Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Reducing VfD load/Analysis

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Certain new Speedy Deletion criteria have been suggested to alleviate VFD load. I've done a quick analysis of old VFD pages to count nominations that would fall under these new criteria, and see what happened to them.

Please do not debate here! Feel free to add more examples, or add a brief description why an example is wrong, but actual debate on the speedy criteria goes on the parent page, Wikipedia:Deletion_policy/Reducing_VfD_load

Date Vanity Rpg char Website Band Company Dicdef Attack Neologism
June 1 20 2 6 2 2 8 2 6
June 2 23 1 3 4 1 8 5 2

The results are summarized below for people wanting more information.

  • "Unanimity for deletion" means just that - the nomination got no keep votes, except possibly a few from obvious sockpuppets
  • ">80% consensus" means that at least 80% of VFD votes was to delete (or, sometimes, to userfy, or to replace with something else of the same name). This is obviously above the threshold to delete, per VFD procedure.
  • "Exceptions" lists those articles that at first glance seem to fall under the criterion, but in actuality do not. The reason why is also explained. Note that none of these were nominated by admins.

Person vanity edit

...that does not assert significance

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>80% consensus edit

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Exceptions edit

The following articles were VFD'ed but do assert significance so would not have qualified for this speedy.

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  • Sherry Sylvester "former spokesperson for the Republican Party of Texas"
  • Arnold Perey "Biographies of Perey are in Who's Who in Engineering and Science"
  • Wayne bergeron "lead trumpeter on nearly every big band in Los Angeles"


RPG characters edit

Unanimity for deletion edit

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Websites edit

...that do not assert significance

Unanimity for deletion edit

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>80% consensus edit

June 1 edit

Exceptions edit

The following articles were VFD'ed but do assert significance so would not have qualified for this speedy.

June 1 edit

  • Urban75 simply because it was very lengthy (>5k) and explanative


Bands edit

...that do not assert significance

Unanimity for deletion edit

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>80% consensus edit

Exceptions edit

The following articles were VFD'ed but do assert significance so would not have qualified for this speedy.

June 2 edit


Companies edit

...that do not assert significance

Unanimity for deletion edit

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>80% consensus edit

June 1 edit

Exceptions edit

The following articles were VFD'ed but do assert significance so would not have qualified for this speedy.


Dicdefs edit

...that are entirely redundant with Wiktionary

Unanimity for deletion edit

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>80% consensus edit

Exceptions edit

The following articles were VFD'ed but do assert significance so would not have qualified for this speedy.

  • Panagia "worn as a vestment by an Orthodox bishop" - from that, one could plausibly add a picture and explain its creation and history

Attack pages edit

Unanimity for deletion edit

June 1 edit

>80% consensus edit

Exceptions edit

Neologisms edit

Unanimity for deletion edit

June 2 edit

>80% consensus edit

Exceptions edit