Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive/2017/09/27

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periodic comet (Q11741555): comet with a stable orbit that is shorter than 200 years: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Obsolete (only wiki.pl item moved to Q719419) Ysogo (talk) 21:48, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

  Done Redirect created by Pasleim, you can do it yourself next time. --DeltaBot (talk) 23:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Q41118557: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Vandalism Bambadee (talk) 02:09, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Deleted by MisterSynergy (talkcontribslogs) --DeltaBot (talk) 05:20, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Terry Ananny (Q27576859): Canadian artist: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs | discussion)

All articles on all wikis deleted as spam (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ananny) Randykitty (talk) 10:28, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Due to the Union List of Artist Names ID (P245) identifier it is a valid item here, so   Not deleted. —MisterSynergy (talk) 06:04, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Items about Wikimedians

Q28709959

Jonatan Svensson Glad (Q28709959): researcher: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Does not meet Wikidata:Notability criteria Jarekt (talk) 14:10, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

  On hold This item is linked from 1 other. --DeltaBot (talk) 14:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Q30147473

Martin Falbisoner (Q30147473): German Photographer, Archivist: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Does not meet Wikidata:Notability criteria Jarekt (talk) 14:12, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

  On hold This item is linked from 1 other. --DeltaBot (talk) 14:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Q28709819

Moheen Reeyad (Q28709819): Bangladeshi graphic artist and writer: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Does not meet Wikidata:Notability criteria Jarekt (talk) 14:14, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

  On hold This item is linked from 5 others. --DeltaBot (talk) 14:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
Looks like those references were created by Moheen Reeyad. Aditya Kabir (talk) 03:34, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Q39583840

Q39583840: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Does not meet Wikidata:Notability criteria Jarekt (talk) 14:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Q17227845

Q17227845: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Does not meet Wikidata:Notability criteria Jarekt (talk) 14:21, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

  On hold This item is linked from 1 other. --DeltaBot (talk) 14:30, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Q28469412

Subhashish Panigrahi (Q28469412): Wikimedian, author: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Does not meet Wikidata:Notability criteria Jarekt (talk) 14:22, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Q30564104

Emilio J. Rodríguez Posada (Q30564104): Spanish wikipedian: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Does not meet Wikidata:Notability criteria Jarekt (talk) 14:30, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

  On hold This item is linked from 10+ others. --DeltaBot (talk) 14:40, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Combined discussion

Re-organized RfD page for a combined discussion about all nominated items with the same background. —MisterSynergy (talk) 17:20, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

@Jarekt: What makes the items for @Moheen Reeyad: (and @Emijrp: somewhere else on this page) any different from other Wikimedians with Wikidata items whose presence you are not contesting? Mahir256 (talk) 16:41, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
I recently read Wikidata:Notability and when I noticed cases where people create wikidata items for themselves, I tagged them. I am not aware of other Wikimedians with Wikidata items. If people are allowed to create items for themselves often without any external references, than we should add it to the Wikidata:Notability criteria. --Jarekt (talk) 16:50, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
@Jarekt: (in response to I am not aware of other Wikimedians with Wikidata items.) Consider, then, Wikidata's first director, Wikidata's product manager, our bugwrangler, the man behind Research Bot, GerardM, and Pigsonthewing. (@Denny, Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), AKlapper (WMF), Daniel Mietchen, GerardM, Pigsonthewing:) Mahir256 (talk) 17:01, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
@Mahir256: I'm not sure why you pinged me. If you have a specific question directed to me, feel free to explicitly ask it. Thanks. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 17:04, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
@AKlapper (WMF): I simply didn't want to mention you or the others behind your back, that's all. Mahir256 (talk) 17:08, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Being Wikip(m)edian does not necessary mean you do not meet notability criteria on Wikidata, Wikipedia or other projects. I did not nominated any items of people that in my judgment meet Wikidata:Notability criteria. For example if items had any Identifiers, like VIAF or LOC than one can at least find information other than provided by subjects. --Jarekt (talk) 17:30, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
@Jarekt: So all of Emilio's scholarly authority control identifiers and Moheen's ORCID, Google Scholar ID, and VIAF ID do not add to their notability because they themselves added them to their items? Mahir256 (talk) 18:07, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Also, Martin Falbisoner (Q30147473) has GND ID (P227). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:09, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
PS, what thing I'm still confused is (*@Shizhao: this affects you*) Shi Zhao (Q9147313) which just eligible because zhwiki serves it?! I don't aim to rfd it due to possible conflict of interest (Q211067) but there really should have a WD:N subpage to restrict creating of Wikimedian-related items. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 05:44, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

I do not think those pages meet the current Wikidata:Notability criteria. If I am wrong and they do meet current criteria, please explain. If the community think that they should stay, than I will not object, but than we should change Wikidata:Notability policy to clarify. --Jarekt (talk) 02:20, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── There are three notability criteria; we can clearly and uncontroversially disregard the first, as there are no interwiki links. The other two are:

  • It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references.
  • It fulfils some structural need, for example: it is needed to make statements made in other items more useful.

The former clearly applies in some cases (VIAF, GND, etc), as noted above; the latter may apply in those cases marked as "on hold" due to existing links to other Wikidata items. If you nominate something for deletion, I think the onus is on you to explain why these criteria do not apply. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:29, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Leaning   Keep on the basis that these items do refer to clear entities (individual human beings) (item 2) and seem to fulfil some structural need (criterion 3) by connecting Commons categories / creator pages with other authority control identifiers. However, I'm leaning towards   Delete Q17227845 and Q39583840 which link to no external/non-self-published authority control identifiers. Deryck Chan (talk) 22:17, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
  Delete Hi, I wasn't aware of the notability criteria of Wikidata, I would request to delte this Q39583840, Thanks --Saileshpat (talk) 15:49, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
I deleted it by your request. - yona b (talk) 07:18, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

  Keep I think that 2 and 3 applies here (items have Commons Creator page (P1472)). It is impossible to use P1472 with other items. Wikidata may have such information until commons get update. d1g (talk) 12:47, 24 September 2017 (UTC)


I close the remaining six requests as   Not deleted. All have a valid Commons Creator page (P1472) claim, thus there is structural need for the Wikimedia Commons project. I have realized that Q17227845 does not contain any data which the connected Commons creator page doesn’t contain as well, but there may be identifier data added, thus we keep it as well for now. Some of the nominated items also contain third-party controlled external identifiers, which make them notable independently of the Commons creator pages. Once Wikimedia Commons will roll out structural data fields, the notability of the nominated items without independent external identifiers (and similar ones) need to be re-assessed anyway. This could mean that they are deleted then, depending on the future situation. —MisterSynergy (talk) 06:48, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Mangala Mahavidyalaya, Kakatpur (Q40342105): Mangala College University in Kakatpur, India: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs | discussion)

Doesn't meet the notability policy. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 15:11, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

  Not deleted --Lymantria (talk) 07:18, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Delete deprecated genes

  1. Q20764851 (delete | history | links | logs)
  2. Q20770425 (delete | history | links | logs)
  3. These genes are deprecated by NCBI (delete | history | links | logs) (all on TAB)

Gstupp (talk) 23:54, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

  Deleted by Lymantria (talkcontribslogs) --Lymantria (talk) 07:20, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Vax (Q7917540): UK floorcare and household appliance company who design and manufacture vacuum cleaners, carpet cleaners and climate control appliances.: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Outdated and incorrect/insufficient information. Updated and approved version can be found at Q41001651. Request for either deletion or merge. --Rich.vax (talk) 08:22, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

We don't remove outdated information. I have merged it into the old Q-ID. (For archive bot:   Not deleted.) —MisterSynergy (talk) 08:25, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Q28608893: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Not notable for Wikidata, self-promotion Bodhisattwa (talk) 16:03, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Not deleted; same reason as here (closed today): Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive/2017/09/27#Items about Wikimedians. —MisterSynergy (talk) 16:33, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Q41155321: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Test Magnus Manske (talk) 15:03, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Deleted by MisterSynergy (talkcontribslogs) --DeltaBot (talk) 16:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Jared Sawyer Jr. (Q38014040): American Actor and Author: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Duplicate of itemid = Q19972658 which is already linked to a Wikipedia page --Leon729 (talk) 15:03, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Done Redirect created by MisterSynergy, you can do it yourself next time. --DeltaBot (talk) 16:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Q25302716: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Page deleted - disambig with one item Papuass (talk) 15:12, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Deleted by MisterSynergy (talkcontribslogs) --DeltaBot (talk) 16:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Q41155764: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Test Magnus Manske (talk) 15:12, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Deleted by MisterSynergy (talkcontribslogs) --DeltaBot (talk) 16:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Q41156138: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Test Magnus Manske (talk) 15:20, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Deleted by MisterSynergy (talkcontribslogs) --DeltaBot (talk) 16:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Q41156280: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Test (last one for now) Magnus Manske (talk) 15:23, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Deleted by MisterSynergy (talkcontribslogs) --DeltaBot (talk) 16:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Delete deprecated Interpro Items

These items are deprecated ProteinBoxBot (talk) 21:09, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

  Done by Lymantria --ValterVB (talk) 19:13, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

These items are deprecated ProteinBoxBot (talk) 21:09, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

  Done by Lymantria --ValterVB (talk) 19:15, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

GW170814 (Q41166270): gravitational wave event: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Q41161882 mfb (talk) 18:32, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  Done Redirect created by Pasleim, you can do it yourself next time. --DeltaBot (talk) 20:10, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Q41044222: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Can hardly be described as a actor, see IMDb. Created by long-term abuse account. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 08:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  On hold This item is linked from 3 others. --DeltaBot (talk) 08:50, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
  Deleted by Mbch331 (talkcontribslogs) --DeltaBot (talk) 20:20, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Q41042923: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

Can hardly be described as a actor, see IMDb. Created by long-term abuse account. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 08:41, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  On hold This item is linked from 3 others. --DeltaBot (talk) 08:50, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
  Deleted by Mbch331 (talkcontribslogs) --DeltaBot (talk) 20:20, 27 September 2017 (UTC)