Search Results: Wikipedia:CANTFIX


Wikipedia:Editing policy
Minggu, 2026-08-02 22:13:27

it might be best included in our encyclopedia. Shortcuts WP:CANTFIXWP:CANTFIX WP:WONTWORKWP:WONTWORK WP:DON'T PRESERVEWP:DON'T PRESERVE Several of our...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragon King (DC Comics)
Rabu, 2025-12-10 05:02:27

is an insurmountable problem per WP:CANTFIX.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 13:43, 1 September 2019 (UTC) What part of WP:CANTFIX are you referring to here? That appears...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Line-line intersection
Jumat, 2025-11-28 02:38:25

deletionn, per WP:PRESERVE. Warden (talk) 12:09, 9 March 2013 (UTC) WP:CANTFIX Bg9989 (talk) 12:26, 9 March 2013 (UTC) You seem to be a new editor and...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Distance from a point to a line
Jumat, 2025-11-28 01:32:19

deletion, per WP:PRESERVE. Warden (talk) 12:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC) WP:CANTFIX Bg9989 (talk) 12:25, 9 March 2013 (UTC) WP:VAGUEWAVE. An encyclopedic source...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Convoy Financial Services
Senin, 2025-12-01 00:12:04

but argues for deletion anyway. However, unless this were a case of WP:CANTFIX, which it isn't, WP:IMPERFECT does not argue for deletion but fixing through...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 August 16
Senin, 2018-08-27 08:12:43

there was little hope for their eventual improvement as they were (WP:CANTFIX, the section just after WP:PRESERVE, makes that point). (See also WP:NOTPLOT...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robotic police officer
Jumat, 2026-01-09 00:31:28

WP:SYNthesis of various observations users have gleaned from movies. WP:CANTFIX so delete. Shooterwalker (talk) 04:22, 10 August 2011 (UTC) Delete What's...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gymnastics elements named after Simone Biles
Jumat, 2026-02-13 00:33:20

(UTC) If NLIST is met and there's no other outstanding concerns that we WP:CANTFIX, then IMO per WP:IMPERFECT the article should be kept and improved upon...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred 3: Camp Fred
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 22:37:14

unneccesarily bitey toward newcomers, and NOTHING in the article fell under WP:CANTFIX. A better result is that the newcomers whom you feel might be too interested...

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Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Arab Winter
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 05:12:19

fix, NOT delete. Whatever Cwobeel did may not be a good example of WP:CANTFIX policy. --George Ho (talk) 18:55, 21 November 2014 (UTC) If you are a named...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mego Sonny & Cher Toys
Kamis, 2026-01-08 05:10:43

your boilerplate, blind preservation is not out editing policy (see WP:CANTFIX). HrafnTalkStalk(P) 13:56, 3 August 2011 (UTC) Keep. The article is an...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1089
Rabu, 2024-11-06 09:44:57

banner was added to request citations. The converse of PRESERVE is WP:CANTFIX which talks about "situations when it might be more appropriate to remove...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive935
Selasa, 2026-01-20 19:57:52

that TRIVIA is about section layout, not content policy. Violating WP:CANTFIX and WP:PRESERVE ad infinitum after having been made aware Citing WP:NOTNEWS...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 120
Minggu, 2026-07-05 20:43:43

by WP:CANTFIX. I strongly suspect that, most of the time, when an editor appears to be "ignoring" PRESERVE, he/she is actually "following" CANTFIX.) Blueboar...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Espresso Vivace
Senin, 2025-12-01 01:56:58

into even greater detail about how and why we operate this way, and WP:CANTFIX spells this out even more clearly. Don't nuke content that is fixable....

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ancient History (novel)
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 02:13:49

practice did not begin with Cindy's edit--so the article did not meet WP:CANTFIX. Calling it an instance of WP:SPEEDY is 99% accurate, so I'm sticking to...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 164
Sabtu, 2020-05-09 03:13:52

that it hews pretty close to WP:Editing policy. WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM and WP:CANTFIX sum up what to do and not do in more or less the same way as this proposal...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 138
Senin, 2026-03-23 22:01:31

However the WMF has indicated that some of these rendering problems are CANTFIX or WONTFIX. They hope to address the common cases, and their goal is to...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 93
Rabu, 2023-02-08 20:38:33

without any improvement between nominations is taken as evidence that we WP:CANTFIX the article. I'd personally like to see us handle "no consensus" better...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 142
Senin, 2025-12-29 01:02:46

the issue is as ICPH points out below that no one fixes it, and per WP:CANTFIX when this is the case it might justify removal from article space. Most...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 141
Selasa, 2026-07-21 10:00:48

15:23, 17 October 2015 (UTC) Thanks, but no point if this is a RESOLVED CANTFIX or whatever :-) Nyttend (talk) 21:48, 17 October 2015 (UTC) Lately, I've...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 54
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 23:59:51

corrected in the current version of the software then it should be called "CANTFIX". --Ron Ritzman (talk) 12:36, 30 October 2009 (UTC) Hmm, that would just...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Buran Origin of Death
Kamis, 2026-04-02 22:49:04

WP:PRESERVE Warden fails to acknowledge is that our FULL editing policy at WP:CANTFIX explicitly calls for the removal of "material that is fundamentally inappropriate...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 July 3
Jumat, 2020-07-24 04:04:07

When we say deletion is a last resort, that comes out of the policy; WP:CANTFIX. Keeping it around so we can work out what to eventually do with it comes...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 August 31
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:19:24

is an insurmountable problem per WP:CANTFIX.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 13:43, 1 September 2019 (UTC) What part of WP:CANTFIX are you referring to here? That appears...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 March 9
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 00:49:39

deletionn, per WP:PRESERVE. Warden (talk) 12:09, 9 March 2013 (UTC) WP:CANTFIX Bg9989 (talk) 12:26, 9 March 2013 (UTC) You seem to be a new editor and...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 August 2
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:25:44

your boilerplate, blind preservation is not out editing policy (see WP:CANTFIX). HrafnTalkStalk(P) 13:56, 3 August 2011 (UTC) Keep. The article is an...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 August 6
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:01:35

unneccesarily bitey toward newcomers, and NOTHING in the article fell under WP:CANTFIX. A better result is that the newcomers whom you feel might be too interested...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 August 7
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:24:38

WP:SYNthesis of various observations users have gleaned from movies. WP:CANTFIX so delete. Shooterwalker (talk) 04:22, 10 August 2011 (UTC) Delete What's...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 September 16
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:43:39

practice did not begin with Cindy's edit--so the article did not meet WP:CANTFIX. Calling it an instance of WP:SPEEDY is 99% accurate, so I'm sticking to...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 October 23
Kamis, 2021-11-04 12:46:11

WP:PRESERVE. My !vote stands. Andrew🐉(talk) 22:25, 23 October 2021 (UTC) WP:CANTFIX is part of WP:PRESERVE. Even the first version has the problem that it's...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 July 15
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:18:22

WP:PRESERVE Warden fails to acknowledge is that our FULL editing policy at WP:CANTFIX explicitly calls for the removal of "material that is fundamentally inappropriate...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 July 12
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:43:13

but argues for deletion anyway. However, unless this were a case of WP:CANTFIX, which it isn't, WP:IMPERFECT does not argue for deletion but fixing through...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Turing Award laureates by university affiliation
Minggu, 2025-12-14 03:56:12

WP:PRESERVE. My !vote stands. Andrew🐉(talk) 22:25, 23 October 2021 (UTC) WP:CANTFIX is part of WP:PRESERVE. Even the first version has the problem that it's...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 November 18
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:33:48

into even greater detail about how and why we operate this way, and WP:CANTFIX spells this out even more clearly. Don't nuke content that is fixable....

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erica C. Barnett (2nd nomination)
Jumat, 2025-12-12 06:35:42

When we say deletion is a last resort, that comes out of the policy; WP:CANTFIX. Keeping it around so we can work out what to eventually do with it comes...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive201
Kamis, 2024-07-04 08:24:51

Macosal (talk) 13:17, 10 June 2014 (UTC) A subsection of PRESERVE, WP:CANTFIX, states that "Special care needs to be taken with biographies of living...

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Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive 2014 4
Senin, 2023-03-13 17:04:51

(talk) 00:38, 8 September 2014 (UTC) It's been described here as more CANTFIX than WONTFIX, but I'll let someone who understands the reasons explain...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Firefox version history (2nd nomination)
Jumat, 2025-12-19 03:07:54

convincingly rebut it. You cite WP:V and WP:NPOV, clearly referring to WP:CANTFIX, but CANTFIX is about situations when it might be more appropriate to remove information...

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Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive 2014 2
Minggu, 2023-10-15 20:03:30

." No, Möller, VE is still an issue, which you apparently WONTFIX. Or CANTFIX, whatever. You still haven't explained how ensuring we can provide a user...

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Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard/Archive 47
Minggu, 2023-05-14 21:15:14

and I see no reason to address the strawmen arguments presented. Per WP:CANTFIX, PRESERVE is beholden to other policies including WP:NPOV and WP:V. The...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive243
Kamis, 2023-02-09 17:01:26

policy he or she is advocating. Also in the section beneath PRESERVE is WP:CANTFIX which states, "What Wikipedia is not describes material that is fundamentally...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2023 April 25
Jumat, 2023-05-05 17:31:53

convincingly rebut it. You cite WP:V and WP:NPOV, clearly referring to WP:CANTFIX, but CANTFIX is about situations when it might be more appropriate to remove information...

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Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard/Archive 49
Jumat, 2025-01-10 22:10:12

whatsoever, so starting fresh seems to be the best option at this point. WP:CANTFIX applies: Several of our core policies discuss situations when it might...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive470
Rabu, 2023-07-26 10:11:54

is a violation of core WP policies, and cannot simply be fixed, per WP:CANTFIX. Notability is again a core concept, a concept which GWA88 does not seem...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 180
Selasa, 2025-09-23 23:32:47

that currently, it's WP:PRESERVE that points to WP:BURDEN, since its WP:CANTFIX subsection links to WP:V for how to handle unsourced material. This implies...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2026 February 5
Jumat, 2026-02-13 23:22:07

(UTC) If NLIST is met and there's no other outstanding concerns that we WP:CANTFIX, then IMO per WP:IMPERFECT the article should be kept and improved upon...

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