Incubator:Requests for deletions

This page is for nominating test wikis for deletion, or for nominating pages related to the maintenance of the Incubator for deletion. Requests for undeletions can also be made here. To request the deletion of individual pages in a specific test wiki, please use the relevant talk pages where the editors of the test wiki are most active (such as the talk page of the test wiki's Main Page). Pages that should be speedily deleted should be tagged with {{delete}} with a proper reason.

It is typically not necessary to request that pages in a test wiki be deleted after the project has been given its own subdomain (e.g., aa.wikipedia.org), since such deletions are part of the normal workflow when creating new wikis. Eventually all pages in the test wiki will be deleted, leaving behind only the info page.

For the deletion policy, see Incubator:Deletion policy.

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Wt/rml

All pages are completely written in Russian, not in Baltic Romani. Таёжный лес (talk) 15:48, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Судя по всему, автор, @Samuel.A.Kim:, не совсем верно понял смысл Викисловаря. Думаю, это нужно перенести в русский Викисловарь. I think, it should be moved to Russian Wiktionary. --Danvintius Bookix (talk) 09:52, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Автор понял суть словаря, но учитывая, что автор создавал материалы в инкубаторе, то в первую очередь приоритетом было наполнение словаря, а не перевод интерфейса. Кроме того, учитывая, что данный диалект использует русский язык в качестве основы, то при работе в инкубаторе было удобнее пользоваться интерфейсом, который был предложен, т.е. русский. Samuel.A.Kim (talk) 19:18, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Neutral Per Ethnologue, 7,280 speakers in Poland, 12,000 in Belarus, 460 in Estonia, 1,970 in Lithuania, 5,640 in Latvia, and probably there are speakers in Russia, and all are in 5* (Developing) status. Looks like both Cyrillic and Latin being used for these speakers, just depend on where they're living, better to give some months to see if such purely-russian contents can be translated or not. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:38, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Anyway @Таёжный лес: The Danvintius Bookix above recently contributed some contents at Wq/rml, is that project also meeting same issue? Or that project is in correct language? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:46, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

In the correct language. Таёжный лес (talk) 06:54, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Oppose. Empty articles may be deleted, but the project should be kept. Once a native speaker or one who can speak it sees that it exists at least here, maybe they will want to contribute. By having it here we are giving them some visibility, what is crucially important for these languages, and may be a decisive factor for someone to contribute. Many articles do have a major component in Russian, and that component may be deleted from those articles, but articles as such should be keptAndrijko Z. (talk) 00:59, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

• I'll rewrite it so that the text is in Romani. --Danvintius Bookix (talk) 21:36, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Wb/be-tarask, Wn/be-tarask, Wq/be-tarask and Wy/be-tarask

According to I:PREFIX, the language (of test projects) must have a valid ISO 639 code, where Taraškievica doesn't, and I don't see any permits from e.g. Incubator:Requests for starting a test where this is however "specially permitted". --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:49, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

1. my activity was due to your invitation. Wikivoyage was created on November 6, 2013 . You created it.

2. there was an invitation to act on the page. So user:Ясамойла starting acting.

3. ISO 639 has a Belarusian language code (be) and Taraškievica is a orthography not a language.

4. right the truth. There's no money and the number of sites needs to be reduced.

Ясамойла (talk) 14:14, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

@Ясамойла: Why not just merge them with b:be:? Wn/be? q:be:? and Wy/be? invitation? No, that's from a bot called "Welcoming Bot" in 2014, that bot was not mine. "You created it." lol of lol, the creator is, as per Special:Diff/1104359 & Special:Diff/1101203, the @Travelour​:, so your first point is an instrument of ratification of your lies, as well as the second. The third one is correct, but as so, you shouldn't start such projects here, but try to use the existing be tests/project sites, as that's an orthography, and not a language, it's not belong to Incubator, but to the existing projects. And what's meant to be your last point? "no money", have you ever read m:Wikimedia Foundation? Wikimedia foundation is a non-profit organization, so why do you wanna it to have any "moneys" internally? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 15:20, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

I understand why the user thought that such projects could exist. There is a Wikipedia in Tarashkevitsa. However, the current rules do not allow creating any other Wikimedia projects in Tarashkevitsa. These projects can be combined with the corresponding projects in the official orthography. Or, maybe, after some reworking, these projects can be made in Interslavic language understandable to all Slavs. --Danvintius Bookix (talk) 16:13, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Delete, since these projects are not using ISO codes, and there are already Belarusian projects suitable for them to be merged into. ~2026-19611-25 (talk) 03:19, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Wt/grc

As suggested by the rejected request, and even agreed by a "keeper" of #Wp/grc above, there's blatantly no reason for having a Wiktionary in Historical language such as in Ancient Greek. For writting definitions of Ancient Greek words, the existing Wiktionaries e.g. Greek Wiktionary are already hard on doing so. I would hence prefer to merge these contents into el.wiktionary. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:25, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Just to be clear, I did not say that "there's blatantly no reason for having a Wiktionary in an historical language such as Ancient Greek". I don't agree on that point! What I've actually said is that I don't see reasons to preserve this draft of a Wiktionary, because the lemmas are too few and, above all, almost exclusively (80%?) written in Modern Greek. Probably, it is a draft by someone who wanted to translate them in Classical Greek but never had the time to do so. Since this Wiktionary is also inactive, and since there is no probability at all that this person will ever continue what he barely started, I don't find particular reasons to keep this very rough draft of a project alive. If someone wanted to restart an Ancient Greek Wiktionary, he could start it anew: having this draft or not would make very little difference!

On the other hand, having a real Ancient Greek Wiktionary would be useful: who could say that monolingual dictionaries are of no use for students of foreign languages? Nobody could say that! Therefore, a functional Ancient Greek Wiktionary would be very useful for the ca. 1 million students of Ancient Greek around the globe. Unfortunately, no scholar is currently willing to write such a monolingual dictionary for free. Anaxicrates (talk) 13:16, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Oppose. It's a good historical record. Others may be interested in it later.Andrijko Z. (talk) 01:06, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

@Andrijko Z. A good historical record? At least one former active user Leonardo José Raimundo is nowadays global banned. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:17, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

For me it's not an argument. The project may be cleaned if necessary, but not deleted. Andrijko Z. (talk) 01:57, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

• Delete, @Andrijko Z.: Are you really sure that you can speak such a historical language instead of a living language? From your record of contributions, I really really and really can't see anything as "good", all of your historical records are only promoting your bad properties instead of "good"s. --~2026-19854-51 (talk) 06:23, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

  Please stick back to constructive arguments. @MF-Warburg please pay attention to the tone of this user. Thank you! Andrijko Z. (talk) 23:10, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

  @Andrijko Z. You don't really need to ping MF-W or other administrators, since the user who made bad tone is just you, not me. ~2026-20750-41 (talk) 14:10, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Wp/atv

See Incubator:Administrators'_noticeboard#Wp/atv_existence. Таёжный лес (talk) 21:19, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Multiple projects

Wy/wal, Wy/zu, Wy/mg, Wy/aa, Wy/zyj, Wy/udm, Wy/wym, Wy/jbo

These projects only have one page, usually the main page, and have never been active since creation. They should be deleted. Breck0530 (talk) 02:25, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Wq/so, Wq/blk, Wq/dtp, Wq/aa, Wq/zgh, Wq/tcy, Wq/se, Wq/ary

Again, These projects only have one page, usually the main page, and have never been active since creation. They should be deleted. Breck0530 (talk) 02:30, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Wb/ab, Wb/ain, Wb/bhi, Wb/bug, Wb/mos, Wb/rw, Wb/sn, Wb/tum, Wb/ddo, Wb/lki, Wb/wal

Again, These projects only have one page, usually the main page, and have never been active since creation. They should be deleted. Breck0530 (talk) 02:35, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

wn/ace, wn/ain, wn/am, wn/gl, wn/ady, wn/ceb

Again, These projects only have one page, usually the main page, and have never been active since creation. They should be deleted. Breck0530 (talk) 02:40, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Wp/mki, Wp/beu, Wp/com, Wp/lrl, Wp/mhp, Wp/bgx, Wp/enx

Again, These projects only have one page, usually the main page, and have never been active since creation. They should be deleted. Breck0530 (talk) 02:46, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

For what?... Таёжный лес (talk) 18:38, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

For being inactive, not having any content (or very few) and just taking up space. Breck0530 (talk) 23:16, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

"Placeholder" projects have always existed on Incubator and are not a problem by themselves. Info pages with "tocreate" status (like Wp/com) also should not be deleted. If a Main Page properly written in the languages invites people to contribute, there is no problem. If there are additional problems, like the sole Main Page is not actually written in the language itself, or the language is dead/invalid, please elaborate. For example, I did just deleted Wb/tum because its Main Page was very broken with a lot of missing templates. --MF-W {a, b} 00:11, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

There is really no problem aside from that it has no content, so if you say that they are just placeholder than they should be fine. Thanks for telling me. Breck0530 (talk) 00:35, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

But also, these projects have never been active since creation. Breck0530 (talk) 00:36, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

• Delete Placeholder-only "projects" are nonsense of nonsense, gibberish of gibberish, trolls of trolls, and especially, damn of damn. --~2026-19854-51 (talk) 06:24, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Also Wb/ary Wy/acm Wt/acm Almajidy【Talk】 08:45, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Wp/ase

Pains me to say this but this project is unlikely to ever go anywhere. It has had no activity since 2020 besides spam. Most Deaf folks in the US, for cultural reasons, use English, and the SignWriting community is not very large. ~2026-10410-48 (talk) 22:57, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

And is it just me or are there not even really characters to represent sign language? They don't show up for me at least. ~2026-12914-86 (talk) 15:42, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a gadget you need to activate. --MF-W {a, b} 15:31, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

@Yair rand: What's the technical status of this project? I thought it was just waiting for MediaWiki to properly support vertical text or for VisualEditor to have better support for SignWriting? Have you had any contact with ValSutton lately about this project? Minh Nguyễn ^💬 21:13, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

This project has faltered in the past due to a lack of technical investment, but actually I think its potential has gone way up since 2020. If AI works for speech recognition in audio, it's likely to work decently for sign recognition in video as well; this would be an easy way to bypass SignWriting's traditional problem of having to learn a whole new writing system. Pharos (talk) 19:54, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikinews test projects

As of March 30, 2026, Wikinews has been shut down. Therefore, none of the Wikinews test projects on the Incubator will ever go anywhere. They should therefore either be deleted or the content should be archived elsewhere. DraconicDark (talk) 17:17, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Please note that existing Wikinews tests are now [technically] in read only mode (or restricted to administrators), and creating new tests is also restricted. 🪶-TΛNBIRUZZΛMΛN (💬) 20:13, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

I'd suggest to announce this question via top of these test projects' portal pages e.g. Wn/cdo via that tag. ~2026-20743-13 (talk) 07:51, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Done, there’ll now be a notice on every Wikinews tests info page. 🪶-TΛNBIRUZZΛMΛN (💬) 09:37, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

I am told that the Board considers making a decision about this and is in consultation about possible place to put this content, so let's wait for that. --MF-W {a, b} 13:20, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

And, for the record, what to do with RFL requests for Wikinewses (which many of them are marked eligible)? ~2026-22152-29 (talk) 01:22, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

If no users oppose, then I'd love to merge the above "Wn/kk, Wn/sah/ Wn/tt" section and another section below as L3 sections under this thread since we are discussing all Wikinews test projects here. ~2026-23926-28 (talk) 01:46, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Manually pinging @Nvdtn19 for Wn/vi due to talk page semi-protected. --~2026-23926-28 (talk) 00:32, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

I have no further comments on Wn/vi. This project just needs to archive and read-only like other cases. Nvdtn19 (talk) 05:39, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

As one of the main contributors and maintainers of Wn/cdo, I was caught completely off guard and deeply shocked by this news. Reading the statement below from the Wn/ms community truly resonated with me.

Over the years, volunteer reporters for Wn/cdo have actively gathered and edited news, gone on field assignments, and connected with locals to take photos and write articles—covering everything from major international events to grassroots local news in Hokchew, Matsu and Malaysia Hokchew community. Wikireporters even volunteered for field assignments in other cities, such as Shanghai, to cover local exhibitions. We were dedicated to ensuring that the Wikinews in our mother tongue was not merely a translation of dominant, high-resource languages, but instead possessed its own unique character. Wn/cdo is a project that has grown alongside the personal capabilities of its editors and maintainers.

