Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warsaw/Vote

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 22:46, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Warsaw/Vote

Although we don't have explicit policy on deleting such pages, I think such trolling attempts should be removed, and VfD is the most appropriate procedure I know about.

Reason for deletion: trolling attempt by a sockpuppet. --Wikimol 07:21, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete from the present location, but archive somewhere under talk-namespace. Problem with polls in subpages is that Special:Randompage can find them. jni 08:01, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This article is a joke. --Halidecyphon 08:25, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• NO! The voting is already started, so whats the problem?--Schlesier 11:41, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Useless vote on a preposterous (and offensively POV) idea that has no hope of changing current policy. --Angr/_comhrá 12:11, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Leave. The same rules should apply to all votings. Why should we leave the votes someone likes and delete others? Halibutt 12:27, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I see no point in conducting a vote about something that no-one here really has any authority over. If on the off chance Wikipedia actually adopted a policy of referring to Poland's capital as Warschau, is it likely that the rest of the English-speaking community would follow its lead? This whole vote is just one act of silliness perpetrated by someone with too much time on his hands who is treating Wikipedia as a form of entertainment, not as an instrument of disseminating knowledge. Kelisi 15:29, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It is a waste of disk space and editors time. Philip Baird Shearer 16:28, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• With unanimity in favour of the current state, excepting the poll's initiator and another single vote, the results of this poll are obvious already. Delete. DJ Clayworth 16:45, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete useless poll. Dave the Red (talk) 18:05, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete at least the redirect that's in the article namespace. Really belongs as part of Talk:Warsaw if anywhere. --Michael Snow 18:46, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - useless poll, created against the guidelines for when a poll should be created by a trolling sockpuppet in order to get people upset. john k 19:25, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - don't feed the trolls. Ruhrjung 21:05, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - should not be in article namespace. Schlesier has copied it to his own Userpages ("some Polish nationalists try to VfD this page" - hmmm) so really unnecessary (not that it wasn't before). SteveW 00:41, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

A supposedly binding poll in a user's name space is even more absurd than the current situation (which is, I should note, now in the talk name space). john k 06:44, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, yes the vote is in the talk namespace at Talk:Warsaw/Vote with its own talk page at Talk:Warsaw/Vote talk (i.e. the talk page of a hypothetical Warsaw/Vote Talk article) but it has a redirect in the article namespace at Warsaw/Vote. SteveW | Talk 09:21, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. One thing I should have mentioned above is that the vote was started with the sole purpose of making a point. --Angr/_comhrá 11:51, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, disruption. Gazpacho 19:05, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Disruption, trolling, if not a violation of polling policy then tightening policy would be good. Destructive in this namespace. --Jerzy (t) 15:05, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)

• Procedural Question. The title "Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Warsaw/Vote" implies this is a vote on deletion of Warsaw/Vote, which was presumably the poll page at the time of nomination but is now (as it should be) a redirect. I suppose this vote continues, but what gets deleted when the vote succeeds?

1. The redirect in article (i.e., default or main) name space
2. The poll page in talk: name space
3. Both

I would support the interpretation that most delete voters are expressing opposition to all 3 of

1. The existence of Warsaw/Vote
2. The existence of Talk:Warsaw/Vote
3. Conducting the poll presently embodied on Talk:Warsaw/Vote

But out of an excess of caution against unnecessary delay, i am explicitly nominating the talk-name-space page, and replacing its poll content with a whine about its existence and a lk to the revision that i'm wiping out. How's that suit your Gordian knot?

--Jerzy (t) 15:05, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)

It was already at Wikipedia:Warsaw/Vote when vfd'd (it was since moved to Talk:, and the redirect deleted); the vfd should be valid wherever the text itself ends up. Redirects to stuff being deleted should themselves be zorched per usual. —Korath (Talk) 17:24, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Krtek76 12:16, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete --Tydaj 18:28, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete --ST ○ 20:44, 2005 Apr 9 (UTC)

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