Wikiquote:Deletion review/Archive

Penn & Teller: Fool Us
~ Ningauble 16:20, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Please re-look at Penn & Teller: Fool Us which was recently deleted. There is nothing in stated policy which appears to imply that a show needs to have aired to have a quote page three days before it air. The article contains an introduction to the topic, and wouldn't fit under the closest policy of "no content". ~ Justin Ormont 02:21, 5 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment: As the admin who deleted this page, I would like to offer my reasons for the deletion. As I stated on my talk page, until a TV show is aired (or a film is released), any quotes placed on a page for that work are impossible to verify. If quotes cannot be verified, there is nothing to prevent users from inserting quotes that are not genuine. And if the page is created as a placeholder, it will be deleted for not having quotes. ~ UDScott 18:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Endorse deletion. Although the deletion reason, "Not yet aired," is not itemized in the speedy deletion policy, it is covered at Wikiquote is not a crystal ball, which explicitly calls for speedy deletion of "articles that are skeletons to be filled in after the work is released." This deletion is also consistent with longstanding precedent and consistent practice that articles without any quotes are speedily deleted because Wikiquote is for quotes. ~ Ningauble 14:53, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Endorse deletion. Pages must contain quotes, and the quotes must be verifiable to their inclusion in the quoted work. Because what was recorded on film is not necessarily what ends up being broadcast, we must wait until the broadcast to see what ends up being contained in the work. BD2412 T 15:08, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Just so, and also to see whether it has Quotability. ~ Ningauble 15:25, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Overturn I don't know what the content was but the main complain I see was that an editor wanted to release (for lack of a better word) spoilers before the programme was broadcast. Well I can say that the programme was broadcast yesterday having watched it myself so the original rationale for deletion is void so I see no reason why it can't be brought back. The C of E 18:16, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Kedar Joshi
BD2412 T 03:49, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Please re-look at the page Kedar Joshi which is going to be deleted very soon, as mentioned by Ningauble on its talk page. The subject of this page could be presumed to be notable as a source of quotes for any of the following two reasons.

1. The subject is cited as a source of quotes in multiple published secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. Considering the number of such sources, the subject may only be barely (or at the most moderately) notable as a source of quotes though.

2. The subject’s quote “God is a philosophical black hole, the point where reason breaks down.” has appeared multiple times in The Times of India’s well-known Sacred Space column, which is a regular, small, published, thematic collection of quotations, and, as such, it is a tertiary source. Being cited as a source of a quote in a reliable tertiary source could be considered a strong evidence of notability as a source of quotes.