Wikiquote:Votes for deletion
Votes for deletion is the process whereby the community discusses whether a page should be deleted or not, depending on the consensus of the discussion.
Please read and understand the Wikiquote deletion policy before editing this page.
- Explain your reasoning for every page you list here, even if you think it is obvious.
- Always be sure to sign your entry or vote, or it will not be counted.
The process
Requesting deletions
To list a single article for deletion for the first time, follow this three-step process:
- Please do not mark the edit as minor.
- Use the edit summary to indicate the nomination; this can be as simple as "VFD".
- You can check the "Watch this page" box to follow the page in your watchlist. This allows you to notice if the VfD tag is removed by a vandal.
- Save the page.
- Copy the following: {{subst:vfd-new2|pg=PAGENAME|text=REASONING — ~~~~}}. Replace PAGENAME with the name of the page you're nominating, and REASONING with an explanation of why you think the page should be deleted. Note that the signature/timestamp characters (~~~~) are placed inside the braces {{ }}, not outside as with standard posts.
- Explanations are important when nominating a page for deletion. While it may be obvious to you why a page should be deleted, not everyone will understand and you should provide a clear but concise explanation. Please remember to sign your comment by putting ~~~~ at the end.
- Consider checking "Watch this page" to follow the progress of the debate.
- Save the page.
- {{subst:vfd-new3|pg=PAGENAME}}
replacing PAGENAME appropriately.
- Please include the name of the nominated page in the edit summary.
- Save the page. Your insertion will be automatically expanded to the same form as the preceding lines in the file: {{Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/PAGENAME}}.
- Consider also adding {{subst:VFDNote|PAGENAME}} ~~~~ to the talk page of the article's principal contributor(s).
Note: Suggestions for requesting deletion of multiple pages, non-article pages, and repeat nominations may be found at VFD tips.
Voting on deletions
Once listed, the entire Wikiquote community is invited to vote on whether to keep or delete each page, or take some other action on it. Many candidate articles will have specific dates by which to vote; if none is given, you can assume at least seven days after the article is listed before the votes are tallied.
To vote, jump or scroll down to the entry you wish to vote on, click its "edit" link, and add your vote to the end of the list, like one of these:
- Keep. ~~~~
- Delete. ~~~~
- (other actions; explain) ~~~~
- Comment (not including action) ~~~~
Possible other actions include Merge, Rename, Redirect, Move to (sister project). Please be clear and concise when describing your action.
The four tildes (~~~~) will automatically add your user ID and a timestamp to your vote. This is necessary to ensure each Wikiquotian gets only a single vote. You can add some comments to your vote (before the tildes) to explain your reasons, but it is not required. However, it may help others to decide which way to vote.
Please do not add a vote after the closing date and time; any late vote may be struck out and ignored by the closing admin.
NOTE: Although we use the term "vote", VfD is not specifically a democratic process, as we have no way of verifying "one person, one vote". It is designed to "take the temperature" of the community on a subject. Sysops have the responsibility of judging the results based on a variety of factors, including (besides the votes) policies, practices, precedents, arguments, compromises between conflicting positions, and seriousness of the participants.
Closing votes and deleting articles
Sysops have the responsibility to review the list and determine what articles have achieved a consensus, whether it is for deletion, preservation, or some other action. All candidate articles should be listed here at least seven days before the votes are tallied. Many VfD entries will have "Vote closes" notices to indicate when the votes will be tallied.
- The sysop tallying the vote should add a Template:Vfd top ("vote closed" header with the result of the vote) to the top of the article's VfD discussion page, as well as a Template:Vfd bottom at the end of the page.
- If consensus is for deletion, the sysop should follow the deletion process to delete the article.
- If it is to keep, or if there is no consensus for action, the sysop should remove the {{vfd-new}} tag from the article and post a notice on the article's talk page about the completed VfD, including a link to the VfD discussion on that article. The {{vfd-kept-new}} template can be used for a standard notice.
- There may also be a vote to move (rename) or otherwise change the article. The sysop's actions will depend on the specific situation in these cases. In those cases, a notice should also be posted on the talk page documenting the decision.
To avoid conflict of interest, a sysop should never close a VfD that he or she started. However, a sysop may close a VfD in which he or she has voted.
After a reasonable time, a sysop will then move the entire entry into the appropriate month page of the VfD log. (Some old discussions are available only in the old Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive.)
Note: In the interest of cross-wiki cooperation, please check Wikipedia to make sure their articles don't link back to an article that has just been deleted. Also de-link any other language edition articles.
Reviewing closed votes
All closed votes will be archived indefinitely in per-month pages at Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Log. (A few are still found only in the old Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive.) See that page for details.
Deletion candidates
Yet another unnecessary template still around. It also consists of just THREE films. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 14:52, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 14:52, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 15:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:13, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:35, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
A couple of years ago, numerous templates related to whole studios were deleted. This is somehow still around regardless. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 14:53, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 14:53, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 15:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:14, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:36, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Yet ANOTHER unnecessary navigational template based on a franchise. While there *is* certainly more than others, it's still wholly unnecessary. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 14:57, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 14:57, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 15:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:18, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:37, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
A whole navigational template is NOT needed, especially when the source material is just ONE film (including ONE video game and two rides). — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 15:08, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 15:08, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 16:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:19, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:37, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
This is literally just FOUR films and nothing more. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 15:10, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 15:10, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 16:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:19, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:38, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Not needed (it's yet ANOTHER navigational template) — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 19:00, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 19:00, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete. We may need to have a policy about minimum entries for a navbox. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:44, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 20:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 19:59, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:38, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Literally ANOTHER unnecessary template: this only has one proper film and a short film (does an apparent cameo in a Space Jam movie count?) — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 22:57, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 22:57, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 23:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:27, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:38, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Literally YET ANOTHER unnecessary template. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 22:58, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 22:58, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete Five items is a basic minimum, but this has a link to a video game that is not quotable (and a redlink to a second video game that is also not quotable). ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:06, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 23:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:28, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:39, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
ANOTHER navigational template created by an IP address in 2025 or so. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 22:58, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 22:58, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 23:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:28, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:39, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
There's only ONE film, three short films, a video game and a TV special. Yeah, this has gotta go. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 01:54, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 02:00, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 01:54, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:29, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:39, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Two films, two short films, ONE tv series and TWO video games... yeah, I don't see why we should have this around. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 01:55, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 02:00, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 01:55, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:30, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:40, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Yet ANOTHER unnecessary navigational template. — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 01:56, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 02:00, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 01:56, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 15:30, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. Markjoseph125 (talk) 16:40, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
This is a full-on navigational template for ONE movie and ONE short film. You get why I'm nominating this-- not because it's ANOTHER unnecessary template, but for overall lack of content. Also, why does this template use the German logo? — 03isrflo62410 (talk) 04:26, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 05:00, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator 03isrflo62410 (talk) 04:26, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 12:35, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Quotes are not quotes. About someone else. — GrimRob (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Vote closes: 20:00, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as nominator GrimRob (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Pure pablum. Notability and quotability. Markjoseph125 (talk) 21:39, 8 August 2026 (UTC)