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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.

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Information on the process

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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

  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.

Before nominating a page for deletion

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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

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How to list pages for deletion

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

Administrator instructions

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XFD backlog
V Aug Sep Oct Nov Total
CfD 0 0 70 0 70
TfD 0 0 38 0 38
MfD 0 0 0 0 0
FfD 0 0 11 0 11
RfD 0 0 5 0 5
AfD 0 0 1 0 1

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

Archived discussions

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

Current discussions

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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.

November 5, 2025

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Draft:Peter Botting (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

The individual in question is non-notable and was declined twice. It is unlikely that the subject would become a Wikipedia article. Yoshiman6464 ♫🥚 00:05, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 3, 2025

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Shadowfax33/Userboxes/Groyper
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. WP:SNOW ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 16:11, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Shadowfax33/Userboxes/Groyper (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:HID Dog whistle for white nationalism LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 15:59, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:UBCR, considering the main purpose of the Groyper movement is to be inflammatory and divisive. -insert valid name here- (talk) 17:55, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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User:SkamidaZoltar/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:NOTWEBHOST: "user pages do not serve as personal webpages, blogs, or repositories for large amounts of material irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia." This page contains a bunch of lyrics of unkown copyright status containing what appear to be features. Even if best scanerio that these are the user's lyrics, they contain features which are of unkown copyright status. Either way, this is entirely unencyclopedic from a mostly noncontributer. -1ctinus📝🗨 15:19, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 2, 2025

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Skyttejp/sandbox
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: speedy delete. WP:U6 ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 16:14, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Skyttejp/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Per WP:COPIES and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ComparePages?page1=User%3ASkyttejp%2Fsandbox&rev2=874310317 Paradoctor (talk) 17:39, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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.
User:Hoodedninja22 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Unsourced BLP. Paradoctor (talk) 17:32, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:SlayerFace/sandbox
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: speedy delete. WP:U6 ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 16:17, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:SlayerFace/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Unsourced BLP. Paradoctor (talk) 17:26, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Draft:List of people who died by being hit by a cow which got hit by a train and flew through the air whilst urinating on train tracks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Not suitable for wikipedia Theknoledgeableperson (talk) 17:14, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. This draft does not meet notability requirements and should be deleted before the six months end.
Theknoledgeableperson (talk) 14:16, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We don't delete drafts for not meeting notability requirements in general, as it's assumed that the draft can always be edited to meet notability standards later. If it doesn't meet notability standards six months after it was created then the draft will get automatically deleted. Why do you think we should delete it before the six months are over? Gommeh 📖   🎮 14:57, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:AnomieBOT/Nobots Hall of Shame (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Anomie maintains a list titled "Hall of Shame" to include editors in good standing who have opted out of bot notifications. This is a massive WP:BLP, WP:CIVIL, and WP:NPOV violation concerning presumably living editors. This is also apparently how Anomie responds to stimuli such as bugs and errors from its own bot. Anomie also states that it's an actually a list of bots (dozens), not editors (over 1,000 entries) — how incredulous. The bot just collects and lists users. Not bots. The disparate justifications don't explain why this aggressively pejoratively titled list needs to include a list of hundreds and hundreds of username entries. There is no acceptable reason to maintain such a "Hall of Shame" that simply collects usernames. See the dithering. After an unreasonably dismissive response from Anomie, I asked for a move/retitle. Anomie has failed to do so. I initially gave a one-day notice of intent, but in light of the dismissive reply, it's time for this Hall of Shame, after existing for over a decade. JFHJr () 05:19, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This seems a strong reaction. SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:35, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Would you feel any differently if you were named in a Hall of Shame in an admin's botspace? JFHJr () 05:37, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is the page title a joke?
Does the list serve a purpose for the bot owners? Eg, does a cluster of nobot flags signal a bot problem? SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:46, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The BLP joke exception. Noted. JFHJr () 05:56, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(And no, of course it's not a joke. It's a judgment. And if it were a joke, I'd be an involuntary punchline. It's uncivil.) JFHJr () 06:32, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There’s a conversation at User talk:AnomieBOT/Nobots Hall of Shame. Could this be resolved by an apology for an unintended insult and a page rename? SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:01, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Seems doubtful. JFHJr seems intent on finding something to be offended over here. Anomie 13:04, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. A neutral title would be fine. And it would moot this discussion for closure. JFHJr () 21:00, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And I don't need an apology. A move alone would suffice. JFHJr () 21:00, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retitle to something descriptive and bland. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:47, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, this nomination seems misguided at best. If the page title is problematic, then it should be moved, not deleted. 88.97.192.42 (talk) 08:47, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We're clearly heading towards WP:SNOW territory here. 88.97.192.42 (talk) 12:09, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep and a WP:TROUT for JFHJr. Find something useful to do instead of digging for something to be offended over and dismissing the explanations as "dithering" and "desperate justifications", and purposefully mischaracterizing the page after you've already been informed better. The pages are useful for bot operators who want to find unreported bugs and for gnomes who want to clean up unnecessary bot exclusions, and the title is a minor bit of humor that, if it disparages anything, disparages bots that need to be excluded from a lot of pages. It doesn't even list users as claimed, it lists bot exclusions and the pages those exclusions are present on. Anomie 13:04, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Disparate, not desperate; these are very different things. I would never characterize your actions as desperate. I'm sorry about any confusion. Cheers. JFHJr () 21:16, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Nominator seems extremely uninformed of what it actually does. It's a list of all pages that exclude a bot, not just someone's talk page. I fail to see their argument that a list of pages that excludes bot(s) is a massive WP:BLP, WP:CIVIL and WP:NPOV violation concerning presumably living editors. Furthermore, they haven't tagged the subpages of it either. Tenshi! (Talk page) 13:18, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. The "shame" is being applied to bots, not users. A page rename could be considered for clarity. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:55, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I too don't see the issue here, nor even a need to rename. This is reporting an easily-verifiable factual claim, and nothing more than that - I don't see how that makes a BLP issue. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:20, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - I am not voting Keep at this time because I am completely confused. It is clear to me that the nominator has missed something, but the combination of this nomination and the now-dismissed G10 nomination are so bizarre that I wonder whether I have also missed something. This makes no sense at all to me. I don't even understand what the error has been. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:42, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and no need to rename. While the page could be moved to a bland and banal title that would not confuse or offend anyone, I think a better fix would be for those editors to develop a better sense of humour. – SD0001 (talk) 09:12, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and snow close. This page title in in User space, is innocuous (or a slightly in-poor-taste attempt at humor at worst), and never needs to be looked at by anyone except its creator. Let's focus on the millions of actual errors and problems on live Wikipedia articles. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:56, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:Authenyo/Democratic People's Republic of Irisland (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Fails WP:NOTWEBHOST. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 03:45, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Cali Boy 09 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Althistory cruft that goes against userpage guidelines. I previously left a warning on the user's talk page in September but user has continued to use their userpage for this purpose.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 02:03, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and warn, fantasy alternate history is not ok anywhere on Wikipedia. SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:22, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 1, 2025

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User:Milaenvy/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

This has been edited several times over the years but has always been an unsourced BLP. To make matters worse, it is an autobiography and some revisions (including the current one) have been promotional. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 10:12, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October 31, 2025

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Whyiseverythingalreadyused/on the Christian persecution complex with ChatGPT
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: speedy delete. ~ Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 15:56, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Whyiseverythingalreadyused/on the Christian persecution complex with ChatGPT (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

This appears to be a transcript of a chat session between User:Whyiseverythingalreadyused and ChatGPT. This doesn't seem relevant to any wiki project, and an entire page set aside for this seems excessive, even for an established editor. Sunmist (talk) 18:01, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: You can just G15 this. Contains communication intended for the user NicheSports (talk) 22:04, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Aight thanks Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk · contribs · he/him) 23:27, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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October 29, 2025

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User:Smaddy Wend102 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Unsourced BLP. Paradoctor (talk) 22:04, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd have tagged it (along with User:Smaddy Wend102/Sample page) under speedy deletion criteria U5: "A non-contributor misusing Wikipedia as a web host". Autobiographical self-publicity. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:41, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Huh. Didn't even notice the auto part. I'm getting too old for this shit. Paradoctor (talk) 00:17, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:Smaddy Wend102/Sample page (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Unsourced BLP. Paradoctor (talk) 22:04, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Over the topSOMME/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

These two rejected submissions appear to be part of a loosely coordinated off-wiki campaign to create an article about a so-called micronation. They are now calling it the Sovereign State of Ironland because the title Ironland has been extended-confirmed protected both in article space and in draft space, Draft:Ironland.

  • Delete Both as nominator.
Talk:Tottenham Hotspur F.C./to do (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Stupid bizarre IP duck and refusal to speedy, this should be deleted WP:G6 and requested WP:G7, shouldn't need this process at all. It's no longer being used. Govvy (talk) 15:25, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October 28, 2025

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:SMBFriss/sandbox
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. Salvio giuliano 20:52, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:SMBFriss/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:COPIES: Draft that was copy-pasted to Warren Sarrell, and should then have been redirected there per WP:STALEDRAFT #5. Article was G11ed a few hours later, at which time that redirect should have been G8ed. Paradoctor (talk) 17:14, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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.

October 23, 2025

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Draft:Personal color analysis (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​
(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) Salvio giuliano 07:16, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blatant AI slop, zero chance of ever being accepted into mainspace, yet declined for CSD G15. Author has been pasting identical copies of this exact same content across multiple different titles too. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 20:11, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The tone and writing style is quite obviously the output of ChatGPT or an identical program/software. I utilize these tools for legitimate purposes often enough that I can recognize their styles, especially when it's this blatant. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 19:30, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
AI-assisted, maybe, but I doubt it was blatantly written by ChatGPT; its editing history shows a natural incremental work, and I do not see any blantant WP:AISIGNS, just unencyclopedic essay-like writing. Ca talk to me! 03:59, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Salvio giuliano 07:16, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Old business

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Closed discussions

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates