Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unusual ground marking


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 08:05, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Unusual ground marking

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Non-defining or trivial characteristic, see WP:OVERCAT Gary (talk) 13:00, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I nominated this page for deletion because it seems like several disparate phenomena are being lumped together in a way that doesn't really make sense. It is as if Wikipedia had a page listing types of art created on a flat surface. Gary (talk) 13:04, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. This doesn't appear to be a term that is in general use; a search for "crop circles" on Google news yields many hits, but a similar search for "unusual ground marking" gives none. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 13:02, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions.  -- Ron Ritzman (talk) 13:19, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete All the ghits I found seemed to be mirrors of the Wikipedia page. It's most likely WP:MADEUP. Created in January 2005, it's unfortunate it wasn't found earlier.  JUJUTACULAR  13:26, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete not notable neologism, possibly original research. Ohconfucius (talk) 14:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe whoever first made the article wanted something like UFO, except for the ground, so they came up with UGM? Gary (talk) 18:46, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Unsourced crap from Wikipedia's early days, when "verifiable" was considered optional. Maybe "UGM" is a buzzword among people who use telephone poles as a unit of measurement, but without sourcing, I don't know... or care. Mandsford (talk) 19:35, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 22:12, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I want to point out that there are some redirect pages associated with this, namely, Unusual Ground Marking and Unusual ground markings. Do these get deleted at the same time this page gets deleted? Gary (talk) 22:38, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The short answer is "yes". More long-windedly, if a page that gets deleted has redirects pointing to it, one of two things can happen. Either they get deleted (per WP:CSD), or they get retargeted to redirect somewhere else. In the case of simple case and tense redirects, such as those two you list, then the former is almost certain. If the outcome of the debate is to redirect the page under discussion, any redirects pointing to that page are pointed to the same target (either by a human or a bot that finds and fixes double redirects). Administrators who delete pages should check for any inbound links and redirects, but in practice this does not happen 100% of the time. So drawing attention to redirects to pages under discussion is not uncommon. If you find a dangling redirect, you can either delete it (if you are an administrator), or request that someone who can delete it does so ( is the easiest way). Alternatively, if you think that the redirect would be useful pointing somewhere else, you can edit it to do just that or discuss it at Redirects for discussion (WP:RFD). Thryduulf (talk) 23:22, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your excellent answer. Gary (talk) 02:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.