Wikisource:Proposed deletions/Archive 2021

This page collects done requests for deleting specific articles from Wikisource, 2021.

Other archives see here.

January 2021

File:Leabhar na Polainne.djvu

available at commons (also, I forgot to double check the date of death, so it didn't need to be uploaded here in the first place) -- Jimregan (talk) 20:49, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:19, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Jimregan (talk) 21:41, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"what shall we do with ... the drunken text"

-) See the page محمد گلندام by an IP (from Iran): no source, no language, no author etc... -jkb- (talk) 19:31, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We don't provide hosting for any random text. I'm deleting this as totally inappropriate. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:26, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some old redirections

@-jkb-:

Thanks ;-) Reptilien.19831209BE1 (talk) 21:34, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

+ Template:CIW/styles.css now on wa:Template:CIW/styles.css

My pleasure :-) -jkb- (talk) 21:47, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I have both (here and bellow) in mind. Regards -jkb- (talk) 14:58, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some old categories

Done -jkb- (talk) 18:38, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Melancholy loss of the whale-fishing ship Oscar, of Aberdeen, on Thursday, April 1, 1813.pdf

Transwiki'd to Commons. billinghurst sDrewth 02:33, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

migrated to English Wikisource billinghurst sDrewth 02:37, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:43, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

February 2021

Undelete Wikisource:Sandbox

On 13 January 2021 Candalua deleted it without discussion. Was it proper?--Jusjih (talk) 22:31, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Candalua: Why did you do this? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:22, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ouch. Must have been another malfunction of the mass-delete gadget. I solemnly promise not to use it anymore without checking every single deleted item. Candalua (talk) 10:48, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done by Candalua; but anyway, we should try to avoid using the mass deletion tool if not necessry, and the to controll the deletions. It seems not to work properly every time. -jkb- (talk) 10:12, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge vol 1 no 1.djvu

Transferred to Commons -- Jimregan (talk) 21:43, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done -jkb- (talk) 23:05, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Jimregan (talk) 21:12, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

March 2021

File:Rubáiiát Omár Caiiám ó Naíseápúr - Ó Donnchadha.djvu

Transferred to Commons -- Jimregan (talk) 11:33, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done -jkb- (talk) 13:16, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Irishliterature10mcca.djvu

Transferred to Commons -- Jimregan (talk) 11:40, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done -jkb- (talk) 13:16, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Index:The Moving Picture World, Volume 1 (1907).pdf

I accidentally created page on multilingual wsource. Page has no history aside from creation, and has already been recreated on English wsource. Mcrsftdog (talk) 22:37, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done -jkb- (talk) 22:45, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

June 2021

User:-insert valid name here-

Page is unnecessary per global user pages. -insert valid name here- (talk) 18:58, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, see SUL as well, I'm not sure what to do here. -jkb- (talk) 22:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

deleted I see no reason for not following user request concerning their user talk page. Ankry (talk) 17:36, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

July 2021

Some short pages

Some short, out of scope, probably test, pages: Kabila, Page:Bali-lontar-panebasan-wuku-300ppi.pdf/1, ყბაჩამ დაიგვიანა, Коръән тәфсире (Ногмани)/Маидә (Аш Яулыгы) сүрәсе, រដ្ឋធម្មនុញ្ញនៃរដ្ឋកម្ពុជា, Polimie, è grand eccès, di crudeltat, 96 Sureya Eleq an Ferkera Bixwîne, 68 Sureya Qelem an Ferkera Pênûs, The millets

This one is in Hindi: HANUMANASHTAK and seems out of scope, no source, no author, no license, etc.

This one is in French: Histoire du necronomicon, H-P Lovecraft, and seems out of scope (summary of Necronomicon).

This one is in Spanish: Ley de prestacion de servicios inmobiliarios del distrito federal, a Mexican law. No source, so I won't move it to es.source.

And 2 talk pages of non existent users, also broken redirects: User talk:Tigresa2019 and User talk:Alexlur.

