User:Novem Linguae/XfD log

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March 2021

 * Lingerie company: nominated at RfD; Target: Belle Lingerie 00:03, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: A new user created Lingerie company but the text was about Belle Lingerie. I moved it to Belle Lingerie. This redirect has nothing to do with Belle Lingerie and should be deleted.
 * Jaynagar P. C. Paul Institution: nominated at AfD; notified 08:32, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: De-prodded. All 12 sources appear to be primary sources. Many are database-like websites presenting school data. My WP:BEFORE searches did not turn up quality secondary source coverage such as newspaper articles or books.
 * Nagarukhra High School: nominated at AfD; notified 01:41, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: De-prodded high school in India. References in the article are dead links. WP:BEFORE not turning up SIGCOV in secondary sources.
 * Maria Appel Nissen: nominated at AfD; notified 02:50, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: De-prodded. All 11 references are regular websites (self-published) or written by the article's subject (not independent). WP:BEFORE not turning up WP:GNG passing sources. Also, she doesn't appear to pass WP:NACADEMIC. h-index of 8, her most cited paper has 23 cites. I think this was translated from another Wikipedia, and I appreciate that the editor took the time to do this, but sadly I don't think this person meets our notability guidelines.
 * Malcolm Borg: nominated at AfD; notified 06:27, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Does not appear to pass WP:GNG. During WP:BEFORE search, I found no new sources via Google that passed GNG. Some sources were mentioned in a previous AFD. This NYT article is not significant coverage of Michael A Borg, but rather significant coverage of a controversy involving Hackensack University Medical Center and a newspaper. The book Communicating When Your Company is Under Siege -is- significant coverage of Borg (7 paragraphs about his struggle with alcohol). The Columbia Journalism Review I accessed through Gale in the Wikipedia Library is significant coverage of The Record newspaper in New Jersey, not of Malcolm Borg. The Mediaweek source I accessed through EBSCO in the Wikipedia Library is significant coverage of The Record newspaper, not of Borg. With only 1 GNG passing source, I do not think this individual is notable. A possible redirect target is North Jersey Media Group.
 * Paul A. Broad: nominated at AfD; notified 06:47, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Per my source analysis on the talk page, I believe only this source passes WP:GNG. In my opinion, not enough quality sources to demonstrate notability. Feel free to spot check my source analysis.

April 2021

 * Appinventiv: nominated at AfD; notified 06:17, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Remade after draftification. While some of the sources provided may pass WP:GNG, I don't think all 3 of them pass GNG, particularly the Economic Times one which is clearly based off an interview or press release. WP:BEFORE search didn't turn up additional strong sources, although feel free to double check. I found some https://ksusentinel.com articles, and it calls itself a newspaper, but the appearance of the website looks a bit like a blog to me, and it has no "About Us" page to confirm that it has an editorial staff.
 * Neemat Daud Abdulrahim: nominated at AfD; notified 20:51, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: De-prodded. Does not appear to pass WP:GNG. First three sources in the article are self-published websites so not reliable, fourth source is a passing mention so not significant coverage, fifth source is the homepage of a website with no linked article, sixth source is a normal self-published website so not reliable. WP:BEFORE not turning up additional sources.
 * Lekan Otufodunrin: nominated at AfD; notified 05:54, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Doesn't appear to meet WP:GNG. The two secondary sources in the article are mostly quotes from the subject, so not independent. My WP:BEFORE searches got lots of hits, but the articles were either written by the subject (not independent) or just passing mentions (not significant coverage). By the way, he appears to have worked for the The Nation (Nigeria), so careful using them as a source for this particular subject.
 * Alberta Association of Architects: nominated at AfD; notified 06:10, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Unsourced since 2006. WP:BEFORE reveals a decent number of search results, but they are almost all passing mentions. The best sources I could find from clicking on about 20 newspaper articles and books were this PR piece and this one paragraph in an encyclopedia.
 * Kalyana Pittenu: nominated at AfD; notified 15:48, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Doesn't appear to meet WP:GNG. 81 google results, 0 news, 0 books, so very little English language coverage of any kind. If article creator wants to add the Malayalam transliteration of the name to the article, or a link to a Malayalam wiki page, I'd be happy to search for additional sources in Malayalam. For now, does not appear to be notable.
 * European Association for Biometrics: nominated at AfD; notified 09:40, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: De-prodded. Does not appear to pass WP:GNG. WP:BEFORE found some passing mentions in books (but not significant coverage), and a lot of results from https://biometricupdate.com/, which appears to be a press release republishing website (at the bottom it says "Submit a Press Release"). Recently added sources have various problems (not secondary, self published).
 * Ryan Rodrigs: nominated at AfD; notified 03:28, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Subject does not appear to pass WP:GNG. I evaluate the Toronto.com and CTV News sources as not being independent enough because they are mostly quotes. The Ottawa Business Journal might pass GNG. That is only one source, so insufficient. WP:BEFORE not turning up additional GNG passing sources.
 * Edward M. Flynn: nominated at AfD; notified 10:04, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: The two best WP:GNG sources in the article are, and in my opinion these are both borderline and have issues. WP:BEFORE not turning up additional good sources. As a local politician, does not qualify under WP:POLITICIAN.

May 2021

 * Atossa Therapeutics: nominated at AfD; notified 11:08, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Restored WP:PROD. Does not appear to pass WP:GNG or WP:NCORP. This source may pass GNG. The others are stats pages, press releases, or less than significant coverage. WP:BEFORE not turning up additional GNG passing sources.
 * Tramezzini NYC: nominated at AfD; notified 11:19, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: De-prodded. Does not appear to pass WP:GNG. I evaluate these as the best GNG sources:. These have various issues, including not being long enough (3 of these are 1 paragraph), not passing WP:CORPDEPTH, and the last one mentions the press release it's based off of. WP:BEFORE not turning up additional GNG passing sources.
 * Wikipedia:Loaded words and terms on Wikipedia: nominated at MfD; notified 17:04, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Appears to be a POV fork of WP:Words to watch. While a POV fork is not necessarily a problem when it involves an essay, in this case the essay is unpopular (see the essay's talk page), and people on the talk page make a good argument that this essay encourages users to violate WP:NPOV. In particular, this idea that we cannot use the word "software piracy" has caused problems on other pages, where I had to revert page moves and mass replacements of the word. I believe this essay should be renamed, userfied, or deleted, although I note the essay author has declined a suggestion to userfy this in the past.

June 2021

 * Drastic Team: nominated at AfD; notified 23:42, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Insufficient sources that go in depth on the subject. Doesn't currently appear to pass WP:GNG. . These sources might count toward GNG, but I'd like to see more before I declare this a GNG pass.

July 2021

 * Seyed Yashar Tavakolian: nominated at AfD; notified 05:05, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: De-prodded. 5 sources are short articles about a publicity stunt where he sold watermelons out of a Lamborghini. 2 sources are a website claiming to be a newspaper but looks like a WordPress blog and has bad grammar. No in depth coverage of him biographically from a reliable source. Appears to fail WP:GNG.

November 2021

 * Robert Gaffner: nominated at AfD; notified 08:48, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Does not appear to pass WP:GNG. 2 or less Google News hits for "Robert Gaffner", "Bob Gaffner", "Robert H. Gaffner". OurCampaigns.com is not a reliable source per 2 RFCs. Was never elected to federal office so does not pass WP:NPOL.
 * Wannigan Days: nominated at AfD; notified 07:50, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Borderline, would like the community's opinion on this one. Appears to only have 2 WP:GNG passing sources: and . In my opinion, need one more to demonstrate notability.  looks based on a press release, no independent analysis. WP:NCORP may or may not apply.

December 2021

 * Template:Authority controll: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Authority control (notified); notified 12:00, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Implausible typo. I have corrected the 6 transclusions I found. Should be safe to delete now.
 * Template:Auhtority control: nominated at RfD; Target: Template:Authority control (notified); notified 12:12, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Rare typo. I have corrected the 8 transclusions I found. Should be safe to delete now. I think it'd be better to have this show up as a redlink, and hopefully get the person who made the typo to notice and fix it.
 * China COVID-19 attempts to cover up: nominated at RfD; Target: COVID-19 misinformation by China (notified) 11:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: In my opinion, too verbose to be a plausible search term. This is left over from a reverted page move.

January 2022

 * Category:Anguidae: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Anguids; notified 12:26, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: These are both categories for the taxonomic family Anguidae. Category:Anguidae is newer and smaller than Category:Anguids, so I suggest merging to the latter.
 * Category:Amazona: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Amazon parrots; notified 12:52, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Duplicate genus categories. Category:Amazon parrots is slightly bigger, so I picked that as the target.
 * Category:Dicruridae: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Drongos; notified 13:24, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: According to drongos, a drongo is any bird in the family Dicruridae. So the two categories are identical. The bigger category is Category:Drongos

February 2022

 * Template:User sandbo: nominated at RfD; Target: User:Elon musk has no friends/sandbox2 (notified) 07:04, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Looking at the template creator's name and the rest of this user's edits, all of their pages are probably vandalism and could arguably be deleted. One of the pages has a hidden HTML comment that says New Zealand is so mega gay and homo. But it's not a slam dunk so I thought it'd be simpler to just move this to userspace. Sadly though the redirect the template move left behind does not qualify for R2 since it is template namespace, so here we are at RFD.

May 2022

 * Nazist state: nominated at RfD; Target: Nazi Germany (notified); notified 00:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Term doesn't sound particularly fluent to me. 951 hits on google compared to 299k for Nazi state, which doesn't have a redirect.
 * Ephiel tower: nominated at RfD; Target: Eiffel Tower (notified); notified 02:04, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Uncommon misspellings. These are "plausible" I suppose so don't qualify for R3. Just doesn't seem very useful to clog our wikilink suggestions and search results with 10 of these though.

June 2022

 * Template:Cite COL: nominated at TfD; notified 22:14, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: This is for citing Catalogue of Life, which is a useful taxonomic database. Only 3 transclusions since 2016. No documentation. Seems to cite a very specific subset of the website (the 2011 Annual Checklist) rather than the regular search page. Suggest subst-ing the 3 transclusions then delete.

August 2022

 * Category:Wikipedia requests related to devices: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Wikipedia technical requests; notified 03:46, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Better name. A "device" makes me think of a mobile device. The two members of this category, "requested templates" and "bot requests", have nothing to do with devices or mobile devices.

November 2022

 * Baltic past and present/ Baltic mythology: nominated at RfD; Target: Baltic mythology (notified) 15:41, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Left over from a page move that was quickly moved back. Seems implausible this would be searched for.

February 2023

 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Peanut The Dog: nominated at MfD; notified 01:20, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Not sure if this is a hoax, a test edit, or a good faith attempt to start a WikiProject. Will assume good faith and send to MFD. In my opinion, this does not belong in Wikipedia-space at this time. It is simply not useful to anyone except the page's creator.
 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Places Named Eva: nominated at MfD; notified 01:23, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: This is the second WikiProject created by this editor. While this particular WikiProject has a clear scope (unlike WikiProject Peanut The Dog), I feel this scope is too small to be a useful WikiProject. Eva only encompasses 11 articles.

April 2023

 * List of Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure episodes: nominated at AfD; notified 20:49, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: I'm nominating this to stop a WP:BLAR edit war. Some editors think this should be a standalone article, others think it should be a redirect to Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure. I note that the content in this article is identical to the content in Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure. Personally I think this should be a redirect, since the exact same content is already included in Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure. That is a small article and this does not need a WP:SPINOUT yet.
 * Monte carlo Simulation: nominated at RfD; Target: Monte Carlo method (notified); notified 23:28, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Highly unlikely capitalization. The correctly capitalized redirects, Monte Carlo simulation and Monte Carlo simulations, exist and should cover all use cases. I suggest delete.

June 2023

 * Template:Potential 2024 Repub Candidates: nominated at TfD; notified 20:37, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: I probably should have G6'd this while it was still in mainspace. Whoops. Now it's in template space. It appears to be a trim (excerpt) of a section of an article. Zero transclusions. Unless the creator can give a good reason and a planned use for this template, I think deleting it makes sense. cc.

July 2023

 * Tempus Hotel Taichung: nominated at AfD; notified 10:12, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Sources in the article are mostly database pages. Google Books search turned up some mentions, but I didn't see anything more than one paragraph in travel guides. May fail WP:NCORP.

August 2023

 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/delsort.js: nominated at MfD; notified 14:54, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: A rare .js script that isn't in userspace or mediawiki space. Has been blanked since 2020 with the edit summary Blank ancient script: reported not working (User:John Vandenberg/Deletion sorting tool) for nearly a decade. As long as -ing a deleted file doesn't throw any errors, seems like this should be deleted. Searching reveals use in 231 other files.

November 2023

 * 2024 J.League & North American Cup: nominated at AfD; notified 06:54, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Contested draftification. As the AFC reviewer said, "None of the sources indicate that Miami and Fukuoka will play each other on the stated date." Possible hoax.

