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Speedy (category): {{d}} • {{db|reason}} • {{deleteagain}} • {{nonsense}}
Copyvios: {{copyvio|url=source}}
Articles: {{subst:afd}} • {{subst:afd2|pg=article|text=reason}} • {{subst:afd3|pg=article}} • {{subst:afd top}} result • {{subst:afd bottom}} • {{subst:oldafd|date=nom. date|result=result|votepage=article}}

Other deletions

Redirects: {{rfd}}
Templates: {{tfd}}
Categories: {{cfd}}
Stub types: {{sfd-t}} • {{sfd-c}}
Images: {{ifd}}
Miscellaneous: {{subst:nfd1}} • {{subst:nfd2|pg=page|text=reason}} • {{subst:nfd3|pg=page}}

Cleanup

General: {{cleanup}} • {{cleanup-date|September 2025}} • {{wikify}} • {{copyedit}}
Dubious: {{cleanup-verify}} • {{cleanup-importance}} • {{fiction}}
Translation: {{notenglish}} • {{cleanup-translation}}

Mergers and moves

Naming conventions

Mergers: (category) {{merge}} • {{mergefrom}} article
Moves: {{move|newtitle}} • {{moveoptions}} • {{subst:moved}} • {{subst:notmoved}}
Transwiki: {{move to Wiktionary}} • {{move to Wikiquote}} • {{move to Wikisource}}

Other

Disambiguation: {{dab}} • {{dablink}} message
IMDb: {{imdb name|id=1234567|name=name}} • {{imdb title|id=1234567|title=title}}
In use: {{inuse}} • {{inusefor|time/message}}
Links: {{article|title}} • {{user|name}} • {{tl|template}}
Lists: {{listdev}} • {{dynamic list}}
Press source: {{authoronlinesource2005|section=mmmm d-d|author=|date=mmmm d, year|title=|org=|url=}}
Spoiler: {{spoiler}}
Users: {{subst:welcome}} ~~~~ • {{subst:welcomeip|sjorford}} ~~~~

User talk

Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace

Constituency changes

Constituency changes in the current Boundary Commission of England review - renamed constituencies may incorporate some boundary changes, but are for the most part unchanged.

Boundary Commission for England review, 2006?

Shire counties

Review area	Constituencies abolished	Constituencies created
Avon	—	Filton and Bradley Stoke
Avon	Northavon renamed Thornbury and Yate Wansdyke renamed North East Somerset Woodspring renamed North Somerset
Buckinghamshire	Milton Keynes South West North East Milton Keynes	Milton Keynes North Milton Keynes South
Cornwall	Falmouth and Camborne Truro and St Austell	Camborne and Redruth Truro and Falmouth St Austell and Newquay
Derbyshire	—	Mid Derbyshire
Derbyshire	West Derbyshire renamed Derbyshire Dales
Devon	Teignbridge	Central Devon Newton Abbot
Devon	Plymouth Devonport renamed Plymouth Moor View Plymouth Sutton renamed Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Essex	Basildon Billericay Chelmsford West Harwich Maldon and East Chelmsford North Essex Rayleigh	Basildon and Billericay Chelmsford Clacton Harwich and North Essex Maldon Rayleigh and Wickford South Basildon and East Thurrock Witham
Gloucestershire	Cotswold renamed The Cotswolds
Hampshire	—	Meon Valley
Hampshire	Romsey renamed Romsey and Southampton North
Herefordshire	Hereford renamed Hereford and South Herefordshire Leominster renamed North Herefordshire
Kent	Gillingham renamed Gillingham and Rainham Medway renamed Rochester and Strood
Lancashire	Blackpool North & Fleetwood Lancaster & Wyre	Blackpool North and Cleveleys Lancaster and Fleetwood Wyre and Preston North
Leicestershire	Blaby renamed South Leicestershire
Norfolk	—	Broadland
Northamptonshire	—	South Northamptonshire
North Yorkshire	City of York Ryedale Selby Vale of York	Selby and Ainsty Thirsk and Malton York Central York Outer
Somerset	Bridgwater renamed Bridgwater and West Somerset Taunton renamed Taunton Deane
Warwickshire	Rugby and Kenilworth	Kenilworth and Southam Rugby
Wiltshire	—	Chippenham
Wiltshire	Westbury renamed South West Wiltshire

Greater London

(UK Parliament constituency) (UK Parliament constituency) (UK Parliament constituency) (UK Parliament constituency) (UK Parliament constituency)

Barking and Dagenham/Havering: Dagenham and Rainham - Hornchurch and Upminster

Bromley/Lewisham: Lewisham West and Penge

Camden/Brent: Brent Central - Hampstead and Kilburn

Ealing: Ealing Central and Acton

Hammersmith and Fulham/Kensington and Chelsea: Chelsea and Fulham - Hammersmith - Kensington

Hillingdon: Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner - Uxbridge and South Ruislip

Southwark: Bermondsey and Old Southwark

Tower Hamlets: Poplar and Limehouse

Westminster/City of London: Westminster North

Metropolitan counties

(provisional recommendations, subject to further revision^[1])

Greater Manchester

Merseyside

(poss. dishonorable mention for Wallasey and Kirkdale, aborted cross-Mersey constituency?)

Tyne and Wear:

West Yorkshire:

-- excludes Met Counties (review ongoing), Cleveland (review ongoing)

DMY pages

Blocks of transcluded pages:

January 1, 2003 to June 30, 2003 (except Jan 9/19/23/27/31, Feb 9/16, Mar 26, Jun 16/25/29)
January 1, 2004 to June 30, 2004 (except Jun 3)
January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2005
July 4, 2005 → July 4 (linked to from Jackson, Mississippi)
July 7, 2005 → 7 July 2005 London bombings (linked to from 21st century, Nate McMillan, Yer Bird Records)

Other:

February 3, 1959 → The Day the Music Died
~~July 19, 1990 → 1990~~
April 26, 1992 [sic], April 29, 1992 → April 29, 1992 (Miami)
April 19, 1995 → Oklahoma City bombing
~~May 14, 1998 → Thursday, May 14, 1998 (linked to from Milk and cookies)~~
January 1, 2000 → Year 2000 problem
September 11, 2001 → September 11, 2001 attacks (many incoming links)
March 28, 2002 → March 2002
April 1, 2002 (linked to from April 2002, April Fool's Day, James White (theologian))
April 18, 2002 → April 18 (merged?) (linked to from U.S. invasion of Afghanistan)
July 5, 2002 to July 20, 2002 (except Jul 10) → July 2002
December 11, 2005 → Current events (linked to from Lightning rod, WikipediaClassAction.org)
December 22, 2005 → December 22 (linked to from Iraqi legislative election, December 2005)
~~January 24, 2006 (blanked, tagged for merge)~~
~~January 25, 2006 (blanked, tagged for merge)~~
~~January 26, 2006 (blanked, tagged for merge)~~
~~January 28, 2006 (listed on AFD)~~

Full list moved to User:Sjorford/DMY pages

Impossible dates

February 30 (links) — article

February
February 29
February 28
Talk:February 29
Gregorian calendar
List of historical anniversaries
January 30
March 1
March 30
Month
March 31
Soviet revolutionary calendar
30 February (redirect page)
Swedish calendar
30th February (redirect page)
February 30th (redirect page)
- Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw
30 (number)
~~1902 in Canada~~
~~WACA Ground~~
Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 30 (on MFD)
An Owl in a Thornbush (episode of Rome)
Stealing from Saturn (episode of Rome)
The Ram has Touched the Wall (episode of Rome)
~~2006 African Cup of Nations (squads)~~
~~Walter Leslie, Lord of Ross~~

February 31 (links) → February (AFD)

Mäntsälä

April 31 (links) → April

U.S. 3d Infantry Division

June 31 (links) → June

September 31 (links) → September (RFD)

~~Amadou Coulibaly~~

November 31 (links) → November (AFD)

(as at 32 26 July 2006)

See also: Talk:List of National Register of Historic Places entries for more not listed above.

Three/four counties points

Three Shire Stone (dab)
Three Shire Stone (Lake District) - Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland
No Man's Heath (four counties) - Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire

Footballers and footballers

Okay, this is getting silly:

John Barnes (footballer) (Liverpool), John Barnes (Australian rules footballer)
Kevin Sheedy (footballer) (Everton), Kevin Sheedy
Gary Ablett (footballer) (Liverpool and Everton), Gary Ablett

Images with /ad/ in their URL

These images are stored on the image server in the "/ad/" directory, and as such may trip some oversensitive adblockers. Moving these images to a different filename is the only way of moving them out of this directory, and should be considered for featured pictures, images on the Main Page, and images on featured articles. Beyond that it's the user's own lookout if they have crap adblocking software ;)

The technical bit: The "/ad/" part of the URL is derived from the first two characters of a hex string, which is a hash of the uploaded filename, so 1 in every 256 images will be in this folder. Deleting and/or re-uploading the image with the exact same filename will therefore use the exact same URL, so to get around the problem a different filename must be used. Due to the nature of hashing algorithms, any minor change to the filename should work, even just changing case.

The image handling parts of MediaWiki are apparently undergoing redevelopment, which is likely to mean the whole naming system will be changed at some point in the future, and this whole problem will go away (don't quote me on this).

Local images copied from Commons:

Image:Global Warming Predictions Map.jpg - used by featured article Global warming, was on Main Page, replaced by Image:Global Warming Predictions Map 2.jpg
Image:Dinner plain summer pano02.jpg - featured picture
Image:Meadow Argus02.jpg - featured picture
Image:Natto mixed.jpg - featured picture

Commons images:

Image:Australia Cairns Koala.jpg - featured picture on English WP
Image:Schloss Schoenbrunn Gloriette DSC02028.JPG - featured picture on Commons
Image:Lightmatter wild cow.jpg - featured picture on Commons
Image:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg - may trip because the URL http://upload.wikimedia.org/.../Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg contains both the strings "ad" and "public"; this image is used by zillions of pages, and the filename shouldn't be changed anyway as it's supposed to be intuitive

Football clubs

Carry On

"Smart" quotes

Articles (not redirects) with the smart apostrophe (’) in their title: