First off, my credentials: [[en:User:Brian0918]] Administrator 11,754 edits Short version: There is a huge battle going on in which VFDers on WP, WS, and Commons are pushing user-compiled lists from one project to another. In each case, they are saying the lists belong on one of the other 3 projects. Almost nobody is saying that these lists don't belong anywhere, but nobody can decide on where they belong. It also doesn't help that nobody on one project accepts the outcome of another project's VFD (an outcome which may have said to transwiki to this project) as a reason to keep it on this project. Long version: There has been an ongoing battle between Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Commons over the fate of user-compiled, well-sourced lists. Specifically, I'm talking about lists of victims of disasters. It all started with the [[List of General Slocum victims]] and [[List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm]]. The first appears to have only one source, but is not a copyvio nor direct copy of an original source, while the second was compiled by me for Wikipedia (originally), and required more research than most people put into 5 featured articles... Anyways, the first was VFDd from Wikipedia, with a few suggestions that it should be transwiki'd to Wikisource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/List_of_General_S… These suggestions led to both myself and the creator of the first list to move our lists over to Wikisource. My list was subsequently VFD'd from Wikisource, and a VFD was also instituted for ALL such user-compiled lists. Both of these VFDs are still open, I think: http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Proposed_deletions#March_2005 http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Remove_Tables_and_Lists_f… At Wikisource, the opinion seems to be that these lists belong either at Wikipedia or Commons (yes, Commons does accept text, read the Main Page). Following these suggestions, we subsequently copied these lists over to Commons in the event that they suddenly disappeared from Wikisource...... And, of course, they are now up for deletion on Commons, where the opinion has been less favorable (they don't like being the "last choice" for things deleted from elsewhere), although many have expressed the opinion that these lists do in fact belong on Wikipedia. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_requests#List_of_victim… http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_requests#List_of_Genera… Meanwhile, on Wikipedia, an Undelete request was instituted (by myself, I think) for the General Slocum list, but the majority are saying that it doesn't belong on Wikipedia, but on Commons or Wikisource. Summary: As Stevertigo said: "Theres no sense in people batting this thing about. Clearly it belongs at source or [WP]... There needs to be some policy against batting things around."