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This page is to request actions on a wiki without active administrators, to be performed by stewards or global sysops. Other than obvious speedy deletions, all requests should obtain consensus from the wiki community before being requested here and a link should be provided to that consensus. Such requests include deletions, big deletions, edit on protected pages, renaming of protected pages, etc.

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Bot-reported speedy deletion requests[edit]

This section is for reports filed via Kimberley-nia Bot on the SWMT's IRC channel #cvn-sw (bot's irc nick is Dellieplagiat). They are submitted on this subpage. Please watch this page separately if you are a steward, a global sysop, or a local administrator.

It is possible to manually edit this list if you follow the bot's formatting. If you feel a request is inappropriate, please remove the lines containing that request entirely. (Leaving comments, modifying the header line, and striking out reports will confuse the bot.)

Example for the correct formatting:

* {{msd-link|ie.wikipedia|Talk:Europa}}
*: spam - IRC user DerHexer ~~~~~

Properly-filed requests that point to pages that have already been deleted or do not exist will be automatically removed by the bot. Note: It is unnecessary to remove requests for wikis where local admins "can handle it by themselves". If that is really so, the pages will surely be deleted within a small period of time and then be automatically removed from the list by the bot.

Manual requests[edit]

Please see tools:~erwin85/delete.php for a list of pages tagged with {{Delete}} and/or the local equivalent.

Quick links: 0 sysops – 3 sysops / 1 month ago – 5 sysops / 3 months ago

Requests for a single wiki[edit]

25 files without (right) licence on avwiki, 10 on lbewiki and 30 on ltgwiki[edit]

Status:    In progress

25 files are in av:Категория:Candidates for speedy deletion since 17 May 2012, all of them because of “dubious/wrong/no license” but the wiki has 0 sysops. --Geitost diskusjon 12:19, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

I put a notice on the talk page of User:Seb az86556 who set the templates (sysop on nvwiki). --Geitost diskusjon 12:38, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

10 files are in lbe:Категория:Speedy deletion requests since 17 May, same as above, also 0 sysops. --Geitost diskusjon 13:31, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

And 29 files are in ltg:Kategoreja:Candidates for speedy deletion since 17 May, same as above, also 0 sysops. In addition one file there has been tagged with the delete template because of spam on 26 May, the link goes to a not existing user and there’s no permission. Can IP users upload files on small wikis? --Geitost diskusjon 13:31, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Yikes, this has gone unanswered for a while. I'll start going through them - unfortunately, nobody removed the links to those files, so I'll need to stop being lazy and do it myself. IPs cannot upload files, so not sure what caused that. Ajraddatz (Talk) 12:05, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
These suspected copyvios are still sitting here... This, that and the other (talk) 02:19, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
I had a quick look at those images at avWP, and most look to be fair use, just insufficiently tagged. I would think that initially it would be more useful to contact the community and to assist them to get their images compliant, and to lift the quality of their copyright tagging. Seems a more efficient use of effort. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
The problem with fair use is that it is an US-American right, not a Russian. Vogone talk 11:16, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Pictogram-voting-question.svg Progress report? -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:26, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Lost history[edit]

Status:    Done

Hi.

The page //fr.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=d%C3%A9sembl%C3%A9matiser&action=history seems to have been created 15 mars 2010 à 22:04‎ Lmaltier

But it was created before : //fr.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial:Journal&page=d%C3%A9sembl%C3%A9matiser

But where are the previous versions ? I can't find them.

Thanks for your help. --ArséniureDeGallium (talk) 04:07, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

If you start to delete the file, then you will see that there are deleted components, the whole history was not retrieved. There are a number of pages around that discuss this matter, some explanation at b:en:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook/Edit History — billinghurst sDrewth 07:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
OK, thanks. I tried that. But it didn't work : oldest version is still missing. The log says a version has been deleted on 15 mars 2010 à 20:19, but this version doesn't exist when you try to resrore it. --ArséniureDeGallium (talk) 22:07, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Okay, I see what you after and I think that you may have missed components in the log. If you look at the deletion log for désemblématiser you will see that the page was recovered and moved to fr:wikt:désemblématisé 21:43, 15 March 2010 Chrisaix (Talk | contribs | block) moved page désemblématiser to désemblématisé without leaving a redirect (c'est un adjectif, pas un verbe) and the history that you are looking for is there. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:11, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Pictogram-voting-question.svg Progress report? -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:26, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Done, the history hasn't been lost, the page has been moved before being re-created. Amqui (talk) 20:03, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Chechen Wikipedia[edit]

Status:    In progress

Please, delete all pages, files and categories from this category. Thanks, Saint Johann (ru) 20:51, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

There are actually 3 sysops active now. You might ask them to delete those pages. --Frigotoni ...i'm here; 21:00, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
This pages added by one of sysops, Sasan700. And I'm not sure that this sysops really delete this pages, see another request. Saint Johann (ru) 21:06, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Could you read this thread, please?--Soul Train (talk) 21:07, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I was privy to it. In my opinion, first, the problem should rotate around the sysop at issue in order to understand such actions, and, once solved the matter, those pages could be deleted. Regardless, it's preferable a steward to perform this operation, and Quentinv57 and others, are already working on it. --Frigotoni ...i'm here; 21:22, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Sasan700 reverted all templates without reason. If you want to delete, see this category (all at letter "С"). Saint Johann (ru) 07:27, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Chabacano Wikipedia[edit]

There are many articles for speedy deletion but the only administrator don´t contribute since 4 months ago. --Antur (talk) 04:24, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Hecho. I deleted all pages that had been copied, by the same user, from tl.wiki, since no admin had done so since February. Gracias por el aviso, Savhñ 09:51, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

English Wikipedia[edit]

Status:    Done

Please delete en:User:Herbythyme/Spamwatch. The user has submitted a valid deletion request but the file has too many revisions for admin deletion. JohnCD (talk) 09:05, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm doing it. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes check.svg Done -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:00, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Commons page[edit]

Status:    Done

On the same basis as the request above I've discovered I cannot delete commons:User:Herbythyme/Talk stuff. User name space page no longer required but too many revisions for mere mortals to delete. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 10:30, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm doing it. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes check.svg Done -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:00, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Swedish Wikisource[edit]

Status:    Done
Yes check.svg Done Ruslik (talk) 15:02, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Multi-wiki requests[edit]

Request for deletion on multi wikis of articles about Kedar Joshi (d:Q55704)[edit]

Status:    Not done

The subject articles are biographies about a self-declared philosopher who has, literally, crazy ideas about the world. His "philosophies" have not paralleled with any of the known notable philosophers and are thus fringe theories. The subject's articles have been debated at various venues on various wikis and have been deleted over the period of time for being non-notable to stand in respective projects. Presenting here the discussions and conclusions of these deletions; on English Wikipedia, on Wikiquote and on Wikiversity. I would request deletion of subject articles on other wikis for these same reasons.

Other wiki articles are; w:bn:केदार जोशी, w:gu:કેદાર જોશી, w:hi:केदार जोशी, w:hif:Kedar Joshi, w:ia:Kedar Joshi, w:ie:Kedar Joshi, w:mr:केदार जोशी, w:ne:केदार जोशी, w:pa:ਕੇਦਾਰ ਜੋਸ਼ੀ, w:sa:केदार जोशी, w:ta:கேதார் ஜோஷி, same as those listed on Wikidata.

Note: This is the first time i am raising such a request on Wikimedia. In case of any procedural errors/drawbacks, please let me know before outright rejection. Dharmadhyaksha (talk) 15:18, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

  • Delete all: English Wikipedia article was deleted as non-notable-BLP. They have created the same article in other Wikis too. There are multiple issues a) subject is not notable and is a self-proclaimed philosopher (his friend RogDel may come and show some trivial mentions to prove notability) b) subject seems to be an Indian (unfortunately) and his only work is insult India and Indians. Anyway... a) notability b) educational/encyclopedic value are two major issues. --Tito Dutta (Talk) 15:30, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • In addition delete these too Marathi Wikiquote, Simple English Wikiquote. If English Wikiquote is followed, then these content have been deleted and recreated multiple times. This is a planned attempt to use Wikipedia for anti-India promotions which should be strictly handled. --Tito Dutta (Talk) 15:35, 10 June 2013 (UTC)


Content issue Hi, this seems like a content issue/dispute. Stewards do not and should not get involved in content disputes. They merely act on local requests and follow through when local admins and 'crats aren't active. A mass deletion across multiple wikis would be against the steward purview. I would suggest going through this locally, and contacting admins on the communities. You might not even realize but the policies you are arguing for deletion here are only for en.wp - different wikis have different standards, they can choose to completely ignore those policies and not enforce them. Theo10011 (talk) 15:40, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

