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Please do not nominate your user page (or subpages of it) for deletion here. Instead, add {{db-userreq}} at the top of any such page you no longer wish to keep; an administrator will then delete the page for you. See Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion § G7 for more information.

Miscellany for deletion (MfD) is a place where Wikipedians decide what should be done with problematic pages in the namespaces which aren't covered by other specialized deletion discussion areas. Items sent here are usually discussed for seven days; then they are either deleted by an administrator or kept, based on community consensus as evident from the discussion, consistent with policy, and with careful judgment of the rough consensus if required.

Filtered versions of the page are available at

Information on the process

What may be nominated for deletion here:

Pages not covered by other XFD venues, including pages in these namespaces: Draft:, Help:, Portal:, MediaWiki:, Wikipedia: (including WikiProjects), User:, TimedText:, MOS:,^[a] Event: and the various Talk: namespaces
Userboxes, regardless of the namespace
File description pages when the file itself is hosted on Commons
Any other page, that is not in article space, where there is dispute as to the correct XFD venue.

Requests to undelete pages deleted after discussion here, and debate whether discussions here have been properly closed, both take place at Wikipedia:Deletion review, in accordance with Wikipedia's undeletion policy.

Notes

^ The vast majority of pages in the MOS: namespace are redirects, which should be discussed at RfD. MfD is only applicable for the handful of its non-redirect pages.

Before nominating a page for deletion

Before nominating a page for deletion, please consider these guidelines:

Deleting pages in your own userspace	If you want to have your own userpage or a draft you created deleted, there is no need to list it here; simply tag it with {{db-userreq}} or {{db-u1}} if it is a userpage, or {{db-author}} or {{db-g7}} if it is a draft. If you wish to clear your user talk page or sandbox, just blank it.
Duplications in draftspace?	Duplications in draftspace are usually satisfactorily fixed by redirection. If the material is in mainspace, redirect the draft to the article, or a section of the article. If multiple draft pages on the same topic have been created, tag them for merging. See WP:SRE.
Deleting pages in other people's userspace	Consider explaining your concerns on the user's talk page with a personal note or by adding `{{subst:Uw-userpage}} ~~~~` to their talk page. This step assumes good faith and civility; often the user is simply unaware of the guidelines, and the page can either be fixed or speedily deleted using {{db-userreq}}. Take care not to bite newcomers – sometimes using the {{subst:welcome}} or {{subst:welcomeg}} template and a pointer to WP:UP would be best first. Problematic userspace material is often addressed by the User pages guidelines including in some cases removal by any user or tagging to clarify the content or to prevent external search engine indexing. (Examples include copies of old, deleted, or disputed material, problematic drafts, promotional material, offensive material, inappropriate links, 'spoofing' of the MediaWiki interface, disruptive HTML, invitations or advocacy of disruption, certain kinds of images and image galleries, etc) If your concern relates to these areas consider these approaches as well, or instead of, deletion. User pages about Wikipedia-related matters by established users usually do not qualify for deletion. Articles that were recently deleted at AfD and then moved to userspace are generally not deleted unless they have lingered in userspace for an extended period of time without improvement to address the concerns that resulted in their deletion at AfD, or their content otherwise violates a global content policy such as our policies on Biographies of living persons that applies to any namespace.
Policies, guidelines and process pages	Established pages and their sub-pages should not be nominated, as such nominations will probably be considered disruptive, and the ensuing discussions closed early. This is not a forum for modifying or revoking policy. Instead consider tagging the policy as {{historical}} or redirecting it somewhere. Proposals still under discussion generally should not be nominated. If you oppose a proposal, discuss it on the policy page's discussion page. Consider being bold and improving the proposal. Modify the proposal so that it gains consensus. Also note that even if a policy fails to gain consensus, it is often useful to retain it as a historical record, for the benefit of future editors.
WikiProjects and their subpages	It is generally preferable that inactive WikiProjects not be deleted, but instead be marked as {{WikiProject status\|inactive}}, redirected to a relevant WikiProject, or changed to a task force of a parent WikiProject, unless the WikiProject was incompletely created or is entirely undesirable. WikiProjects that were never very active and which do not have substantial historical discussions (meaning multiple discussions over an extended period of time) on the project talk page should not be tagged as {{historical}}; reserve this tag for historically active projects that have, over time, been replaced by other processes or that contain substantial discussion (as defined above) of the organization of a significant area of Wikipedia. Before deletion of an inactive project with a founder or other formerly active members who are active elsewhere on Wikipedia, consider userfication. Notify the main WikiProject talk page when nominating any WikiProject subpage, in addition to standard notification of the page creator.
Alternatives to deletion	Normal editing that doesn't require the use of any administrator tools, such as merging the page into another page or renaming it, can often resolve problems. Pages in the wrong namespace (e.g. an article in Wikipedia namespace), can simply be moved and then tag the redirect for speedy deletion using {{db-g6\|rationale= it's a redirect left after a cross-namespace move}}. Notify the author of the original article of the cross-namespace move.
Alternatives to MfD	Speedy deletion If the page clearly satisfies a "general" or "user" speedy deletion criterion, tag it with the appropriate template. Be sure to read the entire criterion, as some do not apply in the user space.

Please familiarize yourself with the following policies

Wikipedia:Deletion policy – our deletion policy that describes how we delete things by consensus
Wikipedia:Deletion process – our guidelines on how to list anything for deletion
Wikipedia:Guide to deletion – a how-to guide whose protocols on discussion format and shorthands also apply here
Wikipedia:Project namespace – our guidelines on "Wikipedia" namespace pages
Wikipedia:User page – our guidelines on user pages and user subpages
Wikipedia:Userboxes – our guideline on userboxes

How to list pages for deletion

Shortcut

WP:MFDHOWTOWP:MFDHOWTO

Please check the aforementioned list of deletion discussion areas to check that you are in the right area. Then follow these instructions:

Instructions on listing pages for deletion:

To list a page for deletion, follow this three-step process: (replace PageName with the name of the page, including its namespace, to be deleted)

Note: Users must be logged in to complete step II. An unregistered user who wishes to nominate a page for deletion should complete step I and post their reasoning on Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion with a notification to a registered user to complete the process.

I.

Edit PageName:

Enter the following text at the top of the page you are listing for deletion:

{{mfd|1={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}
for a second or subsequent nomination use {{mfdx|2nd}}

or

{{mfd|GroupName}}
if nominating several similar related pages in an umbrella nomination. Choose a suitable name as GroupName and use it on each page.

If the nomination is for a userbox or similarly transcluded page, use {{subst:mfd-inline}} so as to not mess up the formatting for the userbox.

Use {{subst:mfd-inline|GroupName}} for a group nomination of several related userboxes or similarly transcluded pages.

Please include in the edit summary the phrase
Added MfD nomination at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]]
replace PageName with the name of the page that is up for deletion.
Please don't mark your edit summary as a minor edit.
Check the "Watch this page" box if you would like to follow the page in your watchlist. This may help you to notice if your MfD tag is removed by someone.
Save the page

II.

Create its MfD subpage.

The resulting MfD box at the top of the page should contain the link "this page's entry"

Click that link to open the page's deletion discussion page.
Insert this text:

{{subst:mfd2| pg={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:PAGENAME}}||2}}| text=Reason why the page should be deleted}} ~~~~
replacing Reason... with your reasons why the page should be deleted and sign the page. Do not substitute the pagename, as this will occur automatically.

Consider checking "Watch this page" to follow the progress of the debate.
Please use an edit summary such as Creating deletion discussion page for [[PageName]]
replacing PageName with the name of the page you are proposing for deletion.
If appropriate, inform members of the most relevant WikiProjects through one or more "deletion sorting lists". Then add a {{subst:delsort|<topic>|<signature>}} template to the nomination, to insert a note that this has been done.
Save the page.

III.

Add a line to MfD.

Follow this edit link and at the top of the list add a line:

{{subst:mfd3| pg=PageName}}
Put the page's name in place of "PageName".

Include the discussion page's name in your edit summary like
Added [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]]
replacing PageName with the name of the page you are proposing for deletion.
Save the page.
If nominating a page that has been nominated before, use the page's name in place of "PageName" and add

{{priorxfd|PageName}}
in the nominated page deletion discussion area to link to the previous discussions and then save the page using an edit summary such as
Added [[Template:priorxfd]] to link to prior discussions.

If nominating a page from someone else's userspace, notify them on their main talk page.
For other pages, while not required, it is generally considered civil to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the miscellany that you are nominating. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the page and/or use TDS' Article Contribution Counter or Wikipedia Page History Statistics. For your convenience, you may add
{{subst:mfd notice|PageName}} ~~~~
to their talk page in the "edit source" section, replacing PageName with the pagename. Please use an edit summary such as
Notice of deletion discussion at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]]
replacing PageName with the name of the nomination page you are proposing for deletion.
If the user has not edited in a while, consider sending the user an email to notify them about the MfD if the MfD concerns their user pages.
If you are nominating a WikiProject, please post a notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council, in addition to the project's talk page and the talk pages of the founder and active members.

Administrator instructions

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Administrator instructions for closing and relisting discussions can be found here.

Archived discussions

A list of archived discussions can be located at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates.

Current discussions

Pages currently being considered for deletion are indexed by the day on which they were first listed. Please place new listings at the top of the section for the current day. If no section for the current day is present, please start a new section.

September 18, 2025

Template:User Nehru Not Saint

This infobox should be deleted per WP:UBCR for being a political soapbox. THEZDRX _{(User) |}_(Contact) 15:18, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 16, 2025

User:Java7837/userboxing/Eugenics

This page is obviously not related to Wikipedia in any way. However, that doesn't stop most userboxes so I will also say that this userbox was created by a blocked sockpuppet. We should not reward sockpuppets and so this template should be deleted. We don't have a userbox that says "This user is a nazi", because that would be deeply inappropriate and inflammatory, waste the time of editors who become angry after seeing that or nominating to delete such stupid userboxes. WP:UBCR: "Userboxes must not be inflammatory or substantially divisive." and "Opinion pieces, particularly on current affairs or politics". please also consider how we have many great contributors who will be deeply affected by seeing such a userbox due to their ethnicity or culture. Thanks, 🇪🇭🇵🇸🇸🇩 East ernsa hara 🇪🇭🇵🇸🇸🇩 19:33, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I usually ignore userbox MFDs, but this one is too closely associated with Nazism, having to do with ideas that were discredited b Nazism. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:28, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Blatantly inflammatory. Curbon7 (talk) 00:33, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:UBCR. This is obviously inflammatory and divisive. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 08:35, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: per nom. SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:47, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Inflammatory Schützenpanzer (Talk) 23:31, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

SNOW Delete Clearly divisive and hateful, has no place on Wikipedia. ~delta ^{(talk • cont)} 11:44, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Daniel Brandt/FAQ

I'm not sure where to send this XFD but it didn't see right to speedy this as an orphan talk page. But this a FAQ page about Daniel Brandt but a different Brandt than what the article Daniel Brandt is about. The Brandt this FAQ is about had an article that went through a large variety of AFD discussions but was eventually deleted 18 years ago. So, why have a FAQ about an article subject who is different than the subject of Wikipedia's article is about? Unless a reader is already aware of the "other Daniel Brandt", this is just confusing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:47, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I am not sure what the purpose of this page is intended to be, but I don't think it satisfies a purpose. It does not provide useful information, and an encyclopedia should provide useful information. Either we should delete this page, or we should restore a large amount of background information, and deletion is more straightforward. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:55, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This article was the center of a tremendous amount of contention back in the day (in Deepfriedokra's words, "[p]robably the most damaging series of events in Wikipedia's history"), and people following one of the hundreds of still-extant links related to that controversy are likely to find it very confusing that the community just about self-combusted over an electronic musician from Wiesbaden. A short talk-page note is a reasonable way to clear up that confusion without raising privacy issues or opening cans of worms that don't need to be opened. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:39, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It is desirable to retain a brief note about important history particularly when, as pointed out by Extraordinary Writ above, there are many links/mentions of the name scattered around Wikipedia and the internet. Using a FAQ page for that is standard procedure. Johnuniq (talk) 04:47, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The log is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Daniel+Brandt&type=&user=&offset=&limit=100 From 2005-2007 this was a big thing. Few would remember it now. SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:55, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
True, but there will be plenty of off-wiki pages discussing Wikipedia's dramas with a link to the article. Keeping the FAQ is a very low cost way of helping people in the future overcome confusion. Johnuniq (talk) 01:14, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dzigor/userboxes/kosovojesrpsko

This could easily be seen as inflammatory and divisive, and an example of nationalistic POV-pushing. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 15:51, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Beaneater00/Userboxes/Balkans/APKosmetjeSrbija

This could easily be seen as inflammatory and divisive, and an example of nationalistic POV-pushing; furthermore, it was created by a community-banned sockpuppeteer. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 15:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Sellena8053/Curated Articles/Essays/Wikipedia Vandalism Bingo

WP:DENY, we don't want to build a shrine for vandals that glorify their activities. Furthermore, as courtesy, the creator is indefblocked for being NOTHERE. ~delta ^{(talk • cont)} 04:22, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - We don't want to encourage vandals. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:29, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per DENY. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 05:46, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Don't feed the trolls. --Schützenpanzer (Talk) 15:39, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. WP:DENY. Babysharkb☩ss2 ^(DEADMAU5) 19:35, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:DENY. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 09:59, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 15, 2025

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cryptozoology/to do

Relic without an associated Project page, not used by the inactive WikiProject (nor was ever used in any meaningful way), no incoming links. Delete as what should be an uncontroversial cleanup. TNstingray (talk) 22:01, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming that you are a member of the WikiProject, and have noted on the WikiProject talk page that you are doing cleanup? SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:30, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, was once useful. The history is brief but I consider, say, this edit to be meaningful. Graham87 (talk) 08:04, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 14, 2025

User:Abdulahi Yusuf Muse/sandbox/Taarikhda Abdulahi Yusuf Muse Wadaad

This draft is written entirely in a foreign language and has not been edited by the creator for 7 years now. GrinningIodize (talk) 20:06, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete as similar to U5 in that the originator has made no use of Wikipedia except to create what is probably an autobiography. I would prefer to leave these alone as harmless, but they can be deleted if we are here. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: As an unsourced BLP. SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:33, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, for obvious reasons. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 10:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Aa.1438/sandbox/PKK TERRORIST ORGANIZATION MASSACLES

This draft contains mangled multilingual text and is mostly useless, considering that the article for the Kurdistan Workers' Party describes the same ideas. GrinningIodize (talk) 19:58, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete as a user of userspace by an editor who did nothing except make this use of userspace, so that this is similar to U5. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:07, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Per WP:GS/KURD; only extended confirmed editors may edit in this topic area. Curbon7 (talk) 03:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete per Robert McClenon. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 15:53, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete under G5 per Curbon7 as general sanctions enforcement. Otherwise, Weak Delete. OutsideNormality (talk) 00:58, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:A.allahtchmi/The honorable Kellei chahami

This page is just boilerplate text and has not been edited for three years now. GrinningIodize (talk) 19:51, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral at this time. No harm is done by leaving this here and no harm is done by deleting it. Editor has done a little other editing before going away. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:31, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Adityafullstackdeveloper/sandbox/Aditya Full Stack Developer

This page appears to be somewhat promotional, only has one sentence, and has not been edited for three years. GrinningIodize (talk) 19:39, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete as similar to U5. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:33, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Abraham Stephen/sandbox/Crooked Spoon Fire (2020)

This draft has been completely unmaintained for a year, and the editor has not edited this page since 2021. GrinningIodize (talk) 19:35, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Abstain see WP:RAGPICKING TruenoCity (talk) 23:47, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral - This is a useless draft. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:36, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dronebogus/Userboxes/NoTankies

Per WP:UBDIVISIVE; divisive userboxes are not wanted. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:53, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The box's creator has pointed out that they are under an ban on participating in XFD discussions. In fairness, please see their comment. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:16, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Dronebogus' talk page response. I'm usually against "divisive" userboxes, but this one is perfectly acceptable, and not much worse, than, say, {{User stop autocracy}}, {{User:FormalDude/Userboxes/ETR}}, or {{User:Pitsarotta/Userboxes/Anti-Stalin}}. Cremastra (talk · contribs) 19:11, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete. I'm not much into policing userspace, but a userbox reading "This user doesn't like (pejorative term for people with certain beliefs)" is pretty much a textbook example of the type of divisive wording we've chosen to not allow in userboxes. I note the user has said on their userpage that they didn't think this particular point of view would be that controversial, and I agree most of us would agree with it. But we can't let "it's the majority view" excuse divisive *wording*. Though it might be considered more staid and boring, the same point could be made less divisively by expressing support (or opposition to) a worldview rather than dislike for certain people. Martinp (talk) 12:00, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Dronebogus' talk page response and Cremastra. I myself have this userbox on my user page, and I don't see anything controversial or problematic about stating opposition to tankies and what they stand for. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 10:07, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CaseOh sandbox drafts

These ~~three~~ two sandbox drafts are yet more WP:CRUFT collections of WP:BLP violations re WP:BLPSPS and WP:RS about CaseOh, a living person. They are also forks of Draft:CaseOh, which has been EC protected, namespace salted, and AFC rejected due to NN, disruptive re/creations, and disruptive AFC submissions. These sandbox draftspaces are an end-run around the above remedies, especially when they have a "submit your draft for review!" button in them. Drafting for CaseOh belongs only at Draft:CaseOh.

September 13, 2025

User:Forkgator4641/sandbox

Wikipedia is not a web host for fake future elections. Adding a humour tag to it does not exempt it. Whpq (talk) 01:47, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete humor tag was not even added by the author but by a different user who has been disruptively moving userspace pages around, but even if interpreted as a joke Wikipedia is not a webhost for those either. 204.111.137.20 (talk) 01:53, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Wikipedia is not for alternate history and Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. Also, an image of a living person and the names of living persons are used contrafactually, which is a biographies of living persons violation. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:20, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

wow i didnt know that Oreocooke (talk) 05:09, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Wikipedia is not a webhost for alternate history fantasies. Curbon7 (talk) 04:46, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above --Lenticel ^(talk) 04:58, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above - I've also unadded the humor tag because it implies the page will be kept Oreocooke (talk) 05:11, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 14:58, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. I originally nominated as U5, which was removed by the disruptive editor. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:51, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

should i tag it as u5 Oreocooke (talk) 18:06, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, as it is not eligible for U5. -- Whpq (talk) 18:20, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 12, 2025

User:ChiRus/sandbox

Election alt-history sandbox. Has been deleted twice via CSD for similar reasons. Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 21:14, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - In addition to Wikipedia is not for alternate history, this sandbox uses images of living persons and names of living persons in ways that are contrary to fact, which is a biographies of living persons violation. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:15, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Wikipedia is not a webhost for alternate history fantasies. Curbon7 (talk) 04:47, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above --Lenticel ^(talk) 04:59, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 15:01, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Old business

Everything below this point is old business; the 7-day review period that began 14:04, 12 September 2025 (UTC) ended today on 19 September 2025. Editors may continue to add comments until the discussion is closed but they should keep in mind that the discussion below this marker may be closed at any time without further notice. Discussions that have already been closed will be removed from the page automatically by Legobot and need no further action.

Closed discussions

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates

[1] The vast majority of pages in the MOS: namespace are redirects, which should be discussed at RfD. MfD is only applicable for the handful of its non-redirect pages.

[a]