Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/WikiProjects

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Current MfDs

There are currently 4 WikiProject-related MfDs ongoing.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Brandy

Project about a singer with 1 member and 1 talk page discussion about how this project shouldn't have been created and the creator agreeing. The 9 articles (according to the project) it has are not even worthy of a task force. Gonnym (talk) 07:38, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete we do not need a WikiProject for a singer Catfurball (talk) 15:53, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
~~Redirect to Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Beverages Task Force~~ – ah, this is not about the drink. Delete per nom as an abortive WikiProject created by a sock. Rename to Wikipedia:WikiProject Brandy Norwood if not deleted. Queen of Hearts (talk) 17:59, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The project page had 29 pageviews in the year 2023. (That means that on 336 days, no one looked at it.) The project talk page, where the work of the project should be done, had 5 pageviews in the year 2023. They were sitting there and doing nothing. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:05, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Premier League (cricket)

Unnecessary WikiProject that was created in spite of the objections of a number of users at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/Archive 94#Wikiproject WPL notice. As predicted there, this WikiProject has immediately become dormant, because it is a tournament that runs for less than 1 month a year (and so WikiProject will be dormant for most of the rest of the year). Women's Premier League (cricket) is a cricket tournament, and so a breakaway WikiProject from WP:WikiProject Cricket is not required. Note: I do not support any of the existing breakaway WikiProjects (WP:IPL, WP:PSL, WP:BPL, WP:LPL etc), and will be considering nominating them for merging with WP:CRIC too. As per WP:OSE, the existence of these other WikiProjects is not a reason to keep this one. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:29, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Joseph and also, accept that I made a mistake as discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/Archive 94#Wikiproject WPL notice. I have been thinking about this for a while and was actually going to make a proposal this weekend, which would've been for these WikiProjects to be superseded by respective taskforces of WP:CRIC. Current WikiProjects can be renamed and reworked into new taskforces as shown below.

Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:51, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have just started a discussion about these taskforces at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket#Merge WikiProjects back into this project, and would personally be more than happy for WPL to have a representative task force. (I was drafting the text for that discussion before I saw Vestrian24Bio's reply here, but agree with what they have said). Please anyone feel free to contribute there. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:55, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Joseph2302 just summed up what's wrong with Wikipedia as a whole with the statement because it is a tournament that runs for less than 1 month a year (and so WikiProject will be dormant for most of the rest of the year). There's a shit-ton more to "the sum total of human knowledge" than merely regurgitating yesterday's headlines and trending topics. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 19:05, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Interwiki corrections

This WikiProject hasn't had any activity and has only ever had one member. toweli (talk) 13:24, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, under-used and probably under-appreciated, still, no point keeping Wikiprojects that don't/won't ever get used. –Davey2010^Talk 17:09, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Looks like it could've been useful but the one member and creator has not edited since 2013. No attempt to revive over the past decade. C F A 💬 17:34, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not worthy of keeping WikiProject. Catfurball (talk) 15:55, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The project page had 15 pageviews in 2023. That is total pageviews in the year, not an average. The work of a WikiProject is done on its talk page, but the project talk page had 1 pageview in the year 2023. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:56, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sleight of Hand

Project created in 2015 and has ever had only 2 members interested in it. The banner itself has only 19 transclusions. This is extremely low even for a task force. Gonnym (talk) 12:38, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - The activity of a WikiProject takes places mostly on its talk page. The talk page had zero posts in 2024, and 5 pageviews in the year 2024. That is 1 pageview every 44 days. The project page had 28 pageviews in 2024. I haven't looked at activity in previous years, but I don't think that is necessary to show that this WikiProject either has died or was stillborn. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:23, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - In the year 2023, there were 2 pageviews of the project talk page in the year. 1 of them was the one post to the talk page, and was about quality assessments, and so appears to have been a message to all WikiProjects. Other than that, there was 1 other view of the project talk page in the year. Nobody is paying any attention to the project talk page, which means that nobody is taking part in the project. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:32, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. C F A 💬 01:44, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unused. –Davey2010^Talk 17:16, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not worthy of keeping WikiProject. Catfurball (talk) 15:57, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]