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{{short description|Misplaced Pages policy describing when pages may be deleted speedily}} | |||
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{{Policy|subcategory=deletion|WP:CSD|WP:SPEEDY}} | |||
The '''"Speedy deletion" policy''' governs limited cases where ] may delete Misplaced Pages pages or media "on sight" without further debate, as in the cases of ] or ]. Non-admins can request deletion of such a page by adding a {{tlp|deletebecause|''Reason''}} template. The word "speedy" in this context refers to the rapid decision-making process, not the length of time since the article was created. | |||
{{nutshell|Under certain limited conditions, a page may be deleted by an ] without waiting for any discussion.}} | |||
{{Deletion policy list}} | |||
The '''criteria for speedy deletion''' ('''CSD''') specify the only cases in which ] have broad ] to bypass ], at their discretion, and immediately delete Misplaced Pages pages or media. Because deletion is reversible only by administrators, other deletions occur only after discussion, unless they are ]s. Speedy deletion is intended to reduce the time spent on deletion discussions for pages or media with ] of surviving discussion.<ref>In this context, ''speedy'' refers to the simple decision-making process, not the length of time since the article was created.</ref> Anyone can request speedy deletion by adding one of the ], but only administrators may actually delete. | |||
Before nominating an article for speedy deletion, please consider whether an article could be improved or reduced to a ]. Also, please note that some Wikipedians create articles in multiple saves, so try to avoid deleting a page too soon after its ]. Users nominating a page for speedy deletion should specify which criteria the page meets; it would also be considerate to notify the original author — remember, ]. Note that global ]es are exempt from deletion. | |||
Before nominating a page for speedy deletion, consider whether it could be improved, reduced to a ], merged or redirected elsewhere, reverted to a better previous revision, or handled in some other way (see {{section link|Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy|Alternatives to deletion}}). A page is eligible for speedy deletion only if all of its ] is also eligible. Users nominating a page for speedy deletion should specify which criterion/criteria the page meets, and should notify the page creator and any major contributors. If a page needs to be removed from Misplaced Pages for privacy reasons (e.g. non-public personal information, a child disclosing their age, possible libel), ] instead. | |||
These criteria are worded narrowly, and generally so phrased that, in most cases, reasonable editors will agree what does or does not fall under a given criterion. When there is reasonable doubt whether a page does, discussion is recommended, using one of the other methods under ]. | |||
{{Anchor|Removing speedy deletion tags}} | |||
This page contains the criteria for speedy deletion and a list of helpful templates that can be used to tag a candidate for speedy deletion. Articles that do not meet the speedy criteria may be nominated for the alternative deletion processes ] and ]. | |||
For most speedy deletion criteria, {{em|the creator of a page may not remove the deletion tag from it}}; only an editor who is not the creator of a page may do so. A creator who disagrees with the speedy deletion should instead click on the ''Contest this speedy deletion'' button that appears inside of the speedy deletion tag. This button links to the ] with a pre-formatted area for the creator to explain why the page should not be deleted. If an editor other than the creator removes a speedy deletion tag in ], it should be taken as a sign that the deletion is controversial and another deletion process should be used. The creator of a page may remove a speedy deletion tag only if the criterion in question is ], ], ], ], ], ], ], or ].<ref>The current wording of this paragraph dates to ]. G14 was added in ]. C1 was added in ]. C4 was added in ].<!-- Please update this link once archived and remove this comment, thanks! --></ref> | |||
Administrators should take care not to speedily delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases. If a page has survived its most recent deletion discussion, it should not be speedily deleted except for newly discovered copyright violations and pages that meet specific uncontroversial criteria; these criteria are noted below. Contributors sometimes create pages over several edits, so administrators should avoid deleting a page that appears incomplete too soon after its creation. | |||
The list of current candidates for speedy deletion is at ''']'''. | |||
Besides speedy deletion, there are the following methods of deletion: | |||
'''Note that administrators should always verify the legitimacy of a speedy deletion candidate before taking action. It is the administrator's responsibility to make sure that speedy deletion tags are accurate.''' | |||
* ] (<small>], ], ], ], ], ]</small>), the normal method of carrying out deletion. | |||
* ]s, for nominating articles and files for uncontroversial deletion. | |||
* ], for articles on living persons without sources. | |||
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== Criteria == | |||
People sometimes use abbreviations to refer to these criteria (e.g. "A3" meaning ''articles, criterion 3''), but for the sake of clarity this is not recommended. | |||
== Nomenclature == | |||
{{Anchor|cri|CRI|crit|CRIT|CRITERIA}} | |||
Letter-number abbreviations (G12, A3...) are often used to refer to these criteria, and are given in each section. For example, "CSD G12" refers to ''criterion 12'' under ''general'' (copyright infringement) and "CSD U1" refers to ''criterion 1'' under ''user'' (user request). Some in-between numbers are skipped, as abbreviations denoting ] remain unused. {{Strong|These abbreviations can be confusing}} to new editors or anyone else unfamiliar with this page; in many situations a ] of why a specific page was or should be deleted is preferable. | |||
== Requesting speedy deletion == | |||
# <span id="G1" /><span id="g1" /><span id="nonsense" />''']''' and gibberish, an unsalvageably incoherent page with no meaningful content. This does not include: poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, vandalism, fictional material, material not in English, badly translated material, implausible theories, or hoaxes. | |||
{{Anchor|d|D|dt|DT|delt|DELT|deltem|DELTEM|deltemp|DELTEMP|deletion template|Deletion template|DELETIONTEMPLATE}} | |||
# <span id="G2" /><span id="g2" /><span id="test" />'''Test pages''' (e.g., "Can I really create a page here?"). | |||
Immediately following each criterion below is a list of templates used to mark pages or media files for speedy deletion under the criterion being used. To alert administrators to the nomination, place the relevant speedy deletion template at the top of the page or media file you are nominating (but see {{sectionlink|#Pages that need to be tagged in a special manner}} below). Please be sure to supply an ] that mentions that the page is being nominated for speedy deletion. All of the speedy deletion templates are named as ''Db-X'' with ''Db'' standing for 'delete because'. A list of the ''Db-X'' templates can be found at ]. | |||
# <span id="G3" /><span id="g3" /><span id="vandalism" /><span id="vandal" />'''Pure ]''', including redirects created during cleanup of page move vandalism. | |||
# <span id="G4" /><span id="g4" /><span id="repost" />'''Recreation of deleted material.''' A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was deleted as a result of a discussion in ] or another ] process, unless it was undeleted per the ] or was recreated in the ]. Before deleting again, the admin should ensure that the material is substantially identical and not merely a new article on the same subject. This clause does not apply if the only prior deletions were speedy or ]s, although in this case, the previous speedy criterion, or other speedy deletion criteria, may apply. | |||
# <span id="G5" /><span id="g5" /><span id="banned" />'''Banned user'''. Pages created by ] while they were ]. | |||
# <span id="G6" /><span id="g6" /><span id="histmerge" />'''Housekeeping'''. ] maintenance tasks such as temporarily deleting a page in order to ], performing a non-controversial ] like reversing a redirect, or removing a ] that only points to a single article. | |||
# <span id="G7" /><span id="g7" /><span id="author" /><span id="blanked" />'''Author requests deletion'''. Any page for which deletion is requested by the original author, provided the page's only substantial content was added by its author and was mistakenly created. If the author blanks the page, this can be taken as a deletion request. | |||
# <span id="G8" /><span id="g8" /><span id="talk" />''']s of pages that do not exist''', unless they contain deletion discussion that isn't logged elsewhere. Subpages (including archive pages) are only deletable under this rule if the corresponding ''top-level'' page does not exist. Exceptions to this are user talk pages and talk pages of images on Commons. | |||
# <span id="G9" /><span id="g9" />''']'''. The Wikimedia Foundation office reserves the right to speedily delete a page temporarily in cases of exceptional controversy. | |||
#<span id="G10" /><span id="g10" /><span id="attack" />''']s'''. Pages that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject or some other entity (e.g., "John Q. Doe is an imbecile"). <!-- this is an example of an attack page, not of patent nonsense; please don't reword to make it silly --> This includes a ] that is negative in tone and unsourced, where there is no NPOV version in the history to revert to. | |||
#<span id="G11" /><span id="g11" /><span id="spam" />'''Blatant ]'''. Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company, product, group or service ''as its subject'' does ''not'' qualify an article for this criterion. If a page has previously gone through the process at ] or ], it should not be speedily deleted under this criterion, nor should an article speedily deleted under this criterion be ]. | |||
#<span id="G12" /><span id="G12" /><span id="copyvio" />An item that is a '''blatant copyright infringement''' and meets these parameters: | |||
#* Material appears to be copied from another website which does not have a license compatible with Misplaced Pages, and | |||
#* Uploader makes no assertion of permission (or in the case of images no assertion aside from tags) or fair use, and none seems likely OR the assertion is questionable. | |||
#:<!-- INDENTATION HACK - DO NOT REMOVE THE "MISMATCHED" TAGS --></dd></dl>When tagging an item for deletion under this criterion, a user should notify the page's creator using wording similar to {{tl|Nothanks-sd}} or an equivalent message. Before deleting any page under this criterion, an admin should verify that the page creator has been notified — if not, the admin should do so. If the deleting administrator is notified of an error, and finds the claim of error plausible, they should restore the content immediately and, if a confirmation email has not been received, follow the ] procedure, blanking the article with the {{tl|copyvio}} template in the process. Many copyright violations that need to be dealt with are listed at ].<dd><dl><!--END OF INDENTATION HACK--> | |||
If a page falls under more than one of the criteria, instead of adding multiple tags it is possible to add a single {{Tl|Db-multiple}} tag to cover them all. For example, if an article seems both to be blatantly promotional (]) and also to fail to indicate the significance of its subject (A7) then the tag {{Tlx|Db-multiple|G11|A7}} can be used to indicate both of these concerns. The article can then be speedily deleted if an administrator assesses it and decides that either or both of the criteria apply. | |||
=== Articles === | |||
''For any articles that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ] or ].'' | |||
#<span id="A1" /><span id="a1" /><span id="nocontext" /><!--THE UNDERLINED LETTERS IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH ARE DELIBERATE. THEY EMPHASISE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONTEnT AND CONTExT. (SEE?) PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE MARKUP. -->Very short articles providing '''little or no con<u>text</u>''' (e.g., "He is a funny man that has created Factory and the Hacienda. And, by the way, his wife is great."). Limited con<u>tent</u> is not in itself a reason to delete if there is enough con<u>text</u> for the article to qualify as a valid ]. | |||
#<span id="A2" /><span id="a2" /><span id="notenglish" />'''Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project'''. If the article in question does not exist on another project, the template {{tl|notenglish}} should be used instead. | |||
#<span id="A3" /><span id="a3" /><span id="A4" /><span id="a4" /><span id="nocontent" /><span id="blankcsd" />'''No content whatsoever'''. Any article consisting only of links elsewhere (including hyperlinks, category tags and "see also" sections), a rephrasing of the title, and/or attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title. This does not include ]. | |||
# ''(This criterion has been merged into A3 and is kept for historical reasons.'') <!-- DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE. Doing so would mess up the established numbering of CSDs for articles --> | |||
#<span id="A5" /><span id="a5" /><span id="transwiki" />'''] articles'''. Any article that has been discussed at Articles for Deletion (et al), where the outcome was to transwiki, and where the transwikification has been properly performed and the author information recorded. | |||
#''(This criterion has been superseded by G10 and is kept for historical reasons.'') <!-- DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE. Doing so would mess up the established numbering of CSDs for articles --> | |||
#<span id="A7" /><span id="a7" /><span id="bio" /><span id="band" /><span id="club" /><span id="group" />'''Unremarkable people, groups, companies and websites'''. An article about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, or website that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject. If the assertion is disputed or controversial, it should be taken to ] instead, and if the article has gone through the process at ] already, it should not be speedily deleted under this criterion. ''Note:'' '''Avoid the word "vanity" in deletion summaries''' since it may be defamatory. | |||
#''(This criterion has been superseded by G12 and is kept for historical reasons.'') <!-- DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE. Doing so would mess up the established numbering of CSDs for articles --> | |||
There is a strong consensus that the creators and major contributors of pages and media files should be warned of a speedy deletion nomination (or of the deletion if not informed before). All speedy deletion templates (using criteria other than U1, G5, G6, G7, and G8) thus contain in their body a pre-formatted, suggested warning template to notify the relevant party or parties of the nomination for speedy deletion under the criterion used. You can copy and paste such warnings to the talk pages of the creators and major contributors, choose from others listed at ], or place the unified warning template, {{Tlxs|CSD-warn|{{Var|csd}}|''Page name''}}, which allows you to tailor your warning under any particular criterion by replacing <code>{{Var|csd}}</code> with the associated criterion abbreviation (e.g. g4, a7). | |||
=== Redirects === | |||
''For any ] that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ].'' In any case it may be possible to make it a useful redirect to some other target. | |||
Use common sense when applying a speedy deletion request to a page: review the page history to make sure that all earlier revisions of the page meet the speedy deletion criterion, because a single editor can replace an article with material that appears to cause the page to meet one or more of the criteria. | |||
# <span id="R1" /><span id="r1" /><span id="redirnone" />Redirects '''to non-existent pages''' | |||
# <span id="R2" /><span id="r2" /><span id="rediruser" /><span id="userfy" />Redirects '''to the User: or User_talk: space''' from the main article space. If this was the result of a page move, consider waiting a day or two before deleting the redirect. | |||
# <span id="R3" /><span id="r3" /><span id="redirtypo" />Redirects as a result of an '''implausible ]''' that were recently created. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful. | |||
=== Pages that need to be tagged in a special manner === | |||
=== Images/Media === | |||
Some pages either cannot or should not be tagged for speedy deletion in the normal manner: | |||
* Pages that you cannot edit (e.g., due to protection), or ] pages: place the template on the corresponding Talk page instead, along with an explanation of which page to delete. | |||
* ] pages: place the template within a noinclude tag, like this: {{Tag|noinclude|content={{tlf|Db-x}}}} | |||
* ] pages (except for /doc pages): place the template with ], like this: <syntaxhighlight lang="lua" inline>require('Module:Module wikitext')._addText('{{Db-x}}')</syntaxhighlight> | |||
* ] (including ]) or ] pages: place the template in a comment, like this: <code>/* {{tlf|Db-x}} */</code> | |||
== Pages that have survived deletion discussions == | |||
Please remove images and media from any pages they are used in before marking them for speedy deletion. With respect to fair use disputes, if a fair use rationale is provided, use ] instead. | |||
{{For|general principles of how deletion processes interact|Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy#Process interaction}} | |||
As an exception to the norm that a page surviving its most recent deletion discussion means that it should not be speedily deleted, the following criteria apply also to those pages, with or without any specified limitations: | |||
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|{{slink||G5. Creations by banned or blocked users, or in violation of general sanctions}}{{snd}}subject to the strict condition that the XfD participants were unaware that the page would have met this criterion | |||
|{{slink||G6. Technical deletions}}{{snd}}only if the deletion is temporary, or if no actual content will be removed | |||
|{{slink||G8. Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page}} | |||
|{{slink||G9. Office actions}} | |||
|{{slink||G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement}} | |||
|{{slink||G13. Abandoned drafts and Articles for creation submissions}}{{snd}}if 6 months have passed since the deletion discussion and any subsequent human edits | |||
|{{slink||F8. Files available as identical copies on Wikimedia Commons}}{{snd}}if the image did not exist on Commons at the time of the FfD | |||
|{{slink||F9. Unambiguous copyright infringement}} | |||
|{{slink||U1. User request}} | |||
}} | |||
These criteria may only be used in such cases when no controversy exists; in the event of a dispute, ]. However, newly discovered copyright violations should be tagged for G12 if the violation existed in all previous revisions of the article. G5 may be also used at discretion, subject to meeting the criterion outlined above. | |||
== <span class="anchor" id="List of criteria"></span>General == | |||
# <span id="I1" /><span id="i1" /><span id="redundant image" />'''Redundant'''. Any ] that is a redundant copy, in the same ] and same or lower resolution, of something else on Misplaced Pages. Likewise, other media that is a redundant copy, in the same format and of the same or lower quality. This does not apply to images duplicated on Wikimedia Commons, because of ]; these should be tagged with {{tlp|NowCommons|Image:newname.ext}} or {{tl|NowCommonsThis}} instead. | |||
{{Anchor|g|G|gc|GC|gcrit|GCRIT|gencrit|GENCRIT|generalcrit|GENERALCRIT|general|GENERAL}} | |||
# <span id="I2" /><span id="i2" /><span id="noimage" />'''Corrupt or empty image'''. Before deleting this type of image, verify that the MediaWiki engine cannot read it by previewing a resized thumbnail of it. This also includes empty (i.e., no content) image description pages for Commons images. | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:GCSD}} | |||
# <span id="I3" /><span id="i3" /><span id="noncom" /><span id="ccnoncom" />'''Improper license'''. Images licensed as "]", "non-derivative use" or "]" that were uploaded on or after ], ], and for which no assertion of fair use is provided. This includes images licensed under a "Non-commercial ]". Such images uploaded before ], ] may also be speedily deleted if they are not used in any articles. | |||
These apply to ] with exclusions listed for specific criteria, and so apply to articles, drafts, redirects, user pages, talk pages, files, etc. Read the specifics for each criterion to see where and how they apply. | |||
# <span id="I4" /><span id="i4" /><span id="unksource" />'''Lack of licensing information'''. Images in category "]", "]", or "]" that have been tagged with a template that places them in the category for more than '''seven days''', regardless of when uploaded. Note, users sometimes specify their source in the upload summary, so be sure to check the circumstances of the image. | |||
# <span id="I5" /><span id="i5" /><span id="unfree" />'''Unused unfree copyrighted images'''. Images and other media that are not under a ] or in the ] that are not used in any '''article''' and that have been tagged with a template that places them in a dated subcategory of ] for more than '''seven days'''. Reasonable exceptions may be made for images uploaded for an upcoming article. Use {{tls|orfud}} to tag images for forthcoming deletion. | |||
# <span id="I6" /><span id="i6" /><span id="norat" />'''Missing fair-use rationale'''. Any image or media tagged only with a ], with no fair use rationale, may be deleted '''seven days''' after it was uploaded. Images and other media uploaded before ], ] should not be deleted immediately; instead, the uploader should be notified that a fair-use rationale is needed. Images or other media uploaded ''after'' ], ] can be tagged with {{tls|nrd}}, and the uploader notified with {{tlsp|missing rationale|Image:image name}}. Such images can be found in the dated subcategories of ]. | |||
# <span id="I7" /><span id="i7" /><span id="badfairuse" />'''Invalid fair-use claim'''. Any image or media with a clearly invalid fair-use tag (such as a {{tl|logo}} tag on a photograph of a mascot) may be deleted at any time. Media that fail any part of the ] and were uploaded after ] ] may be deleted forty-eight hours after notification of the uploader. For media uploaded before ] ], the uploader will be given seven days to comply with this policy after being notified. | |||
# <span id="I8" /><span id="i8" /><span id="NowCommonsThis" />'''Images available as bit-for-bit identical copies on the ]''', provided the following conditions are met: | |||
#* The image's license and source status is beyond reasonable doubt, and the license is undoubtedly accepted at Commons. | |||
#** All image revisions that meet the first condition have been transferred to Commons as revisions of the Commons copy and properly marked as such. | |||
#* All information on the image description page is present on the Commons image description page. That includes the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages. | |||
#** If there is any information not relevant to any other project on the image description page (like {{tl|FeaturedPicture}}), the image description page must be undeleted after the file deletion. | |||
#* The image is not protected, and the image description page does not contain a request not to move it to Commons. | |||
#* The image has been marked with ] or ] for at least one week. | |||
#* If the image is available on Commons under a different name than locally, it must not be used on any local page whatsoever. | |||
#* For {{tl|c-uploaded}} images: They may be speedily deleted as soon as they are off the ]. | |||
{{Anchor|G1|g1|nonsense}} | |||
=== Categories === | |||
=== G1. Patent nonsense === | |||
''For any categories that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ].'' | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G1}} | |||
{{Further|Misplaced Pages:Patent nonsense}} | |||
This applies to pages consisting entirely of incoherent text or ] with no meaningful content or history. It does {{em|not}} cover poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, implausible theories, ], ], fictional material, coherent ] material, or ]. In short, if it is understandable, G1 does not apply. It also does not apply to pages in the ]. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g1}}, {{Tl|Db-nonsense}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as nonsense pages}} | |||
{{Anchor|G2|g2|test}} | |||
# <span id="C1" /><span id="c1" /><span id="catempty" />'''Empty categories''' (no articles or subcategories for at least four days) whose only content has consisted of links to parent categories. This does ''not'' apply to categories being discussed on ], or ] categories. If the category isn't relatively new, it possibly contained articles earlier, and deeper investigation is needed. | |||
# <span id="C2" /><span id="c2" />'''Speedy renaming'''. Empty categories that have qualified for ]. | |||
##Typo fixes (e.g., ''Brdiges'' -> ''Bridges''), but not changes between ]. | |||
##] (e.g., ''characters In harry Potter'' -> ''Characters in Harry Potter'') | |||
##Conversions from singular to plural, or back (e.g., ''Steamship'' -> ''Steamships'') | |||
##Renaming to conform with the "by country" ] | |||
##], e.g. changing "U.S." to "United States" | |||
# <span id="C3" /><span id="c3" /><span id="catfd" />'''Template categories'''. If a category is solely populated from a template (e.g. ] from {{tl|cleanup}}) and the template is deleted per deletion policy, the category can also be deleted without further discussion. | |||
=== |
=== G2. Test pages === | ||
{{Shortcut|WP:G2}} | |||
''For any ]s that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ].'' | |||
This applies to pages created to test editing or other Misplaced Pages functions. It applies to subpages of the ] created as tests, but does {{strong|not}} apply to the Sandbox itself, pages in the ], or valid but unused or duplicate templates. | |||
# <span id="U1" /><span id="u1" /><span id="userreq" />'''User request'''. Personal ], upon request by their user. In some rare cases there may be administrative need to retain the page. Also, sometimes, main user pages may be deleted as well. ''See ] for full instructions and guidelines.'' | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g2}}, {{Tl|Db-test}} | |||
# <span id="U2" /><span id="u2" /><span id="nouser" />'''Nonexistent user'''. User pages of users who do not exist. Both user existence and contributions can be verified by checking ] (for a non-existing user, the username is not linked to the userpage). | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as test pages}} | |||
#<span id="U3" /><span id="u3" /><span id="fairusegallery" />'''Fair Use Galleries'''. Galleries in the user space which consist of a majority of or only Fair Use images. | |||
{{Anchor|G3|g3|vandalism|vandal}} | |||
===Templates=== | |||
=== G3. Pure vandalism and blatant hoaxes === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G3}} | |||
{{Further|Misplaced Pages:Vandalism|Misplaced Pages:Do not create hoaxes}} | |||
This applies to pages that are blatant and obvious misinformation, blatant ] (including files intended to misinform), and redirects created by cleanup from page-move vandalism. ] are acceptable if it is clear that they are describing a hoax. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g3}}, {{Tl|Db-vandalism}} <small>– for vandalism</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-hoax}} <small>– for hoaxes</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as vandalism}}, {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as hoaxes}} | |||
{{Anchor|G4|g4|repost}} | |||
''For any ] that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ]. When nominating a template for speedy deletion, surround the speedy deletion tag with <noinclude></noinclude>, so that pages that use the nominated template do not themselves get listed as candidates for speedy deletion.'' <br> | |||
=== G4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G4}} | |||
This applies to sufficiently identical copies, having any title, of a page deleted via its most recent ].<ref>The result of the most recent deletion discussion controls. This means that if the most recent discussion was "keep" or a default to keep through no consensus, G4 does not apply. Likewise, an article that was deleted through its most recent discussion, but was kept in earlier discussions, is subject to the criterion and may be deleted (]).</ref> It excludes pages that are {{em|not}} substantially identical to the deleted version, and pages to which the reason for the deletion no longer applies.<ref>For the avoidance of doubt, if a page is deleted at AfD and subsequently recreated as a redirect, G4 does not apply, even if that option was discussed and rejected in the AfD (]).</ref> It excludes pages in userspace and draftspace where the content was converted<ref>A conversion to draft is when a page from a different namespace is moved, or its content copied, as a draft.</ref> to a ] for explicit improvement (but not simply to circumvent Misplaced Pages's ]). This criterion also does not cover content undeleted via a ], or that was only deleted via ] (including deletion discussions closed as ]) or speedy deletion. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g4}}, {{Tl|Db-repost}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as pages previously deleted via deletion discussion}} | |||
{{Anchor|G5|g5|banned|G5. Creations by banned or blocked users}} | |||
# <span id="T1" /><span id="t1" /><span id="disparage" /> Templates that are '''divisive and inflammatory'''. | |||
=== G5. Creations by banned or blocked users, or in violation of general sanctions === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G5}} | |||
{{Further|WP:BANREVERT}} | |||
This applies to pages created by ] or ] users {{strong|in violation of their ban or block}}, as well as pages created in violation of ], and that have no substantial edits by others not subject to the ban or sanctions. | |||
* To qualify for a ban- or block-based speedy deletion, the edit or page must have been made while the user was actually banned or blocked. A page created before the ban or block was imposed or after it was lifted will not qualify under this criterion. | |||
* For ] editors, the page must be a violation of the user's specific ban, and must not include contributions legitimately about some other topic. | |||
* For ], the page must have been created in violation of creation restrictions, such as the ], and the remedies must specifically permit deletion as an enforcement measure.<ref>The arbitration committee and the community have included the following when deciding a topic area should be covered by the ]: "Non-extended-confirmed editors may not create new articles, but administrators may exercise discretion when deciding how to enforce this remedy on article creations. Deletion of new articles created by non-extended-confirmed editors is permitted but not required."</ref> | |||
* When a blocked or banned person uses an alternate account (]) to avoid a restriction, any pages created via the sock account after the earliest block or ban of any of that person's accounts qualify for G5 (if not substantially edited by others); this is the most common case for applying G5. | |||
* G5 should not be applied to ] templates or ] unless they have been transcluded or populated entirely by the banned or blocked user; these edits ] before deletion. | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-g5|''name of banned user''}}, {{Tlp|Db-banned|''name of banned user''}}, {{Tlp|Db-gs|''contentious topic code''}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as having been created by blocked or banned users}}, {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as having been created in violation of general sanctions}} | |||
{{Anchor|G6|g6|histmerge|disambig}} | |||
===Portals=== | |||
''For any ] that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ].'' | |||
=== G6. Technical deletions === | |||
# <span id="P1" /><span id="p1" /> Any topic that would be '''subject to speedy deletion as an Article'''. | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G6}} | |||
# <span id="P2" /><span id="p2" /> '''Underpopulated Portal'''. Any Portal based on a topic for which there is not a non-stub header article, and at least '''three''' non-stub articles detailing subject matter that would be appropriate to discuss under the title of that Portal. | |||
{{see also|Misplaced Pages:What G6 is not}} | |||
This is for ] maintenance, including: | |||
* Deleting redirects or other pages which prevent ]. Administrators should be aware of the ] where a redirect or page holding up a page move has a non-trivial page history. An administrator who deletes a page that is blocking a move should ensure that the move is completed after deleting it. | |||
* Deleting pages unambiguously created in error or in the incorrect namespace, or redirects created by moving away from a title that was obviously unintended. | |||
* Deleting templates orphaned as the result of a consensus at ]. | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-g6|2=rationale=''reason''}} <small>– If none of the special tags below applies, this tag should be used with a reason specified in the {{Para|rationale}} parameter.</small> | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-copypaste|''page to be moved''}} <small>– for ] that need to be temporarily deleted to make room for a clean page move.</small> | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-move|''page to be moved''|''reason''}} <small>– for pages that are currently holding up a non-controversial or consensual page move.</small> | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-moved}} <small>– for pages that were holding up a page move, until they were moved out of the way by a ].</small> | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-afc-move|Draft:''page to be moved''}} <small>– for pages that are currently holding up a non-controversial or consensual page move as a result of an ] (AFC) review, typically for articles in draft space.</small> | |||
* {{Tlp|1=Db-xfd|2=fullvotepage=''link to closed ]''|wrap=yes}} <small>– for pages where a consensus to delete has been previously reached via deletion discussion, but which were not deleted.</small> | |||
* {{tl|Db-error}} <small>– for pages obviously created in error.</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for technical speedy deletion}} | |||
{{Anchor|G7|g7|author|blanked}} | |||
=== G7. Author requests deletion === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G7}} | |||
If requested in good faith and provided that the only substantial content of the page was added by its author. For redirects created as a result of a ], the mover must also have been the only substantive contributor to the pages before the move.<ref name="page move redirects"/> If the sole author ] a page other than a userspace page, a category page, or any type of talk page, this can be taken as a deletion request. If an author requests deletion of a page currently undergoing a deletion discussion, the closing admin may interpret that request as agreement with the deletion rationale. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g7}}, {{Tl|Db-author}}, {{Tl|Db-blanked}}, {{Tl|Db-self}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion by user}} (same category as U1) | |||
{{Anchor|G8|g8|talk|subpage|catfd|redirnone}} | |||
=== G8. Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G8}} | |||
Examples include, but are not limited to: | |||
* ] with no corresponding subject page | |||
* ] with no parent page | |||
* ] without a corresponding file (or when the file has been moved to Commons) | |||
* ] to target pages that never existed or were deleted | |||
* ] of non-existent or ] deleted pages | |||
This criterion excludes any page that is useful to Misplaced Pages, and in particular: | |||
* Deletion discussions that are not logged elsewhere | |||
* ] | |||
* Talk page archives (except article talk page archives where the corresponding article and main talk page have been deleted and the page is not otherwise useful to Misplaced Pages – check for page-moves and merges before using G8 on article-talk-page-archives; the parent article might still exist under a different name) | |||
* Redirects that were broken as a result of a page move or retargeting (these should instead be retargeted to their target's new name), except where ] speedy deletion would then immediately apply if they were fixed (e.g., redirects to articles that have been ]) | |||
* Plausible redirects that can be changed to valid targets | |||
* ] subpages | |||
* Talk pages for files that exist on ] | |||
* Pages that should be moved to a different location<ref>Note that new editors sometimes mistakenly start article drafts on talk pages that have no article. If you see this, move the draft to ] or to the user's ], making sure the new user is listed as author and not you.</ref> | |||
Exceptions may be sign-posted with the template {{Tl|G8-exempt}}. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g8}} <small>– for cases not covered by any of the special tags below</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-redirnone}} <small>– for pages that redirect to nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-subpage}} <small>– for subpages of nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-talk}} <small>– for talk pages of nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as dependent on a non-existent page}}, {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as broken redirects}} | |||
{{Anchor|G9|g9|office|OFFICE|wmf|WMF}} | |||
=== G9. Office actions === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G9}} | |||
{{Main|Misplaced Pages:Office actions}} | |||
In exceptional circumstances, the Wikimedia Foundation office reserves the right to speedy-delete a page. Deletions of this type must not be reversed without permission from the Foundation. | |||
{{Anchor|G10|g10|attack|ATTACK|ATK|ATCK}} | |||
=== G10. Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate, or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G10}} | |||
{{Main|Misplaced Pages:Attack page}} | |||
Examples of "]" may include: ], ], material intended purely to ] a person, or ] that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced. These pages should be speedily deleted when there is no ] version in the page history to revert to. Both the page title and page content may be taken into account in assessing an attack. Articles about living people deleted under this criterion should {{strong|not}} be restored or recreated by any editor until the ] are met. Other pages violating the Biographies of living persons policy might be eligible for deletion under the conditions stipulated at {{sectionlink|Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons#Summary deletion, creation prevention, and courtesy blanking}}, although in most cases a deletion discussion should be initiated instead. | |||
Redirects from plausible search terms are not eligible under this criterion. For example, a term used on the target page to refer to its subject is often a plausible redirect – see ]. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g10}}, {{Tl|Db-attack}}, {{Tl|Db-attackorg}}, {{Tl|Db-personal attack}} | |||
* {{Tl|Db-negublp}} <small>– for ] that are unsourced, entirely negative in tone, and have no neutral version to revert to</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages}} | |||
{{Anchor|G11|g11|spam}} | |||
=== G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G11}} | |||
{{Main|Misplaced Pages:Spam}} | |||
{{Seealso|Misplaced Pages:Identifying blatant advertising}} | |||
This applies to pages that are {{em|exclusively}} promotional and would need to be {{em|fundamentally}} rewritten to serve as encyclopedia articles, ]. If a subject is ] and the content could plausibly be replaced with text written from a ], this is preferable to deletion. '''Note:''' Any article that describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion. However, "promotion" does not necessarily mean commercial promotion: anything can be promoted, including a person, a non-commercial organization, a point of view, etc. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g11}}, {{Tl|Db-promo}}, {{Tl|Db-spam}} | |||
* {{Tl|Db-spamuser}} <small>– for userpages used only for publicity and promotion, with a username that promotes or implies affiliation with the entity being promoted</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as spam}} | |||
{{Anchor|G12|g12|copyvio}} | |||
=== G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G12}} | |||
{{Main|Misplaced Pages:Copyright violations}} | |||
This applies to text pages that contain copyrighted material with no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a ], where there is no non-infringing content on the page worth saving. Only if the history is unsalvageably corrupted should it be deleted in its entirety; earlier versions without infringement should be retained. For equivocal cases that do not meet speedy deletion criteria (such as where there is a dubious assertion of permission, where free-content edits overlie the infringement, or where there is only partial infringement or close paraphrasing), the article or the appropriate section should be blanked with {{Tls|Copyvio|2=url=''insert URL here''}}, and the page should be listed at ]. Please consult ] for other instructions. Public-domain and other free content, such as a ], do not fall under this criterion, nor is mere lack of attribution of such works a reason for speedy deletion. For images and media, see the ] in the ] here, which has more specific instructions. | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-g12|2=url=''source URL''}}, {{Tlp|Db-copyvio|2=url=''source URL''}} | |||
:'''Note:''' If other criteria apply in addition to G12, the template {{Tl|Db-multiple}} should be used instead, so we do not waste time seeking ] after deleting the page. | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-multiple|2=g12|3=url=''source URL''|4=''other criteria''}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations}} (same category as F9) | |||
{{Anchor|G13|g13|AFC|AfC|afc}} | |||
=== G13. Abandoned drafts and ''Articles for creation'' submissions === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G13}} | |||
{{Further|Misplaced Pages:Articles for creation}} | |||
This applies to any pages that have not been edited by a human in six months found in: | |||
# ], | |||
# ] with an {{Tl|AFC submission}} template | |||
# Userspace with no content except the ] placeholder text. | |||
Redirects are exempt from G13 deletion.<ref>It was determined that the community consensus in ] regarding draft namespace redirects amounted to "there is a clear consensus against deletion of draft namespace redirects. There is a rough consensus against the alternative proposal to delete draft namespace redirects after six months."</ref> Adding a CSD template to a page does not reset the six-month clock, but removing a CSD template does.<ref>Per ].</ref> Pages deleted under G13 may be restored upon request by following the procedure at ]. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g13}}, {{Tl|Db-afc}}, {{tl|db-blankdraft}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions}} | |||
{{Anchor|G14|g14|Disambiguation|disambiguation|disambig}} | |||
=== G14. Unnecessary disambiguation pages === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:G14}} | |||
This applies to the following ] pages and redirects: | |||
* Disambiguation pages that have titles ending in {{nowrap|"(disambiguation)"}} but disambiguate only one extant Misplaced Pages page. | |||
* Regardless of title, disambiguation pages that disambiguate zero extant Misplaced Pages pages. | |||
* Redirects that end in {{nowrap|"(disambiguation)"}} but target neither disambiguation pages nor pages that perform disambiguation-like functions (such as ] or lists). | |||
If a disambiguation page links to only one article and does not end in ''(disambiguation)'', it should be changed to a redirect, unless it is more appropriate to move the linked page to the title currently used for the disambiguation page. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-g14}}, {{Tl|Db-disambig}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages}} | |||
== Articles == | |||
{{Anchor|a|A|articles|ARTICLES|article|Article|ARTICLE|art|Art|ART|arti|Arti|ARTI}} | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:ACSD}} | |||
These criteria apply only to pages in the article (main) namespace. They do not apply to redirects. For any articles that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ] or ]. | |||
{{Anchor|A1|a1|nocontext}} | |||
=== A1. No context === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:A1}} | |||
This applies to articles lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article.<ref name="A1 Rfc">]</ref> ''Example: "He is a funny man with a red car. He makes people laugh."'' It applies only to very short articles. Note that ''context'' is different from ''content'', treated in ]. This {{em|excludes}} coherent ] material, and ]. If any information in the title or on the page, including links, allows an editor, possibly with the aid of a web search, to find further information on the subject in an attempt to expand or edit it, A1 is not appropriate. Do not tag under this criterion in the first few minutes after a new article is created.<ref name="Hasty">Consensus has developed that in most cases articles should not be tagged for deletion under this criterion moments after creation as the creator may be actively working on the content; though there is no set time requirement, a ten-minute delay before tagging under this criterion is suggested as good practice. Please {{strong|do not}} mark the page as ] before that delay passes, to ensure the article is reviewed at a later time.</ref> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-a1}}, {{Tl|Db-nocontext}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as lacking context}} | |||
{{Anchor|A2|a2|notenglish}} | |||
=== A2. Foreign-language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:A2}} | |||
This applies to articles not written in English that have essentially the same content as an article on another Wikimedia project. If the article is not the same as an article on another project, use the template {{tlx|Not English}} instead, and list the page at ] for review and possible translation. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-a2}}, {{Tl|Db-foreign}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as existing on foreign Wikimedia projects}} | |||
{{Anchor|A3|a3|nocontent|blankcsd}} | |||
=== A3. No content === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:A3}} | |||
This applies to articles consisting only of external links, category tags or "See also" sections, a rephrasing of the title, attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title, questions that should have been asked at a ], chat-like comments, template tags, or images. This may also apply to articles consisting entirely of the framework of the ] with no additional content, or no content at all. However, a very short article may be a valid ] if it has context, in which case it is not eligible for deletion under this criterion. Similarly, this criterion does not cover a page having only an infobox, unless its contents also meet another speedy deletion criterion. This criterion {{em|excludes}} poor writing, coherent ] material, and ]. Do not tag under this criterion in the first few minutes after a new article is created.<ref name="Hasty" /> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-a3}}, {{Tl|Db-nocontent}}, {{Tl|Db-contact}} | |||
* {{Tl|Db-empty}} <small>– context-specific version: calls {{Tl|Db-c1}} for categories, and {{Tl|Db-a3}} everywhere else.</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as empty articles}} | |||
{{Anchor|A7|a7|bio|corp|band|club|group|web|importance}} | |||
=== A7. No indication of importance (people, animals, organizations, web content, events) === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:A7}} | |||
{{Further|Misplaced Pages:Credible claim of significance}} | |||
This applies to any article about a {{strong|real person, individual animal, commercial or non-commercial organization, ], or organized event<ref name="Misplaced Pages:Notability (events)#Routine coverage">] – for example, shooting incidents – may not necessarily qualify under A7; ] should be preferred in such cases.</ref>}} that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant, {{strong|with the exception of ]s}}.<ref name="Past discussions leading to schools being exempt from A7">].</ref> This is distinct from ] and ], and is a lower standard than ]. This criterion applies {{strong|only}} to articles about the listed subjects; in particular, it does {{strong|not}} apply to articles about albums (these may be covered by ]), products, books, films, TV programs, software, or other creative works, nor to entire {{em|species}} of animals. The criterion {{strong|does}} apply if the claim of significance or importance given is not credible, and any article with a blatantly false claim may be ] instead. If the claim's credibility is unclear, you can improve the article yourself, ], or list the article at ]. | |||
The criterion does {{strong|not}} apply to any article that makes {{strong|any ] or importance}} even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify on Misplaced Pages's ]. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-a7}} | |||
* {{Tl|Db-person}} <small>– for people</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-band}} <small>– for bands</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-club}} <small>– for clubs, societies and groups</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-inc}} <small>– for commercial and non-commercial organizations</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-web}} <small>– for web content</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-animal}} <small>– for individual animals</small> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-event}} <small> – for events</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as importance or significance not asserted}} (same as A9) | |||
{{Anchor|A9|a9|music}} | |||
=== A9. No indication of importance (musical recordings) === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:A9}} | |||
{{Further|Misplaced Pages:Credible claim of significance}} | |||
This applies to any article about a {{strong|musical recording}} or {{strong|list of musical recordings}} where {{strong|none of the contributing recording artists has an article}} and that {{strong|does not indicate why its subject is important or significant}} ({{em|both}} conditions must be met). This is distinct from questions of ] and ], and is a lower standard than ]. This criterion does {{strong|not}} apply to other forms of creative media, products, or any other types of articles. | |||
The criterion does {{strong|not}} apply to any article that makes {{strong|any ] or importance}} even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify on Misplaced Pages's ]. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-a9}}, {{Tl|Db-album}}, {{Tl|Db-song}}, {{Tl|Db-discog}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as importance or significance not asserted}} (same as A7) | |||
{{Anchor|A10|a10|duplicate}} | |||
=== A10. Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:A10}} | |||
This applies to any {{strong|recently created}}<ref name="recent">The definition of recent is intentionally flexible since some pages may receive more notice than others. Pages older than about 3–6 weeks are unlikely to be considered recently created; pages older than about 3–4 months almost never are. Higher-profile pages are considered recently created for shorter periods than those with a lower profile.</ref> article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing English Misplaced Pages article, and that {{strong|does not expand upon, detail or improve information}} within any existing article(s) on the subject, and where the title is {{strong|not a plausible ]}}. This does {{strong|not}} include ] or any article that expands or reorganizes an existing one or that contains referenced, ] material. It also does {{strong|not}} include disambiguation pages. | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-a10|2=article=''Existing article title''}}, {{Tlp|Db-same|2=article=''Existing article title''}} | |||
The title chosen for the vast majority of duplicate articles will be a plausible misspelling of, or alternative name for, the existing article, and a ] should be created instead of deletion. This criterion should, accordingly, only be used rarely, and only for pages whose titles are not plausible redirects. | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as duplicate articles}} | |||
{{Anchor|A11|a11|madeup}} | |||
=== <span id="A11._Obviously_made_up"></span>A11. Obviously invented === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:A11}} | |||
{{Main|Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages is not for things made up one day}} | |||
{{Further|Misplaced Pages:Credible claim of significance}} | |||
This applies to any article that plainly indicates that the subject was ], and does not credibly indicate why its subject is important or significant. The criterion does {{strong|not}} apply to any article that makes {{strong|any {{em|credible}} claim of significance or importance}} even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify under Misplaced Pages's notability guidelines. '''Note''': {{strong|This is not intended for hoaxes}} (see ]).<ref>Unlike a hoax, subject to deletion as vandalism under ] as a bad faith attempt to deceive, CSD A11 is for topics that were or may have been actually created and are real, but have no notice or significance except among a small group of people, e.g. a newly invented drinking game or new word.</ref> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-a11}}, {{Tl|Db-invented}}, {{Tl|Db-madeup}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as obviously invented}} | |||
== Redirects == | |||
{{Anchor|r|R|rdr|RDR|redir|REDIR|rdrt|RDRT|rdrct|RDRCT|Redirect|REDIRECT|REDIRECTS}} | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:RCSD}} | |||
These criteria apply to ], including ], in any namespace, with exclusions listed for specific criteria. For any redirects that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ]. | |||
{{Anchor|R2|r2|rediruser|userfy}} | |||
=== R2. Cross-namespace redirects === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:R2}} | |||
This applies to redirects (apart from ]) from the ] to any other namespace {{em|except}} the '''Category:''', '''Template:''', '''Misplaced Pages:''', '''Help:''' and '''Portal:''' namespaces. | |||
: See also ], ], and ]. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-r2}}, {{Tl|Db-rediruser}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as inappropriate cross-namespace redirects}} | |||
{{Anchor|R3|r3|redirtypo}} | |||
=== R3. Recently created, implausible typos === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:R3}} | |||
This applies to {{strong|recently created}}<ref name="recent" /> redirects from {{strong|implausible}} ] or ]. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful, as are some redirects in ]. This criterion does {{strong|not}} apply to redirects created as a result of a ],<ref name="page move redirects">Page moves are excluded because of a history of improper deletions of these redirects. A move creates a redirect to ensure that any external links that point to Misplaced Pages remain valid; should such links exist, deleting these redirects will break them. Such redirects must be discussed at ] before deletion. However, redirects that were obviously made in error can be deleted as G6, technical deletions.</ref> unless nothing was at the title until recently. It also does not apply to articles and stubs that have been converted into redirects, including ],<ref>See ] for an explanation as to why redirects created by merges cannot be deleted in most cases.</ref> or to redirects ending with {{nowrap|"(disambiguation)"}} that point to a disambiguation page. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-r3}}, {{Tl|Db-redirtypo}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as implausible redirects}} | |||
{{Anchor|R4|r4|redircom}} | |||
=== R4. File namespace redirects with names that match Wikimedia Commons pages === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:R4}} | |||
This applies to redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at ], provided the redirect on Misplaced Pages has no ] (unless the links are obviously intended for the file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons). | |||
* {{Tl|Db-r4}}, {{Tl|Db-redircom}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as file redirects shadowing Wikimedia Commons files}} | |||
=== Other issues with redirects === | |||
*For redirects to deleted or non-existent pages, see ]. | |||
*For redirects that end in {{nowrap|"(disambiguation)"}}, see ]. | |||
*For redirects without a space before a parenthetical disambiguation, see ]. | |||
*For redirects that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ]. | |||
Redirect pages that have useful page history should never be speedily deleted. In some cases it may be possible to make a useful redirect by changing the target instead of deleting it. Redirects that do not work because of software limitations, such as redirects to special pages or to pages on other wikis, may be converted to soft redirects if they have a non-trivial history or other valid uses. | |||
For reversal of redirects, use {{Tlx|Db-move}}, a special case of {{Tlx|Db-g6}}. | |||
== Files == | |||
{{Anchor|Images.2FMedia|Images&Media|Images & Media|Images and media|images|Images|IMAGES|media|Media|MEDIA|image|Image|IMAGE|i|I|m|M|img|IMG|f|F|files|FILES|md|MD|mda|MDA}} | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:FCSD|WP:DI}} | |||
{{hatnote|These apply to files, images, and other media.}} | |||
Note: These criteria formerly began with '''I''' (e.g. I1, I6, I9) but have since been replaced with '''F''', without the actual criteria being changed. This was because the ] was formerly known as the image namespace. | |||
For any images and other media that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ] or ]. | |||
{{Anchor|F1|f1|I1|i1|redundant image}} | |||
=== F1. Redundant === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:CSD#F1}} | |||
This applies to unused duplicates or lower-quality/resolution copies of another Misplaced Pages file having the same ]. This excludes images in the Wikimedia Commons; for these, see criterion ].<ref>This does not apply to images duplicated on Wikimedia Commons, because of ]; instead see ].</ref> | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-f1|''replacement file name.ext''}}, {{Tlp|Db-redundantfile| ''replacement file name.ext''}}, {{tlp|Isd|''replacement file name.ext''}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as redundant files}} | |||
{{Anchor|F2|f2|I2|i2|noimage|badimage}} | |||
=== F2. Corrupt, missing, or empty file === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:F2}} | |||
This applies to files that are corrupt, missing, empty, or that contain superfluous and blatant non-metadata information.<ref>Before deleting this latter type of file/page, check whether the ] engine can read it by previewing a resized thumbnail of it. Even if it renders, if it contains significant superfluous information that cannot be accounted for as ] directly relating to the media data, it may be deleted. It is always preferred to correct the problem by uploading a file that contains only good data plus acceptable metadata.</ref> This also applies to file description pages that lack a corresponding file or correspond to Commons files and do not include information that is specific to English Misplaced Pages (like {{Tlx|FeaturedPicture}}).<ref>Content from file description pages that is relevant to the Commons should be copied over before deleting the local page. If necessary, copy the attribution history as well.</ref> | |||
* {{Tl|Db-f2}}, {{Tl|Db-nofile}}, {{Tl|Db-fpcfail}} | |||
* {{Tl|Db-imagepage}} <small>– for file description pages with no corresponding file</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as missing files}} | |||
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=== F3. Improper license === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:F3}} | |||
This criterion is used to flag media licensed as "]" (including non-commercial ]), "no derivative use", "for Misplaced Pages use only" or "used with permission". These may be deleted, unless they comply with the limited standards for the use of ]. Files uploaded after 1 August 2021 licensed under versions of the GFDL earlier than 1.3, without allowing for later versions or other licenses, may be deleted. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-f3}}, {{Tl|Db-noncom}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as files with unacceptable licenses}} | |||
{{Anchor|F4|f4|I4|i4|unksource}} | |||
=== F4. Lack of licensing information === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:F4}} | |||
This applies to media files lacking the necessary licensing information to verify copyright status after being ] as ] for {{strong|seven days}}. Administrators should check the upload summary, file information page, and the image itself for a source before deleting under this criterion. | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-no source}}, {{tlsp|Nsd}} <small>– no source</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-no license}}, {{tlsp|Nld}} <small>– no license</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-no source no license}}, {{tlsp|Nsdnld}} <small>– neither source nor license</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-dw no source}}, {{tlsp|Dw-nsd}} <small>– ] with no source for the incorporated work</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-dw no license}}, {{tlsp|Dw-nld}} <small>– derivative work with no license for the incorporated work</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-dw no source no license}}, {{tlsp|Dw-nsdnld}} <small>– derivative work with neither source nor license for the incorporated work</small> | |||
* ], ]<ref>See also: {{clc|All Misplaced Pages files with unknown source}} and {{clc|All Misplaced Pages files with unknown copyright status}}</ref> | |||
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=== F5. Orphaned non-free use files === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:F5}} | |||
This applies to images and other media that are not under a ] or in the ] and that are not used in any {{strong|article}}. These may be deleted after being ] as such for more than {{strong|seven days}} or immediately if the image's {{strong|only}} use was on a deleted article and it is {{strong|very unlikely}} to have any use on any other valid article. This includes previous revisions of the image or files overwritten by copyright violations. Reasonable exceptions may be made for images uploaded for an upcoming article. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-f5}} <small>– for immediate F5 deletions</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-orphaned non-free use}}, {{Tlsp|Orfud}} <small>– for files</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Orphaned non-free revisions}}, {{Tlsp|Orfurrev}} <small>– for revisions only</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as orphaned non-free use files}} | |||
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=== F6. Missing non-free use rationale === | |||
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This applies to ] files claiming fair use but without a ]. These may be deleted after being ] as such for {{strong|seven days}}. The boilerplate ] does not constitute a rationale. This criterion does not apply to situations where a use rationale is provided but is disputed. | |||
* {{tl|Di-no non-free use rationale}}, {{Tlsp|Nrd}} <small>– no non-free use rationale</small> | |||
* {{tl|Di-missing article links}} <small>– missing non-free use rationale for one or more articles</small> | |||
*{{clc|All Misplaced Pages files with no non-free use rationale}} | |||
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=== F7. Invalid fair-use claim === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:F7}} | |||
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|{{anchor|F7b|f7b|I7b|i7b}} ] images or media from a press agency or photo agency (e.g. ], ]), where the file itself is {{strong|not}} the ], are considered an invalid claim of fair use and fail the strict requirements of ], and may be deleted {{strong|immediately}}. | |||
|{{anchor|F7c|f7c|I7c|i7c}} ] images or media that have been ] as being replaceable by a free image and tagged with {{Tlx|Rnfu|Subst=yes}} may be deleted after {{strong|Two days}}, if no justification is given for the claim of irreplaceability. If the replaceability is disputed, the nominator should not be the one deleting the image. | |||
|{{anchor|F7d|f7d|I7d|i7d}} Invalid fair-use claims tagged with {{Tlx|Dnfu|Subst=yes}} may be deleted {{strong|seven days}} after they are tagged, if a full and valid fair-use use rationale is not added. | |||
}} | |||
* {{Tl|Db-f7}}, {{Tl|Db-badfairuse}} <small>– for immediate F7 deletions</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-replaceable non-free use}}, {{Tlsp|Rnfu}} <small>– replaceable with free images</small> | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-disputed non-free use rationale}}, {{Tlsp|Dnfu}} <small>– disputed non-free use rationales</small> | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as files with clearly invalid fair-use claims}} | |||
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=== F8. Files available as identical copies on ] === | |||
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Provided the following conditions are met: | |||
* The Commons version is in the same ] and is of the same or higher quality/resolution. | |||
* The file's license and source status is beyond reasonable doubt, and the license is undoubtedly accepted at Commons. {{strong|To avoid deletion at Commons, please ensure the Commons page description has all of the following:}} | |||
** Name and date of death of the creator of the artistic work represented by the file, or else clear evidence that a free license was given. If anonymous, ensure the page description provides evidence that establishes the anonymous status. | |||
** Country where the artistic work represented by the file was situated, or where it was first published. | |||
** Date when the artistic work represented by the file was created or first published, depending on the copyright law of the origin country. | |||
** All file revisions that meet the first condition have been transferred to Commons as revisions of the Commons copy and properly marked as such. | |||
* The file is not marked as {{Tlx|Do not move to Commons}} or as {{Tlx|Keep local}}.<!-- | |||
* The uploader(s) of the media have not previously expressed an objection to such deletions.--> | |||
* All information on the image description page is present on the Commons image description page, including the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages (the upload history is {{em|not}} necessary if the file's license does not require it, although it is still recommended).<!-- | |||
* All appropriate and relevant past revisions or versions of the file have also been transfered. --> | |||
** If there is any information not relevant to any other project on the file description page (like {{Tlx|FeaturedPicture}}), the image description page must be undeleted after the file deletion. | |||
* If the file is available on Commons under a different name than locally, all local references to the image must be updated to point to the title used at Commons. | |||
* The file is not protected. {{strong|Do not delete protected images}}, even if there is an identical copy on Commons, unless the image is no longer in use (check ]). They are usually locally uploaded and protected here since they are used in the interface or in some widely used high-risk templates. Deleting the local copy of an image used in the interface {{strong|does break things}}. ]. | |||
* {{Tlx|C-uploaded}} images and other files may be speedily deleted as soon as they are off the ]. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-f8}}, {{Tl|Now Commons}}, {{Tlp|Now Commons|File:''name of file on Commons.ext''}} | |||
* ], ]<ref>See also: {{clc|All Misplaced Pages files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons}} and {{clc|All Misplaced Pages files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons}}</ref> | |||
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=== F9. Unambiguous copyright infringement === | |||
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This applies to obviously non-free images (or other media files) that are not claimed by the uploader to be fair use. A URL or other indication of where the image originated should be mentioned. This does not include images with a credible claim that the owner has released them under a Misplaced Pages-compatible free license. Most images from stock photo libraries such as Getty Images will not be released under such a license. Blatant infringements should be tagged with the {{Tlx|Db-filecopyvio}} template. Non-blatant copyright infringements should be discussed at ]. | |||
* {{Tlp|Db-f9|2=url=''URL of source''}}, {{Tlp|Db-filecopyvio|2=url=''URL of source''}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations}} | |||
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=== F11. No evidence of permission === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:F11}} | |||
If an {{strong|uploader}} has specified a license and has named a third party as the source/copyright holder without providing evidence that this third party has in fact agreed, the item may be deleted {{strong|seven days after notification}} of the uploader. Acceptable evidence of licensing normally consists of either a link to the source website where the license is stated, or a statement by the copyright holder e-mailed or forwarded to . Such a confirmation is also required if the source is an organization that the uploader claims to represent, or a web publication that the uploader claims to be their own. Instances of {{strong|obvious}} copyright violations where the uploader would have no reasonable expectation of obtaining permission (e.g. major studio movie posters, television images, album covers, logos that are {{em|not}} ], etc.) should be speedily deleted per ] (unambiguous copyright infringement), unless fair-use can be claimed. Files tagged with {{Tl|Permission pending}} for more than 30 days may also be speedily deleted under this criterion. (Please note that the backlog for messages sent to the permissions-en queue is currently {{VRT backlog}} days. You may wish to wait at least this amount of time before tagging VRT pending images for deletion.) Files tagged {{tl|Permission received}} whose permissions have not been confirmed after 30 days may be deleted immediately under this criterion, without waiting an additional seven days, provided a check of the ticket is performed by a VRT agent to confirm that no further interaction is ongoing. | |||
* {{tlsp|Di-no permission}}, {{Tlsp|Npd}} | |||
* {{Tlsp|Db-no permission-VRT}} | |||
* ]<ref>See also: {{clc|All Misplaced Pages files missing evidence of permission}}</ref> | |||
== Categories == | |||
{{Anchor|c|C|cat|CAT|category|Category|CATEGORY}} | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:CCSD}} | |||
For any ] pages that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ]. | |||
{{Anchor|C1|c1|catempty}} | |||
=== C1. Unpopulated categories === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:C1}} | |||
This criterion applies to categories that have been unpopulated for at least seven days. This does not apply to ], ], categories under discussion at ] (or other such ]), or project categories that by their nature may become empty on occasion (e.g. ], or ]). Place {{Tl|Possibly empty category}} (or, for administrative categories, {{tl|Misplaced Pages category|hidden=yes|tracking=yes}}) at the top of the page to prevent such categories from being deleted. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-c1}}, {{tl|db-catempty}}. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-empty}} <small>– context-specific version: calls {{Tl|Db-c1}} for categories, and {{Tl|Db-a3}} everywhere else.</small> | |||
* {{clc|Empty categories awaiting deletion}}, and after seven days {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as empty categories}} | |||
{{Anchor|C2|c2|catspeedy|C2A|C2B|C2C|C2D|C2E|C2F}} | |||
=== C2. Speedy renaming and merging === | |||
Assorted sub-criteria that are used only at ]; please see that page for details and instructions. | |||
{{anchor|C4|c4|catmaintenance}} | |||
=== C4. Unused maintenance categories === | |||
{{shortcut|WP:C4}} | |||
This criterion applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past (e.g. ]), tracking categories no longer used by a template after a rewrite, or empty subcategories of ] or ]. Note that empty maintenance categories are not necessarily unused—this criterion is for categories that will ''always'' be empty, not just ''currently'' empty. If you are unsure whether a category is still being used by a template, consider asking the creator of the category or at the template's talk page before tagging. | |||
* {{t|db-c4}}, {{t|db-templatecat}} | |||
* {{clc|Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unused maintenance categories}} | |||
{{anchor|T|t|TM|Tm|tm|template|TEMPLATE|Template}} | |||
== Templates == | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:TCSD}} | |||
For any ] and ] that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ]. | |||
{{Anchor|T5|t5}} | |||
=== T5. Unused template subpages === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:T5}} | |||
This applies to unused ] of templates, such as: | |||
*] subpages unused by the template itself | |||
*/core subpages which are not called by the template itself | |||
*Old subpages of {{t|POTD protected}} | |||
*Unnecessary subpages of {{t|Taxonomy}}, e.g. because it is incorrectly set up, or relates to a taxon no longer used | |||
It excludes /testcases and /sandbox subpages, subpages of ], as well as anything tagged with {{t|T5-exempt}}. Reasonable exceptions apply for subpages which will be used soon, and editors are free to ]. | |||
* {{tl|Db-t5}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as unused template subpages}} | |||
== User pages == | |||
{{Anchor|u|U|up|UP|user|User|USER|user page|User page|USERPAGE|userpage|Userpage|userpages|Userpages|USERPAGES}} | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:UCSD}} | |||
{{further|Misplaced Pages:User pages}} | |||
These criteria apply only to pages in the User: and User talk: namespaces. For any ]s that are not speedy deletion candidates, use ]. | |||
{{Anchor|U1|u1|userreq}} | |||
=== U1. User request === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:U1}} | |||
Personal ] and ] (but {{em|not}} ]) upon request by their user. This also includes ]s for ]s. In some rare cases, there may be administrative need to retain the page. User talk pages are not eligible for speedy deletion under this criterion. Pages that have previously been moved are only eligible if all previous titles were in the user's userspace. '''Note:''' The template does not display on certain pages (such as ] and ] pages), but its categorization will work. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-u1}}, {{Tl|Db-userreq}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion by user}} | |||
{{Anchor|U2|u2|nouser}} | |||
=== U2. Nonexistent user === | |||
{{redirect|WP:U2|the WikiProject for the band|Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U2}} | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:U2}} | |||
This applies to user pages, user subpages, and user talk pages of users that do not exist on the English Misplaced Pages (check ]), except user pages for IP users who have edited, redirects from misspellings of an established user's user page, and redirects created due to a ]. Pages of users who exist on other WMF wikis but do not have local accounts are eligible for deletion.<ref>{{sectionlink|Misplaced Pages talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 85#U2 and global accounts}}</ref> | |||
Before placing one of the following templates or deleting a page under this criterion, consider whether moving the page to another location, such as a sub-page of the user page of the primary contributor, is preferable to deletion. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-u2}}, {{Tl|Db-nouser}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as userpage or subpage of a nonexistent user}} | |||
{{Anchor|U5|u5|NOTWEBHOST|notwebhost}} | |||
=== U5. A non-contributor's misuse of Misplaced Pages as a web host === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:U5}} | |||
Pages in userspace consisting of ], where the owner has made few or no edits outside of ], except for plausible drafts and pages adhering to {{sectionlink|Misplaced Pages:User pages#What may I have in my user pages?}} It applies regardless of the age of the page in question. | |||
Before placing this template or deleting a page under this criterion: | |||
* Read {{sectionlink|Misplaced Pages:User pages#Handling inappropriate content}} and {{sectionlink|Misplaced Pages:User pages#Deletion of user pages}}. | |||
* Consider blanking pages with a significant history unrelated to the content that is being deleted. | |||
* For draft articles that are on a user's main page and which do not otherwise qualify for speedy deletion, consider moving it to a sub-page. | |||
* {{Tl|Db-u5}}, {{Tl|Db-notwebhost}} | |||
* {{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as blatant NOTWEBHOST violations}} | |||
== <span class="anchor" id="Temporary"></span>Exceptional circumstances == | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:XCSD}} | |||
{{anchor|X3|x3}} | |||
These temporary criteria apply to large-scale cleanups of problematic pages that would overwhelm the normal deletion processes. Criteria should be deprecated when no longer needed. | |||
=== X3. Redirects with no space before a parenthetical disambiguation === | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:X3}} | |||
Examples: "Foo(bar)", "Joe Smith(disambiguation)". This does <strong>not</strong> apply to terms that will correctly or plausibly be searched for without spaces, nor does it apply if the redirect contains substantive page history (e.g. from a merge). <em>Before</em> nominating a redirect under this criterion: | |||
*Create the correctly spaced version as a redirect to the same target if it would make a good redirect but does not exist | |||
*Adjust any incoming internal links to point to the correctly spaced version | |||
*{{tl|db-x3}} | |||
*{{clc|Candidates for speedy deletion as redirects with no space before a parenthetical disambiguation}} | |||
{{Anchor|n|N|nc|NC|non|NON|noncrit|NONCRIT|noncriteria|NONCRITERIA|Noncriteria}} | |||
== Non-criteria == | == Non-criteria == | ||
{{Misplaced Pages talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Common requests}} | |||
Sometimes speedy deletion criteria are applied to articles that they do not and were not intended to apply to; also, rules that are not speedy deletion rules are often mistakenly used to justify speedy deletion. This section aims to clarify some of the frequently used "non-criteria" that are commonly cited but are ''not sufficient'', by themselves, to justify speedy deletion. These are not rules and intended only to be commonly-understood interpretations of the criteria above. | |||
The following are not {{em|by themselves}} sufficient to justify speedy deletion: | |||
* '''Reasons derived from ]''': "Misplaced Pages is not a dictionary", "Misplaced Pages is not an indiscriminate collection of information" and "Misplaced Pages is not a crystal ball" are not part of the speedy deletion criteria. However, these reasons can be given at ] nominations. | |||
# '''Reasons based on ] or essays'''. Misplaced Pages is not: "a dictionary", "an indiscriminate collection of information", "a crystal ball", "a how-to list"; or essays like ], ], ],...; are not valid reasons for speedy deletion. | |||
* ''']''': Articles that present unverifiable and probably false ideas, theories, or subjects. Occasionally these can be deleted as vandalism if the article is obviously ridiculous, but remotely plausible articles should be subjected to further scrutiny in a wider forum. | |||
