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Stewards/Confirm/2012/Quadell

The following discussion is closed: Deleted by Quentinv57 on 28 January. Trijnstel 12:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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• Per author request. Not sure if this qualifies for a speedy deletion so I did not put {{delete}} there. Bencmq 14:54, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Deleted per author request. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 14:58, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Grants:Lori_Phillips/US_GLAM_Coordinator

The following discussion is closed: Deleted. Jafeluv 09:16, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

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• Just an old false start that only has the empty template in it. Its presence in the grants lists is just a distraction and a time waste for those wishing to review past withdrawn/cancelled requests. This is solvable by just removing the category, but really it should just be deleted. Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 17:29, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

• Delete Unused and can be created again if user needs it. --WizardOfOz ^talk 18:47, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Delete, per nominator. It can be recreated if needed. Ajraddatz (Talk) 18:51, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 19:19, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Enwikipediathink

• It's not a happy page. Now I'm not terribly familiar with the historical context here, but I like to think I do know enough about the mediawiki to say that what it says about that, at least, is largely inaccurate. The rest just seems needlessly inflamatory, and not the sort of thing that's at all productive for random users/visitors to chance upon when the entire goal here seems to be coordination and the like, not propagating suspicion and paranoia. Granted, I thought the entire thing was a joke until I saw the author's userpage, but the person who linked me to it apparently really did take it seriously and was using it as a justification for his own actions on another site (hence why he'd linked it), so... yeah. — Isarra (talk) 08:47, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
• Keep - It's an essay, and allowed on meta. Ajraddatz (Talk) 19:57, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
• Keep: normal essay, might be a bit confused but it only expresses a point of view, nor seems attacking to me (it assumes good faith, for instance). Nemo 19:59, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Templates

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Template:Gradient

The following discussion is closed: Deleted by WizardOfOz on 1 February. Trijnstel 19:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

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Deprecated by {{linear-gradient}} (including /doc). Nominated by Edokter on 11:47, 1 February 2012‎ (UTC). Trijnstel 13:04, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

• Comment Still used. Needs to be delinked. --WizardOfOz ^talk 13:08, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
  • All templates delinked. I failed to notice all direct transclusions. — Edokter (talk) — 15:24, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
  • All transclusions delinked. — Edokter (talk) — 16:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Done per unused and this request. Thanks for your work. --WizardOfOz ^talk 18:43, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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Category:Esoteric templates

The following discussion is closed: Deleted by WizardOfOz on 3 February. Trijnstel 18:48, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

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• Requested for SD but not empty so I transfered it here. --WizardOfOz ^talk 04:55, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
  • Must be a caching issue; none of the members in the category right now have the category listed on the template page (after purging). They've been moved to Category:Intricate templates by amending {{Intricate template}}. Rd232 06:21, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
    • It's empty now. Btw, if a page is displayed in a category where it shouldn't be, a null edit usually does the trick. Jafeluv 08:40, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
      • Thanks, I'll try and remember that. :) Rd232 08:56, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
        • Typing ?action=purge onto the end of the url is even faster ;) Ajraddatz (Talk) 14:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
          • Done --WizardOfOz ^talk 18:35, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

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File:Location of intervention and volunteer current city.png

The following discussion is closed: Deleted as per consensus. The Helpful One 20:52, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

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Possible copyright violation. Screenshot from iPhone application presumably copyrighted. No source or license either. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 04:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

• delete out of project scope for meta a×p_de^Hello! 17:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
• Delete after seven days per the normal process. Unless a credible license is provided, I don't think this requires discussion. Jafeluv 22:16, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

  Currently our deletion policy on images is quite conservative and allows only for orphaned images to be speedied cfr. Meta:Deletion_policy#Images. I think that our deletion policy needs rewritting :-) —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 07:04, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

  Agreed, it basically says we can host no license/source/permission images indefinitely as long as they're in use, which means that our non-free criteria are in effect "anything". This needs to change. Courcelles 08:04, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

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