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This page is for the request of page deletions within the Urban Dead wiki. Due to concerns about loss of data, the ability to delete pages is restricted to system operators. As such, regular users will need to request a deletion from the system operators. For consistency and accountability, system operators also adhere to the guidelines listed here.

[edit] Guidelines for Deletion Requests

All Deletion Requests must contain the following information in order to be considered:

  • A link to the page in question. Preferably bolded for visibility. Note that Category and Image links need a colon at the front to turn them into links (ie [[:Category:Category]] and [[:Image:Image.jpg]]).
  • A reason for deletion. This should be short and to the point.
  • A signed datestamp. This can be easily done by adding ~~~~ to the end of your request.

In addition to placing a request on this page, please place the {{delete}} tag on the top of the page that is being recommended for deletion. Please make sure that the original content remains on the page, so that others can judge whether the page is worthy of deletion.

Any deletion request that does not contain these three pieces of information will not be considered, and will be removed by a system operator.

Once the deletion request has been entered, the request shall remain on this page, where it will be voted on for a period of two (2) weeks, as judged by the initial datestamp. At the conclusion of this two weeks, the appropriate action will be taken by a system operator, and at the end of that day the request will be moved into the Archive.

Certain types of pages may be better being scheduled for deletion in order to reduce the amount of red tape and stop this page getting too cluttered. To lodge a request for scheduled deletions, head for UDWiki:Administration/Deletions/Scheduling.

Deletion of pages that match a certain criteria may be better serviced by a request for a Speedy Deletion. Speedy Deletions are for removal of pages that are clearly of no value to the wiki, and do not incur the two week voting requirement. Speedy Deletion requests can be lodged at UDWiki:Administration/Speedy Deletions.

[edit] Speedy Deletion Eligibility

To be eligible for a Speedy Deletion Request, the page must fall under at least one of the following criteria:

  1. No Content: The page contains no more than a line or two of content that cannot clearly be expanded, consists of random or incoherent content, or is duplicated elsewhere to no purpose. Pages created by Spambots typically fall under this category.
  2. Off-Topic: The page is a clearly off-topic page.
  3. Unused Redirect: The page is an unused or underused (ie, only 1-2 pages using the link) redirect.
  4. Empty Category: The page is a Category page that has no entries within it.
  5. Missed Talk Page: The page is a Talk: Page from a previous deletion request that has not been deleted with the request (please note the relevant deletion request if this is so)
  6. Deletion Workaround: The page is a duplicate of a page that has been deleted from a previous deletion request (please note the relevant deletion request if this is so). A page that fits this criterion is immediately qualified for deletion without requiring it be nominated on the 'Speedy Deletions' page. Recreating a page that fits this criterion will get you a polite message to stop doing so. Any further infractions of this nature will qualify as vandalism and will be treated as such. Note that criterion 6 does not apply when the page has been restored through Undeletions.
  7. Author Edit Only: The page has been requested for speedy deletion by the original author, and has been edited only by its author. Note that edits by adbots or vandals and reverts caused by them do not count.
  8. User Page: The page is a User subpage that has been requested for speedy deletion by the original author.
  9. Personal Page (Prefix Rule): The page is named after a user without the "User:" or "Journal:" prefixes and its content has been moved to the appropriate User or Journal page. Includes pages that should be User subpages, ie. in-game characters.
  10. Unused Template: The page is a template that has existed for at least one week and is currently unused within the wiki.
  11. Non-existent User Page: The page is a User: page for a user that doesn't exist, and any content on the page has been moved to the appropriate User: or Journal: page.
  12. Defunct group page: The page is a non-historical group page, it is over two months old, it has not had an update in a month, and is not on the stats page. Such pages will remain in the queue for 5 days to determine their defunct status has been correctly identified. Due to the large number of pages that fit into this criterion, please {{speedydelete12}} on the pages to ensure that they are categorized differently from normal speedy deletion requests.
    as of 2007, September 16, this is no longer a valid criterion
  13. Missed sub-page: The page is a sub-page from a previous deletion request that has not been deleted with the request, and that serves no individual purpose (please note the relevant deletion request).