# ''']'''. If even remotely plausible, a suspected hoax article should be subjected to further scrutiny in a wider forum. Truth is often stranger than fiction. Note that "blatant and obvious hoaxes and misinformation" are subject to speedy deletion as ]. | |||
* '''Original research''': Although we have a ] against material that offers novel theories or interpretations on Misplaced Pages, this is not a basis for speedy deletion. The reason for this is that it's not always easy to tell whether an article is original research. | |||
# '''Original research'''. It is not always easy to tell whether an article consists of material that violates ] or is simply unsourced. | |||
* ''']s''': As with hoaxes, unless the article is obviously ridiculous, a wider forum is necessary to evaluate the currency of specialized terminology. | |||
# '''Notability'''. Articles that seem to have obviously non-notable subjects are eligible for speedy deletion only if the article does not give ]. | |||
# '''Failure to assert importance but not an ], ] or ] category'''. There is no consensus to speedily delete articles of types not specifically listed in A7, A9 or A11 under those criteria. Nor does it apply for ]s that do not meet ] because new specialized terms should have a wider hearing. | |||
* '''Author deletion requests made in bad faith''': Sometimes an author will ask to have content removed because they feel frustrated with the project and resent it profiting from their work. However, they licensed their work to be used in this way and they have no legal basis for asking for its removal. The article must be "mistakenly created", for example if the author created it unwittingly by misspelling a name. Of course, anyone may request deletion of pages in their userspace. | |||
# '''Author deletion requests made in bad faith'''. Author deletion requests made in bad faith, out of frustration, after others have contributed substantially (because the work of others is involved) or in an attempt to ] are not granted. However, anyone may request deletion of pages in their userspace. | |||
* '''Very short articles''': As explained above, some very short articles can be speedily deleted, but if they have content and offer sufficient context to qualify as ], they cannot be. | |||
# '''Very short articles'''. Short articles with sufficient content and context to qualify as ] may not be speedily deleted under criteria ] and ]; other criteria may still apply. | |||
* '''"Copyright violations" whose sources copied Misplaced Pages''': Our content is extensively used without credit, sometimes with modifications. To invoke A8, you must be reasonably sure that the content belonged to the source site first. | |||
# '''Copies that are not copyright violations'''. If content appears both here and somewhere else (possibly in modified form), consider the possibility that Misplaced Pages's is the original version and the other site copied from Misplaced Pages's version. Alternatively, the same author may have written both versions, or the original may be free content. | |||
* '''PNGs/GIFs replaced by JPEGs''': Even if an image is a photograph or other continuous-tone image, JPEG encoding discards a variety of information that could be important for further editing. Do not delete the original PNG/GIF files. | |||
# '''PNG / GIF files replaced by JPEG images'''. JPEG encoding discards information that may be important later. Do not delete the original PNG / GIF files. | |||
* Finally, '''good faith edits are never vandalism'''. If you cannot be reasonably sure an article was written in bad faith, G3 does not apply. | |||
# '''Questionable material that is not vandalism'''. Earnest efforts are never vandalism, so to ], do not delete as vandalism unless reasonably certain. | |||
# '''User and user talk pages of IP addresses'''. Although users are encouraged to create Misplaced Pages accounts, unregistered users are still allowed to edit Misplaced Pages, and are identified by their IP addresses. If an unregistered user has a static IP address, it may have a user page and/or user talk page associated with it, and even for non-static IP addresses, the history can contain important discussions or information that may be of interest. | |||
# '''An article written in a foreign language or script'''. An article should not be speedily deleted just because it is not written in English. Instead it should be tagged with {{Tl|Not English}} and listed at ]. It may be reconsidered after translation whether the article merits deletion, retention or improvement by means of a suitable tag. However, if it already exists on another Wikimedia project, it {{em|might}} be speedily deletable under criterion ]. | |||
# '''Subject request'''. Sometimes somebody claiming to be the subject of a biographical article requests deletion of the article, or even blanks the article. Article subjects do not have an automatic right to have their articles deleted. Nor does such a criterion apply to namespaces other than article space: for example, pages in the Misplaced Pages namespace devoted to a discussion about a particular editor. See also: {{sectionlink|Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy#Deletion of biographies and BLPs}} | |||
# '''Orphaned pages or redirects'''. A page cannot be deleted just because no other pages link to it. This includes redirects – even if 'What links here' returns nothing, a redirect may be a likely search phrase, or have links to it from outside Misplaced Pages. | |||
# '''Redirects that are poorly targeted'''. A redirect should not be deleted just because its target is incorrect or confusing. Instead, change the redirect to a better target. If you're not sure where it should be targeted, open a discussion at ]. | |||
# '''Drafts covering the same topic as an existing mainspace article'''. These are not valid deletions under ] (due to not being articles) nor ]. They can be ] if necessary. | |||
# '''Conflict of interest'''. Merely having an author connected to its subject, or even one paid to write about it, is not by itself sufficient to speedy delete a page. While users ] are frequently blocked, ] does not apply unless they were already evading a block or ban when they wrote it. ] can be used to delete exclusively-promotional ''writing'', but doesn't apply to neutrally-written material even if the intent is obviously promotional. ] can also be used in some cases, but excludes anything plausibly intended as a draft article. | |||
== Procedure for administrators == | |||
{{Anchor|proc|PROC|pa|PA|pfa|PFA|admin|ADMIN|sysop|SYSOP|procedure|Procedure|PROCEDURE|administrator|Administrator|ADMINISTRATOR|administrators|Administrators|ADMINISTRATORS}} | |||
{{See also|Misplaced Pages:Deletion process}} | |||
Make sure to specify the reason for deletion in the deletion summary. Also, in general, the article's creator and major contributors should have been notified. | |||
Before deleting a page, check the ] to assess whether it would instead be possible to ] and salvage a previous version, or there was actually a ] involved. Also: | |||
* The initial ] may have information about the source of or reason for the page. | |||
* The ] may refer to previous deletion discussions or have ongoing discussion relevant to including the page. | |||
* The ] may have information about previous deletions that could warrant ]ing the page or keeping it on good reason. | |||
* '']'' may show that the page is an oft-referred part of the encyclopedia, or may show other similar pages that warrant deletion. For pages that should not be re-created, incoming links in other pages (except in discussions, archives and tracking pages) should be removed. | |||
'''If speedy deletion is inappropriate''' for a page: | |||
==Deletion templates== | |||
# Please remove the speedy deletion tag from the page. Doing so will automatically remove the page from ]. | |||
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# Consider notifying the nominator, using {{tl|speedy-decline}} or {{tl|uw-csd}}. (If you're using ], it will usually notify the nominator for you; it will normally use .) | |||
! What to type | |||
! Criteria | |||
! Used for | |||
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The following templates add articles to ] but do not appear in the category themselves: | |||
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| {{tlp|db|''reason''}}<br />{{tlp|db-reason|''reason''}}<br />{{tlp|Deletebecause|''reason''}}<br />{{tlp|Delbecause|''reason''}}<br />{{tlp|d|''reason''}}<br /> {{tlp|delete|''reason''}} | |||
| | |||
| Replace ''reason'' with a specific reason for speedy deletion.<br>'''Please try to write out a reason that will be comprehensible to non-Wikipedians'''. | |||
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Specific reason templates are: | |||
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| {{tl|db-nonsense}} | |||
| ] | |||
| patent nonsense. You can put <nowiki>{{subst:testarticle-n|</nowiki>''page name''<nowiki>}} -- ~~~~</nowiki> on the user's talk page. | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-test}} | |||
| ] | |||
| test page. You can put <nowiki>{{subst:testarticle-n|</nowiki>''page name''<nowiki>}} -- ~~~~</nowiki> on the user's talk page. | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-vandalism}} | |||
| ] | |||
| vandalism. You can put <nowiki>{{subst:test2article-n|</nowiki>''page name''<nowiki>}} -- ~~~~</nowiki> on the user's talk page. | |||
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| {{tl|Db-pagemove}} | |||
| ] | |||
| Nonsense redirects that are created from the cleanup of page move vandalism. You can put <nowiki>{{subst:Mp2-n|</nowiki>''page name''<nowiki>}} -- ~~~~</nowiki> on the user's talk page. | |||
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| {{tl|db-repost}} | |||
| ] | |||
| copies of previously deleted material | |||
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| {{tlp|db-banned|''Name of the banned user''}} | |||
| ] | |||
| contributions made by a banned user | |||
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| {{tlp|db-histmerge|''Page to merge history from''}} | |||
| ] | |||
| history merge | |||
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| {{tlp|db-move|''Page to be moved''}} | |||
| ] | |||
| making way for a noncontroversial move. Please add the name of the page that is to be moved | |||
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| {{tl|db-afd}} | |||
| ] | |||
| an admin has closed an ] debate as a "delete" but not deleted the article. | |||
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| {{tl|db-g6}} | |||
| ] | |||
| other non-controversial "housekeeping" tasks, such as reversing a redirect or deleting a disambiguation page that only points to a single article | |||
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| {{tl|db-author}} | |||
| ] | |||
| speedy request by only editor | |||
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| {{tl|db-blanked}} | |||
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| page blanked by only editor | |||
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| {{tl|db-talk}} | |||
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| talk page of a deleted or nonexistent page | |||
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| {{tl|db-attack}} | |||
| ] | |||
| attack page intended to disparage its subject | |||
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| {{tl|db-spam}} | |||
| ] | |||
| Pages that exist only to promote a company, product, or service. | |||
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| {{tl|db-empty}}<br> {{tl|db-nocontext}} | |||
| ] | |||
| very short articles without context | |||
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| {{tl|db-foreign}} | |||
| ] | |||
| foreign language article duplicated on other Wikimedia project | |||
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| {{tl|db-nocontent}}<br> {{tl|db-contact}} | |||
| ] | |||
| no content other than external links of whatever kind, or an attempt to contact subject of article | |||
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| {{tl|db-transwiki}} | |||
| ] | |||
| transwikification completed | |||
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| {{tl|db-bio}}<br />{{tl|db-band}}<br />{{tl|db-club}}<br />{{tl|db-group}}<br />{{tlp|Db-bio-notenglish|''language''}}<br />{{tl|db-web}} | |||
| ] | |||
| non-notable biography / article about a person, group, company, or website that does not assert the notability of the subject. You can put <nowiki>{{subst:nn-warn|</nowiki>''page name''<nowiki>}} -- ~~~~</nowiki> on the user's talk page, or, if it seems that someone has created a user page in the encyclopedia section instead of their user page, you can use put <nowiki>{{subst:Userfy warning|</nowiki>''page name''<nowiki>}} -- ~~~~</nowiki> on their talk page. | |||
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| {{]|url=''url of source''}} | |||
| ] | |||
| blatant copyright violation. Please notify uploader on their talk page with: <nowiki>{{subst:nothanks-sd|pg=</nowiki>''page name''<nowiki>|</nowiki>url=''url of source''}} -- <nowiki> ~~~~</nowiki> | |||
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| {{tl|db-redirnone}} | |||
| ] | |||
| redirect to non-existent page | |||
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| {{tl|db-rediruser}} | |||
| ] | |||
| redirect to user page | |||
