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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.
Deletions in draftspace	Unlike articles, drafts are generally not deleted solely due to lack of demonstrated notability or context. Drafts that have not been edited in six months may be deleted under criterion for speedy deletion G13 and do not need nomination here. 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. For further information on draft deletion, including when nomination here is appropriate, see WP:NMFD
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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• Wikipedia:Deletion policy – our deletion policy that describes how we delete things by consensus
• Wikipedia:Deletion process – our guidelines on how to list anything for deletion
• Wikipedia:Guide to deletion – a how-to guide whose protocols on discussion format and shorthands also apply here
• Wikipedia:Project namespace – our guidelines on "Wikipedia" namespace pages
• Wikipedia:User page – our guidelines on user pages and user subpages
• Wikipedia:Userboxes – our guideline on userboxes

How to list pages for deletion

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Shortcut

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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:

Instructions on listing pages for deletion:

To list a page for deletion, follow this three-step process: (replace PageName with the name of the page, including its namespace, to be deleted) Note: Users must be logged in to complete step II. An unregistered user who wishes to nominate a page for deletion should complete step I and post their reasoning on Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion with a notification to a registered user to complete the process. I. Edit PageName: Enter the following text at the top of the page you are listing for deletion: {{mfd|1={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}} for a second or subsequent nomination use {{mfdx|2nd}} or {{mfd|GroupName}} if nominating several similar related pages in an umbrella nomination. Choose a suitable name as GroupName and use it on each page. If the nomination is for a userbox or similarly transcluded page, use {{subst:mfd-inline}} so as to not mess up the formatting for the userbox. Use {{subst:mfd-inline|GroupName}} for a group nomination of several related userboxes or similarly transcluded pages. Please include in the edit summary the phrase Added MfD nomination at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]] replace PageName with the name of the page that is up for deletion. Please don't mark your edit summary as a minor edit. Check the "Watch this page" box if you would like to follow the page in your watchlist. This may help you to notice if your MfD tag is removed by someone. Save the page II. Create its MfD subpage. The resulting MfD box at the top of the page should contain the link "this page's entry" Click that link to open the page's deletion discussion page. Insert this text: {{subst:mfd2| pg={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:PAGENAME}}||2}}| text=Reason why the page should be deleted}} ~~~~ replacing Reason... with your reasons why the page should be deleted and sign the page. Do not substitute the pagename, as this will occur automatically. Consider checking "Watch this page" to follow the progress of the debate. Please use an edit summary such as Creating deletion discussion page for [[PageName]] replacing PageName with the name of the page you are proposing for deletion. If appropriate, inform members of the most relevant WikiProjects through one or more "deletion sorting lists". Then add a {{subst:delsort|<topic>|<signature>}} template to the nomination, to insert a note that this has been done. Save the page. III. Add a line to MfD. Follow   this edit link   and at the top of the list add a line: {{subst:mfd3| pg=PageName}} Put the page's name in place of "PageName". Include the discussion page's name in your edit summary like Added [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]] replacing PageName with the name of the page you are proposing for deletion. Save the page. If nominating a page that has been nominated before, use the page's name in place of "PageName" and add {{priorxfd|PageName}} in the nominated page deletion discussion area to link to the previous discussions and then save the page using an edit summary such as Added [[Template:priorxfd]] to link to prior discussions. If nominating a page from someone else's userspace, notify them on their main talk page. For other pages, while not required, it is generally considered civil to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the miscellany that you are nominating. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the page and/or use TDS' Article Contribution Counter or Wikipedia Page History Statistics. For your convenience, you may add {{subst:mfd notice|PageName}} ~~~~ to their talk page in the "edit source" section, replacing PageName with the pagename. Please use an edit summary such as Notice of deletion discussion at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]] replacing PageName with the name of the nomination page you are proposing for deletion. If the user has not edited in a while, consider sending the user an email to notify them about the MfD if the MfD concerns their user pages. If you are nominating a WikiProject, please post a notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council, in addition to the project's talk page and the talk pages of the founder and active members.

