Wikiversity:Requests for Deletion

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We welcome and appreciate civil discussion of requests to delete or undelete pages when reasonable objections are made or are likely, the advice in Wikiversity:Deletions is followed, and other options have failed. A good attitude is to explain what you have tried, ask for help or advice from fellow Wikiversity participants on what to do now, keep an open mind, accept any community consensus, and focus on how pages can be improved. Finding ways to improve pages is the preferred outcome of any discussion and consensus here. Pages should always be kept when reasonable concerns are adequately addressed. Reasons and responses should be specific and relate to Wikiversity policy or scope in some way, kept brief, and stated in a positive or neutral way. Vague reasons ("out of scope", "disruptive") may be ignored. A clear consensus should emerge before archiving a request. Often discussion takes a week or more to reach a clear consensus. Remember to add {{dr}} to the top of pages nominated for deletion. You can put "keep", "delete", or "neutral" at the beginning of your response, but consensus is established by discussion and reasoning, not mere voting.

How to begin discussion

Add {{Deletion request}} or {{dr}} to the image, category or resource nominated for deletion. Add a new section to the end of this page using the following format: == [[Page title]] == reasons why this page ought to be deleted --~~~~

Undeletion requests

If an article has been deleted, and you would like it undeleted, please list it here. Please try to give as close to the title as possible, and list your reasons for why it should be restored.

Wiki Campus Radio/PSA

I had this deleted as author request back in March 2017, Subsequently there was some interest from a contributor on another project. Would it be possible for it to be restored so that the user concerned can comment, or recover some of the ideas? 23:08, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

• I support this being recovered, if only for a fresh look at the idea, and if it is made into something, that would be great. Arthur Kerensa (discuss • contribs) 23:02, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Y Done -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:42, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Deletion requests

Cosmophysics

Discussions are archived for review purposes. Please start a new discussion to discuss the topic further.

Cold fusion

This is not actually an educational resource, it's a POV fork from Wikipedia incorporating content that was rejected there as advocating fringe views. It is the work of user:Abd, who was banned form Wikipedia for events surrounding his advocacy of cold fusion.

user:Abd removed this request as "block evasion". That is incorrect. This IP address is a Virgin media cable address, the blocked IPs are O2 mobile and, for the avoidance of doubt, are not me. I am a user in good standing on multiple Wikimedia projects, including enWP, where Abd is banned (ironically, for block evasion [1]).

Obviously Abd needs to recuse form any action in respect of this article, especially given his off-wiki collusion around the subject. 82.21.88.44 (discuss) 07:09, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Delete it Totally different IP here (I have an en.wp username that I will disclose privately to any admin upon request, but not in public). I just checked that page and found factually inaccurate claims from unreliable sources repeated verbatim in the lead. That's the reddest, flaggiest red flag there is. 74.175.117.2 (discuss) 13:53, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

I advocate Delete - this is really just Abd abusing Wikiversity as a free web host for his rejected version of a Wikipedia article. JzG (discuss • contribs) 14:06, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

• Keep. Creation by alleged sock and revert warring here by that sock is now irrelevant to this discussion, because JzG, a Wikipedia administrator and long-standing user there (with thin contributions here), has commented. The IP votes are not from users with any edit history, except for looking at alleged socking. However, I ask @JzG: how he came to know of the existence of this request, because it's looking like there was some canvassing. JzG was highly involved with conflict re cold fusion on en.wikipedia, and was reprimanded by the Arbitration Committee for his activity there, and he was highly involved with my later ban from Wikipedia. All that is only relevant if an assessment of neutrality becomes necessary.

The cold fusion resource is obviously not a fork, nor is it a "rejected version" from Wikipedia, which would be completely obvious to anyone who reads it. It is organized very differently from an "article." Wikiversity allows content that is not allowed on Wikipedia, and the content here was written for here, almost entirely. I am involved with the facilitation of scientific research on cold fusion, off-wiki, that's true, however, I have disclosed that possible conflict of interest, and involvement with a topic is not contrary to participation in the development of educational resources here. We have professors creating resources on the subjects they teach, professionally. And we have amateurs creating articles on topics they love. We are not Wikipedia.

"POV fork" is a valid argument for deletion (or merge) on Wikipedia, not here. We actually and deliberately create attributed POV forks here, as subpages, if scholars cannot agree on a single mainspace page. It is how we avoid most conflict. Wikipedia is neutral by inclusion, not by exclusion. We are not an encyclopedia.

If there are "factually inaccurate claims" in a top-level mainspace page, not attributed as opinion, w:WP:SOFIXIT. Claiming that such exist, with no specifics, is disruptive. I do not own the resource, many have worked on it. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 22:35, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

• Delete and ban User:Abd for harassing me in e-mails. Wikiversity should be ashamed of itself for continuing to let him abusively campaign here. I have asked the foundation for a ruling as well. ජපස (discuss • contribs) 22:53, 21 December 2017 (UTC)