RationalWiki:Articles for deletion

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For the far-right German political party known by the abbreviation AfD, see Alternative für Deutschland.

Some articles on RationalWiki are ripe for plucking and deletion. If you think an article fits this description (and there is no page that it could be better merged with), here are the steps to take to put it on this page:

  1. Add {{Article for deletion}} or {{Article for deletion|Reason}} to the top of the page you think needs deletion.
  2. Press the save button to get the rest of the instructions to populate.
  3. The second line of instructions that appear below the deletion template allow for pre-populating a discussion, click that button, replace the word "Reason" with your reasoning for wanting to delete the article.
  4. Finally add {{RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/ReplaceMeWithTheArticleName}} to top of this list. Don't forget to change the ReplaceMeWithTheArticleName to the proper article name from step 3.

Please notify the creator/main editor(s) on their talkpage using {{afdnotice|(Replace with exact article name '''including namespace''')|(Replace with AFD rationale)}}, particularly if it's new and the users are active.

Then wait a while and see what the mob thinks, unless there's an actual reason it needs to be taken out and shot quickly (e.g. a severely problematic/inaccurate living person's biography).

If the article you are attempting to create an AfD page for has had an AfD before, move the old AfD to a new name (usual standard suggests putting the year of the old AfD after the name, but we have no real policy for this, just make sure someone can find it later) and update the relevant archive before making the AfD.

If you want to delete categories, you can use the same process as for regular pages, but please notify an active bot operator to remove the category instead of cleaning it up yourself if there are a lot of pages.

If you are attempting to merge the article with another, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS PAGE. That belongs at RationalWiki:Duplicate articles.

Also, if you think an article is substandard but still potentially on-mission, remember that a move to Draft: space might be sufficient.

And don't forget to subscribe. This will allow you to see when a new article for deletion is added.

To archive:

  1. Edit the AFD page to change the result from "?" to "deleted" or "kept" or whatever.
  2. Go to RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Log and remove the {{RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Article}}.
  3. Go to the 2024 archives and add {{RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Article}} at the top of the stack.

After deleting, add Category:Talk pages for deleted articles to the talk page if it has one. (The exception is deleted pages that were not main space articles, for which there's other categories to add to any talk pages instead.)

Veterans Party of America | Result: ?[edit]

Veterans Party of America (edit|talk|history|protect|delete|links|watch|logs) – (View AfD)

Delete[edit]

  1. An utterly irrelevant third party that went bust sometime after 2019, and got less votes than the fucking Legal Marijuana Now Party A somebody. (talk) 23:56, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
  2. If we had a page for political parties of the United States, then we could merge some of the more relevant parts of this article with that. Given that we have no such article, however, it's probably better off being deleted. Sincerely, Postuhenin the neurodivergent doodlebug! (say hi! ^^) 01:55, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
  3. No longer in operation , delete. Intelligentguy (talk) 13:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
  4. Pointless article , unless we want to open a can of worms for an article on political parties US. Delete Bookability (talk) 13:55, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
  5. Not worth preserving. —cosmikdebris talk stalk 15:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Keep[edit]

Merge/redirect[edit]

Goat[edit]

College Conspiracy | Result: ?[edit]

College Conspiracy (edit|talk|history|protect|delete|links|watch|logs) – (View AfD)

Delete[edit]

  1. This article is shit even after nearly a decade.This article is about an irrelevant youtube video that was watched by only 50, 000 people Reichtangle (talk) 11:26, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
  2. Christopher (talk) 17:24, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
  3. cosmikdebris talk stalk 17:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
  4. Why do we have an article on this? it has 50,000 views and nobody seems to care about this guy if his the view count of a couple dozen people on his latest videos are to be believed. A somebody. (talk) 22:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Keep[edit]

  1. Well, it's missional in the sense that it exposes a bullshit screed as being, well, bullshit. Old woo is still woo. Luigifan18 (talk) 00:10, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Merge/redirect[edit]

Goat[edit]

  • This article was nominated before, with only one vote for delete. I do wonder why this place has become so much more willing to delete articles recently. Christopher (talk) 17:46, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
    The community and standards of RationalWiki have changed. A somebody. (talk) 22:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
    No wonder there are so many stubs from the Late 2000's and early 2010's ←§ Reichtangle (talk) 02:33, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Traditional values | Result: ???[edit]

Traditional values (edit|talk|history|protect|delete|links|watch|logs) – (View AfD)

Delete[edit]

  1. Just a collection of bullet points and unfunny snark with very little context and no references. Derivative of Good old days and Family values. —cosmikdebris talk stalk 16:19, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
  2. Our page on Tradition is summoning most of this page aswell. Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 17:40, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
  3. Supremely unfunny and I have no idea why a defunct New Zealand environmentalist party is in the article. A somebody. (talk) 20:40, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
  4. Not remotely funny , lacks reference also , bin. Teriyaki12 (talk) 13:40, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
  5. Delete this article , lacks any relevance.DecemberRebmeced (talk) 12:37, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Keep[edit]

  1. There probably is a line to be drawn between "traditional values" and "family values", though I'm not sure if conservatives who abuse the terms would bother. In any case, yeah, this page could use some more improvements. Luigifan18 (talk) 21:36, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
  2. I like it. I want to keep it. It’s rationale. New world (talk) 20:10, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Merge/redirect[edit]

  1. Merge with Appeal to tradition, put in redirect. The latter could do with some work too. But as usual with me, the original page must remain until this is done right. So consider this in a straight Delete/Keep fight as a vote for Keep [for now]. KarmaPolice (talk) 17:50, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
  2. I second the motion to merge and redirect. It does seem to me like there are certain parts of this article could be salvaged, if properly cleaned up with some spit and polish. Sincerely, Postuhenin the neurodivergent doodlebug! (say hi! ^^) 20:45, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
  3. Merge with tradition Ioe bidome (talk) 23:31, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
  4. Merge and redirect to Appeal to Tradition. FriendlySocDem (talk) 01:30, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
  5. Merge with tradition sounds good to me RTD (talk) 11:23, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Goat[edit]

  1. I've removed the snark that was added today, unfortunately quality edits added alongside the snark were removed. Ioe bidome (talk) 21:36, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
  2. Votes are 5-2-5, with 7 in favor of keeping the content in some form, so it's not a consensus in favor of deletion. Plutocow (talk) 18:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
  3. 'Change must have a majority vote' - those five merge/redirects are a de facto vote for 'keep for now', so I would say the motion fails. And as it's been open over a month, time to pull the plug? KarmaPolice (talk) 18:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
    Perhaps, though you could also argue that the merge option succeeds as the middle ground, as there are 7 votes for the content existing in some form but 10 against it staying in its current form. Plutocow (talk) 18:55, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
    We're kinda stuck until somebody makes a decent attempt to merge it into 'appeal to tradition'. KarmaPolice (talk) 19:05, 6 May 2024 (UTC)