Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Userspace original research on organized crime


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

The result of the debate was Delete. This lot are all severe BLP violations and the user hasn't edited since September. The content clearly comes from elsewhere is likely a copyvio. We clearly cannot keep them but I can undelete them if the user wants to copy them somewhere else. Spartaz Humbug! 22:34, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Userspace original research on organized crime
This applies to all of the following pages:  These pages are problematic on several fronts. First of all, they appear to consist primarily of original research on organized crime. This is inappropriate according to WP:NOT and WP:UP. But this is not the most serious problem. As described by User:Uncle G on WP:BLPN, these pages have become a potentially serious violation of WP:BLP. Many of them make claims that specific individuals are involved in serious crimes, without providing any reliable sources for these assertions. I think all of these pages should be deleted and that, if the user or users in question want to continue research on this topic outside of Wikipedia, an administrator should email the deleted content to them. Note that both users involved in this have been absentee for a couple of months. I haven't tagged all of the pages since it would take way too much time. *** Crotalus *** 13:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete-Mostly as above, potentially drastic BLP concerns. Also, I've gone ahead and tagged the pages using WP:AWB.--Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete all I only looked at about 15 of the pages, and not a one of them would ever survive as an article: no sources, poorly written, mostly admitted OR ("here is a list I put together"). Regardless of the BLP concerns, these pages do not seem to satisfy the policy regarding User_page: "Private copies of pages that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion." These pages have been dormant for 6-12 months, and some were only edited once (which suggests he cut & pasted the content from MSWord or something). Therefore, the material should be transferred back to his own PC and deleted from WP. -- 12 N oo n 2¢ 18:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - I've posted a notice on the editor's User_talk page. There is a notice just above it that points to this also being raised at Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard only yesterday.  Please also take a look at the editor's userpage, these are all linked from there and that may also be inappropriate material, but more importantly there it suggests that this is all copied from another site, so this may also be a copyright issue.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 18:45, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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