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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.

Filtered versions of the page are available at

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 page as {{historical}} and/or moving it into the historical archive, 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 moving it into the historical archive, or 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 does not 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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How to list pages for deletion

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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:

Administrator instructions

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XfD backlog
V Aug Sep Oct Nov Total
CfD 4 18 33 33 88
TfD 0 0 4 8 12
MfD 0 0 0 4 4
FfD 7 12 13 10 42
RfD 0 0 12 60 72
AfD 0 0 0 47 47

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.

Current discussions

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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.

November 14, 2026

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

Unsourced biography of a minor. Paradoctor (talk) 00:44, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 12, 2026

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Wikipedia:Edit count (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

It is contrary to ArbCom's CT policies. Jsjsnja (talk) 22:16, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Keep - Created in 2005 and describes the concept of an edit count well. I am highly skeptical that this is against arbcom polic(ies); however—if it is, then they have the resources at their disposal to appropriately remedy the page. We shall not be doing so here. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 23:40, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Question can you cite what ARBCOM policy this advice page may be contrary to? TruenoCity (talk) 23:37, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply
    The ECR policy, it states that non-extended confirmed users cannot make edits in ECR areas except to make edit requests on articles, which implies that the quality of edits equals the edit count, since the ECR policy has no exceptions. ArbCom policies are more important than this. Jsjsnja (talk) 16:33, 13 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Keep - I see nothing wrong with the page. GarethBaloney (talk) 00:44, 13 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 9, 2026

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Draft:Castle - Make and Play (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

AI slop, the author says that they did not use AI, but the bot somehow created the text by itself. Cheese240 (talk) 17:59, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply

They also have another draft, Draft:Castle (social network), though I doubt it is AI. Cheese240 (talk) 18:09, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Upon taking a further look Delete per what User:Athanelar has noted on the draft, which is that this is an effort to get around the previous rejection of Draft:Castle (social network) and thereby is tendentious resubmission. SK2242 (talk) 01:52, 10 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete per SK2242, this indeed looks like tendentious resubmission. Choucas 🐦‍⬛ 10:28, 10 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Delete as tendentiously resubmitted. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:11, 11 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • @SK2242, Choucas, and Robert McClenon: Neither Draft:Castle - Make and Play nor Draft:Castle (social network) has been resubmitted after either was respectively rejected. If the pattern is truly new drafts to skirt rejection (are there more examples in this particular chain?), then how will this deletion help (however—it would be burdensome to list future such drafts here, as would seemingly be necessary with them being un-speediable, if the pattern continued)? It seems that rejection is working, at least in the isolated sense. Additionally—if it is just two in this particular circumstance, then perhaps some good faith is not unwarranted (the creators are technically distinct, with one being a TA and one being a new user; even if they were the same individual in theory, perhaps they e.g. thought registration would make a difference). It is also, of course, possible that I am missing something. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 01:16, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Draft: Castle (social network) was rejected at 17:39 on 9 November , Draft:Castle - Make and Play was submitted 12 minutes later . SK2242 (talk) 15:43, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply
User:MXWLVJ/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

WP:NOTBLOG: Also not a student gossip newspaper. Paradoctor (talk) 14:22, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Seems it's been replaced by"This page has been deleted" St☆rlet! (Talk to me!) (Library) 20:07, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete anyway. BLP violations are unacceptable even in the page history. If the user wants to use their sandbox they can simply create it again after this is deleted. SK2242 (talk) 21:44, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Writing "Welcome to our educational Wikipedia-style website!" on the actual Wikipedia website is... a choice. It also has several rude comments about presumably real people. GarethBaloney (talk) 00:51, 13 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Draft:Christine Zhao (赵倩) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Draft already exists at Draft:Christine Zhao Bennett Li11 (Talk to Me) 01:12, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Unworthy of MfD. Redirect as an editorial action. Talk to EscherGodel (talk · contribs) about why they are making content forks in draftspace. SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:33, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Hello @SmokeyJoe @Bennett Li11, yes I am happy for Draft:Christine Zhao (赵倩) to be deleted and only KEEP Draft:Christine Zhao . The latter was created cause the Chinese character in the former seemed to cause technical issues for its publishing. Thanks. EscherGodel (talk) 09:07, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete per author’s wish. SmokeyJoe (talk) 20:23, 11 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 8, 2026

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Protista/New article listing (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Editors except me seem to be uninterested in adding recently created pages to here, including the project and this page's creator Snoteleks, so some recent pages are missing. I think this page should be deleted unless there's an easy way to set some kind of automation here. If a bot will be used, unless it's ready, in my opinion there's no need for this page. Jako96 (talk) 16:15, 8 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Support. I created this page very early in the wikiproject, inspired by some other project that I saw had a similar feature; however it is very tiring to maintain it and I have been meaning to delete it.
If anyone knows some way to automate new article alerts, I would love to know. I would like to keep it simple, as a section of the main project page, if at all. — Snoteleks (talk) 17:23, 8 November 2026 (UTC)reply
User:Iskazzz/sandbox/mario (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

This is literally just a copy of several existing articles made by a indefinitely banned user. There is literally no reason to keep this. (Oinkers42) (talk) 14:38, 8 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 7, 2026

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

As explained here, I nominate the page for deletion due to privacy concerns and the fact that it is likely a self-promotion of a not-notable person. Bencemac (talk) 19:13, 7 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Comment Was this an autobiography of the author? If so, I think it is safe to assume they would like their page deleted. If not, I would still lean weak delete as a promotional page. TruenoCity (talk) 21:11, 7 November 2026 (UTC)reply
WP:SLAP User:Bencemac for shining floodlights on a privacy concern, thus completely countering privacy. The draft is a typical musician of unlikely Wikipedia-notability that will be quietly deleted per G13 if no one works on it. Becemac has now created enduring pointers to someone who wanted to vanish.
I support deletion of this MfD discussion with no action on the draft. SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:58, 7 November 2026 (UTC)reply
The user wanted to be vanished and worked solely on this draft. I might be wrong, and the user may not have this draft in their mind, that is a possibility, I understand. However, if that is the case, the question still stands: is the subject notable enough? I do not think so. I must say that I do not appreciate your tone at all, so leave me alone with slap. This is neither respectful nor friendly, especially when I was told to come here. Bencemac (talk) 10:15, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Did User:Whpq tell you to come here? Does this draft need deletion? No. Do not start community discussions due to a privacy concern. See Wikipedia:Oversight. SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:30, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
I told them to come to MFD if they still thought deletion was necessary after I declined their speedy deletion request of author-requested as there is no evidence that the author has requested it. -- Whpq (talk) 14:12, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Comment please leave useless drafts alone instead of bringing them to MfD, especially when there is a chance it is an autobio of a non-notable person... In the case where there is a request dealing with privacy issues, dealing it with it privately is probably the better way to go. Choucas 🐦‍⬛ 16:30, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 6, 2026

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Draft:Daffy Season (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

page already exists SBF2004 (talk) 17:25, 6 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Old business

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November 5, 2026

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Nosterdania userboxes

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Template:User citizen Nosterdania (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​
Template:User in Nosterdania (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Template:User nost (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User:Vonlujtes/Userboxes/Leenkirche (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

These unused userboxes are for a hoax country and its language. The author stopped editing six years ago. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:39, 5 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Support per nom. Shocksingularity (talk) 08:22, 6 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Speedy delete per wp:G3. Magikarp fan, Arenghtqru888 lol ( hopefully I don't get trouted...) 14:42, 6 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom TruenoCity (talk) 15:40, 6 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Speedy delete per WP:G3. Choucas 🐦‍⬛ 16:30, 6 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Draft:Zayd Vance Silkenson (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Clearly fails WP:NBIO. a wondrous raven (talk) 06:24, 5 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Neutral Please see Wikipedia:Leave useless drafts alone. Drafts are not checked for notability. However, this page is rather promotional in tone. TruenoCity (talk) 06:38, 5 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete overly promotional in tone, reads like an advert TruenoCity (talk) 03:42, 6 November 2026 (UTC)reply
̶'̶'̶'̶K̶e̶e̶p̶'̶'̶'̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶[̶[̶w̶p̶:̶l̶u̶d̶a̶]̶]̶.̶ ̶a̶l̶s̶o̶,̶ ̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶d̶i̶d̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶n̶o̶m̶i̶n̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶4̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶u̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶f̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶c̶r̶e̶a̶t̶e̶d̶?̶  :Neutral there's wp:luda, but the creator of the draft has also self-advrtised in an article, and someone above said this article sounds very advertisy Magikarp fan, Arenghtqru888 lol ( hopefully I don't get trouted...) 15:57, 5 November 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete as an unsourced BLP. There is a non-source link, which doesn’t count as a source. SmokeyJoe (talk) 19:52, 5 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 4, 2026

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User:KTMWikipedia8000/sandbox3 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

Withdrawing, doesn't need to be deleted. Sorry to nominate this for deletion as the author seems to just be doing some good-faith testing, but the information here is partly fictional. For example, The Walt Disney Company is renamed to "Buena Vista", with Lionsgate being listed as one of their divisons, and "NBCUniversal" is renamed to "CBSUniversal".NewAccount7295 (talk) 18:53, 4 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Keep and speedy close. As a sandbox, absolutely no harm is being done here. Skyshiftertalk 19:33, 4 November 2026 (UTC)reply
What part of the speedy keep criteria does this nomination fail? SK2242 (talk) 02:43, 5 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 3, 2026

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Template:User Countries and Flags 2026 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) – (View MfD)​

This unused Sorani-language userbox should be deleted because it seems to have been created in English Wikipedia by mistake. The text of the userbox mentions "Countries and Flags 2026 Editathon", which doesn't exist on English Wikipedia, but it does exist on Sorani Wikipedia: ckb:ویکیپیدیا:ئێدیتاسۆنى وڵات و ئاڵاکان - ٢٠٢٦. —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:14, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Transwiki if doable, otherwise delete. Choucas 🐦‍⬛ 10:37, 10 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Closed discussions

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates