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By JPxG

The news, the memes, the group DMs, and the edit wars have been subsumed by a singular topic in the last month. Most of us know what it is; indeed, some of us are living through it. It follows, then, that article deletion discussions would take a similar tack. Indeed, the largest and most-active discussions of this month have been overwhelmingly focused on events, people, and topics related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with few exceptions. Usually, the deletion report explores a variety of different discussions, but this month they're quite similar, so I will try a different format. This is a fairly short deletion report, owing to time constraints; if you want more detailed information (including a breakdown of !voting patterns, close trends and overall activity) feel free to check out the March index of the Oracle for Deletion, which I wrote a few months ago and use to gather statistics for these reports.

Of the ten longest AfDs (by character count), six were related to the conflict in Ukraine. Of the ten most active (by !vote count), seven were Ukraine-related; four articles appeared in both lists. By characters:

By !votes:

There were, however, some discussions representing other topics. These represented a minority of both lists: between them, only 7 concerned subjects unrelated to the war in Ukraine. By characters:

  • Jessica Foschi, a former competition swimmer who was disqualified from the 1995 national championships due to apparent steroid use (16 !votes, 75,443 bytes, currently ongoing).
  • Werewolves in popular culture — Awoo![1] (18 !votes, 34,194 bytes, closed "merge").
  • Checkley Sin, a Hong Kong record producer and political candidate (6 !votes, 33,660 bytes, currently ongoing).
  • STANLIB, a South African asset management company currently on its second AfD nomination (3 !votes, 32,509 bytes, currently ongoing).

By !votes:

  • Archishman Sarker, a scholar in the humanities suspected by many participants of writing a Wikipedia autobiography (23 !votes, 16,008 bytes, closed "delete").
  • Vaush, a left-wing YouTube pundit at his second AfD nomination, dedicated to proving that new media acolytes can be just as good as traditional TV talking heads at starting drama on Twitter. (20 !votes, 26,500 bytes, still ongoing).
  • Randolph Lablache, a football player whose deletion discussion invoked long-running WP:NSPORTS concerns (19 !votes, 26,183 bytes, closed "delete").

References

  1. ^ As the saying goes, "DON'T AWOO — $350 PENALTY".
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  • "concerning a school of far-right Russian nationalist ideology": the existence of this school of thought is itself alleged and, may I say, dubious. The article, despite its title, is not about Russian fascism (i.e. fascism in Russia in general), in fact no one seem to know what the scope of the article even is. Veverve (talk) 08:33, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • The phrase "currently ongoing" is redundant; consider using just "ongoing". Bruce leverett (talk) 18:44, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]


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