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This is a log of all deletion discussion nominations made by this user using Twinkle's XfD module. (See also: User:JPxG/PROD log and User:JPxG/CSD log)

September 2020

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  1. User:Sysages/Editnotice nominated at MfD; notified Sysages (talk · contribs) 01:55, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
  2. User:Sysages/sandbox nominated at MfD; notified Sysages (talk · contribs) 01:55, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
  3. User:Sysages/search nominated at MfD; notified Sysages (talk · contribs) 01:55, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
  4. User:Sysages/Issues/Archives/2020/August nominated at MfD; notified ClueBot III (talk · contribs) and Sysages (talk · contribs) 01:56, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

October 2020

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  1. Alpen (food) nominated at AfD; notified Poroubalous (talk · contribs) 02:12, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: Doesn't seem very notable to me -- didn't find any GHITS for the cereal being discussed outside of manufacturer pages and product listings, and the one source (for the first sentence) is a link to the manufacturer's site. I would propose a merge with an article about Weetabix, but virtually none of the stuff in the article is sourced (and some of it is quite absurd).
  2. Layered security nominated at AfD; notified Brookehamilton (talk · contribs) 09:41, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: I would propose a merge, but I don't know what of this can be salvaged. It looks like an advertisement, and it may well be -- 23% of the article's content was written by apparent SPA User:Conesasecurity. A large bulleted list of promotional-sounding content has stood since its original version in 2007. The one non-promotional section (Philosophy) was copied from Swiss Cheese model in 2014. Only one source is cited in the entire article, which is a single quotation where it seems to be mentioned in passing. Google does not seem to bring up any sources that aren't advertisements.
  3. Category:Coos County, New Hampshire nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Postdlf (talk · contribs) 05:13, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: The second "o" in "Coös" has an umlaut (see the county's webpage). I recategorized all the pages in the category, so now it is a goofy lil' nothing.
  4. Category:Libraries in Coos County, New Hampshire nominated at CfD (CfR); notified Namiba (talk · contribs); renaming to: Category:Libraries in Coös County, New Hampshire 05:17, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
  5. Category:Buildings and structures in Coos County, New Hampshire nominated at CfD (CfR); notified Hmains (talk · contribs); renaming to: Category:Buildings and structures in Coös County, New Hampshire 05:19, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: See above
  6. Category:Museums in Coos County, New Hampshire nominated at CfD (CfR); notified Jllm06 (talk · contribs); renaming to: Category:Museums in Coös County, New Hampshire 05:20, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: See above.
  7. Category:National Register of Historic Places in Coos County, New Hampshire nominated at CfD (CfR); notified Hmains (talk · contribs); renaming to: Category:National Register of Historic Places in Coös County, New Hampshire 05:21, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: öööö

November 2020

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  1. Template:InPhonic nominated at TfD; notified Tbenzinger (talk · contribs) 04:15, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: Entire navbox for a defunct company with a whopping six entries, of which only three are linked to articles: the company itself only has one article, and the only thing in the navbox is a list of corporate directors! This list of people could easily be included on the InPhonic page and on the three extant pages of the people in it.

December 2020

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  1. Category:Hydroelectric power plants in the United States by state nominated at CfD (CfR); notified Hmains (talk · contribs); renaming to: Category:Hydroelectric power stations in the United States by state 00:42, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: Every other type of similar category is "stations" i.e. "Natural gas-fired power stations", "Nuclear power stations" etc.
  2. Infopreneur nominated at AfD; notified Jvwh (talk · contribs) 22:58, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: Who doesn't love to identify opportunities for creating enterprising information-based businesses by identifying knowledge deficiency situation and sell target-based information products and services? A neologism and a portmanteau about affiliate marketing (which ought to be three strikes already) with no sources worth phoning home about, and I couldn't find any with a web search. Wew lad.
  3. Template:Somali presidential elections nominated at TfD; notified Number 57 (talk · contribs) 21:53, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: All of the content in this template already exists in Template:Somali elections; there's no need to have a separate navbox for duplicated content.
  4. User talk:Lol text me nominated at MfD; notified Homorash (talk · contribs) and Lol text me (talk · contribs) 07:15, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: "Lol text me" is a user who's never made an edit, whose talk page is naught but "lolicon_sample.png", which was created by the wholly unrelated user "Homorash". What the hell is this.
  5. Extended essay nominated at AfD; notified 65.164.22.98 (talk · contribs) 09:02, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
    • Reason: This is a type of essay that students write for a specific exam. Sourced exclusively to WP:SPS for what looks like over ten years.

March 2021

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  1. Category:Barriers to critical thinking: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Marcocapelle (talk · contribs) 08:51, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: This is a wholly subjective category that does not have solid (or, really, any) inclusion criteria. Subcategories seem rather arbitrary and nonsensical: the category "Ignorance", for example, is not a category of things that are ignorant, but rather applications of the philosophical and legal concept of ignorance (it contains Ignotum per ignotius and Lambert v. California).
      I cannot think of anything that's a "barrier to critical thinking" that wouldn't fit in Category:Fallacies, or some other subcategory.

April 2021

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  1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Rules for Fools (3rd nomination): nominated at MfD; notified TenPoundHammer (talk · contribs) 02:50, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Unfunny recursive nomination; meta-humor is lame.
  2. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Rules for Fools (3rd nomination) (2nd nomination): nominated at MfD 02:51, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: I messed up and nominated the wrong page.
  3. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Xaosflux/Requests for adminship/Wikipe-tan: nominated at MfD; notified JJBers (talk · contribs) 04:41, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Some men don't nominate pages for deletion based on anything logical, like policies and guidelines... they can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
  4. Draft:13 Reasons Why (season 2): nominated at MfD; notified Alvrix3108 (talk · contribs) 00:46, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Last MfD closed as "no consensus" in June 2020, and no edits since then. Original author has been indef-blocked.
  5. Draft:02loaded: nominated at MfD; notified Pushem4 (talk · contribs) 00:51, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Draft declined in July 2020, and no edits since then (except for an automated typo fix from another editor in December 2020).
  6. Draft:"BIG haungry": nominated at MfD; notified San Augustine Weekly (talk · contribs) 01:48, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Draft that hasn't been touched by its creator since 2020-08, only edit since then has been an AWB grammar fix in December.
  7. Xuelong Li: nominated at AfD; notified Topcipher (talk · contribs) 02:39, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: An unsourced BLP; I could not find any significant mention of this guy on Scholar or in news searches. He does not seem to pass WP:NSCHOLAR. If someone can find anything, I will withdraw the nomination, but I don't think there is anything to find.
  8. Leslie Butler (musician): nominated at AfD; notified In ictu oculi (talk · contribs) 02:48, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: BLP referenced only to Discogs (user-generated content, not a WP:RS) and an article about his brother. 59 results on Google News exist for "Leslie Butler", most of which seem to be quoting an agriculture professor of the same name. None mention him. Google results do not turn up anything remotely useful either. I will withdraw this nomination if someone can find something I couldn't.
  9. Patrik Enblad: nominated at AfD; notified JWT (talk · contribs) 03:10, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Unsourced single-sentence BLP. Previous PROD was removed because the article had a single external link; unfortunately, this link is to a primary source, the (now defunct) bank's website. I could not find anything about this guy online, aside from passing mentions in articles like this one. I do not think he meets WP:GNG, or that significant coverage exists to have even a single-sentence stub about him. If someone can find good sources where I have failed, I will withdraw this nomination.
  10. Roderick Peeples: nominated at AfD; notified Siyavash (talk · contribs) 00:00, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: A WP:BEFORE finds "Roderick+Peeples" 18 news results, all of which are passing mentions in theater reviews. The only external link is to an IMDB page, which is user-generated and not a reliable source. I could find nothing else about him online that came close to being a WP:RS.
  11. Dr. Michael Roizen: nominated at RfD; Target: Michael Roizen (notified); notified IHateAccounts (talk · contribs) 02:30, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Implausible redirect from honorary title which seems to have had about sixty pageviews in the whole year of 2021.

May 2021

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  1. Lars Oluf Larsen: nominated at AfD; notified Encyclopædius (talk · contribs) 01:55, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Unsourced and questionably notable BLP (the only reference is to a film database, and the references on his article in the Danish Wikipedia are to similar websites). Of a whopping four news results, none seem like significant coverage: he's quoted a couple times in this article, and given a passing mention in this one, this one and this one.
  2. Rabia'a al-Ossaimi: nominated at AfD; notified Encyclopædius (talk · contribs) 01:39, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Literally not a single news result for this person. A plain Google result brings only 13 results, one of which is a product listing and the rest of which are automatically generated lists of people (likely scraped from Wikipedia). The single source in the article is a generated profile page on a website; literally the entirety of it is "was born in 1975 in Sana'a, Yemen, where she still lives. She has one poetry collection". Does not pass GNG and there are no sources.

June 2021

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  1. Genetic Studies and the Khazar Hypothesis: nominated at AfD; notified ኡልትራቦምብ (talk · contribs) 04:10, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: A strange, essay-like page created in April 2021, which looks to me like an obvious WP:POVFORK of Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry (created in 2013). That is to say, it's a second (and much shorter) article on the same subject, which seems to reflect a very different set of opinions. I don't see why any of this content couldn't be merged into the parent article.
  2. Shahin Shokoofandeh: nominated at AfD; notified Steavenrichards (talk · contribs) 02:22, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Only source for the entire article is a single passing mention in a short WP:MILL piece on a movie. The rest of the article is an unsourced WP:POV essay. I could not find a single result for this person when doing a web search, nor when searching newspapers or books. Does not seem to meet WP:GNG.

July 2021

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  1. Jamal Awadh Nasser: nominated at AfD; notified Encyclopædius (talk · contribs) 05:12, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Seems to be a minor diplomat without much notable history. The only sources for him that exist (I searched the Web as well as newspapers, etc) are a couple-sentence mention in a WP:MILL article saying that he delivered a letter to an Algerian foreign minister, and a liveblog from Al Jazeera that doesn't mention him by name (the ambassador to Algeria is mentioned in a long list of resignations submitted). No information about the guy seems to exist online apart from the twenty-six words in this article (which, indeed, is much shorter than the AfD nomination I'm writing for it).
  2. Eduardo Pochinki: nominated at AfD; notified SantiagoLevin09 (talk · contribs) 03:06, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: An unsourced single-sentence stub about a guy for whom no significant coverage (or indication of WP:GNG) seems to exist anywhere. I find a scant "Eduardo+Pochinki" sixteen news results from a web search: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 10, include only one short quote from him in articles that aren't about him. 4, 5, 11, 13, and 14 are trivial mentions in a list of other things. 8, 9, 12, 15, and 16 are WP:MILL (and not about him, but rather about the store).

August 2021

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  1. The Philippine School, Dubai: nominated at AfD; notified GeniusMan130 (talk · contribs) 07:03, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non-notable school. No sources seem to exist (that I could find, anyway); article is totally unreferenced.

September 2021

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  1. Von Taghogho Apochi: nominated at AfD; notified Sweetpikin (talk · contribs) 08:01, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Recently-created, unreferenced, self-promotional stub. WP:BEFORE yields no news results for the full name, and four for first+last (with none coming close to SIGCOV). Straight Google search returns six results for the full name and a few for the first+last (again, nothing resembling SIGCOV). I don't see an assertion of notability in the article. I'm not familiar with the reliability of Nigerian outlets, though; I'll withdraw this nomination if someone makes a reasonable claim to the validity of extant sources.

October 2021

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  1. User:Supernavin: nominated at MfD; notified Supernavin (talk · contribs) 06:25, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

November 2021

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  1. Free Speech For People: nominated at AfD; notified Lvandyke (talk · contribs) 22:00, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Pro forma nomination; AfD template was placed on the article by an IP user but no nomination page was created. I will reproduce a comment from the IP on WT:AFD here:
      This article is almost entirely primary sourced, and its notability is questionable. The sourcing in general is very suspect, which is a sign it isn't sufficiently notable. It's all yellow journalism (Huffpost, Democracy Now) or primary (law cases or self published). Can someone please complete? 2600:1012:B02F:F99B:4476:F577:17B8:8289 (talk) 16:11, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

December 2021

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  1. Southeast Michigan Outbreak: nominated at RfD; Target: 1997 Southeast Michigan tornado outbreak; notified RingtailedFox (talk · contribs) 20:46, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Currently redirects to 1997 southeast Michigan tornado outbreak, but lacks specificity -- outbreak of what? Chicken pox? COVID-19? Auto manufacturing? Existentialism? This is by no means the only outbreak that's ever happened in southeast Michigan.
  2. Surya Cinema: nominated at AfD; notified प्रशान्त पाण्डेय (talk · contribs) 01:15, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Article has no sources, and I cannot find any with a WP:BEFORE. In the history for the article, it looks like some had attempted to add sources previously, but no RS could be found. Nominating at AfD, as PROD was declined (with no edit summary or subsequent expansion) in October. At that time, the PROD said "Likely fork of a tv channel called Surya Movies, which is already a redirect to parent article Sun TV Network. Channel probably ceased to exist since no mention here".
  3. Future North Shropshire by-election: nominated at RfD; Target: 2021 North Shropshire by-election (notified); notified PoliceSheep99 (talk · contribs) 23:56, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: This is a completely absurd redirect, unless someone is planning on setting up a bot to swing by every election year and point it at a new page.
  4. The World's Most Famous Arena: nominated at RfD; Target: Madison Square Garden (notified); notified Pennsylvania2 (talk · contribs) 02:43, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Subjective name, and not a recognized nickname for Madison Square Garden that appears anywhere in the article.
  5. Hindu tithi: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Hindu tithi (notified); notified Kishorekumar 62 (talk · contribs) 02:57, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Invalid cross-namespace redirect to a template.
  6. Squad (upcoming film): nominated at RfD; Target: Squad (2021 film) (notified); notified Sush150 (talk · contribs) 03:01, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: The movie Squad (2021 film) came out in mid-November, so this is not "upcoming".
  7. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA: nominated at RfD; Target: Laughter (notified); notified Lallint (talk · contribs) 02:46, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: This seems like a very, very unlikely search term (note that one of the "HA"s has two "H"s).
  8. James R. Bailey: nominated at AfD; notified Seanmurphy79 (talk · contribs) 04:25, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
  9. User:Prahlad balaji/yujhtr4thnjmh3425tyhjhyrt54uykju43yukl4324rjyuk3234jyuktr434tryjhmhre3rthj21 ,mrerthjm, ,mrethjm, trj,m4rtjm,rtjhmnhtrgh.js/opkewsqaijndksaloifdspfcvxliuyhjzuydhcjsay67uzItzjxuiweskjdz.j.ks.js: nominated at MfD; notified Prahlad balaji (talk · contribs) 17:11, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: Nonsense page (its full contents are "zad;". I'm unable to nominate this for speedy deletion because userspace JavaScript pages are fully-protected to everyone besides their owner.
  10. User:Prahlad balaji/yujhtr4thnjmh3425tyhjhyrt54uykju43yukl4324rjyuk3234jyuktr434tryjhmhre3rthj21 ,mrerthjm, ,mrethjm, trj,m4rtjm,rtjhmnhtrgh.js: nominated at MfD; notified Prahlad balaji (talk · contribs) 21:19, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
    • Reason: The same as the previous nomination, this is a nonsensically titled userscript which does nothing. I am unable to nominate it for speedy deletion because all userspace .js and .css pages are fully protected to everyone except the page owner. There are several others belonging to the same user, which I'll bundle with this nomination. None of the scripts below does anything or has any output, with the exception of several where the entire script consists of a single line popping up an alert window with "10" or "foo" in it.