[edit] Guidelines for Voting on Deletion Requests

  • One vote per user.
  • Voting should take place underneath the request, and each vote should be started with a
    #
    with no empty lines inbetween votes.
  • There are four vote types:
    • Delete. For agreement with the deletion request
    • Merge. For indication that the content on the page should be merged with another page (includes an implicit Delete).
    • Speedy Delete. For indication that the page meets one of the Speedy Deletions Criteria (includes an implicit Delete).
    • Keep. For disagreement with the deletion request.
  • The specific vote keyword should be bolded within the lodged vote. Any relevant comments are also allowed, but these should not be bolded.
  • At least one Delete vote must be entered by the deadline in order for a page to be deleted. System operators may not use their own vote after the deadline to delete a page.
  • If more Delete votes are entered than Keep votes, the page will be deleted. In any other circumstance, the page is kept.
  • If 3 Speedy Deletes are lodged, and there are no Keep Votes, the page will be deleted as per Speedy Deletions.


[edit] Deletion Queue

New deletion Requests should be placed at the top of the queue to preserve ordering.

[edit] Viva La Revolution

Currently defunct, no use beyond the page, and no real need for it, as the original creater and second in command (1st in command for the wiki) it's been tried ot speedy, which didn't work... --Jakezing 03:05, 17 July 2008 (BST)

  1. Keep - You ain't living this one down or burying it under the carpet, Darkmagic, no chance! But, seriously, I can't speak to the group's real influence in-game, it was a real group, thus it's a moment from UD's history. Maybe not a proud moment... but a moment nonetheless. And we don't delete those. Hell, I even made a Viva parody template.... --WanYao 06:14, 17 July 2008 (BST)
  2. Keep - Didn't work on speedy because it didn't fit any speedy crit. We don't get rid of inactive group pages unless the group never got off the ground to begin with. For better or worse, history is preserved. --PdeqTalk* 06:30, 17 July 2008 (BST)
  3. Keep - As above. -- Cheese WTF!RandomSysOp? 11:32, 17 July 2008 (BST)
    the real question is, what exactly did the group ever do to be off the ground? have members and member groups? we never did anything because i had better things to do.--Jakezing 13:30, 17 July 2008 (BST)
    LMAO!! Where, then, did you find the time to spend so much time on the wiki, if you had better things to do??? More even than me, lol! Anyhoo, this group had a membership. It formed alliances with established groups. It propagandised like mad. Hell, don't you even have a whack of stuff on YouTube? Nope, this stays. As per Bob Fortune. --WanYao 10:07, 18 July 2008 (BST)
  4. Keep - Truly noteworthy in their level of comedy failure (example). The Plan 9 From Outer Space of UD groups.--Sir Bob Fortune RR 20:09, 17 July 2008 (BST)
    Maybe we ought to nominate Viva for historical status... Via was truly revolutionary in, as you say, its level of epically comic failure. Oh the hilariously grandiose mission statement. The gibbering Talk-page trolling. The general non-sequitur trenchcoatery. And oh TEH BUTCHERY of the English language (and the Google Translation Tool German, to boot!). Historical for sure. --WanYao 16:59, 18 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Redirect spam

This is ridiculous and quite unnecessary. I was frankly tempted to take it to VB, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. However, fifty bazillion redirects... this is spam.

Hopefully, I did not miss any ... The very last one I can see maybe remaining... maybe... the rest need to go. For frig sake.... --WanYao 03:37, 16 July 2008 (BST)