It is profoundly regrettable to hear this news today. The editors of Wn/cdo are currently discussing where to go from here. Davidzdh (talk) 09:28, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Wn/kk, Wn/sah, Wn/tt

These projects are already on Russian Wikinews 151.135.197.56 13:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Tend to support deletion of Wn/kk per the rejected RFL, which as only having little substubs before RFL rejection, there are merely no benefit for having a separate kk.wikinews. Eventually, it currently has no pages. (Someone would say that there's second open RFL, but its creator Bauka0625 didn't create anything except their own user page here)

The later two were discussed in 2019 which result no consensus, of which Tatar Wikinews has its RFL verified as eligible, I'm not sure whether there's really benefit for second trial of RFD em. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 00:35, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Support I support the deletion of the projects as per the request. Besides that, these projects have never been active in the incubator since their creation.--ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 08:15, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ The last Tatar one may be a sensitive question as, again, its RFL is verified as eligible, I contacted a user who voted keep in that 2019 DR, that has several contributions to Wq/tt. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

"Delete" (in scare quotes because no use of the MediaWiki deletion functionality is involved here - the page will really be replaced with a pointer) wn/kk as empty. Delete wn/sah, which only contains a main page and no other content. Inclined to delete wn/tt, which only contains a Main Page and one news article from 2020, as well, but not as strongly convinced. In any case these can be recreated if there's a movement to develop the project outside of Russian Wikinews.

Once these are deleted, we need to decide what to do with the domain names https://kk.wikinews.org, https://sah.wikinews.org, https://tt.wikinews.org.

Inclined to redirect https://tt.wikinews.org -> https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B3%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82, https://sah.wikinews.org -> https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D2%AF%D1%80%D2%AF%D0%BD_%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%B9, but redirect https://kk.wikinews.org to https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8:%D0%9C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C (the project page explaining Russian Wikinews' multilingual initiative) since there isn't even a Kazakh Main Page. Although even the first two are very dead. And for all three domains redirect https://tt.wikinews.org/wiki/foo -> https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Foo. Pppery (talk) 20:03, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

@Pppery I think for 3rd one, once we indeed gain consensus to delete, we might need to discuss with langcom members on whether its RFL's eligible status should be revoked. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:42, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

The project should remain in-theory eligible. I'm effectively saying to do a soft delete - delete the nearly-empty test currently there without prejudice against a new movement for starting a test if one forms. Pppery (talk) 03:43, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

@OWTB: As you're most likely supporting to keep such "tocreate portal pages", do you have time on Pppery's suggestions above? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:57, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Anyway, it looks like the member who marked Tatar Wikinews request eligible doesn't agree to re-consider it should be revoked or not. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 05:01, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

If they are already present on Wn/ru, then at least, they should link to their respective pages on ru.wikinews. --OWTB (talk) 06:17, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Looks like the nominator already did so. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 07:53, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

• Delete Per board decision, they are already failed, and should go to 3rd platform for further contributing. --~2026-20743-13 (talk) 07:46, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Oppose all of the above. You should first ask one of the ru-Wikinews users (as me) to move these 4 pages. Таёжный лес (talk) 05:49, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

I have moved all useful Tatar and Kazakh content along with Yakut mainpage, and I'm asking the Incubator administrators to help me complete the migration:

1. Delete all content of Wn/tt and Wn/kk
2. Move all of the templates with redirects (~30) in Wn/sah with prefixes, under their current names to Russian Wikinews. I can't do it myself, because importing to Wikinews from Incubator is not allowed, local sysops cannot import pages from Incubator. In the edit description, would be good to specify the contributors who created the template and the CC-BY-SA license (because Russian Wikinews use CC-BY-2.5).
3. Place stubs from User:Таёжный лес/news on Wn/evn (another one language version hosted in ruWN), Wn/kk, Wn/tt, Wn/sah respectively.

Таёжный лес (talk) 11:30, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Empty Wikinews test projects

These Wikinews test projects contain no pages or only main pages: Wn/ady, Wn/ain, Wn/arz, Wn/bew, Wn/bgn, Wn/brh, Wn/ccp, Wn/ceb, Wn/cnh, Wn/ctg, Wn/cy, Wn/ddo, Wn/dlg, Wn/dtp, Wn/dv, Wn/dz, Wn/ee, Wn/ff, Wn/fur, Wn/ga, Wn/gag, Wn/gd, Wn/gl, Wn/gu, Wn/hif, Wn/hnd, Wn/ie, Wn/jax, Wn/jbo, Wn/jje, Wn/kbd, Wn/kip, Wn/kjh, Wn/kk, Wn/kl, Wn/km, Wn/kn, Wn/ks, Wn/ku, Wn/ky, Wn/lg, Wn/lo, Wn/min, Wn/mn, Wn/mnw, Wn/mr, Wn/mrh, Wn/my, Wn/nrm, Wn/nv, Wn/oc, Wn/om, Wn/os, Wn/pcm, Wn/phr, Wn/rw, Wn/sah, Wn/sco, Wn/so, Wn/tly, Wn/trv, Wn/ts, Wn/tt, Wn/tum, Wn/tw, Wn/vec, Wn/wal, Wn/yi, Wn/zu ~2026-21280-06 (talk) 09:25, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

False about Wn/tt. I don't see any problem with a test project having at least one page written in a language, even if it's just a mainpage. Таёжный лес (talk) 04:21, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Таёжный лес This is already being discussed on the section above. ~2026-23926-28 (talk) 23:06, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Probably Wn/als, Wn/ang, Wn/ba and Wn/bar can also be ditto opinions. ~2026-23926-28 (talk) 23:10, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose all requests above. Cause this doesn’t even matter if the consensus reach to keep or delete, as the board already decided to close the project. If the board ask us delete all tests, we'll delete them.🪶-TΛNBIRUZZΛMΛN (💬) 01:57, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Suggest to delete those with entirely no subpages, e.g. Wn/my, these can be feel free to go without prejudice. ~2026-23926-28 (talk) 04:00, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Wn/ms

I need clarification regarding the closure of Malay Wikinews. Will administrators on Wikimedia Incubator mass-delete all the pages associated with Malay Wikinews, given that there are currently a total of 1162 pages (including categories, templates, talk pages, and redirects) based on the statistics on this page? Or will the community be given the option to move/archive these pages elsewhere (such as Miraheze, or maybe one of the Malay Wikimedia projects with new namespace, or perhaps separate toolforge project)? Hakimi97 (talk) 05:08, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

I will tag active Malay Wikinews contributors such as @Stress 043, @26 Ramadan, @EmpAhmadK, @Izington, @Rulwarih, @Jeluang Terluang, @SNN95, @Zazamental, @Wiki Farazi, @Adikhebat, @Tofeiku, @Song GK, @Ceball1923, @Niduzzi regarding this. They have the right to know where their contributions would go, and worst comes to worst, send their final goodbye to their content. Hakimi97 (talk) 05:13, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Actually, with the exception of blocked users e.g. Zazamental (and some who are inactive for at least 2 years), I already posted noticement on their talk pages this morning. ~2026-23926-28 (talk) 05:20, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

As someone who has been very hopeful and working a lot on the release of Malay Wikinews since 2020, it is definitely upsetting to see the years of work wasted, especially with the recent creation of the news header template and all the work that the Malaysian community put for more original reports on the ground that also helped to contribute to other projects such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. I would suggest that even if Wikinews is no longer supported, the local communities on incubator should have the autonomy to continue running their own Wikinews (and any other projects if they also get shut down) afterwards on Incubator as it barely costs anything for the Foundation to support.

The initiatives taken by the Malaysian community such as to get the media pass to be the first to report on the iPhone 17 launch and have pictures uploaded to commons cannot be ignored. Even other news occassionally refers to the Malay Wikinews for their report, such as when the new Kamus Dewan Perdana website was announced, where the Malay tech news directly cited Wikinews' original report of the announcement from Dewan Bahasa.

If local communities are able to bring Wikinews to greater heights, nobody should be able to stop them. At least let us operate our projects on the Incubator even if it will never make it to its full stage, it's better than shutting it down entirely. EmpAhmadK (talk) 06:33, 19 April 2026 (UTC)