Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion no portals

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

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

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

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

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 – a how-to guide whose protocols on discussion format and shorthands also apply here
Wikipedia:Project namespace – our guidelines on "Wikipedia" namespace pages
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:

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|1={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}
for a second or subsequent nomination use {{mfdx|2nd}}

{{mfd|GroupName}}
if nominating several similar related pages in an umbrella nomination. Choose a suitable name as GroupName and use it on each page.

If the nomination is for a userbox or similarly transcluded page, use {{subst:mfd-inline}} so as to not mess up the formatting for the userbox.

Use {{subst:mfd-inline|GroupName}} for a group nomination of several related userboxes or similarly transcluded pages.

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.
If appropriate, inform members of the most relevant WikiProjects through one or more "deletion sorting lists". Then add a {{subst:delsort|<topic>|<signature>}} template to the nomination, to insert a note that this has been done.
Save the page.

III.

Add a line to MfD.

Follow this edit link and at the top of the list add a line:

{{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:mfd notice|PageName}} ~~~~
to their talk page in the "edit source" section, 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 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

XFD backlog
V	Apr	May	Jun	Total
CfD	8	90	88	187
TfD	1	0	8	9
MfD	0	0	0	0
FfD	0	46	42	88
RfD	0	0	60	60
AfD	0	0	0	0

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

Archived discussions

A list of archived discussions can be located at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates.

Current discussions

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.

July 5, 2026

User:DpvhoQVUyjkpbzYFb/Userboxes/Larry-Sanger

Userbox declares support for Larry Sanger, who was banned for off-wiki canvassing and threatening to doxx fellow users, among other things. Given that this userpage was just made today (and is the user's only edit), it may violate WP:UBCR as being substantially divisive. Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 03:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Keep. Project related. Don’t censor minority opinion. SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:17, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

July 4, 2026

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: Speedy Delete. Speedily deleted under WP:G10 (non-admin closure) Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 20:40, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

User:Kebaberaser51

Potentially violates WP:SHOCKGALLERY. Userpage describes its user as a "complete fag" and a "pidar," a Russian homophobic slur, and describes a "love for taking it up the ass." Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 20:01, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Speedy delete: I am fairly certain that this user page could be speedily deleted as vandalism. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 20:15, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
@Susmuffin I noticed that the page was nominated for speedy deletion under CSD G10; does that apply when the person being disparaged is the user themselves? I'd think so, but I wanted to make sure. Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 20:25, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: speedy keep. Withdrawn by nominator (non-admin closure) Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 20:42, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

User:Neopeius/Templates/Featured topic box

Redundant with Template:Featured topic box. Only featured on 2 pages, both of which are userpages. JHD0919 (talk) 18:59, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Keep as I don't see any harm in this. Maybe those users prefers the different color that the user template has, and that's fine. We can keep using Template:Featured topic box for official topics and let people use the user one for their own user pages. Skyshiftertalk 19:07, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
Keep Precisely. Green is for good topic. Gold is for featured! --Neopeius (talk) 19:10, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
Withdrawing per Skyshifter and Neopeius. I still think this is redundant, but given what they've said I see no reason not to keep it. JHD0919 (talk) 19:12, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

The result of the discussion was: wrong venue. This discussion is continued at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 4#Sahel Jedeideh. (non-admin closure) Chess enjoyer (talk) 22:08, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Sahel Jedeideh

Encourage page creation. Nehme1499 (talk) 10:57, 4 July 2026 (UTC) @Nehme1499:

Question: I don't understand this as an argument for deleting the page. Can you please clarify? Thanks, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:08, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
Sahel Jedeideh is a specific village, I'm not sure it should point to the disambiguation page. Wouldn't it be better to redlink it to encourage a potential page creation in the future? Nehme1499 (talk) 15:17, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
Procedural Close as wrong venue. It appears that the nominator is nominating a redirect, so that this should be at RFD. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:15, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

The result of the discussion was: wrong venue. This discussion is continued at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 4#Sahel Jdeideh. (non-admin closure) Chess enjoyer (talk) 22:12, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Sahel Jdeideh

Encourage page creation. Nehme1499 (talk) 10:31, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Procedural Close as wrong venue. It appears that the nominator is nominating a redirect, so that this should be at RFD. Was the nominator, who is an experienced editor, not using Twinkle, or was Twinkle misbehaving? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:14, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

MOS:Always end your sentences with a dot

Terminally feeble. Hoary (talk)^WWU 👍︎ 01:38, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Delete. Whatever it is intended to be, it doesn't belong in the MOS space (intended for redirects only, as I understand it), and if it had a serious purpose at all, it is clearly wrong. (Why? Because I say so! ). Wikipedia is not a webhosting service for pointless blather. AndyTheGrump (talk) 02:05, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
Delete It could be a good parody of MOS arguments but it's an obvious delete as totally unhelpful. Johnuniq (talk) 02:07, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Delete. This article is bizzare and not relevant to the wiki. It also appears to be the user's only edit. SenshiSun (talk) 02:09, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Userfy: This doesn't belong in the MOS namespace since it's not part of the manual of style, and maybe not in projectspace because of MOS:PERIOD, but it should be harmless as a userspace essay. Chess enjoyer (talk) 02:12, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
Userfy as a disputed single-author essay. SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:50, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

I can't see anything in Wikipedia:Essays that justifies describing this whatever-it-is as an essay. It is neither a meaningful further explanation of existing practice nor a proposal that practice be changed. If it does anything at all, it merely attempts, in broken English, to duplicate what MOS:PERIOD already says. We should not be encouraging random non-contributors to create ill-written material that misrepresents itself as a constituent part of the manual of style. AndyTheGrump (talk) 09:22, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

I use a very generous meaning of Wikipedia essay that includes any opinion related to the project. This could be advice on writing for mainspace. However, I can see that this sentence could be about writing sentences in general, or that it could be seen as something random and stupid.

I agree that it should be removed from MOS Space, either userfied or deleted. SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:11, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Delete per nom and SenshiSun. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:20, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Userfy. Clearly does not belong in MOS space and very confused, as per everyone here. But prefer userfy as a harmless alternative to deletion, AGF, and WP:BITE. Martinp (talk) 13:10, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Delete pending a non-humorous explanation by the originator of why this parody should be userfied. I don't expect such an explanation because creating this was the account's only edit. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:07, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
Userfy to User:Ghjoodjajr/Always end your sentences with a dot. Is this a revelatory 'essay'? No. It is also inappropriately placed in the MOS: shortcut namespace; that is the only major problem with which this page is afflicted. There is not an actionable enough reason to delete it here and we might as well not bite a newbie. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 02:41, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
Userfy because if this was originally created in the userspace, it wouldn't be deleted. Honestly I'm just here to be a part of MfD's first MOS: deletion discussion – Supertian8 (talk • contribs) 03:23, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

July 2, 2026

Draft:Travel Packing Guide

This draft was almost certainly produced by a large language model, but does not qualify for speedy deletion as G15, so should be deleted after discussion. I am not reporting this to the artificial intelligence noticeboard because this is a new editor and AINB is mainly for chronic or persistent AI use.

In particular, the use of multiple hash marks to generate a numbered outline is Markdown, which is not wiki markup and, when seen in Wikipedia, is almost always a sign of the use of artificial intelligence.

Delete as nominator. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:03, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. This article looks like a how-to guide (which would not be appropriate for Wikipedia per WP:NOTHOWTO) that doesn't actually tell readers how to do anything. The draft would have to be completely rewritten even if the topic were appropriate for an article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:48, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
- Move back to userspace per Martinp below. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:28, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
Move back to userspace, to User:Junaid-tech/sandbox which is where the user created it. They are new to wikipedia. This "draft" was nowhere near ready for AfC, and may never be ready, and it was an error in judgment by the creator to submit it. It's then the nominator here who moved it from user sandbox to draft space (legitimately, since AfC submissions should be in draft space), and now has nominated it for deletion as unsuitable for draftspace once it (appropriately) fared badly at AfC. However, as a user sandbox it is not bad enough to delete, so we should revert to the status ex ante. Feedback already given by AfC evaluator what the issues are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martinp (talk • contribs)
Delete, but WP:LUDA for similar cases in the future. Not doing much harm in draftspace right now. m s k 23:24, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
Comment - The underlying disagreement among the participants here at MFD seems to be how to handle obvious AI slop that doesn't qualify for G15, but is obvious, and in what namespaces. Martinp is saying that such material may be ignored in user space or moved to user space. My opinion is that such material should be deleted, regardless of whether it is in draft space or user space. I think that is what we disagree about. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:24, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
IMO this does qualify for G15 given the last two sentences. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 03:18, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
Delete per WP:NOTTRAVELGUIDE. WP:NOT is capital-P Policy and applies to all namespaces. This page is not a plausible draft of mainspace content. An unambiguous answer to the author’s misapprehension is kinder than an incorrect unclear response. Email the deleted content on request. The AI generation aspect makes it worse, including the point that a little bit of AI play consumes a lot of volunteer time in reviewing it. If too many pages like this come to MfD, the answer is to expand speedy deletion, not to tolerate misuse of Wikipedia. SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:45, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
I see @SmokeyJoe's point on WP:NOT(TRAVELGUIDE) and am equally comfortable with delete and my !vote above of userfy/move on that basis.

Regarding the AI point (and this is therefore equally a response to @Robert McClenon), I think that we should have one bar for what is obvious LLM, and therefore speediable. If it meets that bar, out it goes on that basis. That bar is currently G15, though its specifics can and will need to be updated (per Smokey). If something is not *obviously* AI we will of course need to engage on whether it is suspect, and what to do about it, if it is important enough. That includes drafts being considered for mainspace, talk page interactions, etc. But borderline AI detection is less accurate than people sometimes feel, and I think it's really not worth spending time on for a "useless draft" (pessimistic view) or someone's jot notes in their user sandbox (optimistic view). So I don't want to make decisions based on "shades of grey" likely-AI-slop-but-not-quite-G15 unless it is a page that is important enough to bother. Relevant disclosure: In one part of my work, I use an LLM to "write" repetitive content, but have trained it so the fact it is LLM-written is not detectable (if I didn't disclose). In another part of my day job, I write without LLM use, and recently have had a submitted paper rejected as "AI" on the basis of some sort of oversimplified markers like sentence complexity and structure. Martinp (talk) 14:51, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
Move to sandbox. I tried checking for anything close to a reliable source on this topic and couldn't find anything. It would take significant research and rewrites to get it past WP:GNG. I would consider treating this as notes in a sandbox as a gesture of goodwill to a new user, and it should be moved as such. However, if the vote was to delete, I would not be surprised. SenshiSun (talk) 03:02, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

July 1, 2026

User:Pidaert2/sandbox

This is a person's creative writing project. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 08:54, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

Tentative delete, per WP:NOTWEBHOST. That said, this is the only contribution of a new user who arrived only yesterday. We extend considerable latitude and in fact encourage the use of one's user sandbox to learn basic editing skills, and it's OK if that includes flights of fancy rather than placeholder text. This is one screenful, so I hardly think the "excessive" part in Wikipedia:User_pages#Excessive_unrelated_content applies as stated in the nom. My !vote would switch to keep if the user comes back and anywhere at all (here, on the sandbox itself) gives some indication that they're learning editing by playing around and intend to genuinely participate, rather than just seeking somewhere to store their creative writing. Martinp (talk) 11:27, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
Neutral, lean weak delete. I mostly agree with Martinp. I would not say this is excessively unrelated, but per WP:NOTWEBHOST, Wikipedia is not a place to write about fictional history. However, creator is a new user. If author makes genuine contributions that show they are WP:HERE, I’d lean keep. TruenoCity (talk) 20:32, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
Delete: Fake information. Fake fantasy material is incompatible with the purpose of Wikipedia and unacceptable in any namespace, including user sandboxes. SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:44, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
Delete - This presents fictional material as factual material, which is inappropriate even in a sandbox, where other readers may take it to be fact. I am aware of the guideline not to bite the new editors, but that doesn't mean to allow them to present fiction as fact, only to caution them not to present fiction as fact, and to encourage them to edit the encyclopedia. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:13, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Old business

Closed discussions

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates