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Original Article edit
Bold text The great butterfly migration takes place in the fall/winter time. It starts in
Nomination Criteria edit
G1 Patent nonsense. Pages consisting purely of incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history. This does not include poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, vandalism, fictional material, material not in English, poorly translated material, implausible theories, or hoaxes; some of these, however, may be deleted as vandalism in blatant cases.
Deletion Options edit
| rationale | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Agree with rationale to speedy delete. | 12 | 18.8 |
| Disagree with rationale to speedy delete, but deletable by other criteria. | 44 | 68.8 |
| Disagree with rationale to speedy delete, but this is a case where IAR applies. | 1 | 1.6 |
| Disagree with speedy deletion (should be PRODDED, sent to AFD, or kept.) | 7 | 10.9 |
Survey Comments edit
| Common rationale | Count |
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| G2 | 8 |
| A1 | 7 |
- Incomplete article, should be given time for the author to finish it.
- Another case where the article is too short to give context and doesn't give any details that would make it rescuable (unless the title is a clue), but not patent nonsense.
- Assuming the title is something useful, it looks like this should be redirected to either Insect migration or Butterfly#Migration.
- G10 is a possibility here, but G2 test page would be better.
- I actually think this might be one I tagged because it looks familiar... Anyway, A1 or G2.
- G2 is probably better (the presence of the bold text suggests it's a test), but G1 works as well
- Almost certainly something to redirect this to, though
- empty; noencyclopedic content--or test page, since obviously it was abandoned
- Temporary keep to allow work done/speedy redirect
- Depends on how long the article has existed. It may be an article in progress.
- Has meaningful content. Redirect to "Insect migration", once author's had enough time to expand article.
- I would try to work on this / give the creator some time to work on it. If nothing is done within a certain amount of time, however, I'd delete it under A1.
- But I would add {{hasty}} to this article every time before deleting under A1
Balloonman's analysis edit
This article looks like a clear cut case where the author was working on it in the mainspace when it was deleted. If that is the case then it is a prime example of how CSD can cause just as much, if not more damage to Wikipedia than the worst vandal.
But let's pretend that is not the case, and this was how the article was left. G1 is clearly not the valid rationale as it does make sense. A1 is not really an option because it is about the "great butterfly migration." A3, however, might be a viable option because there is no meaningful content.
The best option, however, would be G2. The "bold text" at the start indicates somebody new to the project who doesn't know what they are doing. G2 is a way to delete the article without prejudice in a manner that is the least bity.