Administrator instructions

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XFD backlog

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V	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Total
CfD	0	0	9	47	56
TfD	0	0	4	20	24
MfD	0	0	0	0	0
FfD	0	0	0	2	2
RfD	0	0	0	26	26
AfD	0	0	0	0	0

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.

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.

Draft:Wicked 3 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Not real and created by a problematic IP.. err temp account. See also here. Even the one source tacked on at the bottom of the page says "The creative team will neither confirm nor deny that something “Wicked” this way comes" Mike Allen 00:58, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I meant to do this as a speedy delete. :\ Mike Allen 00:59, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep in the absence of information that this is actually a hoax. Decline if submitted to AFC in its current form. Leave Useless Drafts Alone. In six months, it may go away or may be improved. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:11, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Unnecessary to delete drafts for this reason, per Robert McClenon. In view of the frrequent nomination of drafts at MfD, often well-intentioned but ultimately unnecessary/inappropriate given Draft deletion policy, I've WP:BOLDly tweaked the preamble to the MFD page to try to guide would-be nominators to ask themselves the right questions. We'll see if people change/improve what I wrote. Martinp (talk) 13:36, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Magic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Deletion sorting venues are supposed to divide discussions into niches so people most knowledgeable or interested in them can participate. This area, 'magic', is so niche I don't find any use of it. How many magicians are there really to justify its inclusion? It only gets a few entries per year. Magic (illusion) is defined as a performing art; thus, related articles that do fit this odd category can instead go into the art deletion sorting. jolielover♥talk 05:42, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Probably, but you should post a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting, and add yourself to the WikiProject membership. SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:27, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. jolielover♥talk 13:20, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak Keep - This should be discussed at the deletion sorting talk page, WikiProject Deletion sorting. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:05, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Tango (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

This WikiProject has no listed participants, no subpages and no activity since it was created 3 August 2022. Also, a WikiProject with the same name was deleted in 2011. Stefen 𝕋ower_{'s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 01:38, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - The activity of a WikiProject takes place on its talk page, but the talk page of this project is empty, because there never was an activity. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:12, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: No participants and the talkpage was never even created. It does not seem like this went thru the proper wikiproject creation process. Schützenpanzer (Talk) 02:51, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Kimera Kat/Three word story (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Wikipedia isn't the place to be creating things like this. It isn't a webhost or your own personal website, so this should be deleted. You may note that it has been tagged with the humor tag, but this happened quite a long time ago, before humor was clearly defined on Wikipedia. If we go to Wikipedia:Humor#Humor outside of articles, it has a handful of examples on what is acceptable. This page doesn't meet any of them, it doesn't illustrate any point, it doesn't document any funny articles, etc. Most importantly, it is not very related to Wikipedia like the end article is, the beginning of wikipedia page is, or like how the other end of wikipedia article is. It was previously kept because of these reasons, but I think I have rebuked them. User:Easternsahara_{review this} 18:23, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Pages like this, light hearted community interactions, were a feature of the early days of Wikipedia, and they were a good thing. This page, 2007, is more like the peak growth period than early, but these things used to be normal. The early days also featured a lot of bad stuff, and rules and practices have tightened since then, but they have not tightened around harmless good-willed fun. The page is also historical, and the nomination seeks to erase history, and has no apparent good purpose. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:56, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let's look at the page stats. The page has found a resurgence in edits, with the number of edits in 2024 to present being more than previous years, and it had mostly died out from 2023-2012. Unregistered editors, who are by large part not part of the "wikipedia community", make up a fifth of the edits and the top 10 editors make up half the edits. This means that this page still distracts from constructive editing, that it wasn't created by a "wikipedia community" and that it wasn't created collaboratively. Thus, I do not see what value this page would provide by being tagged as historical, as other pages are. This contains no policy proposal or anything useful at all. This may be good-willed fun but Wikipedia has user page guidelines which this is violating. WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK, WP:NOTWEBHOST, and most importantly this isn't something that is related to Wikipedia. I get keeping humor pages like wikispecies because those allow editors to read about common user behaviors in a humorous way. I also understand keeping guestbooks to build community, although I do not support those. But I don't think that this is similar to those things and does not help with editor retention significantly. User:Easternsahara_{review this} 04:12, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. You should stop looking in others’ userspace for things you don’t approve. SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:51, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You should stop disregarding user page guidelines when they're against old pages or experienced users. User:Easternsahara_{review this} 18:52, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: It's harmless humor, and part of the Department of Fun! The Master of Hedgehogs (talk) (contributions) (Sign my guestbook!) 13:58, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

keep and trout the nominator for being a self-appointed fun police. ltbdl (talk) 14:02, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:~2025-34140-84 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

It's a long story, but I gave a temp user a userpage as an experiment as the temp user proposed in the Village Pump that temp users have userpages, and I wondered if those could be created already. Such a userpage will remain permanently, however, and this user has used it for political promotion. I think we should delete it until consensus is reached in the Village Pump ✨ΩmegaMantis✨^blather 02:23, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete the userpage seems to traffic in various conspiracies. The user is self-evidently WP:NOTHERE, or their user page clearly portrays as such. User:Bluethricecreamman (Talk·Contribs) 04:40, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. It is not political promotion, it is introduction of the user’s political bias. This is allowed, even encouraged, on userpages. I think “the userpage seems to traffic in various conspiracies” is nonsense.

It is a reasonable main Userpage. The temporary user should be urged to WP:Register and move it to their proper main Userpage. The temporary Userpage might be well deleted when the temporary account expires.

- SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:21, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The kirk conspiracy theory gives it away. And though i myself also display my political affiliation on my user page, the insinuation that kirk was killed by israel and trump is entirely inappropriate. User:Bluethricecreamman (Talk·Contribs) 16:38, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

at the very least i think im fine with the far right declaration. The association between trump and epstein might be skirting the line of blp, but as the user isnt stating it in wikivoice its probably fine?

but the israel trump kirk stuff should probably be deleted. I think there is some precedent in MfD for that.

not sure about the village pump discussion, temp account user pages are strange to me, and not sure temp accounts are implemented to rotate like IPs right? User:Bluethricecreamman (Talk·Contribs) 16:52, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm. You have a point.

I am hesitant to support MfD in getting into judgement, and refinement, of what users may write along the lines of conspiracy theories. We would delete a userbox that asserted these things. The Trump BLP angle is borderline, but there. Blaming Israel for Kirk is looney.

Userpages are not read as WikiVoice. Users are allowed to have their POV, and to be wrong, and it is better for bias or lunacy to be declared.

I’m not sure. SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:04, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Joey Primiani (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

In mainspace, it's got nine substantive deletions I can find among Joseph Primiani, Joey Primiani, and Joseph C. Primiani (and a handful more A1's and redirects), with afds at the first two titles and an overly-optimistic DRV for the second. More to the point, between this title and Draft:Joey Primiani (2), it's been submitted at least eight times, G13'd eleven times, and credulously restored seven times without appreciable improvement. We've been hosting this person's resume - sometimes glorified, as at present, sometimes quite literally - since he was an 18-year-old college student in 2006. Enough. —Cryptic 05:09, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete from draft space. Drafts are not deleted for lack of notability, and are seldom deleted except for tendentious resubmission. This is a case of tendentious existence and undeletion of a draft. Deletion of the draft will prevent refunding at Requests for Undeletion. Also, because of the use of different forms of his first name, put his surname, Primiani, on the Title Blacklist. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:14, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - normally, drafts are left for G13 to deal with, but in this case, G13 is not working so deletion via MFD is appropriate. -- Whpq (talk) 18:08, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above --Lenticel ^(talk) 04:31, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Kerville9/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Another fantasy version of List of presidents of the United States but with the 46th and 47th president changed, with the page mixed with sections from Mass shootings in the United States. This page seems to be the creator's exclusive editing interest, so they are clearly WP:NOTHERE. Creator has been inactive for almost a year now, however, the page continues to be edited by several users and IPs I suspect are sockpuppets of the creator. TruenoCity (talk) 16:36, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Wikipedia is not a web host for fantasy elections. -- Whpq (talk) 20:16, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - This also uses the names and images of living persons to provide contrary-to-fact information, so that this is a biographies of living persons violation. There are other issues, but the BLP violation is enough. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:43, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above --Lenticel ^(talk) 00:08, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:29, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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