  1. Delete maybe make a MIC redirect so it can be easily accessed and clear the rest.--J3DSR! 03:40, 16 July 2008 (BST)
  2. Speedydelete - These are all crit 3, no? -- AHLGTH 03:39, 16 July 2008 (BST)
    oooo we both got number 1 :P --J3DSR! 03:41, 16 July 2008 (BST)
    Not anymore. --Midianian|T|T:S|C:RCS| 10:24, 16 July 2008 (BST)
  3. Speedydelete --Midianian|T|T:S|C:RCS| 10:24, 16 July 2008 (BST)
  4. Speedydelete Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 16:07, 16 July 2008 (BST)....
  5. Keep - I like redirects. They're useful when you're looking for a group and typing in the address but you don't know exactly what the page is called. It's not like any other group needs these particular page names, except maybe the three frequencies. Plus these redirect names are dissimilar enough from every other article name that they're very unlikely to cloud search results for any other pages. --Toejam 00:26, 18 July 2008 (BST)
  6. Delete - You're telling us 28.55 doesn't count as search spam? Nerf them all, Redirects should be used first unless they are so painfully obvious that it will be a common search term for the page in question, all of these fail that test.--Karekmaps?! 11:12, 18 July 2008 (BST)
    Well, why else would someone search for 28.55 except to find this group? The only known broadcaster on this frequency is this group. --Toejam 14:41, 18 July 2008 (BST)
    What limits one group of people to be the only users of a radio station in Malton?--Karekmaps?! 14:54, 18 July 2008 (BST)
    Nothing at all. Other groups are still free to use this frequency. But at the minute, it's pretty clear that anyone who goes to "28.55" or "The inspirational channel" is looking for Malton Inspirational Channel so it makes sense that the page should redirect there. --Toejam 17:07, 18 July 2008 (BST)
    That makes absolutely no sense to me, mostly because the page already being in use prevents future possible proper use. Of someone is searching 28.55 they will already get Malton Inspirational Channel because it would come up in page content, the same goes for every single one of those redirects, they have no purpose beyond preventing future use of those pages.--Karekmaps?! 17:23, 18 July 2008 (BST)
    Just to clarify my previous point, the redirects are potentially useful for people who type in the name of the page but get something small wrong, like forgetting the "the" or getting the capitalisation wrong or something.
    If there's ever any alternative content that should go on these pages, they can be changed to disambiguation pages. This is a wiki after all. That means these pages won't prevent possible future content having a home. Also, when you search for 28.55 ('search', not 'go') there are no results.
    I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill on this, it's a small thing, where both "keep" and "delete" views are about avoiding a minor inconvenience, and it seems unlikely to affect more people than the fingers of one hand. I'm going away for a bit, so I'll not be able to continue this line of discussion. --Toejam 19:49, 18 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] First_Siege_of_tompson_Mall

Patent tosh, as there was a siege of Tompson in January 2006. --Sir Bob Fortune RR 22:23, 14 July 2008 (BST)

this is different that was an assualt this page has not been finished allow me to complete my page user:Bradentheamazing 22:23, 14 July 2008 (BST)

  1. Merge - Into the group space of P.S.S., seeing as this is little more that a group's promotional page. Anf BTW, that was categorically not the first siege of Tompson Mall. And learn how to spell, sheeesh. --WanYao 01:09, 15 July 2008 (BST)
    I want some "zombie presents". Do they come giftwrapped? --WanYao 01:13, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  2. Keep - If he's still working on it, allow him to at least finish it...--/~Rakuen~\Talk Image:domo.gif 01:58, 15 July 2008 (BST)
    Even if he finishes it, there's still the fact that the page's very title contains an error. --Sir Bob Fortune RR 17:53, 15 July 2008 (BST)
    That's why we have A/MR. --PdeqTalk* 18:29, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  3. Delete - If you can't name a zombie horde or group, or there are less than 300 ferals, it's not important enough to warrant such a page. It's a minor event and we don't need a siege page for every three weeks of the year.--Karekmaps?! 20:06, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  4. Keep Works in progress get to be kept... Tradition is that even BS such as this gets two weeks without an edit before it goes to never-never again land. Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 22:37, 17 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Category:Suggestion

Never was used except for before Category:Suggestions was agreed upon at the inception of the new system, it's depricated, useless, and a general waste of space.--Karekmaps?! 10:58, 14 July 2008 (BST)

  1. Delete - All categories have an s at the end.--KamdenM|W|T|H 19:50, 14 July 2008 (BST)
  2. Delete Yep.--Rosslessness 20:06, 14 July 2008 (BST)
  3. Delete - makes sense. --Sir Bob Fortune RR 20:11, 14 July 2008 (BST)
  4. Deeweete - As above. --WanYao 01:09, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  5. DeLOLete - As above kkthx --/~Rakuen~\Talk Image:domo.gif 02:13, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  6. Delete If Swiers can echo Karek's request we can change all these Delete Votes to Speedy (Crit 7) to Speedy... Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 22:35, 17 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Maltan nomadic fortification corps

Page was abandoned after its creation. Some amount of generic text, but no sign that the group ever actually existed. --PdeqTalk* 20:40, 6 July 2008 (BST)

  1. Delete - For mis-spelling "Malton". --Sir Bob Fortune RR 21:47, 6 July 2008 (BST)
  2. Delete - Abandoned & misspelled the most obvious word in the game other than zombie. --WanYao 09:05, 7 July 2008 (BST)
    Nonsense! I hear zombies in the street yell things like "MAH ZAMBAH HAZ BANANA!!!", so lets get rid of them for spelling it wrong!--/~Rakuen~\Talk Image:domo.gif 18:56, 7 July 2008 (BST)
  3. Delete - They seem to have gotten lost on their way to Malta. --Nitro378 T JNL 09:41, 7 July 2008 (BST)
  4. Deledte I hate people who cant spell. --Rosslessness 17:48, 7 July 2008 (BST)
  5. Delete - I herd Malta haz vampierz! :O --/~Rakuen~\Talk Image:domo.gif 18:56, 7 July 2008 (BST)
  6. Delete! - Bad spelling must die! --Blake Firedancer T E RNL? IDEAS! 23:15, 7 July 2008 (BST)
  7. Delete - Because they sound like the most trenchy trenchcoaters ever. Why not just the Malton Barricading Company? -- Cheese WTF!RandomSysOp? 11:03, 11 July 2008 (BST)
  8. Delete My eyes! DanceDanceRevolution 06:03, 12 July 2008 (BST)
  9. Delete All of the above. --KamdenM|W|T|H 21:55, 12 July 2008 (BST)


[edit] Recent Actions

[edit] Battle of Yagoton

No content, only contains a template detailing a supposed 'survivor victory' against major zombie groups. Only linked from six other pages (seven if you count this one): one redirect, one from Yagoton main, two on archives, one move request, and one from the Second Big Bash talk page where they discuss how it's a fictional event. To prove that what happened was contrary to what was written on that page:

  • Yagoton and Bale Mall was trashed before by LUE on its LollapaLUEza on August 12-13, 2007.
  • After LUE moves on, Mmm Braanz Tahr occupies the suburb from August 22 onwards.
  • The reason why the zombie hordes eventually left the suburb cannot be attributed to superior survivor coordination, but merely due to the fact that they joined the Second Big Bash.
  • Most of the page was edited by Darkmagic, whose user page redirects to Jakezing, also known as cody6. Darkmagic/Jakezing/cody6 is also the one who initially posted the discussion to the Second Big Bash talk page.

As you see the details of the so-called battle mostly came from the point of view of only one player, and the news archives and other history pages point out something totally different happened up there. --Aeon17x 02:19, 2 July 2008 (BST)

  1. Delete - Useless. -- AHLGTH 03:27, 2 July 2008 (BST)
  2. Delete - agree with AHLG. DanceDanceRevolution 03:59, 2 July 2008 (BST)
  3. Delete - As AHLG. --WanYao 04:31, 2 July 2008 (BST)
  4. Delete -- boxy talk • i 02:07 3 July 2008 (BST)
  5. Deledte (I think its going to become the new delete) --Rosslessness 21:32, 4 July 2008 (BST)
  6. Delete - OK...so I did help the survivors a little here, but this battle was a scam. It's not worthy of being mentioned as a "Battle". It's more of a scrape. --Axe Bullet killed Axe Hack!!! 21:34, 4 July 2008 (BST)
  7. Delete - hmmm...must write a page about the battle I had with some VHB 'cades once. --Sir Bob Fortune RR 23:07, 4 July 2008 (BST)
  8. Delete - As much as I love to read opinionated drivel (and I don't. Ever.), this page has got to go. There's a line between POV and actual events, y'know. --Blake Firedancer T E RNL? IDEAS! 11:27, 5 July 2008 (BST)
  9. Delete - Down with it, It has no useful information at all, and I'm hardly inclined to believe a page with no actual text apart from a template.--drawde DORIS•RR•RRF•RI! 11:35, 5 July 2008 (BST)
  10. Delete, if you look at the history you will find there was other content (though hardly worth it, hence my delete vote), but it was removed (by someone who disagreed with it) and never replaced. - User:Whitehouse 22:59, 5 July 2008 (BST)
  11. Delete - As all above. -- Cheese WTF!RandomSysOp? 18:39, 11 July 2008 (BST)
  12. Delete - D.All of the above. --KamdenM|W|T|H 21:54, 12 July 2008 (BST)
  13. Delete - there was more, but before i removed most it was a qoute thingh. Really it was made because of the fact it took SO LONG to lose it, then fight and retake it. --Jakezing 03:00, 17 July 2008 (BST)

Deleted Per Vote Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 22:30, 17 July 2008 (BST)


[edit] Groups That Never Were

Deleted by Vote 3 Keep 8 Delete Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 23:41, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  • Give us Back the Trees - 7 edits span 15 Jan 08 to 19 Jan 08. Final 8th edit for addition of category on 8 Feb 08.
Kept by Vote 6 Keep 5 Delete Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 23:41, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  • Dakers NecroTech - 11 edits span 9 Mar 07 to 2 May 07. Final 12th edit for addition of category on 22 May 08.
Kept by Vote 9 Keep 2 Delete Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 23:41, 15 July 2008 (BST)
Kept by Vote 6 Keep 5 Delete Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 23:41, 15 July 2008 (BST)
Kept by Vote 9 Keep 2 Delete Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 23:41, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  • NT Haters - 26 edits span 8 Sep 07 to 15 Sep 07, with two edits on 27 Jun 08 by TerminalFailure to add himself to the group. (TF was permabanned the day after for vandalism)
Kept by Vote 10 Keep 1 Delete Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 23:41, 15 July 2008 (BST)

The above groups lack any significant membership and were abandoned shortly after creation. All pages are orphans. (IE: Nothing links to them) -- The Rooster 20:10, 28 June 2008 (BST)

  1. Delete the first one, keep the rest, as I am not sure if they may have existed or not. Certainly the wiki pages were abandoned, but the groups appeared to have multiple members and may have existed well before and after the pages were edited. --PdeqTalk* 20:11, 30 June 2008 (BST)
  2. Delete Club of Malton, Give us Back the Trees, The Dead Zone for lack of content/abandoned groups that never were. Keep the rest. Especially Zombie Girls Are Easy. Most especially that! --WanYao 04:38, 2 July 2008 (BST)
  3. As WanYao In fact I am going to go look see if I can find the ZGE and join em as Bob has been looking for something to do since the old group disbanded!--Honestmistake 12:43, 2 July 2008 (BST)
    What is the procedure for "taking over" and re-activating an otherwise abandoned and inactive group? ZGE is awesome and I'd totally hook up with them! ;P --WanYao 12:20, 3 July 2008 (BST)
  4. KEEP - WTF YOU FAGGOTS ARE TOTALLY IGNORING TEH REASON WE GOT RID OF SPEDDY DELEET CRIT 12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 --brb, church DORIS CGR U! 13:15, 2 July 2008 (BST)
  5. keep as cyberbob, but smaller--Image:Emot-pervert.gifAll of Anime Sucks' Alts think that Finis is a ZergerImage:Emot-pervert.gif 15:37, 2 July 2008 (BST)
    cyberbob, you wanted crit 12 deleted because "checking to see if a group was still active was a pet peeve" of yours. Was there more to it than that? That's all you said in the voting to delete it. Just curious really. --– Nubis 21:07, 15 July 2008 (BST)
    It wasn't so that every single group page ever made will be kept. A number of group pages have been deleted since crit 12 was eliminated. However, most of these seem to have enough content to justify keeping them, but be sure to look through them. For example, the first one seems like someone just popped onto the wiki, tried to start a group and then lost interest/quit the game/never looked at the page they made again. Although I do think it is prudent to vote keep on group pages when in doubt. --PdeqTalk* 17:02, 2 July 2008 (BST)
  6. As Pdeq and also: I've put these under normal deletions exactly because crit 12 was removed. Considering these pages weren't even linked to at all, it didn't seem like the wiki would be losing out with their removal. However, I'm not sure what arbitrary lines people like to draw about what counts as a group page worth keeping and what is worth dumping. Another reason why this is under normal deletions. -- The Rooster 17:23, 2 July 2008 (BST)
  7. Delete - all except for the last one that is active, so keep for it -- boxy talk • i 02:14 3 July 2008 (BST)
  8. keep for all except Club Malton. I remember Z.G.A.E. members... fun folks. Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 17:29, 3 July 2008 (BST)
  9. Delete the Club, Trees and Dead zone. Keep the others. -- Cheese WTF!RandomSysOp? 11:01, 11 July 2008 (BST)
  10. Keep - All.--Karekmaps?! 17:04, 12 July 2008 (BST)
  11. Delete - I never did like this whole thing against criterion 12. Blam them. --KamdenM|W|T|H 21:54, 12 July 2008 (BST)

See above for actions. Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 23:41, 15 July 2008 (BST)


[edit] The Ten Dead Secrets & User:Arcology/TZ

Created both of these pages and I no longer have any use for them. --Arcology 02:29, 15 July 2008 (BST)

  1. Speedy - Crit 7. --WanYao 05:05, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  2. Speedy - Crit 7. Conndrakamod TTBA CFT 05:45, 15 July 2008 (BST)
  3. Speedy- Same.--Karekmaps?! 20:07, 15 July 2008 (BST)

Speedy Deleted--Karekmaps?! 20:07, 15 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Archive

Deletions Archive
2005 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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