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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.

Information on the process

What may be nominated for deletion here:

Pages in these namespaces: Book:, Draft:, Help:, Portal:, MediaWiki:, Wikipedia: (including WikiProjects), User:, TimedText:, Education Program:, Module:, Topic:, Gadget:, Gadget definition:, and the various Talk: namespaces
Userboxes (regardless of namespace)
Files in the File namespace that have a local description pages but no local file (if there is a local file, Wikipedia:Files for discussion is the right venue)
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.

Before nominating a page for deletion

Before nominating a page for deletion, please consider these guidelines:

Deleting pages in your own userspace	If you want to have your own personal userpage deleted, there is no need to list it here; simply tag it with {{db-userreq}}. If you wish your user talk page (or user talk page archives) to be deleted, this is the correct location to request that.
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.

Please familiarize yourself with the following policies

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 – whose guidelines on discussion format and shorthands also apply here
Wikipedia:User page – our guidelines on user pages and user subpages
Wikipedia:Userboxes – our guideline on userboxes

How to list pages for deletion

Please check the aforementioned list of deletion discussion areas to check that you are in the right area. Then follow these instructions:

Click to view 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.

Edit PageName:

Enter the following text at the top of the page you are listing for deletion:

{{mfd}}
for a second or subsequent nomination use {{mfdx|2nd|{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}

If the nomination is for a userbox, please put <noinclude></noinclude> tags around the {{mfd}}, as to not mess up the formating for the userbox.

{{mfd|GroupName}}
if nominating several related pages in an umbrella nomination.

{{subst:md1-inline|{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}
if you are nominating a userbox in userspace or similarly transcluded page.

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.
Save the page.

III.

Add a line to MfD.

Follow and add a line to the top of the list:

{{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:MFDWarning|PageName}} ~~~~

to their talk page, 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 Portal, please make a note of your nomination here and consider using the portal guidelines in your nomination.
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

Administrator instructions for closing and relisting discussions can be found here.

Current discussions

Pages currently being considered 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.

January 10, 2017

User:Prashanth Ignatius/C Innasappa

Non-English. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 01:26, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Keep. "Not-English" is not a reason for deletion. This page was used to translate corresponding articles between here and kn.wikipedia.org. Translating and transwikiing between different language is a valid use of userpsace. To be encouraged, even. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:16, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

January 9, 2017

Draft:GovPilot

5 times and still not in a convincing state for our policies and is still too close as a business listing, something our policies are clear about. SwisterTwister talk 20:50, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

User:Crosenmu

Userpage of user without edits in main namespace per WP:NOTWEBHOST. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 11:55, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Keep. Not a NOTWEBHOST violation. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:08, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

User:Cosel

Userpage of user without edits in main namespace per WP:NOTWEBHOST. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 11:48, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

User:Coddfishalicious/sandbox

Userpage of user without edits in main namespace per WP:NOTWEBHOST. This is an abandoned draft from 2015. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 11:43, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

User:Cmccol3/sandbox

Userpage of user without edits in main namespace per WP:NOTWEBHOST. This is an abandoned draft from 2012. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 11:41, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Let the tiger show its stripes

This appears to have failed to be developed into what it was supposed to be and it seems doomed to stay that way. 95% of it is copied from WP:ROPE. It was created to create a more "safe space compliant" version of that essay, but then promptly abandonded by its creator (who was desysopped and indef blocked due to the discovery by checkusers that they were running an obnoxious trolling sockfarm so they won't be back to pick up the pieces anytime soon) The hope was that this essay would end up being cited instead of ROPE but a quick look at the incoming links shows that that has completely failed to happen. (Normally ROPE is used as shorthand in discussions between admins on the merits of unblocking a particular user. This does not appear to have been used in that manner a single time) So, this is basically a piece of unattended flotsam in project space, it isn't doing anything, let alone what it was supposedly intended to do. Beeblebrox (talk) 06:01, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Redirect to Wikipedia:Give 'em enough rope, which is substantially the same, so the few existing links aren't broken. Three pages (viz. Wikipedia:Beware of the tigers, Wikipedia:Don't lower the boom just yet, and Wikipedia:Essay directory) would need content related to this removed, and of course, WP:STRIPES would become a double redirect that would need updated. On a side note: At least one other attempt exists, Wikipedia:Last Chance Saloon, but it is substantially different. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 08:35, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

I'd support a redirect too. I'm all for safe spaces (which is being misused in this instance) and for being sensitive toward folks, but this one isn't using traction and the effect seemed questionable to start with. EvergreenFir (talk) 08:49, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Delete or Redirect. It was a half baked idea to avoid an idiom some people found objectionable, but it confused the idioms. The title doesn't match the essay copied. Give enough rope means to give a borderline untrusted person enough freedom to prove themselves. Tiger stripes, or the more common leopard spots, is an idiom asserting the people's nature can't be changed. Completely different. Normally I prefer to keep records of failed ideas, but this one was wrong, and is nothing more than a wrong title on forked content. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Merge into WP:ROPE and/or WP:Last Chance Saloon. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 04:02, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
- Note that it is a copy of ROPE without negligible alteration. There is nothing to merge. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:08, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Orion Health

Declined 3 times now and it was resubmitted for a 4th request before this MfD started, and none of it has actually significantly improved for our policies and the sources still consist of published and republished business announcements and mentions. SwisterTwister talk 01:08, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Band Ja Naimon!

Declined 4 times and it was resubmitted a 4th request now, none of the sources have ever changed from being simple announcements, interviews and mentions, and thus there's nothing to even satisfy even the lenient-est standards, and that says enough. SwisterTwister talk 23:08, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Josh Bogert

(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 19:36, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Resubmitted over 10 times in the last few months and none of it has significantly changed because he only has 1 work so far. SwisterTwister talk 20:13, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Weak delete Someone could probably write an article on this guy. It might stick; it might get TOOSOONd. If this editor wants help doing so, there's plenty of people that will try to help them. But, if all they are going to do is log in once a week and resubmit, that's just a waste of everyone's time. TimothyJosephWood 19:18, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

User:GleneaglesKL/sandbox

(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 19:35, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Declined 3 times with listed concerns and I would've declined a 4th time if it wasn't that there's no signs of assuring improvements hence nothing to suggest acceptance in our policies for such businesses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SwisterTwister (talk • contribs) 05:02, January 9, 2017 (UTC)

January 8, 2017

User:82.148.97.69

IP appears to be no longer in use. Delete or mark as historical. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 17:04, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

God does this take me back. According to this page the situation with Qatar and its IPv4 addresses has improved since 2009, to the point that each allocated address represents maybe ~200 individual broadband subscribers, but I think we should try to verify this first, even though there have been no edits by this IP since 2008 (which does kinda make the issue moot either way. —Ipatrol (talk) 22:51, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Keep while updating it with accurate information, or applying a {{historical}} if it can be shown that the information there was at one time true. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 23:45, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

User:Cgbalu/Books/wiki-book

Userpage of user without edits in main namespace per WP:NOTWEBHOST. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 09:23, 8 January 2017 (UTC)