  • It is not a content dispute! This is spam cleaning. It'll take long time to manually AFD all these articles. The Wikiversity deletion discussion took 5 months to reach a conclusion (i.e. "delete"). The Hindi Wikipedia deletion discussion is pending for almost 6 months. No progress. Nothing. Following this, it might take years to finish discussions in all projects. The worse probelm is the articles are being recreated. --Tito Dutta (Talk) 15:48, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
It actually *is* a content issue, while not a clear-cut dispute. Again, Stewards can't interfere in this afaik. They will just quote you policy. SPAM or not, unless there is some local consensus or local request individually, they can't do mass cleanups across multiple wikis related to content. This is not what the stewards are for. Theo10011 (talk) 15:52, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • What you and I are doing at this moment— that *is* a valid dispute, since both of us are trying to establish our points, but *not* that one. Anyway, leave that. See Hindi Wikipedia deletion discussion— it is pending for 6 months. Does not it show that, that deletion process is inactive? Now, Hindi is one of the largest Wikis! And if we have face so much trouble in that Wikipedia, I can't imagine what is going to happen in other places. Frankly, I have understood, it is almost impossible to have something deleted in small Wikipedias. --Tito Dutta (Talk) 16:08, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • No, I am quoting you policy and informing you what these requests are not for. There is no dispute from my end, feel free to continue arguing here after this comment. BTW Hindi is #43 on the list of wikipedias by size List of Wikipedias. And yes, It is incredibly hard to get anything done on smaller wikis, most of us have known that for years - there are several dozen requests on these pages a day for the past few years. Theo10011 (talk) 16:22, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • Alright then, we are talking, it is not a dispute! Hindi is #43 on the list, but see Gujarati is #93, Fiji Hindi is #113, Sanskrit is #124 etc. I request you to spend few minutes and check this one (archived copy of a deleted Wikiversity page). This is his work. Please give your personal opinion, do you think Wikimedia should not host such insulting, defamatory, hate spreading content? And when we go ahead and try to have these deleted, we find, it is almost impossible to do so. That's the problem. --Tito Dutta (Talk) 16:31, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • But how should we communicate with each wiki? I don't know all those languages. I know Hindi, Marathi and can of course communicate in English irrespective of the wiki's language. But how are we suppose to find AFD templates, their procedures, etc? I also dont know what "administrator" is called in these languages to possibly contact them.
    Leaving aside these technical problems, don't you think that general notability concept is globally same? If not notability, at least nuisance has same meaning through out all wikis. Dharmadhyaksha (talk) 17:08, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • Exactly! In Hindi Wikipedia I wrote in English. In Marathi Wikipedia I was asked not to write in any language other than Marathi. --Tito Dutta (Talk) 17:23, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • "Leaving aside these technical problems, don't you think that general notability concept is globally same?" No, not at all, there are no concept of global notability rules not even guidelines between Wikipedias. As you can read at the top of this request page "Other than obvious speedy deletions, all requests should obtain consensus from the wiki community before being requested here and a link should be provided to that consensus." and this case is definetly not an "obvious speedy deletion". As it was said before, you would need consensus on the local wiki, and then you can come here to request action from a steward or global sysop to perform the deletion if there are no local admin on those wiki. Amqui (talk) 19:48, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
As it was said before, you would need consensus on the local wiki — it has been indicated that we are facing problems to conduct AFDs. --Tito Dutta (Talk) 20:07, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
If you want to request deletion of these, ask on their talk pages in English or ask an admin (go to Special:ListUsers/sysop). Stewards will not complete this request--this is up to each community. PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:12, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • Any idea of any other venue where people have such powers, if not delete can at least consider deleting? Dharmadhyaksha (talk) 21:39, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Nobody on any project have more "editorial power" than any other contributors, and this is definetly an editorial question. The only people who can consider a deletion of those pages are the concerned community. If you are unsure how to start the discussion on the concerned Wikipedia, try contacting local sysops. Amqui (talk) 21:53, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • Hi, there is no really venue where you can override the local deletion processes (although it could definitely be overridden in extreme legal circumstances by the Foundation, etc.). Just ask people on each wiki. A steward will not complete this request, for the reasons mentioned above by Theo and Amqui. I recommend you start a discussion on the talk page of each article (on each wiki), or start a discussion on the local "VIllage Pump". To find admins on any wiki, go to Special:ListUsers/sysop (e.g., ie:Special:ListUsers/sysop). Thanks. PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:56, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
  • Okay! Thanks everyone and sorry for bothering. Dharmadhyaksha (talk) 05:00, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
One more question. What do we do of projects where there are no admins at all or are inactive? Dharmadhyaksha (talk) 05:40, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Generally, on small wiki you can ask on the local village pump and leave a message to the authors as well as the talk page of the concerned page. Once you have a consensus for deletion, you can come back here, and a steward or a global sysop will delete the page if there is no local sysop. Thanks, Amqui (talk) 14:17, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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