January 2022

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  1. Nokturn Technology Company Limited: nominated at AfD; notified Joshua Daniel Minja (talk · contribs) 11:49, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: This article is very badly written. Of the four references, not a single one mentions the company's name, or is in any way related to it. It claims to have one hundred users. Wow! I do not find anything from a WP:BEFORE search. Since it has an infobox and references, I expect that a speedy nomination would be contested.
  2. Sth Nahiyan: nominated at AfD; notified Md Abdul Hannan Nayon (talk · contribs) 12:10, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Some guy's resume. All of the citations are to his own website and there are no search results even resembling reliable sources. I don't think being an entrepreneur, full-stack developer, pianist and singer makes you notable (or else I'd be a BLP subject).
  3. RAKITHA Welangoda: nominated at AfD; notified Hansiwelangoda1994 (talk · contribs) 11:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: This article is not eligible for WP:CSD, as it makes a claim to significance ("[...] is an famous Srilankan singer,music producer ,audio engineer and songwriter.He is infamous for his two materpieces [...]". I performed a WP:BEFORE search and found no significant coverage of this person. Neither a news search, nor a Google search, brought up anything to suggest notability.

April 2022

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  1. Wikipedia:MfD/WP:MfD/WP:MfD/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Xaosflux/Requests for adminship/Wikipe-tan (2nd nom): nominated at MfD 06:52, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Family tradition.
  2. Earth: nominated at AfD; notified 137.111.13.xxx (talk · contribs) 06:58, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: We haven't done it yet this year? Surprising.
  3. Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network: nominated at AfD; notified Karennano (talk · contribs) 02:58, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

July 2022

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  1. Louka Bertrand: nominated at AfD; notified Lpierre30 (talk · contribs) 23:09, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: No claim to notability, no news sources, entire article consists of the following text:
      "Louka Bertrand (born 24 August,2004) Is a Haitian footballer who plays as striker for Barcelona academy and the Haitian u20 team.
      born:August 24,2004 (17 years)
      Place of birth:cap Haitian,Haiti
      Height:1,80 m (5 ft 11 in)
      position:forward
      current team: Barcelona academy "
  2. D-Rocke: nominated at AfD; notified Artur Rinder (talk · contribs) 23:16, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Pro forma nomination for User:Paul W, who attempted to AfD this using PageTriage and encountered some kind of script error preventing the AfD page from being created.
  3. Kelly Hamilton (entertainer): nominated at AfD; notified Mozzie (talk · contribs) 23:43, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
  4. Sabine Gaspersz: nominated at AfD; notified Miekelgb (talk · contribs) 04:17, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
  5. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thelma Harper (2nd nomination)/mass delete: nominated at MfD; notified TParis (talk · contribs) 06:22, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Sad, strange, little non-standard subpage of an AfD containing several redlinks to talk pages of long-deleted articles. Orphaned, so it wasn't linked to from anywhere, or used for anything, at any point. Its only purpose is to clog up scripts and bots that process AfDs, and needlessly throw errors.
  6. Farrah Sarafa: nominated at AfD; notified Neptunes2007 (talk · contribs) 23:49, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: This article was nominated at AfD in 2011, but never linked from a daily log page, never fully opened and never formally closed. Per closer note recommending a new nomination be made, here is what that nomination said:
      :The article 'Farrah Sarafa' was nominated for deletion in January 2011, but no consensus was reached. I strongly believe it should remain under consideration for deletion. Please note that I was not part of the original nomination or discussion.
      :Upon consideration of Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines for biographies, I hold that the person in question does not adequately meet the standard.
      :For instance: According to the cited links, Farrah Sarafa is a graduate student who contributes to 'various publications'- sources include a link to several articles for a single website ( Green & Save.com) as well as a work released through "Shadowpoetry.com"- a self-publishing website. The article also claims that Ms. Sarafa has won 'a number of awards and prizes for her poetry.' The only awards cited are (1) a college poetry award (Hopwood) for a contest that is only open to University of Michigan students and (2) a "second place" poetry award in a competition by a small specialty publisher, Chistell Publishing (http://www.chistell.com/company.htm).
      :I feel that the article and its links establish that "Farrah Sarafa" is: an adjunct professor, a freelance writer and magazine contributor- but not that this person is particularly distinguished within any of these creative fields. This said, the subject does not adequately merit its own article.
      This just isn't a very good article. It wasn't a very good one then, and it still isn't one. I do not see anything that passes WP:NPROF, and running a magazine that "underscores industry pioneers" is not WP:GNG.

August 2022

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  1. Kelly Hamilton (entertainer): nominated at AfD; notified Mozzie (talk · contribs) 10:51, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
  2. Haifa Center for Law & Technology: nominated at AfD; notified Eldarhaber (talk · contribs) 06:47, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Uncited promotional article with no news sources I could find for the subject. The only Google results for this "renowned interdisciplinary research institute" are its Wikipedia article and other pages which clearly scraped it (this one says the exact same thing, from "is a renowned interdisciplinary research institute on"). Even the name in its original language returns "המרכז+למשפט+וטכנולוגיה"&tbm=nws just one result from a news search.
      Moreover, I do not see a really compelling claim to notability from what's in the article: it has only five full time faculty members, and doesn't seem to have had any academic output or major accomplishments (or, it it has, nobody has seen fit to mention them anywhere at all).
  3. Abrar Mir: nominated at AfD; notified MichaelTee1984 (talk · contribs) 22:26, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Previous AfD was procedurally closed due to an issue with the AfD page. That nomination said: Announcement of an appointment and one interview are not enough to meet WP:GNG or WP:BLPNOTE. This argument seems compelling to me: to quote myself, Example text.

October 2022

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  1. 61 Virginis d: nominated at AfD; notified Aldaron (talk · contribs) 20:46, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: A suspected exoplanet, which seems notable -- but in 2021 it was analyzed in greater depth and confirmed to have been a false positive. So this is not an article about a suspected exoplanet, but rather an article about a measurement artifact between the years of 2009 and 2021 that made it look like there might have been a planet. My recommendation -- since there is some amount of well-written content here -- is to merge it into a section at 61 Virginis and redirect the article.

December 2022

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  1. Evolutionary Algorithm for Landmark Detection: nominated at AfD; notified The first tree (talk · contribs) 02:13, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
    • Reason: Evolutionary algorithms are real, but there's no indication here that this is a notable application, and the article is of very low quality. A WP:BEFORE search yields squat. Basically no results on Google Scholar -- only one, and it's a list likely scraped from Wikipedia.

January 2023

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  1. Decimal (cryptocurrency): nominated at AfD; notified Crypto Konstantin (talk · contribs) 08:40, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: This was tagged as WP:CSD#G11, which I am uncertain about (the article has citations, at least claims notability, and has existed in mainspace since December 11). Nonetheless, it is not a particularly great article. Almost all of the citations are to self-published sources. The sources that aren't self-published are questionable; being listed on CoinMarketCap is of dubious notability, for example, as there are tens of thousands of tokens, coins and chains listed there. Others, like the citations to cosmos.network, have nothing to do with Decimal.
  2. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template/Signpost-block-end: nominated at TfD; notified Headbomb (talk · contribs) 23:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
  3. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template/Signpost-block-start: nominated at TfD; notified Headbomb (talk · contribs) 23:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template:Signpost-header/Single: nominated at MfD 23:54, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
  5. Template:Signpost/DateCoundown: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Signpost/DateCountdown (notified); notified FeRDNYC (talk · contribs) 00:03, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  6. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-comments-end/preload: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-comments-end/preload (notified); notified Resident Mario (talk · contribs) 00:04, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  7. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-comments-end/preload-content: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-comments-end/commentspage (notified); notified Pretzels (talk · contribs) 00:04, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  8. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start-end: nominated at MfD; notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:05, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Obsolete template that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  9. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start v2: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-start-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:06, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  10. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-snippet/temp: nominated at MfD; notified Bri (talk · contribs) 00:11, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  11. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-header/Single: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-header (notified); notified Funandtrvl (talk · contribs) 00:12, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  12. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-header: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:18, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  13. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start-v2: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-start-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:18, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  14. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-block-end-v2: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:19, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  15. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-block-start-v2: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:20, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  16. Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Suggestion-featured: nominated at MfD; notified Pretzels (talk · contribs) 00:22, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Obsolete template from 2009 that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  17. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/N&N: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/NAN (notified); notified Skomorokh (talk · contribs) 00:41, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  18. Wikipedia:Signpost/Newsroon: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom; notified Adam Cuerden (talk · contribs) 01:00, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for my own userspace and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
  19. Seek AI: nominated at AfD; notified ChampagneLeGallais (talk · contribs) 01:00, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: While a $7.5M pre-seed and seed round is certainly impressive (as is being listed in Sequoia's market map), it is remarkably hard to find WP:SIGCOV for a WP:NCORP pass, or any indication of what this company does beyond "something involving GPT-3". There is no indication of notability; most of the text is ad copy, and most of the references are self-published (PR NewsWire, for example, is literally a press release from the company, and two of them are literally from the company's own website). The Forbes reference is from a contributor piece (cf. WP:FORBESCON), Pitchbook is an auto-generated database page, and the others (Unite and Datanami) are routine coverage.
  20. Draft:Social Security in the United States of America (USA): nominated at MfD; notified محمد بشار نديم (talk · contribs) 12:35, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

April 2023

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  1. Wikipedia:MfD/WP:MfD/WP:MfD/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Xaosflux/Requests for adminship/Wikipe-tan (2nd nom): nominated at MfD 04:19, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Let's get this over with.
  2. Preamble, Inc.: nominated at AfD; notified TechMak (talk · contribs) 08:55, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: This article does not seem to be supported by much. While they've been around for three years, the only references are passing mentions (in a long list of companies) in an arXiv paper, a venture firm's website, a podcast interview, a Forbes profile of the founder (which makes no mention of "Preamble"), a Medium post, and a press release by a research organization that doesn't mention Preamble in the body text at all (it is mentioned only in a footnote).
      I could not find any additional sources for this article by doing a WP:BEFORE search.

May 2023

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  1. Muhammad Saeed Sayf: nominated at AfD; notified Peripatetic (talk · contribs) 02:49, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: "Muhammad Saeef Sayd is a Yemeni writer. His fiction piece "Waiting" has been translated into English and appeared in a 1988 anthology of modern Arabian literature." The single source, which is a passing mention in a larger work, is all I have to go by: no web searches turn up anything else. This, which is that source, only says that he wrote a single story which was once included in an anthology; I do not see a GNG pass here.

August 2023

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  1. Ben Tapper: nominated at AfD; notified Edwardx (talk · contribs) 02:30, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: This article falls so far short of WP:GNG as to make its existence a borderline WP:BLP violation. The only facts that we can cite about this man are:
      - He is a chiropractor from Nebraska.
      - He was once given a passing mention in a non-peer-reviewed PDF by a political advocacy organization, who said that he (and eleven other people) sucked. Note that the Guardian article does not say his name the whole way through; it appears only in the gigantic PDF from the think tank.
      - One time three years ago he was one of a few dozen people who stood up to say a sentence at a city council meeting.
      This is really stretching the limits of what can be considered notable; a news website two years ago mentioned a publication from a political advocacy group that itself mentions him alongside eleven other people?

October 2023

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  1. Dexus: nominated at AfD; notified Kerry Raymond (talk · contribs) 23:41, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: This article is a vanispamcruftisement so obvious it would qualify for speedy deletion if it had been nominated years ago when first written. As it stands, there is no content at all in the entire article not sourced to the company's own webpage. How did this get through?

November 2023

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  1. David Byttow: nominated at AfD; notified Wikieditron (talk · contribs) 01:04, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
    • Reason: Pro forma nomination on behalf of 69.149.121.20, who attempted to transclude an AfD for this article to the AfD logpage in this diff.
      Their rationale was: "talk page + talk page for user that made the page indicate there was discussion about deletion due to a lack of noteworthiness, but nothing was documented about why the page was kept over the past few years".

January 2024

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  1. MediaWiki:Sandbox.js: nominated at MfD; notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 08:36, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Opening a discussion here because it seems like the most appropriate place -- should this be userfied? It was used for a test in 2010, blanked in 2020, and I guess four years later it's still just kind of sitting around as a blank page. I don't know what the proper protocol is with MediaWiki pages, but are we supposed to just have random blank pages in that namespace?
  2. Sayer Ji: nominated at AfD; notified Robincantin (talk · contribs) 22:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I'm not seeing it. This is a WP:COATRACK -- we've got the cost of a subscription to his website in the article? We've got details on his use of affiliate links?
      None of the sources are about him in a significant way. We've got a lot of information coming from unreliable sources: a bio of the guy on a talent booking website, not one but two PDFs hosted on "filesusr.com" written by a political advocacy group... note that I literally can't even link these URLs in the AfD despite being an admin because they are on the global spam blacklist...
      his own websites, etc. The closest thing we get to sigificant, neutral third-party coverage is this blog post (which is for some reason in the ref list twice, as #4 and also #13). This Wired article mentions him once, in a single paragraph, in the sentence: Prominent pandemic deniers include a number of keen yoga practitioners, such as alternative health proponent Sayer Ji, who runs the website greenmedinfo.com, and his wife Kelly Brogan, who describes herself as a ‘holistic psychiatrist.’ This The Hill article also mentions him once, in a list with twelve other people. That's it. Here is a single fact check page about something that was on his website. This isn't significant coverage and the guy is not notable.

February 2024

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  1. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/Years: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives (notified); notified A smart kitten (talk · contribs) 05:11, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I deleted this page as a G6 and it was requested that I nominate it for RfD.
      There does not need to be a redirect here. I manually retargeted every incoming link when I retitled this page last October. There is no way for someone to access this internal Signpost page from Wikipedia. There are no inbound links from other websites that I know of. The existence of this redirect creates yet more burden for maintenance of the Signpost, as it is yet another pointless one-off exception that has to be written into every script and template that uses this directory, every external tool that gets a list of pages, et cetera, et cetera. Every additional piece of special-case whoopsie-doozie only-used-for-one-page-ever code increases the maintenance burden for myself, as well as every future maintainer of the Signpost codebase.
      The page title got about 16 views total in the months of November and December; a good number of those were probably from me as I was delinking it from other pages. The rest could have come from anywhere; people click on entries in the deletion log, web scrapers give normal browser user agents, et cetera.
      The structure of the /Archives/ directory is very simple: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/ contains yearly archive pages. It does not contain anything else. The index page for these yearly archive pages is located at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives. There is no need to have a separate /Years subpage. That's why we don't have one -- it's just at the base URL.
      For further reference: there have been hundreds and hundreds of useless Signpost pages subjected to speedy deletions in the last year as I've been cleaning up the pagespace, and consensus has always been in favor of doing this. Last year someone demanded that I take them through formal processes, to prove with complete thoroughness that the community accepted them being deleted. The main outcome of this was that all the maintenance processes were brought to a grinding halt for about a month while they percolated through XfD, and all of them were approved, and it just wasted a bunch of my time (as well as the time of all the XfD participants, closers, etc). Here is a list of all of those nominations that I had to type out previously, and their rationales:
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:# Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template/Signpost-block-end: nominated at TfD; notified Headbomb (talk · contribs) 23:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links.
:# Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template/Signpost-block-start: nominated at TfD; notified Headbomb (talk · contribs) 23:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links.
:# Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template:Signpost-header/Single: nominated at MfD 23:54, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links.
:# Template:Signpost/DateCoundown: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Signpost/DateCountdown (notified); notified FeRDNYC (talk · contribs) 00:03, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-comments-end/preload: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-comments-end/preload (notified); notified Resident Mario (talk · contribs) 00:04, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-comments-end/preload-content: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-comments-end/commentspage (notified); notified Pretzels (talk · contribs) 00:04, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start-end: nominated at MfD; notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:05, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Obsolete template that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start v2: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-start-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:06, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-snippet/temp: nominated at MfD; notified Bri (talk · contribs) 00:11, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-header/Single: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-header (notified); notified Funandtrvl (talk · contribs) 00:12, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-header: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:18, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start-v2: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-start-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:18, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-block-end-v2: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:19, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-block-start-v2: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2 (notified); notified TheDJ (talk · contribs) 00:20, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Suggestion-featured: nominated at MfD; notified Pretzels (talk · contribs) 00:22, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Obsolete template from 2009 that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/N&N: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/NAN (notified); notified Skomorokh (talk · contribs) 00:41, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Template redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.
:# Wikipedia:Signpost/Newsroon: nominated at RfD; Target: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom; notified Adam Cuerden (talk · contribs) 01:00, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
:#* Reason: Redirect that is not in use anywhere. No incoming links except for my own userspace and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere, two pages populated by scripts I wrote to catalog Signpost pages that have no incoming links. One of my major projects as editor-in-chief is to harmonize the use of templates and pages, as the existence of numerous redundant templates (deprecated, never used, or created at the wrong title by typos) poses a large obstacle to navigating or editing Signpost templates. For example, old Signpost articles (from 2005 to 2009) were never properly indexed by the module, because they used strange idiosyncratic header templates, which I recently fixed, allowing me to write a script which updated the module with their titles, authors and tags. Someone has requested that I list these pages at XFD individually rather than nominate them for speedy deletion.

March 2024

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  1. Tropical fascism: nominated at AfD; notified R-41 (talk · contribs) 07:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Something of a pro forma nomination: Svejk74 has made a few comments on the talk page going back several years to the effect that this article ought to be deleted, but said that they weren't really sure how to file an AfD. Honestly, it would probably give a better impression of what they've said to just go there and read it, but I will also transcribe it here for convenience.
      (April 2020): So, looking closely at this article (which I only noticed as people kept linking it from the Khmer Rouge article):
      Started by a banned user
      Most references didn't actually support the text
      I'm still not sure that the whole thing isn't just based on a few occurences of the phrase "tropical fascism" in a couple of books; it's certainly not a concept in "African political science" as the article originally tried to make out.
      (December 2021): To reiterate my previous points:
      - No evidence of this existing as a defined political concept before the Wikipedia article was started, beyond a few uses of "tropical" as a simple adjective
      - None of the references originally cited supported the article
      - The Portugese article has exactly the same issues, being a compilation of various statements about various quite different regimes that have been defined as 'fascist'
      As stated in the opening to the article that I added a couple of years back, it seems to have been a phrase occasionally used to describe different post-colonial regimes, not a defined political concept.
      [in response to a couple of references]
      I would be cautious of citing anything published after the creation of this article; academics aren't above picking up phrases from Wikipedia!
      I would be interested to see what the two older, Brazilian references say but again I suspect they are more likely discussing the Fascist characteristics of the Brazilian military government; also note the original Wikipedia article referred to Tropical Fascism" as a concept in "African political science" specifically.
      - There is no evidence of "Tropical Fascism" existing as a defined political concept before the Wikipedia article was started, beyond a few uses of "tropical" as a simple adjective. I checked, extensively, for references in journal articles, books, anywhere pre 2014. Nothing. This is unsurprising, as the concept never actually existed.
      - None of the references originally cited supported the article. They didn't talk about a distinct concept of 'tropical Fascism'; if anything they simply drew attention to quasi-Fascist aspects of a variety of (very different) postcolonial regimes.
      - The Portugese article has exactly the same issues, being a compilation of various statements about various quite different regimes that have been defined as 'fascist'
      As stated in the opening to the article that I added a couple of years back, it seems to have been a phrase occasionally used to describe different post-colonial regimes, not a defined political concept. In short, the user who originally created this article effectively made up the concept of "tropical Fascism", which they stated was a concept in "African political science" (it isn't, or at least wasn't until it was invented for the purposes of the article). It's OR.
      (February 2022): - There is no evidence of "Tropical Fascism" existing as a defined political concept before the Wikipedia article was started, beyond a few uses of "tropical" as a simple adjective. I checked, extensively, for references in journal articles, books, anywhere pre 2014. Nothing. This is unsurprising, as the concept never actually existed.
      - None of the references originally cited supported the article. They didn't talk about a distinct concept of 'tropical Fascism'; if anything they simply drew attention to quasi-Fascist aspects of a variety of (very different) postcolonial regimes.
      - The Portugese article has exactly the same issues, being a compilation of various statements about various quite different regimes that have been defined as 'fascist'
      As stated in the opening to the article that I added a couple of years back, it seems to have been a phrase occasionally used to describe different post-colonial regimes, not a defined political concept. In short, the user who originally created this article effectively made up the concept of "tropical Fascism", which they stated was a concept in "African political science" (it isn't, or at least wasn't until it was invented for the purposes of the article). It's OR, and dubious, slightly racist OR at that. Are we supposed to believe that there is a distinct variety of Fascism practiced by people living in "tropical" latitudes?
      A user appears to be using this article as a soapbox to add various opinions about the Brazilian regime. They might be better addressed at the Brazil page than here.
      Personally, I am inclined to agree with Svejk's analysis in this case: it really doesn't seem like this is a distinct concept. It seems like a "very large cake" thing: you can find lots of instances where people use the phrase "very large cake" in newspapers/books, but this doesn't mean that Very large cake should be a Wikipedia article, since it is not a coherent concept.

April 2024

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  1. Chester A. Arthur: nominated at AfD; notified 205.180.71.xxx (talk · contribs) 07:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

May 2024

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  1. Elephant population: nominated at RfD; Target: Elephant (notified); notified StarLight.1991 (talk · contribs) 03:07, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

August 2024

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  1. File:Kevin McSheehan.png: (log) nominated at FfD; notified Aerno (talk · contribs) 11:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Image is tagged as own-work, suggesting that User:Aerno (who wrote Kevin McSheehan) has misrepresented the photo as being their own work. I am willing to withdraw the nomination if they confirm that they are Kevin McSheehan.
  2. Talk:Eliseu Meifrèn: nominated at RM; New name: Eliseo Meifrèn 02:17, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
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