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This page lists articles, files and templates that are nominated for deletion. Any Wikivoyager can make a nomination or comment on any nomination. Nominations or comments should follow a rationale based on our deletion policy.

If our deletion policy leads towards a merge or redirect, then coordinate this on the discussion page of the article.

The purpose of this page is limited to the interpretation and application of our deletion policy. You can discuss what our deletion policies should be on the deletion policy discussion page.

Nominating

Add a {{vfd}} tag to the top of the article, file or template being proposed for deletion, so that people viewing it will be aware. Place the tag at the very top, before everything else, except the page banner. Do note though, if you're tagging a template for deletion, use <noinclude>{{vfd}}</noinclude> instead of {{vfd}} alone.

Add a link to the article, file or template at the end of the list below, along with the reason why it is being listed for deletion. Sign your recommendation using four tildes ("~~~~").

If you're nominating a file for deletion, make sure it's actually hosted on the English Wikivoyage and not on Wikimedia Commons.

The basic format for a deletion nomination is:

===[[Chicken]]===
Not a valid travel article topic. ~~~~

Commenting

All Wikivoyagers are invited to comment on articles, files or templates listed for deletion. The format for comments is:

===[[Chicken]]===
* '''Delete'''. Not a valid travel article topic. TravelNut 25:25, 31 Feb 2525 (UTC)
* '''Keep'''. There is a town in [[Alaska]] called Chicken. ~~~~

When leaving comments you may elect to delete, keep, or redirect the article. If you recommend redirection, you may suggest where it should be redirected to. Any attempt to merge content from an article to some other destination must retain the edit history to comply with the attribution (CC BY-SA) requirements of the free license, so it may be possible to merge and redirect but not to merge and delete. Sign your comment using four tildes ("~~~~").

Deleting, or not

If, after 14 days of discussion, the consensus is to delete, an administrator may delete it.
If, after 14 days of discussion, the consensus is to redirect or merge, any Wikivoyager may do it. If you make a redirect, please check for any resulting broken redirects or double redirects.
If, after 14 days of discussion, the consensus is to keep, any Wikivoyager may remove any VFD notices from that page, and archive the deletion discussion.
If there is no consensus after 14 days, allow a further 7 days for discussion.
- If, after the additional 7 days, there is no consensus, the page should be kept – any Wikivoyager may remove any VFD notices from that page, and archive the deletion discussion.
- If, after the additional 7 days, there is a consensus, implement it in line with the first three points above.
When deleting an article, check "What links here". Either remove the newly-broken links from the articles or point them somewhere else. Inbound redirects to a deleted page should either be deleted or redirected elsewhere.
When deleting a template, either replace it wherever it's been transcluded, especially if it served a formatting function. You can do this by adding "subst:" before the template name (especially if the use is in article space, you may then want to clean away unnecessary HTML or CSS code, which would make the wikitext confusing). Once that's done, you can delete the template without affecting individual uses of it. Otherwise, remove the template from all pages that use the template. However, do not delete the template first – this breaks links and will cause a swathe of red links, requiring a lot of cleanups.

Archiving

After you keep/redirect/merge/delete the article, file or template, move the deletion discussion to the Archives page for the appropriate month. The root archives page has a directory. Note that it's the month in which the action was taken, rather than when the nomination was first posted, that should be used for the archived discussion; that way, recourse to the deletion log can lead subsequent readers right to the discussion (at least for the pages that were deleted).

When archiving, always make it clear to other editors what the outcome of the discussion was. First, describe the outcome in the edit summary when you remove the discussion, with something like "archive as kept". Then add a line for the result to the discussion on the archive page.

If the nominated article, file or template was not deleted, then the nomination should be mentioned on its talk page. Generally this is done by providing a link to the deletion discussion on the talk page. One should also indicate the result on the talk page. If the discussion is short, an alternative is to place an (identical duplicate) copy of the discussion on the talk page.

August 2025

Latest comment: 2 days ago20 comments5 people in discussion

Articles created by A Sulaiman Z

I've just had to delete two articles by A Sulaiman Z (talk · contribs) as AI-generated (see their talk page). Even if gptzero.me was somehow wrong (which is unlikely; it often misreads AI text as human but very rarely the other way), I'm almost certain it is AI-generated due to the rather oddly formatted bullet points (which both Gemini and ChatGPT use) as well as how vague some sections are. I do not trust that these articles can be relied upon and I'd rather them all nuked and started fresh without any AI involvement. //shb (t | c | m) 09:46, 22 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

All articles in question:

//shb (t | c | m) 09:49, 22 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

September 2025

Latest comment: 2 days ago15 comments6 people in discussion

City centers

This travel topic was started a year ago, and nothing has happened with it. As discussed on the article's talk page, it is overly broad and unmaintainable. Every city has a centre. Ground Zero (talk) 11:08, 10 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Delete. I agree that this topic is too broad and can never function as a travel guide. Not one of these listings is useful. All the listings point to generic city centers rather than specific sites, and I don’t even know what specific sites would be listed. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 12:12, 10 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Delete. Pashley (talk) 13:10, 10 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Delete per nom and discussion here and on that article's talk page. Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:10, 10 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Delete as this doesn't appear to be even the start of a useful article. If we are to have a City Centers article, it should mainly be full of general advice about city centers, in a similar style, but with contrasting content, to Suburbs. Almost every city has a center (there are a few exceptions with multiple focal points), so a list is of little value unless the examples clearly show the evolution of city centers from 2000 BCE to 2025 CE. AlasdairW (talk) 19:57, 10 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Delete Way too broad of a topic and will be endless. //shb (t | c | m) 00:24, 13 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ip

Another cross-namespace redirect. I've replaced all uses of this link with one in the projectspace equivalent (except on three pages – two in userspace, and the other one where the cross-namespace redirect was the subject of the comment). //shb (t | c | m) 00:10, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Delete as unnecessary. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:48, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
~~Delete~~ Redirect Ground Zero (talk) 21:45, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Redirect to Crișana. There is a commune of several villages in Sălaj County, which seems to be in this region, named Ip. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 14:07, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
I just tried starting an article myself, but there's not enough there for an article of its own. That said, tourists might visit the memorial to the 1940 massacre that occurred here, so I think the redirect should be in place but instead go to the region Crișana as I said above. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 14:19, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
OK, good for you for finding that, but if we do redirect it there, the Crișana article ought to mention it. Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:28, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Sure, I've added a mention in "Other destinations". --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 15:47, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Great. Redirect per Selfie. Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:49, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
I too am in favour of redirecting now. //shb (t | c | m) 21:32, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply