User:Leebo/Nonsense pages

This page is a personal rant about a Wikipedia policy, and its common misapplication, written by User:Leebo. It is not officially endorsed by anyone else.

Contrary to the common misconception, nonsense pages are only deletable through speedy deletion if they are literally nonsense (i.e. the content has no meaning in any language). Silly pages, test pages, pages written in languages other than English, hoaxes, and student-created tomfoolery are not "nonsense" as it pertains to this criterion.

A page can be deleted as nonsense when it is simply a meaningless string of characters...

Example given - $₯fe₠./₣- ƒ-j ₭ ₤ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₰ £ ៛ ₨ ₪ ৳ ₮ ₩ ¥ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦

...or a collection of words that alone may exist in the dictionary, but together comprise an incoherent jumble.

Example given - i butt blattnt plant {{butt}} gunna take iup spiders bagiones preeow oooofa and you prickly dance town monsters

Take this into consideration when tagging an article for speedy deletion. There may be cases where new page patrollers are tempted to tag non-notable neologisms as nonsense, but as long as the content can be read and understood it is not nonsense (yes, even if it's silly or not very intelligently written).