Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/How to prevent mold
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- 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 IAR speedy delete both, as it is obvious the author's intent was promotional--something which can't be tolerated on Wikipedia. Author also blocked. Blueboy96 18:07, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikipedia is not a how-to manual. « ₣M₣ » 15:30, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- Delete unless wikibooks (or some other sister wiki) wants it. Hut 8.5 15:39, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong delete ridiculous how-to and attempt by one user to get people to visit his blog (original version had links to personal blog and requests for comment there). This should have been speedied. Barring that, it should have been prodded (the only person who contested the prod was the article's own author, who has repeatedly ignored attempts to explain policy to him). I have already advised the user that he is welcome to contribute at wikiHow or Knol, but the user has ignored these messages and instead continued to create more how-to pages on WP. Politizer talk/contribs 15:43, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Delete Totally rediculous article. Fails almost every policy in the book. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 16:28, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as per Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook. --Allen3 talk 16:41, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:NOTHOWTO. The comment "also if you have any questions about mold leave a comment and i will get to it as soon as i can.....thank you for reading the blog" at the end has tones of WP:OWN in it. Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 16:55, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Crack out the WP:SNOW and delete it. Explicit 'how to' article. JulesH (talk) 17:05, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I recall that there was a few days previous a similar article on getting rid of mold, presumably by the same author, who apparently intends to continue indefinitely. I do not recall how it was deleted by prod or speedy, but it was removed. There is unfortunately no speedy rationale for this; an additional article, "Preventing mold" was speedied as G4, recreation, which was not a correct speedy, but I understand the temptation. However, if it continues, the obvious intent here is to disrupt Wikipedia, & I intend to delete future similar attempts as vandalism. I am also prepared to block the user, if there is another such article, and I have warned him accordingly. His user page might well be an MfD candidate as well. For the moment, this would be an appropriate SNOW DELETE. DGG (talk) 17:33, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:NOTHOWTO. Bongomatic 17:43, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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