December 2023

 * Template:AI-generated notification: nominated at TfD; notified 05:22, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: There appear to be three AI-related templates at the moment. AI-generated is a maintenance tag for an article that was probably generated by AI and needs cleanup, which seems like a great template. This gives us a way to flag these for cleanup and gives us a category for tracking these. AI-generated notification is for tagging an article talk page that AI text was used in the article. OpenAI is probably an attempt to comply with possible copyright issues that might arise from using AI-generated text.I am nominating AI-generated notification today, and I find it problematic for a couple reasons. 1) It is possibly redundant to AI-generated. For example, it could lead to a situation where articles with AI issues show up in two categories instead of one, or they have one tag or the other or both instead of just one tag. 2) It telegraphs to editors that AI/LLM-assisted editing is OK, which I don't think is a good message to be sending. I view AI editing as lazy, prone to difficult-to-cleanup errors, and at the same level of perniciousness as a WP:CCI. It's only a matter of time before we catch an experienced editor mass-editing using AI, which results in a bunch of subtle factual inaccuracies and/or fake citations, and it will be a massive effort to clean up.For the above reasons, I propose we delete AI-generated notification. I am not sure if this will achieve consensus, but I think it is time to put the question to the community via this TFD, before this template becomes widespread in its use.
 * Template:OpenAI: nominated at TfD; notified 05:29, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: There appear to be three AI-related templates at the moment. AI-generated is a maintenance tag for an article that was probably generated by AI and needs cleanup, which seems like a great template. This gives us a way to flag these for cleanup and gives us a category for tracking these. AI-generated notification is for tagging an article talk page that AI text was used in the article. OpenAI is probably an attempt to comply with possible copyright issues that might arise from using AI-generated text.I am nominating OpenAI in this TFD. Like my nomination of AI-generated notification above, I am concerned about the following: 1) It is possibly redundant to AI-generated and AI-generated notification. For example, this template places its articles in the tracking category Category:OpenAI-written articles, but there are already categories such as Category:Articles containing suspected AI-generated texts and Category:Articles generated by AI used by the two aforemenetioned templates. 2) It telegraphs to editors that AI/LLM-assisted editing is OK, which I don't think is a good message to be sending. I view AI editing as lazy, prone to difficult-to-cleanup errors, and at the same level of perniciousness as a WP:CCI. It's only a matter of time before we catch an experienced editor mass-editing using AI, which results in a bunch of subtle factual inaccuracies and/or fake citations, and it will be a massive effort to clean up.For the above reasons, I propose we delete OpenAI. I am not sure if this will achieve consensus, but I think it is time to put the question to the community via this TFD, before this template becomes widespread in its use.I am doing this as two TFDs for 1) WP:TRAINWRECK reasons and 2) perhaps the copyright angle will result in more keeps in this TFD (although it's also possible that copyright experts may come by and say that OpenAI doesn't meet the threshold of originality, or that machines don't need copyright attribution, and doesn't need a copyright notice. I am not sure. We will see).
 * Template:X21: nominated at TfD; notified 09:10, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Mass nomination of X21 through X71. These are 51 template sandboxes that are not cleaned by Cyberbot. This is in addition to 20 other template sandboxes that are cleaned by Cyberbot and that I am not nominating for deletion. Leaving those 20 template sandboxes in place, in my opinion there are plenty of template sandboxes. Cyberbot only runs every 12 hours for template sandboxes I think, so it's not like the bot is rushing in and deleting templates before tests are complete.
 * Amini (startup): nominated at AfD; notified 09:44, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: I don't think this passes WP:GNG / WP:NCORP. Source analysis: 1) no sigcov, 2) at 7 sentences, is arguably not sigcov. "a spokesperson told SpaceNews" suggests not independent, 3) lots of quotes, press release tone, site is called "disrupt africa" which is a press release buzzword, so likely not independent, 4) 2 big quotes, plus "Kallot emphasized" x2, suggesting that at least 4 paragraphs are not independent, which is a big part of the article, 5) press release tone and lots of quotes, not independent, 6) only 1 paragraph of coverage of Amini so not sigcov.

January 2024

 * Carolina Chang: nominated at AfD; notified 00:49, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Doesn't appear to pass WP:NPROF, WP:GNG, etc. Some previous discussion at Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics).

March 2024

 * Amy Varle: nominated at AfD; notified 16:43, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Doesn't appear to meet WP:GNG. This Bury Times article appears to be a puff piece, with statements like "Amy Varle is in the market for success". Lots of dead links in the article and in Google News searches. The Guardian article citation doesn't mention her.
 * Ashok Attri (diplomat): nominated at AfD; notified 03:48, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Ambassador who doesn't appear to pass WP:GNG. The citations in the article do not appear to pass WP:GNG, and the closest I could find with Google search was this one newspaper article, which looks a bit short and routine. It is my understanding that diplomats/ambassadors do not auto pass WP:NPOL or WP:ANYBIO.

May 2024

 * Talk:January 2018 United States federal government shutdown/Current consensus: nominated at MfD; notified 08:49, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Unused talk subpages. Intended for transcluding, but never filled in. Page creator has retired. I thought about G6ing these, should be completely uncontroversial. But better safe than sorry :)