Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Free Willzyx


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

The result was: delete all. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Free Willzyx
This is a single episode of South Park that was dumped in from the Wikiquote article. There is already a South Park page, but this episode isn't in it. Could someone merge it? (It would be episode 9.13). If it's just a matter of cutting and pasting I can do it, but I'm not sure if the history needs to be merged or something. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Koweja (talk • contribs) 22:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Appended nomination Towelie (South Park episode) and Trapped in the Closet (South Park episode) are also nominated for the same reasons. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Koweja (talk • contribs) 22:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Vote closes 12 January 2007, 0100 (UTC)
 * Vote extended to 19 January 2007, 01:00 (UTC) to allow more more people to weigh in, especially on this, where the scope of action may potentially go beyond the pages nominated here. —LrdChaos (talk) 16:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete all (2 deletes; 1 deferral). I will archive this in the "Pending" section of Votes for deletion/Log until the merge issues have been resolved. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge Let someone who knows what they're doing handle it Koweja 22:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: The problem is MUCH worse than this. User:Savidan has left us with a maintenance nightmare. They decided to transfer all the quotes from Wikipedia articles for South Park episodes, but rather than add them to South Park or create season articles which might be manageable (which has since been done), they created new copyvio-bait episode articles. Worse yet, they don't seem to have any of the required edit histories to give the articles the proper credit required by GFDL. It looks like most of the articles were merged into either the main article or the newer season articles, but again I didn't notice any edit histories for the merges, so now we have credit-less material two steps removed from the actual contributors. This is the worse screw-up of transwiki and merger I've ever seen in Wikimedia. I can understand why our editors might make the merger mistake, faced with the horrible challenge of hundreds of mergers, but this is unacceptable behavior from a Wikipedian whose "activity on Wikiquote is mostly to transwiki collections of quotations which have been misplaced on Wikipedia", to quote Savidan's WQ user page. And this person is a Wikipedia sysop! I have left an angry message on Savidan's WP talk page asking how they plan to help us fix this mess they created. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Lovely. I don't know much about transwiking, but wouldn't it be easiest to just delete the pages off of WQ then retranswiki from WP using old versions of the WP episode pages? If not it would seem that deleting the pages from wikiquote and wikipedia would be better than the licensing problems we currently have. Certainly would be better than us getting shut down. Koweja 05:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, most of the problem lies in the episodes that have already been merged, so no matter what we do with this handful, we have a massive cleanup effort to do. Technically, for the sake of WP contributors wondering what happened to their contributions, we should log the transwikis for each and every article Savidan transferred at Transwiki, including their ultimate fates (merge for most, plus whatever we decide for these), as well as paste edit histories on relevant talk pages for material that survived. Of the currently active editors, I know that Kalki, Aphaia, and I know how to do this correctly, but there may be others, and it's not that hard to learn. I'd be willing to help anyone who wants to give it a shot. I'd do it myself, but I'm still exhausted from real-life stuff, waiting to get past certain activities. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete all of the incorrectly-transwiki'd but not merged pages (even beyond the scope of this VFD, I'd say), and then go back over the ones that are merged and assemble the edit histories for those. (I know that I did a lot of merging of individual South Park episode pages that had been tagged for such a merge; I didn't think to check to see if they had been part of a transwiki, or if it had been done correctly.) —LrdChaos (talk) 14:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all and merge edit histories for others, per LrdChaos. Since we're supposed to log transwikied article deletions at Transwiki, I'll do this if we decide on "delete" for the nominated articles, to show how that part can be done. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


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