Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Category:Mnemonics

&mdash; RyanCross (talk ) 09:10, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Category:Mnemonics
Inappropriate PROD-tags having been removed from a number of mnemonics pages (and mea culpa, by the way) I'm nominating the category of Mnemonics and all the pages it contains. They are: English mnemonics Biology mnemonics English astronomy mnemonics English biology mnemonics English chemistry mnemonics English date and time mnemonics English electrical and electronic mnemonics English geography mnemonics English geology mnemonics English mathematics mnemonics English medicine mnemonics English navigation mnemonics English spelling mnemonics English weather mnemonics French mnemonics German mnemonics Japanese mnemonics List of first-letter mnemonics List of mnemonic verses List of mnemonics Russian mnemonics Swedish mnemonics Weights and measures mnemonics Zodiac mnemonics My objections to these pages are much the same as for English music mnemonics, a page which is being dealt with separately above. There is hardly a trace of sourcing anywhere on these pages, which is a particularly serious problem where the subject tends to encourage editors to make the quotes up themselves. Mnemonics are in any case, I would say, only quotations in the broadest sense of the word. This whole question was argued out two years ago at Votes_for_deletion/Mnemonic_pages with an inconclusive result, but the situation has now changed in that we have decided not to accept unsourced pages any more. — Antiquary 18:55, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 19:00, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons given above. -- Antiquary 19:10, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per . Cirt (talk) 19:25, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott 19:44, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete The past Votes_for_deletion/Mnemonic_pages pointed out that few of the entries are sourced. The situation has not changed. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 17:36, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even if scrubbed clean of made-up stuff and reliably sourced as to wide usage and venerable antiquity, I would have reservations about keeping them because the meanings are trivial. These pages just attract made-up stuff like moths to a flame: burn 'em all. ~ Ningauble 01:49, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete these - but, I think we should have a Mnemonics page, with content limited to entries that have multiple good sources. BD2412 T 07:04, 28 January 2009 (UTC)