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Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below so an admin can find them, check to see that they are indeed not legitimate pages, and delete them. If the content of a page-to-be-deleted exists on some different page, please indicate that, somehow, on the page-to-be-deleted (either by redirecting it to the correctly titled page, or, better for our purposes, putting in a link to it). To facilitate checking that a "page title to be deleted" really ought to be deleted, please don't redirect such pages to page titles to be deleted.

Please review Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages before adding to this page. In the past, about half of the titles added to this page were not deleted. In particular, do not add article names to this list that might in the future become articles. There's no reason to delete those. Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page. E.g., a page called Hume can be easily and sensibly redirected to David Hume; presidant (a misspelling) can be redirected to president; etc. (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!) Similarly, pages in the wrong namespace (for example, user pages in the main namespace), can be redirected and should not be deleted if there are still old links to them. (See Talk)

NOTE to Wiki Administrators: Simply deleting a page does not automatically delete its talk page or any subpages. Please delete these pages first, and then the main page. Also, if you are presented with a page in the database that only has "Describe the new page here." in an edit box, then please remove this phrase, hit save and then check the history of that page to make sure its content wasn't simply replaced by "Describe the new page here.". Then you can delete the page.

362 Rappaz - wikipedia is not a web directory
Pre-automatic dictatorship -- idiosyncratic nonsense
Light rail/USA - copyright violation
William Shakespeare/How to upload Shakespeare to Wikipedia--a good cause - as well as being an orphan, this article promotes a now abandoned way of doing things. Most of the debating part likely exists on other pages.
IOC/Olympic Movement - Orphan contains only an old note saying that copyrighted material was removed.
History of Science and Technology/Chemistry - old format orphan with limited simplistic content that's included elsewhere.
Wikipedia/Code - redundant orphan with no content
Wikipedians/Todo - someone's old misplaced to do list
Mark Shuttleworth; Danny Fischler;

Other Wikipedia Utilities

==See also==

Wikipedia:Wikipedia utilities/Deleted page titles, a brief attempt to list titles that were deleted on this page

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-Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below so an admin person can find them, check to see that they are indeed not legitimate pages, and delete them.  If the content of a page-to-be-deleted exists on some different page, please indicate that, somehow, on the page-to-be-deleted (either by redirecting it to the correctly titled page, or, better for our purposes, putting in a link to it).  To facilitate checking that a "page title to be deleted" really ought to be deleted, please don't redirect such pages to [[page titles to be deleted]].
+{{historical}}
+Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below so an admin can find them, check to see that they are indeed not legitimate pages, and delete them.  If the content of a page-to-be-deleted exists on some different page, please indicate that, somehow, on the page-to-be-deleted (either by redirecting it to the correctly titled page, or, better for our purposes, putting in a link to it).  To facilitate checking that a "page title to be deleted" really ought to be deleted, please don't redirect such pages to page titles to be deleted.
-'''Please review [[Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages]] before adding to this page.'''  In the past, about half of the titles added to this page ''were not'' deleted.  In particular, do not add article names to this list that might in the future become articles.  There's no reason to delete those.  Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page.  E.g., a page called [[Hume]] can be easily and sensibly redirected to [[David Hume]]; [[presidant]] (a misspelling) can be redirected to [[president]]; etc.  (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!)
+'''Please review [[Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages]] before adding to this page.'''  In the past, about half of the titles added to this page ''were not'' deleted.  In particular, do not add article names to this list that might in the future become articles.  There's no reason to delete those.  Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page.  E.g., a page called [[Hume]] can be easily and sensibly redirected to [[David Hume]]; [[presidant]] (a misspelling) can be redirected to [[president]]; etc.  (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!)  Similarly, pages in the wrong namespace (for example, user pages in the main namespace), can be redirected and should not be deleted if there are still old links to them. (See [[wikipedia talk:Wikipedia_utilities/Page_titles_to_be_deleted|Talk]])
+NOTE to [[Wikipedia:Wiki Administrators|Wiki Administrators]]: Simply deleting a page does ''not'' automatically delete its talk page or any subpages. Please delete these pages first, and then the main page. Also, if you are presented with a page in the database that only has "Describe the new page here." in an edit box, then please remove this phrase, hit save and then check the history of that page to make sure its content wasn't simply replaced by "Describe the new page here.". Then you can delete the page.
-*[[Bryan Derksen]] - moved to User namespace
-*[[LC]] and [[Talk:LC]] - moved to the new User namespace
+*[[362 Rappaz]] - wikipedia is not a web directory
+*[[Pre-automatic dictatorship]] -- idiosyncratic nonsense
-*[[Bulletboy]] - vandal
-*[[Clifford D.Gayo]] - same vandal
+*[[Light rail/USA]] - copyright violation
+*[[William Shakespeare/How to upload Shakespeare to Wikipedia--a good cause]] - as well as being an orphan, this article promotes a now abandoned way of doing things.  Most of the debating part likely exists on other pages.
-*[[SuperMutants]] - nonsense by vandal
+*[[IOC/Olympic Movement]] - Orphan contains only an old note saying that copyrighted material was removed.
-*[[The X-Boys SuperMutants]] - more of the same
+*[[History of Science and Technology/Chemistry]] - old format orphan with limited simplistic content that's included elsewhere.
-*[[The X-Boys]] - more
+*[[Wikipedia/Code]] - redundant orphan with no content
-*[[Light Warriors]] - more
+*[[Wikipedians/Todo]] - someone's old misplaced to do list
-*[[Gayo Royal Family]] - more of the same - vandalism deleted
+*[[Mark Shuttleworth]]; [[Danny Fischler]];
-*[[Koryo Gayo]] - vandalism deleted
+-----
-*[[Gayo Language]] - vandalism deleted
-*[[God of Music]] - vandalism deleted
-*[[Dirt Bike Racing]] - vandalism deleted
-*[[Clifford Gayo]] - vandalism deleted
-*[[talk:REXX]] - [[REXX]] is now a redirect to [[REXX programming language]] as suggested in [[talk:REXX]].
-*[[Unobtainium]] - [[Wikipedia is not a dictionary]]
-*[[Glastonbury WikiPaedia]] - Wikipedia is not a web directory
-*[[Homicidal organization]] - content deleted; can't see how this could possibly become an article
-*[[Ideocidal organization]] - ditto.
-*[[talk:Ideocidal organization]] - talk page for [[ideocidal organization]]
-*[[Scattered Zaphenoids]] - vandal
-*[[Battle of Adrianopol]] - should be Adrianople, Adrianopol is Polish name.
-*[[Killer joke]] -- vandal
-*[[Christopher P. Gayo]] -- vandal
-*[[Christopher P.Gayo]] -- vandal
-*[[Gayo,Christopher P.]] -- vandal
-*[[Ronie P.Gayo]] -- poorly written, non-specific subjective stub ("He believes God in his own way cause he is a demigod...")
-*[[Xenia Rose]] -- non-specific, subjective stub ("Xenia Rose is a pretty cute girl...")
-*[[Uniting countries]], [[Common Earth Language]]: No content, bad titles.
-*[[Sister Cities]] -- created in a moment of nomenclature-ignoring stupidity, now correctly re-titled
-*[[Depose]] -- defintion
-*[[Deponent]] -- definition
-*[[DON QUIXOTE, EL DONKEY, EL DINERO.  READ THE NOVEL OF NARFARD FLARP TODAY RAWR GBS4L]] - vandalism
-*[[UpTravel]] -- advertisement
-*[[1UpTravel]] -- same advertisement
-*[[1UpTravel.com]] -- same advertisement again
-*[[Toucan]] -- only contained broken link to an image.
-*[[Luis_Figo,_a_most_disloyal_player]] (I think it has underscores; for now, I've redirected to a page just named Luis_Figo. Also [[Luis]], which I accidentally created in making the redirect. (Not sure we need a page on Figo, but this is minimal) [[Vicki Rosenzweig]]
-*[[Islamabadies]] -- someone's self-promotion
-*[[Goatse.cx]] -- has only an unactivated [[talk:Wikipedia_utilities|/talk]] link
-*[[Albert Archilles]] Achilles i guess is correct, and it is repeated at [[Albrecht Achilles]]
-*[[talk:Albrecht Achilles]] talk page on redirect does not make sense, does it.
-*[[TwoOneTwo]] - old user space
-*[[AtestPage]] - nothing here
-*[[Belgium/Belgie]] - content moved to Belgium page
-*[[Baltic Sea/Odra]] -- page whose only object is to tell us that "since 1945, the eastern side of the Oder is called Odra in Polish." My guess is that the Poles have always called the Oder the Odra -- but since English speakers say Oder...
-*[[Bubble sort/C]] - Not only is it an orphan redirect, but it's broken! It redirects to itself rather than redirecting to the proper page ([[Bubble sort]]).
-*[[Bipolar disorder/An older, deprecated, version of this page]] - not needed anymore
-*[[BusinessSchools/KingstonUniversityLondon]] - no content, bad title
-*[[BusinessSchools/SheffieldHallamUniversity]] - same
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1970-1979]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1990-1991]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1980-1989]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1992-1993]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1994]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1995]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1996]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/Before 1970]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1997]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1998]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/1999]] - blank
-*[[Computer Aided Design/2000]] - blank
-*[[Covadonga]] - nonsense
-*[[Conservatory]] - definition
-*''xyz''/wiki.phtml - for numerous values of ''xyz'' (These pages seem to be created by a bug in the new software.)
-*[[Cullen T. M. McGough]] - vandal? wikipedian? I'm not sure, but it seems more like the first
-*[[ClassPath]] - article was copyrighted
-*[[Homepage of Sampath Suranga]] consisted of a recommendation to click on a "cool" link
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 '''Other Wikipedia Utilities'''<br>
-*[[Wikipedia utilities/find or fix a stub]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia utilities/Pages needing attention]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Pages needing attention]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia utilities/Navigation links]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Navigation links]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia statistics]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Statistics]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia policy]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Policy]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia FAQ]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:FAQ]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia Announcements]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Announcements]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia help desk]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Help desk]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia/Most popular pages]] <br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Most popular pages]]<br>
-:''See also :'' [[Wikipedia utilities]]
+:''==See also==
+*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia utilities/Deleted page titles]], a brief attempt to list titles that were deleted on this page