Best regards, -jkb-. And keep safe! -Aleator 20:30, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A few more:

Popol Wuj: out of scope (just 3 interwikis-like)
K madhavan asianet: test page
Francois 1er: test page
Lenyepaneun: empty, index was deleted in Commons on 2017 (see File:Kumpulan piwejang R H Muhammad Nuh Cianjur.djvu).
Carta del Almirante D. Cristóbal Colón al Sr. Rafael Sánchez, in Spanish, contains errors (year 1943 instead of 1493), too short to be an epistle, 100% modern ortography (license?), so I won't move it to es.source in these conditions.
Coptic language: out of scope (just a definition)

Bye! -Aleator 20:55, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks, I have a look at it tomorrow. But, we have, I'm afraid, dozens or hundreds of such pages here :-( -jkb- (talk) 22:11, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I took the liberty to delete what was clearly deleteable. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 06:20, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and deleted the other three as well. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 12:41, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

all Done by some users... (-jkb- (talk) 16:56, 25 October 2021 (UTC))[reply]

Wikisource:Confirmed users

I would expect an explanation in English about Confimed users, not one single sentence in Spanish. If you have a look at Special:UserGroupRights, you can see that more rights are connected to confirmed users than just uploading files. This page seems not to be very helpful. --Ameisenigel (talk) 17:43, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

But, however, I don't see any reason to delete the page. You are fully free to translate it into English :-) -jkb- (talk) 21:14, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

大医精诚

I guess this page is out of scope here (+ obviously self translation), might be the English wikisource could take it, - ?? -jkb- (talk) 13:54, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done deleted as not appropriate here, -jkb- (talk) 09:58, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cannot take it to English Wikisource while unsure when, where and who translated from Chinese to English.--Jusjih (talk) 00:01, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

August 2021

Article "Язык - как канал познания" from "Erzyan Mastor" newspaper

The article:

Эрзянь Мастор/2003/19/Язык - как канал познания

It should be deleted from the Wikisource because seemingly it is not free-licensed. Actually it was written by Erzyan linguist Dimtry Tsygankin (Цыганкин, Дмитрий Васильевич in the Russian Wikipedia, there is no an English Wikipedia article on him at this moment), though his authorship was not signed in the article (proposed here for deletion) itself, but indication of his authorship was provided in the next newspaper issue — article Эрзянь Мастор/2003/20/Язык - как канал познания, a quote from it, in translation to English: "In "EM" No. 170 a mistake was made — the name of the author of this article was not indicated. ... We ask Dmitry Vasilyevich and readers to forgive us for this fault." Notwithstanding the decision of the owners of the newspaper that all the materials of the newspaper are licensed under CC BY 4.0, this decision applies only to works by staff employees of the newspaper, and cannot be applied to articles originated from independent persons outside the staff, whose copyrights are not owned by the newspaper. This author does not work as staff member for the nespaper — at least, we have no evidences for this; also we have no evidences that he submitted the copyright to the newspaper, or released the article under a free license; so far the article currently should be deleted. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. --Nigmont (talk) 18:37, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think I agree with a deletion. -jkb- (talk) 22:38, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done -jkb- (talk) 06:24, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I also removed all links to this article from the newspaper issue. Thanks! --Nigmont (talk) 19:01, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

thx! -jkb- (talk) 20:46, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Birmal Hembram

Part of a crosswiki spam campaign. Author account is globally locked. --Green Giant (talk) 06:13, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks -jkb- (talk) 07:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Progreso - 8a yaro.pdf

This file contains 2 volumes of the periodical 'Progreso'. I think it should be deleted and the volumes added separetely with their original names (Tomo VIII and Tomo IX instead of 8a Yaro).

Also I’m not sure of the copyright status. The volumes were not published in 1908 as mentioned in the description of the file, but in 1931 and 1932. Rosacentifolia (talk) 17:08, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If there is a reason to split the file, anyone is free to do it. Also, feel free to fix the description if necessary. Copyright doubts may be a reason for deletion by they need to be raised more precisely. Ankry (talk) 17:25, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, not sure how to handle this. Is there a way to split the existing file ? Or should I re-upload a split version of it ?

The only infos I have regarding the copyright are the publishing dates written on the covers, 1931 and 1932, and the year of death of some of the contributors : 1969 for S. Bakonyi, 1999 for A. Matejka. I don't know if that’s enough to prove copyright infringement. Rosacentifolia (talk) 21:43, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Ankry User:Rosacentifolia: Any update on this? --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 20:07, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Closed the case while the file is on Commons, not here. Index:Progreso - 8a yaro.pdf is here separately.--Jusjih (talk) 23:46, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 2021

Wikipedia

Out of scope, xwiki troll. Thanks. Dylsss (talk) 16:04, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done -jkb- (talk) 21:21, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Tomoportrait.001.JPG

Uploaded and edited by two users in 2005 whose only edits are here on this file. There is no description or license info whatsoever and it is not being used anywhere, so I cannot see any possible use for this file at all. Dylsss (talk) 16:37, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 20:04, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Deveux Joseph.jpg

Uploaded to Commons with VRT permission, so no need to keep local file. Dylsss (talk) 16:37, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 20:04, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up Hungarian MediaWiki messages

I’d like to have the following approximately 300 Hungarian MediaWiki messages deleted:

Some of them are simply not used anymore, and thus completely useless (e.g. MediaWiki:already_sysop/hu has been unused for at least a decade). Some are basically, but not entirely, the same as what comes with the software (translated at translatewiki.net), so they don’t contain extra value, but at least make the interface inconsistent across wikis (e.g. MediaWiki:showtoc/hu: neither “mutat” (local) nor “megjelenítés” (software default) is better, but the difference causes that the table of contents has a different toggle text here than on other wikis). Some are outdated (e.g. MediaWiki:passwordremindertext/hu lacks parameters $4 and $5). Some are actually broken (e.g. MediaWiki:previousdiff/hu uses an HTML character escape, which seems not to be allowed there). Thanks in advance! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 18:42, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We might need to look at this on a more broader way. Judging from Special:AllPages, especially Danish, French and Japanese seem to have many of these messages too. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 20:08, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We might, but someone speaking those languages should review the list—I went through the messages one by one, skipped those that contain useful Wikisource-specific modifications (e.g. MediaWiki:aboutsite/hu agglutinates ‘Wikisource’ and would be different on other projects) and adjusted the Translatewiki versions when necessary. Deleting the Hungarian messages also declutters the list (making the MediaWiki namespace list three pages long instead of four), which helps further cleanup. So I think it makes sense to delete the Hungarian ones now and focus on other ones later. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:04, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree :) Unfortunately, my proficiency in Danish, French and Japanese is too low as well, so maybe somebody else is around to check them? --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 13:29, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done for the Hungarian messages with the exception of two (MediaWiki:Copyright/hu and MediaWiki:History copyright/hu). For some reason they are protected and cannot be edited nor deleted by me. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 09:18, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Those two messages can contain raw HTML (it’s not escaped before displaying them), and it looks like only interface administrators can delete them. Do you know how to reach interface admins? I’m not very comfortable mass-pinging all five here. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:29, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

at least @Ankry: and @Zyephyrus : are still aktive here. -jkb- (talk) 21:49, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

These two deleted. Ankry (talk) 06:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you all! :) --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 12:38, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 2021

Category:Wikisource collaborative projects

Either add Template:Empty category or delete this empty category.--Jusjih (talk) 04:08, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I can't imagine any future need for this category, so I went ahead and deleted it. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 15:36, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 2021

Template:Category

Unused template. According to its talk page, it was created to avoid category links to be processed as category links. However, this doesn’t work, and there’s a native solution (prefixing with a colon, e.g. [[:Category:Foo]]) since April 2004. Also, it was created for use in Template:Auteur, which was deleted 16 years ago. (And the {{category}} was removed from it almost 17 years ago, a week after its creation.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 00:29, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 17:44, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

AGW Bharat

It looks too encyclopedic yet unsourced. I recommend deleting, not exporting.--Jusjih (talk) 05:16, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. It was self-promotion. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 07:45, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Versi Ekumenikal 1988

Who wrote this English text? When? Where? If unsourced, I advise deleting, not exporting.--Jusjih (talk) 00:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The uploader doesn't edit here since nearly six years, but see User talk:Helang putih where this page has been discussed 2007. If there are no further informations I would delete it as well. -jkb- (talk) 15:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

P. S. He has no edits on other projects. -jkb- (talk) 15:17, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done -jkb- (talk) 11:23, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

December 2021

Translating:MediaWiki

Is it in the proper namespace? What is its purpose?--Jusjih (talk) 00:39, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

AJBot2 (globally locked as a long-term abuser) seems to have copied translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki’s lead section, it makes no sense here. They’ve created many other pages as well; looking at a few of them, they’re just as useless, so I’d say delete all of them (except for Category:Wikisource pages with incorrect protection templates, which happens to be correct, and maybe their user talk page). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:40, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is no need for these pages. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:09, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]