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This page contains lists of articles and images which are recommended for deletion. Any Wikitraveller can recommend an article or image for deletion, and any Wikitraveller can comment on the deletion nomination. Articles and images are presumed guilty until proven innocent. After fourteen (14) days of discussion, if a consensus is reached to retain an article, it won't be deleted. Otherwise it will be deleted by an administrator. Please read the Nominating and Commenting sections prior to nominating articles/images or commenting on nominations.

Please archive according to the date deleted, not the date nominated:

[edit] Nominating

The basic format for a deletion nomination is the following: 

===[[Chicken]]===
* Delete.  Not a valid travel article topic. ~~~~

Please follow these steps when nominating an article or image for deletion:

  1. First read the deletion policy and verify that the article or image really is a candidate for deletion.
  2. For the article or image being proposed for deletion, add a {{vfd}} tag to the top of the article so that people viewing the article will know that it is proposed for deletion.
  3. Add a link to the article or image at the end of the list below, along with the reason why it is being listed for deletion. Sign your vote using four tildes ("~~~~"). List one article or image per entry.

[edit] Commenting

All Wikitravellers are asked to state their opinion about articles and images listed for deletion. The format for comments is: 

===[[Chicken]]===
* '''Delete'''.  Not a valid travel article topic. TravelNut 25:25, 31 Feb 2525 (EDT)
* '''Keep'''.  There is a town in [[Alaska]] called Chicken. ~~~~

When leaving comments:

  1. First read the deletion policy and verify that the article or image really is a candidate for deletion.
  2. You may vote to delete, keep, or redirect the article. If your opinion is that the article should be kept or redirected, please state why you feel that way. Sign your vote using four tildes ("~~~~").

[edit] Deleting, or not

After fourteen (14) days of discussion, there will probably be consensus one way or the other. If the consensus is to keep, redirect or merge, then any Wikitraveller can do it. If you are redirecting, please remember to check for broken redirects or double redirects as a result of your move. Remove any VFD notices from that page and copy the deletion discussion to the talk page of the article being kept or redirected.

If the result is delete, then only an administrator can delete. Check if any article links to the image or article in question. After removing those links, delete the image or article.

After you keep/redirect/merge/delete the article, copy the deletion discussion to the appropriate archive.

[edit] May 2009

[edit] Image:Nightlife_in_munich.jpg

Presumably from Flickr, but no ID or user given for tracking it down, so license is suspect (see previous nom). Jpatokal 11:56, 12 May 2009 (EDT)

Unless Marina can provide sources for her images, I think all her unsourced uploads should be deleted. (There are a good number of them [1]). I think this is an appropriate tack for any situation when a contributor has demonstrated that she either does not understand our copyleft, or otherwise is not respecting image licensing/copyright. --Peter Talk 16:10, 12 May 2009 (EDT)
I wanted to vote to delete since I agree with Jani and Peter. As to this image, I found it on Flickr and its license was cc-by-2.0. But I still want to vote to delete, since I think we had better deal severely with those uploaders' behavior like as Wikimedia Commons. -- Tatata 11:08, 18 May 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Portugal

  • Delete. Unless I've missed something, the only acceptable articles on Shared are image categories, policy pages, and tech requests. --Peter Talk 18:30, 17 May 2009 (EDT)
No harm done, in my view, just redirect to Category:Portugal. Jpatokal 22:35, 17 May 2009 (EDT)
Wrote that before looking at the page, and damn, somebody's put a lot of work into it... but no harm in copying it to Category:Portugal, I presume? Jpatokal 22:37, 17 May 2009 (EDT)
  • Delete. Holy crap, that was a ton of work! Before deleting though, let's make sure to add cat:portugal to each of the images – cacahuate talk 23:17, 17 May 2009 (EDT)
  • Keep. I can't find a written policy that prohibits this type of page, and it seems to have great value in that it categorizes and annotates images that would otherwise be lumped together in Category:Portugal and its geographic subcategories. LtPowers 07:47, 18 May 2009 (EDT)
Perhaps it should be written, but I don't think anyone could have foreseen this before it happened :) Current consensus & practice is to use categories. Creating country pages would be a totally new direction for Shared, and should be discussed somewhere other than VFD if it's a direction we want to take. I can appreciate the effort this user put into the page, but I find it highly unlikely that we will take things in this direction, especially considering the amount of manual work involved – cacahuate talk 15:24, 18 May 2009 (EDT)
I seem to recall being told that I had to reference specific policies that support deletion, but maybe that was just on :en. LtPowers 18:50, 19 May 2009 (EDT)
That was also a situation where your vote ran counter to policy, restored a nomination speedy kept by another administrator, ran counter to all practice throughout the history of the site, and had the sole effects of serving as an insult to me, furthering drama that wasted a lot of other peoples' time and effort, encouraging an editor in misuse of process who had just returned from Wikitravel's first ever and only user ban, and generally contributing to the less collegial and friendly atmosphere that we have today between regular editors.
In this case, we don't have a "What is an article?" policy here because we don't have articles. We don't have a policy here stating that users can't write articles on sink installation either, but it runs clearly enough counter to practice that I think a delete (or a redirect per Jani's suggestion) would be sensible. I think we would need a policy discussion before introducing an entirely new category of work into Shared, but I think, given the work that has gone into this, it would be best to move it into the users' userspace until we have a discussion regarding organization of content—our category system is sub-optimal. --Peter Talk 06:12, 20 May 2009 (EDT)
I don't see what is the problem with this page. Afterall, there are other pages like this one, like Spain, and there is no written policy that prohibits this page. --Tiagox2 11:07, 31 May 2009 (EDT)
I just speedy deleted Spain, as it seemed a clear mistake, and lacked any useful content. One important issue that has not yet been brought up is that the main namespace on Shared is used for policy articles, and should not be mixed with image categorizing, which we have left solely up to our category namespace. There might be a place for this type of page, but I think we should move it out of the main namespace, and get a discussion going. --Peter Talk 20:21, 31 May 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:Map of Korea.jpg

(See also previous VFDs: one, two.)

Although the image does have a letter of permission, that letter only licenses itself under cc-by-sa-1.0, not the image! The letter only gives Paula permission to use the image - not WT, not anyone else - and it doesn't permit derivative works, all of which are requirements. - Dguillaime 15:20, 18 May 2009 (EDT)

  • Keep. I think the intent of the letter is clear, there may just be a bit of a language barrier :) I don't agree at all that it should have been uploaded a third (!!!) time without discussion, as I mentioned on Paula's talk page, but I think we should not drag this out, especially considering the pace at which WT country maps are being created.... this map will be irrelevant I'm sure by the end of the year – cacahuate talk 15:28, 18 May 2009 (EDT)
FWIW, it's now irrelevant. --Peter Talk 02:23, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Category:GORGE ROBERTS

  • delete - No personal category's here. Rein N. 13:33, 20 May 2009 (EDT)

Speedy deleted: I went ahead and speedied it, as it was just gibberish—seems to be either a mistake or vandalism. --Peter Talk 19:03, 20 May 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Tech talk:Database error on posting in it:/

Speedy deleted: Spam page --Rein N. 07:17, 25 May 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Wikitravel Shared talk:Local spam blacklist/

delete: Spam page

[edit] Image:Ebla panoramic.jpg

  • Delete. Not useful in a travel guide – cacahuate talk 02:47, 1 June 2009 (EDT)
    • Why so? I don't see anything wrong with it... except maybe the insane resolution (10000px!). Jpatokal 00:23, 4 June 2009 (EDT)
      • I'm with Cacahuate -- I don't see how you could use this image in a travel guide, given its odd shape. LtPowers 13:50, 20 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] June 2009

[edit] Image:AerialView.gif

Not useful, and likely a copyvio – cacahuate talk 16:35, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:GiftShop.gif

Not travel related or useful – cacahuate talk 16:35, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] All uploads today by Special:Contributions/Magda.myka

These are all much to small for use in our guides, and some have strange text on them, possibly pulled from a website and potential copyvios? – cacahuate talk 16:35, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:FrankLloydWrightHouse.gif

delete 1x1 pix is to small to be usable and a * gif ext --- --Rein N. 01:18, 11 June 2009 (EDT)

  • Speedied, presumably they uploaded the wrong file. Jpatokal 00:11, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:Ostrava Masarykovo náměstí.jpg

Speedied - Sertmann 13:20, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:R V Hinds, Carver.JPG

Too much focus on an individual? --Inas 02:34, 14 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:全景01.jpg

Image:全景01.jpg cannot be used as thumbnail because of its file name, and very suspicious of copyvio[2]. -- Tatata 10:23, 16 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:HouHaiByNight.jpg

Found it on the Beijing page. It's obviously a postcard. ChubbyWimbus 16:41, 17 June 2009 (EDT)

Delete, but for licensing reasons instead. It looks like the border was added by the photographer, judging by the flickr source page [3] - but it's also licensed non-commercial/non-derivative (cc-by-nc-nd 2.0), which isn't one of the approved licenses. - Dguillaime 17:13, 17 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:Calmac Ardrossan.jpg

  • Delete. License violation : this image is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0.[4] -- Tatata 11:30, 19 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:Noblesville Indiana Lady Shoppers 3.jpg

  • Recognizable individuals. LtPowers 13:41, 20 June 2009 (EDT)
    • And a quick glance at the uploader's contributions shows a number of other possible violations of our image policies. I'm sure they were uploaded in good faith, though. LtPowers 13:45, 20 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:MozambiqueHorseSafari.jpg

[edit] All images uploaded by Rheinland-Pfalz

  • Keep. I had a mail discussion with charlotte.jakobsen at tourcomm-germany.com, who was working on behalf of state tourism company/copyright holder Rheinland-Pfalz Tourismus GmbH. I told her about CC licensing, and she said "But it is pictures from our own database, which is open for anyone to use on our [their?] webpage" → so these should be fine. Jpatokal 21:30, 30 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Image:DanhThiep-240620091263.jpg

  • Delete. Just an ad. --Inas 20:03, 30 June 2009 (EDT)

[edit] July 2009

[edit] Category:Images by Lycaon

Category:Images by Lycaon is useless for the project and almost users. We should have a discussion on the personal categories and those should be created after we reach a consensus. As to the magic word "__HIDDENCAT__" which is used in this category, it requires MediaWiki 1.13+.

  • Delete. -- Tatata 01:15, 9 July 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Category talk:Soma (Fukushima)

  • Delete. spam --Rein N. 11:31, 9 July 2009 (EDT)

[edit] Category talk:Soma

  • Delete. spam --Rein N. 11:31, 9 July 2009 (EDT)
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