Wikivoyage:Votes for deletion

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Latest comment: 1 hour ago by AlasdairW in topic March 2025
Votes for deletion

This page lists articles, files and templates that are nominated for deletion. Any Wikivoyager can make a nomination or comment on any nomination. Nominations or comments should follow a rationale based on our deletion policy.

If our deletion policy leads towards a merge or redirect, then coordinate this on the discussion page of the article.

The purpose of this page is limited to the interpretation and application of our deletion policy. You can discuss what our deletion policies should be on the deletion policy discussion page.

Nominating

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Add a {{vfd}} tag to the top of the article, file or template being proposed for deletion, so that people viewing it will be aware. Place the tag at the very top, before everything else, except the page banner. Do note though, if you're tagging a template for deletion, use <noinclude>{{vfd}}</noinclude> instead of {{vfd}} alone.

Add a link to the article, file or template at the end of the list below, along with the reason why it is being listed for deletion. Sign your recommendation using four tildes ("~~~~").

If you're nominating a file for deletion, make sure it's actually hosted on the English Wikivoyage and not on Wikimedia Commons.

The basic format for a deletion nomination is:

===[[Chicken]]===
Not a valid travel article topic. ~~~~

Commenting

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All Wikivoyagers are invited to comment on articles, files or templates listed for deletion. The format for comments is:

===[[Chicken]]===
* '''Delete'''. Not a valid travel article topic. TravelNut 25:25, 31 Feb 2525 (UTC)
* '''Keep'''. There is a town in [[Alaska]] called Chicken. ~~~~

When leaving comments you may elect to delete, keep, or redirect the article. If you recommend redirection, you may suggest where it should be redirected to. Any attempt to merge content from an article to some other destination must retain the edit history to comply with the attribution (CC BY-SA) requirements of the free license, so it may be possible to merge and redirect but not to merge and delete. Sign your comment using four tildes ("~~~~").

Deleting, or not

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  • If, after 14 days of discussion, the consensus is to delete, an administrator may delete it.
  • If, after 14 days of discussion, the consensus is to redirect or merge, any Wikivoyager may do it. If you make a redirect, please check for any resulting broken redirects or double redirects.
  • If, after 14 days of discussion, the consensus is to keep, any Wikivoyager may remove any VFD notices from that page, and archive the deletion discussion.
  • If there is no consensus after 14 days, allow a further 7 days for discussion.
    • If, after the additional 7 days, there is no consensus, the page should be kept – any Wikivoyager may remove any VFD notices from that page, and archive the deletion discussion.
    • If, after the additional 7 days, there is a consensus, implement it in line with the first three points above.
  • When deleting an article, check "What links here". Either remove the newly-broken links from the articles or point them somewhere else. Inbound redirects to a deleted page should either be deleted or redirected elsewhere.
  • When deleting a template, either replace it wherever it's been transcluded, especially if it served a formatting function. You can do this by adding "subst:" before the template name (especially if the use is in article space, you may then want to clean away unnecessary HTML or CSS code, which would make the wikitext confusing). Once that's done, you can delete the template without affecting individual uses of it. Otherwise, remove the template from all pages that use the template. However, do not delete the template first – this breaks links and will cause a swathe of red links, requiring a lot of cleanups.

Archiving

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After you keep/redirect/merge/delete the article, file or template, move the deletion discussion to the Archives page for the appropriate month. The root archives page has a directory. Note that it's the month in which the action was taken, rather than when the nomination was first posted, that should be used for the archived discussion; that way, recourse to the deletion log can lead subsequent readers right to the discussion (at least for the pages that were deleted).

When archiving, always make it clear to other editors what the outcome of the discussion was. First, describe the outcome in the edit summary when you remove the discussion, with something like "archive as kept". Then add a line for the result to the discussion on the archive page.

If the nominated article, file or template was not deleted, then the nomination should be mentioned on its talk page. Generally this is done by providing a link to the deletion discussion on the talk page. One should also indicate the result on the talk page. If the discussion is short, an alternative is to place an (identical duplicate) copy of the discussion on the talk page.

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March 2025

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Another confusing cross-namespace redirect (also heavily discouraged for technical purposes) given "stp" on its own in a travel context refers to São Tomé and Príncipe – not Wikivoyage:Sex tourism policy. I've replaced all the uses of this redirect outside userspace with WV:STP, as with STP, though I propose we redirect that to São Tomé and Príncipe. //shb (t | c | m) 22:46, 14 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Delete. I think writing WV:STP isn't too hard for anybody (and wv:stp works in the search box if you allow Javascript, and could be an additional redirect). I don't think we need to make stp a redirect, as writing "stp" in the search box makes STP appear (with Javascript), and using uppercase shouldn't be too difficult anyway.
If we feel that we need stp (equivalent to Stp) as redirect to STP, then we also need new york etc. – I don't like the idea that we need those, but if a new generation cannot be bothered to use uppercase letters, then we perhaps do need them.
LPfi (talk) 08:46, 18 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
I would say we don't need those – it's not unreasonable to expect typing proper names in capital letters when searching for something and even then your results still shouldn't differ when you use lowercase. Signed as someone who also consistently uses only lower text when texting. //shb (t | c | m) 08:54, 18 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

To start with, veterans' homes aren't tourist sites. And it isn't calls "Retsil Veterans' Home", it's Washington Veterans Home Port Orchard. The cemetery isn't a National Veterans Cemetery. Is there anything here that is worth keeping? Ground Zero (talk) 11:07, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

There's nothing in w:Retsil, Washington. Should this article be deleted or redirected? Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:32, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
Delete. If there were content to move over, I would do that. We have nothing to say about this place. Ground Zero (talk) 17:08, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
Agreed. Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:22, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
Delete unless it actually is a tourist attraction (because it has lovely gardens or whatever) in which case make a See listing in Port Orchard & turn this article into a redirect. Pashley (talk) 18:37, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
Delete, unless actual visitor information, like weekly tours of the home are speedily added. The nearest hotel is already listed in Port Orchard. I am surprised that this article has been sitting there for nearly 20 years, but I see that the article is not linked for any travel pages- it was removed from Kitsap Peninsula on 14 March 2013. AlasdairW (talk) 22:07, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply