Wikivoyage:Votes for deletion

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December 2024

Zhucheng

I've given User:Dongtingchun 10 days' notice on their user talk page that this non-Wikivoyage-style presumably copyvio stub would be nominated for deletion, so I duly nominate it. If I knew where it was copied from, I would have summarily deleted it, but I don't think there will be any keep votes for this. Of course a real article about this city would be welcome. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:29, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

• Speedy delete – this isn't even an article; I would more or less speedy delete this as it is entirely out of scope. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 08:20, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

  It's for a city of over a million, just a totally wrong format and style for a Wikivoyage article and presumably copied and pasted from somewhere. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:06, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

  It has potential, but definitely not in the way it currently stands which is content that belongs on Wikipedia, not here; I think it's more or less better for anyone to just start the article from scratch than work with this where we don't even know if it's a copyvio or not. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 09:08, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

  Exactly, which is why I nominated it for deletion. I'm just saying the topic is definitely not out of scope. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:14, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

  This is probably where our policy gets into a grey area, but I consider Wikipedia-like articles such as this one, even if it can be revived into an actual article, to be no different to some article with the title of a real place filled with spam or vandalism. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 07:07, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

  It seems like copyright violation, anyway. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:53, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

  If it is a copyright violation it should be treated as such, i.e. deleted. If not, I think some Wikipedia-like outlines (or stubs with some resemblance of one) could be seen as good-faith starts for a real Wikivoyage articles.

  In this case, the Wikipedia-like (to be) subsections of Understand resemble Taierzhuang, which has the template and tries towards travel information but is written in a too encyclopedic style. I assume they share a tradition, and that also this one is a good-faith try – possibly with wordings too close to the used sources, but not necessarily so. I think we should not speedy delete it, but try to communicate.

  –LPfi (talk) 13:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

  It doesn't really matter if it was created in good faith or not, an out of scope article is still out of scope. Readers frankly don't care what goes on behind the scenes. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 23:52, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

  What do you mean by "try to communicate"? What do you think I did? If you think you somehow are more likely to get any notice by the person who seemingly abandoned this stub, try your magic. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:54, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

  @Hanyangprofessor2:, is User:Dongtingchun one of your students? Can you have a word with them? STW932 (talk) 04:10, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

  Sorry, thanks for your posting on their use talk. I got carried away with later comments here, by others. Still, I don't think we need to delete this speedily, unless we find concrete evidence of a copyright violation. –LPfi (talk) 09:58, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

  Accepted, but is this the first time you've made this kind of comment? I don't remember for sure, but my deletion nomination statement and the links in it really say it all. I clearly didn't call for summary deletion without a vote, and any idea that I haven't tried to communicate with the article-starter - well, you already said you were sorry about that, but try not to make this kind of statement again in a similar situation, and thanks! Best, Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:29, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

  @STW932 Yes, they are are. Sadly, they are one of the students who skipped most of the classes, skipped almost all deadlines including numerous ones where they should work on their draft(s) and ask me for feedback, and since it is the final weeks they seem to have remembered they need to turn in the assignments. Sigh. I'd ask for this to be moved to their userspace. I also want to preemptively apologize - some students like this will be making bad edits in the next week or two. Please speedy userfy anything that looks problematic, if possible. I will try my best to deal with this on my end, but there is only so much I can do when students ignore the syllabus and skip most classes then try to learn how to edit wiki in the last week or two :( Hanyangprofessor2 (talk) 01:50, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

  Yikes, that's a bummer. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 02:07, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

  One thing, Hanyangprofessor2: If this is copyright violation, it should be deleted, not moved anywhere. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:16, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

  @Ikan Kekek Of course. But is it? I'd rather expect an AI generated stuff (output of going to Chat GPT or such and telling it 'write me an article about Foocation for Wikivoyage', sigh) rather than a copyvio (the times are changing...). Hanyangprofessor2 (talk) 07:26, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

AI text, by its nature, can include copyright violation. Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:23, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

• Delete per Ikan Kekek. Ground Zero (talk) 10:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

  It would be nice to have a proper article on Zhucheng given that city's importance to paleontology in China. There are multiple fossil sites and multiple fossil museums too, plus a few other attractions. I would try to fix this article but I'm very time-poor at this time of year. If the article is to be deleted, any useful content may moved to the Weifang article since Zhucheng is administratively part of Weifang. We may also redirect Zhucheng to Weifang. STW932 (talk) 05:50, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

It seems likely that this is either copyvio or AI generated, so we should not preserve any of the text. Ground Zero (talk) 12:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@Ground Zero et al. The student is trying to improve it, finally having asked me for feedback. Let's see what happens over the next few days... Piotrus (talk) 14:07, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Of course we will wait. Thanks for letting us know. Ground Zero (talk) 14:48, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

1 week later, it is still a sad stub with many style issues – what's everyone's take on it now, and how much more time do your students need, Piotrus? --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 03:25, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't know. It's definitely not in great shape, and it looks like it has 4 Chinese-language categories that need to be deleted, but there's enough information in it now that it would probably be better to keep than delete. Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:23, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

I get similar feelings – it's sad, it's stubby, it needs a lot of TLC, but there is a decent amount of usable information on that page. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 06:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Mu Ko Bu Lon

An anonymous contibutor started this article on 26 Nov 2024, and has abandoned it. There is no Wikipedia article. I can't figure out where this is, but it may be related to Ko Bulon Leh. I think we should delete this. Ground Zero (talk) 14:24, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 00:11, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
• Redirect to Ko Bulon Leh, the main island of the archipelago about which the article covers. I have done some research and I'm pretty sure this is that island, which is also spelled as Ko Bulon Le or even Ko Bu Lon Le (the latter name being mentioned directly in the vfd'ed article). Ko Bu Lon is also mentioned in the article Satun, the province of which this island is a part. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 00:24, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

  Further, I suggest we move the page Ko Bulon Leh to Ko Bulon Le, as this appears to be the standard spelling of the island's name. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 00:26, 27 December 2024 (UTC)