulal: can you help sort this one out? — xaosflux ^Talk 00:57, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

I think We can keep main category (Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon) and a new category named Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon in Nepal for specifying the country which organizing the event and delete empty categories. Nirmal Dulal (talk) 05:24, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! @1234qwer1234qwer4: any concerns left to just deleted the now empty collection here? — xaosflux ^Talk 12:46, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

In case we are indeed dropping the by-year categorisation, then no. The following categories could be deleted then:

• Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon 2016
• Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon 2016/ne
• Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon 2018
• Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016
• Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016/ne
• Category:Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2017

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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 16:14, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 01:45, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Category:MassMessage

Seems redundant to Category:Global message delivery. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:24, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

It exists due to Category:MassMessage/Translations and someone created the parent. So we probably need to find the automated categorisation and change that to Category:Global message delivery/Translations, and then do away with the subcat.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:46, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Special:Diff/22563237 --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 01:36, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 01:36, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

File:Org Chart Without Names.png

Unused and outdated version of foundation:File:Org Chart Without Names.png. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 17:41, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 01:33, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

WikiLang pages

This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 18:14, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

File:Wikimedia Conference 2011 (DerHexer) 2011-03-26 004 anjasedit 2.jpg

Unused. Cropped version of File:Wikimedia Conference 2011 (DerHexer) 2011-03-26 004.jpg which exists on Commons. Not opposed to a move to Commons if needed. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:47, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
• If I understood it correctly, this poster does not have a cropped version anywhere else on Wikimedia? In this case, I suggest transferring this to Commons in line with the existence of the File:Volunteer management session flip chart.JPG mentioned above. ~~~~
  User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:34, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

  Correct. I checked c:Category:Wikimedia Conference Berlin 2011 and found c:File:Wikimedia Conference Documentation (16).JPG, c:File:Wikimedia Conference Documentation (17).JPG and c:File:Wikimedia Conference Documentation (18).JPG, but they are not identical with regards to the zooming. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:57, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

• @DerHexer: any notes on this? — xaosflux ^Talk 11:22, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

  I don't care. It can be moved to Commons if you like. —DerHexer (Talk) 19:34, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Delete per nom. SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 10:05, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

• Deleted - moving to commons would require someone to claim the copyright on this, which noone is doing, the discussion above suggests it is just a cropped version of another file and that it is unused. If someone ever wants to recreate it they can do so on commons, by cropping the original and including appropriate licensing. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:43, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — xaosflux ^Talk 15:44, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates/Tabs

These aren't templates, and I'm not sure what this has to do with "tabs". Looks like all of these can be recategorised under Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter, which only cointains Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates at the moment, though it might be worth renaming it to Category:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group in line with the mainspace pages. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:08, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

If you insist to delete, it then at least can we simply rename it to Category:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group without moving, just so we can keep all the subpages intact? -—M@sssly^✉ 17:53, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't understand your request. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:06, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Rename the categories to User Group rather than Chapter; and move everything in /Templates/Tabs to Category:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. (since they aren't templates; only the header/footer directly under Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates are. –SJ talk  18:47, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: I have moved Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter to Category:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group and clear Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates/Tabs, so it and Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter could be deleted. I have also moved Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates to Category:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group/Templates altogether, and the former redirect page could be deleted too. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 12:37, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

No one to take care of this? —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 09:53, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

@Ericliu1912 is the only thing left to do here to delete the now-empty Category:Dagbani_Wikimedians_Chapter/Templates/Tabs? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:05, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

You could delete Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter, Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates, and Category:Dagbani Wikimedians Chapter/Templates/Tabs. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 14:18, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

• Deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:33, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — xaosflux ^Talk 15:34, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Category:Tools or Category:Tools and scripts

Currently, we have the two categories Category:Tools and Category:Tools and scripts, which are only linked to each other by a "see also" hatnote. The first one is categorised under Category:Software and Category:Infrastructure, while the second one belongs to Category:Documentation. Judging by the name though, it looks that both have essentially the same scope, so this splitting makes pages harder to find. While "Tools" is shorter and more concise, "Tools and scripts" appears to be slightly more inclusive, as well as having a significantly higher number of translations. I would lean towards deleting/redirecting the first one, though I am open to see additional arguments here. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:23, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Are there anyone have ideas on how can a bot script or template populates one of both? If no such scripts or templates, I prefer merge 1st to 2nd. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:27, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

I also prefer merging two categories (are all the same). Thingofme (talk) 16:11, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Merge these two categories by deleting Category:Tools and scripts and then move Category:Tools to Category:Tools and scripts. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 12:44, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Links to Category:Tools should be manually changed to retain the translations of Category:Tools and scripts. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 09:53, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Merge per nom. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 20:13, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

• In progress… Merging Category:Tools IN TO Category:Tools and scripts.
• Done — xaosflux ^Talk 17:15, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — xaosflux ^Talk 17:15, 31 July 2022 (UTC)