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Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below so an admin can find them, check to see that they are indeed not legitimate pages, and delete them. If the content of a page-to-be-deleted exists on some different page, please indicate that, somehow, on the page-to-be-deleted (either by redirecting it to the correctly titled page, or, better for our purposes, putting in a link to it). To facilitate checking that a "page title to be deleted" really ought to be deleted, please don't redirect such pages to page titles to be deleted.

Please review Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages before adding to this page. In the past, about half of the titles added to this page were not deleted. In particular, do not add article names to this list that might in the future become articles. There's no reason to delete those. Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page. E.g., a page called Hume can be easily and sensibly redirected to David Hume; presidant (a misspelling) can be redirected to president; etc. (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!) Similarly, pages in the wrong namespace (for example, user pages in the main namespace), can be redirected and should not be deleted if there are still old links to them. (See Talk)

NOTE to Wiki Administrators: Simply deleting a page does not automatically delete its talk page or any subpages. Please delete these pages first, and then the main page. Also, if you are presented with a page in the database that only has "Describe the new page here." in an edit box, then please remove this phrase, hit save and then check the history of that page to make sure its content wasn't simply replaced by "Describe the new page here.". Then you can delete the page.

362 Rappaz - wikipedia is not a web directory
Pre-automatic dictatorship -- idiosyncratic nonsense
Light rail/USA - copyright violation
William Shakespeare/How to upload Shakespeare to Wikipedia--a good cause - as well as being an orphan, this article promotes a now abandoned way of doing things. Most of the debating part likely exists on other pages.
IOC/Olympic Movement - Orphan contains only an old note saying that copyrighted material was removed.
History of Science and Technology/Chemistry - old format orphan with limited simplistic content that's included elsewhere.
Wikipedia/Code - redundant orphan with no content
Wikipedians/Todo - someone's old misplaced to do list
Mark Shuttleworth; Danny Fischler;

Other Wikipedia Utilities

==See also==

Wikipedia:Wikipedia utilities/Deleted page titles, a brief attempt to list titles that were deleted on this page

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 Add links to stupid, incorrect, or otherwise unwanted page titles to the list below so an admin can find them, check to see that they are indeed not legitimate pages, and delete them.  If the content of a page-to-be-deleted exists on some different page, please indicate that, somehow, on the page-to-be-deleted (either by redirecting it to the correctly titled page, or, better for our purposes, putting in a link to it).  To facilitate checking that a "page title to be deleted" really ought to be deleted, please don't redirect such pages to page titles to be deleted.
-'''Please review [[Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages]] before adding to this page.'''  In the past, about half of the titles added to this page ''were not'' deleted.  In particular, do not add article names to this list that might in the future become articles.  There's no reason to delete those.  Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page.  E.g., a page called [[Hume]] can be easily and sensibly redirected to [[David Hume]]; [[presidant]] (a misspelling) can be redirected to [[president]]; etc.  (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!)  Similarly, pages in the wrong namespace (for example, user pages in the main namespace), can be redirected and should not be deleted if there are still old links to them. (See [[talk:Wikipedia_utilities/Page_titles_to_be_deleted|Talk]])
+'''Please review [[Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages]] before adding to this page.'''  In the past, about half of the titles added to this page ''were not'' deleted.  In particular, do not add article names to this list that might in the future become articles.  There's no reason to delete those.  Also, please don't list pages on this page that can easily and sensibly be redirected to another page.  E.g., a page called [[Hume]] can be easily and sensibly redirected to [[David Hume]]; [[presidant]] (a misspelling) can be redirected to [[president]]; etc.  (Even misspellings can be caught by search engines and provide Wikipedia perfectly relevant traffic!)  Similarly, pages in the wrong namespace (for example, user pages in the main namespace), can be redirected and should not be deleted if there are still old links to them. (See [[wikipedia talk:Wikipedia_utilities/Page_titles_to_be_deleted|Talk]])
 NOTE to [[Wikipedia:Wiki Administrators|Wiki Administrators]]: Simply deleting a page does ''not'' automatically delete its talk page or any subpages. Please delete these pages first, and then the main page. Also, if you are presented with a page in the database that only has "Describe the new page here." in an edit box, then please remove this phrase, hit save and then check the history of that page to make sure its content wasn't simply replaced by "Describe the new page here.". Then you can delete the page.
+*[[362 Rappaz]] - wikipedia is not a web directory
 *[[Pre-automatic dictatorship]] -- idiosyncratic nonsense
 *[[Light rail/USA]] - copyright violation
-*<nowiki>[[Scooby Doo, Where Are You?]]</nowiki> -  not reliably linkable due to ? in title; content moved to [[Scooby Doo, Where Are You]].  Might have to use SQL to delete this one.
 *[[William Shakespeare/How to upload Shakespeare to Wikipedia--a good cause]] - as well as being an orphan, this article promotes a now abandoned way of doing things.  Most of the debating part likely exists on other pages.
-*[[Turboalberta]] - this orphan is nothing more than a link to the guy's homepage - in Flemish (but it does have some pretty aurora pictures)
 *[[IOC/Olympic Movement]] - Orphan contains only an old note saying that copyrighted material was removed.
 *[[History of Science and Technology/Chemistry]] - old format orphan with limited simplistic content that's included elsewhere.
 *[[Wikipedia/Code]] - redundant orphan with no content
 *[[Wikipedians/Todo]] - someone's old misplaced to do list
+*[[Mark Shuttleworth]]; [[Danny Fischler]];
-*[[Paula Danziger]]
-*[[Mark Shuttleworth]]; [[Danny Fischler]]; [[James Gosling]]; [[Dave Cutler]]
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 '''Other Wikipedia Utilities'''<br>
-*[[Wikipedia utilities/find or fix a stub]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia utilities/Pages needing attention]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Pages needing attention]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia utilities/Navigation links]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Navigation links]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia statistics]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Statistics]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia policy]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Policy]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia FAQ]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:FAQ]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia Announcements]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Announcements]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia help desk]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Help desk]]<br>
-*[[Wikipedia/Most popular pages]]<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Most popular pages]]<br>
-:''See also :'' [[Wikipedia utilities]]
+:''==See also==
+*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia utilities/Deleted page titles]], a brief attempt to list titles that were deleted on this page