Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Geography

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 * 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 discussion was Delete all 38 (except Japan redirect). Ruslik_ Zero 17:54, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Pages needing attention/Geography


Also nominating 38 of the 39 transcluded pages with names of the format "Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Foo". All are bot-maintained cleanup lists from 2006; the bot hasn't edited since 2007, and almost none of these pages have had anything happen since 2008. Here are the sole exceptions: Most are tagged with historical, but since they're abandoned cleanup pages, there's no benefit to keeping any of them, except for the Japanese one. To quote the Korea MFD, "I figure that if another bot was to be set up for this task, then it would be best to start over from scratch". Nyttend (talk) 17:01, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Pages needing attention/Cities, someone changes something in 2009 and immediately self-reverts
 * Pages needing attention/Middle East, someone fixes a disambiguation-page link in 2010
 * Pages needing attention/Hong Kong, someone fixes a disambiguation-page link in 2010
 * Pages needing attention/France, someone tags as historical in 2011
 * Pages needing attention/Japan, redirected to a wikiproject page. Exception, since I'm not asking that this one be deleted.
 * Pages needing attention/Korea, deleted at a 2008 MFD.


 * Move to historical archive (using the move subpages feature): this system of organisation is [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention&oldid=297091 really, really old] (though the subpages are [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention&offset=20041126160314&action=history&tagfilter= a bit more recent]). We don't outright delete pages (and therefore make them inaccessible to non-admins) just because they're out of date. The historical archive would be the best place to put the whole project now, IMO. Graham 87 08:11, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * But we delete them when neither the current revision nor older revisions are useful. How are these pages' current or past revisions useful?  Nyttend (talk) 01:53, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * People may want to know what pages were marked as needing attention in the past. I admit the chance of this is slim, and the reasoning for this would be a bit esoteric (perhaps tracking the cleanup process over time), but we can't predict the needs of future Wikipedia researchers, and a page is far more likely to survive in the long term if it is live on Wikipedia rather than being tucked away in the deletion archive. The process was useful in its heyday, so IMO there is no reason to completely delete all its pages now. Graham 87 09:45, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * How can we accurately predict who's going to use what? A much more solid approach is to say "Does this page accurately reflect what's important about the context it came out of?"  In other words, if you're researching the cleanup processes for this period, are you going to benefit from a long list of items without context?  No, so let's delete.  Nyttend (talk) 04:48, 30 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete for all projects (not just those shown here). These pages are woefully out of date and a new procedure for generating clean up listings is available: .  Regards, Illia Connell (talk) 04:34, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment I count over 150 pages:, many more than the 39 identified above. Is the intent to delete them all?  There are also a bunch of redirects as well. Illia Connell (talk) 04:42, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Whatever action taken on one should be taken on the others. I personally feel delete, there's no use in keeping them. &mdash; Train2104 (talk • contribs) 00:11, 13 May 2013 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.