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| {{tl|db-redirtypo}} | |||
| ] | |||
| redirect that is a result of an implausible typo | |||
|- | |||
| {{tlp|Redundant image|''name of replacement image without the Image<nowiki>:</nowiki> prefix''}}<br> {{tlp|isd|''name of replacement image without the Image<nowiki>:</nowiki> prefix''}} | |||
| ] | |||
| same or better image exists '''on Misplaced Pages''' (not for now on Commons) | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-noimage}} | |||
| ] | |||
| corrupt or empty image | |||
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| {{tl|Db-noncom}} | |||
| ] | |||
| "No commercial use" or "by permission" images uploaded after target date. | |||
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| {{tl|db-unksource}} | |||
| ] | |||
| lack of licensing -- Should only be used if the image has been previously tagged with {{tl|no license}}, {{tl|no source}}, or a similar template. | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-unfree}} | |||
| ] | |||
| unused copyright image -- Should only be used if the image has been previously tagged with {{tl|or-cr}}, {{tl|or-fu}}, or a similar template. | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-norat}} | |||
| ] | |||
| image with fair use tag but no fair use rationale - must have been tagged as such for seven days and uploaded after ] | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-badfairuse}} | |||
| ] | |||
| bad fair use rationale - image tagged for fair use under a rationale that is patently irrelevant to the actual image, like {{tl|game-screenshot}} on a photo of a celebrity. Please notify uploader on their talk page using <nowiki>{{subst:badfairuse|image name including prefix|tag that was on the image}}</nowiki> | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-catempty}} | |||
| ] | |||
| category that is empty for at least four days and has never contained anything other than links to parent categories | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-catfd}} | |||
| ] | |||
| category that is used solely by a template that has been deleted | |||
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| {{tl|db-userreq}} | |||
| ] | |||
| user's subpage requested to be deleted by the user with whom it is associated | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-nouser}} | |||
| ] | |||
| userpages of users who do not exist | |||
|- | |||
| {{tl|db-disparage}} | |||
| ] | |||
| templates that are divisive and inflammatory | |||
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| {{tl|db-emptyportal}} | |||
| ] | |||
| underpopulated portal | |||
|} | |||
'''When deleting''' a page through the speedy deletion process, please specify the reason for deletion in the deletion summary, so that it will be recorded into the ]. Quoting page content in the deletion summary may be helpful, but '''''must not''''' be done for ] or ]. In some cases, it would be appropriate to notify the page's creator of the deletion. | |||
==Procedure for administrators== | |||
{{see also|Misplaced Pages:Deletion process}} | |||
Before deleting a page, an admin should check the ] to assess whether it would instead be possible to ] and salvage a previous version. The initial edit summary may also have important information about the origin of the article. Further information may be present on the talk page of the page concerned (such as records of previous deletion discussions) and in the article log (may show previous deletions and recreations which need to be considered). Finally, using 'What links here' is an important part of the deletion process. An article with lots of incoming links from other articles may possibly not be suitable for speedy deletion. Equally, checking incoming links may reveal other articles suitable for speedy deletion. If it is certain that the deletion will not be contested and that the article will not or should not be recreated, then existing red links should be undone to discourage later recreation. | |||
] or ] can be used to process nominations more quickly and smoothly. When processing a nomination: | |||
Admins should specify the deletion criteria in their edit summary and should notify the article's creator about the deletion, where applicable. Unless there is evidence to the contrary, please assume good faith on the part of the article's creator. | |||
* Twinkle can delete the page. | |||
** Twinkle can notify the page creator if the page is deleted. | |||
* CSDH can delete the page, convert the nomination into a ] nomination, or decline the nomination. | |||
** CSDH can notify the nominator if the nomination is converted or declined. | |||
== |
== Obsolete == | ||
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* ] | |||
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* ] (Grid of warning messages) | |||
{{Shortcut|WP:OCSD|WP:PCSD}} | |||
In the past, criteria beginning with the following letter were used: | |||
* "'''P'''" for portals | |||
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All criteria in this group have been obsoleted; as such, this group is not currently in use. Some criteria in the active groups were also used in the past but are no longer valid. They are kept here for historical reference and to preserve numbering. Two of the repealed criteria did not have consensus before being enacted, and two were meant to be temporary. The remainder were merged into broader criteria or deprecated entirely. | |||
{| align="center" style="margin:0 auto;" class="toccolours" | |||
; {{Anchor|A4|a4}} '']4. Attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title'' : Merged with and later superseded by ] (A3) in November 2005<ref>]</ref> as part of a ] that was made to simplify the CSD criterion (''], ], ]''). | |||
| align="center" | '''See also''' | |||
; {{Anchor|A5|a5|transwiki}} ''A5. Transwikied articles'' : Was repealed in December 2022 due to lack of use (]). Instead, use ]. Deleted articles that are temporarily restored to allow for a transwiki may be re-deleted under ] (G6). | |||
| align="center" | ] | ] | ] | ] | ] <br> ] | ] | ] | ] <br> ] | ] | |||
; {{Anchor|A6|a6}} ''A6. Attack articles'' : Superseded by ] (G10) in March 2006 ''(])''. | |||
|} | |||
; {{Anchor|A8|a8}} ''A8. Blatant copyright infringement articles'' : Superseded by ] (G12) in October 2006 ''(])''. | |||
; {{Anchor|R1|r1}} '']1. Redirects to non-existent pages'' : Merged into ] (G8) in September 2008 ('']''). | |||
; {{anchor|F7a|f7a|I7a|i7a}} '']7a. ] images or media with a clearly invalid fair-use tag'' : Repealed in March 2021 due to the problem being easily surmountable ('']''). Instead, the invalid tag should be corrected. Once the tag is corrected, other speedy deletion criteria may apply. | |||
; {{Anchor|F10|f10|I10|i10|uselessnonmedia}} ''F10. Useless non-media files'' : Deprecated in favor of ] in February 2023 following rare usage and added technical restrictions on what file types can be uploaded ('']''). | |||
; {{Anchor|C3|c3}} '']3. Categories solely populated from a template'' : Merged into ] (G8) in October 2008 ('']''), and then later split out to ] in 2024. | |||
; {{Anchor|T1|t1|disparage}} '']1. Divisive and inflammatory templates'' : Enacted by ] without formally assessing consensus during the ]. Was repealed in February 2009 ('']''). Instead, ] (G10) may be applicable in some cases; otherwise, use ] for userboxes and ] for all other templates. | |||
; {{Anchor|T2|t2|misrepresent|T2. Misrepresentation of policy}} ''T2. Misrepresentation of policy'' : Was repealed in July 2020 following rare, often incorrect, use (]). Instead, ] (G3) may be applicable in some cases; otherwise, use ]. | |||
; {{Anchor|T3|t3|hardcode|T3. Duplication and hardcoded instances}}''T3. Duplication and hardcoded instances'' : Was repealed in December 2020 due to misuse and the seven day hold (]). Instead, use an existing applicable criterion or submit the template to ]. | |||
; {{Anchor|T4|t4}} ''T4. Subpages of non-existent pages'' : Merged into ] (G8) in September 2008 ('']''). | |||
; {{Anchor|U3|fairusegallery}} '']3. Non-free galleries'' : Was repealed in July 2021 since a bot automatically removes non-free images from user pages ('']''). | |||
; {{Anchor|U4|u4|oldip}} ''U4. Old IP address talk pages that meet specific criteria'' : Never enacted as policy anywhere, but deletions occurred nonetheless. Was repealed in March 2009 (]). | |||
; {{Anchor|P1|p1}} '']1. Any portal that would be subject to speedy deletion as an article'' : Repealed in February 2023 following rare usage (]). | |||
; {{Anchor|P2|p2}} ''P2. Underpopulated portal'' : Repealed in February 2023 following rare usage (]). | |||
; {{Anchor|X1|x1|Neelix|neelix}} '']1. Redirects created by Neelix'' : ] as a G6 extension in December 2015 shortly after the ] and ] regarding 50,000+ questionable redirects created by the user ], and later ]. Was repealed in April 2018 after cleanup was completed ('']''). Instead, use ]. | |||
; {{anchor|X2|x2|CXT|cxt|X2. Pages created by the content translation tool}} ''X2. Pages created by the content translation tool'' : ] to delete pages created by the ] prior to 27 July 2016. Was deprecated in July 2017 when consensus agreed to move most of the remaining pages to the draft namespace ('']''). | |||
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Misplaced Pages policy describing when pages may be deleted speedily "WP:SPEEDY" redirects here. For the guideline discussing when to end deletion debates early as "keep", see Misplaced Pages:Speedy keep. For the list of current candidates for speedy deletion, see Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. For the speedy renaming of categories, see Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Speedy. For speedy moves, see Misplaced Pages:Requested moves/Technical requests. "WP:SD" redirects here. For the shortcut directory, see Misplaced Pages:Shortcut directory. For information on short descriptions, see Misplaced Pages:Short description. For WikiProject South Dakota, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject South Dakota.
This page documents an English Misplaced Pages policy.It describes a widely accepted standard that editors should normally follow, though exceptions may apply. Changes made to it should reflect consensus. | Shortcuts |
This page in a nutshell: Under certain limited conditions, a page may be deleted by an administrator without waiting for any discussion. |
Deletion policies |
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The criteria for speedy deletion (CSD) specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus to bypass deletion discussion, at their discretion, and immediately delete Misplaced Pages pages or media. Because deletion is reversible only by administrators, other deletions occur only after discussion, unless they are proposed deletions. Speedy deletion is intended to reduce the time spent on deletion discussions for pages or media with no practical chance of surviving discussion. Anyone can request speedy deletion by adding one of the speedy deletion templates, but only administrators may actually delete.
Before nominating a page for speedy deletion, consider whether it could be improved, reduced to a stub, merged or redirected elsewhere, reverted to a better previous revision, or handled in some other way (see Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy § Alternatives to deletion). A page is eligible for speedy deletion only if all of its history is also eligible. Users nominating a page for speedy deletion should specify which criterion/criteria the page meets, and should notify the page creator and any major contributors. If a page needs to be removed from Misplaced Pages for privacy reasons (e.g. non-public personal information, a child disclosing their age, possible libel), request oversight instead.
For most speedy deletion criteria, the creator of a page may not remove the deletion tag from it; only an editor who is not the creator of a page may do so. A creator who disagrees with the speedy deletion should instead click on the Contest this speedy deletion button that appears inside of the speedy deletion tag. This button links to the discussion page with a pre-formatted area for the creator to explain why the page should not be deleted. If an editor other than the creator removes a speedy deletion tag in good faith, it should be taken as a sign that the deletion is controversial and another deletion process should be used. The creator of a page may remove a speedy deletion tag only if the criterion in question is G6, G7, G8, G13, G14, C1, C4, or U1.
Administrators should take care not to speedily delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases. If a page has survived its most recent deletion discussion, it should not be speedily deleted except for newly discovered copyright violations and pages that meet specific uncontroversial criteria; these criteria are noted below. Contributors sometimes create pages over several edits, so administrators should avoid deleting a page that appears incomplete too soon after its creation.
Besides speedy deletion, there are the following methods of deletion:
- Misplaced Pages:Deletion discussions (AfD, CfD, FfD, MfD, RfD, TfD), the normal method of carrying out deletion.
- Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletions, for nominating articles and files for uncontroversial deletion.
- Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people, for articles on living persons without sources.
Nomenclature
Letter-number abbreviations (G12, A3...) are often used to refer to these criteria, and are given in each section. For example, "CSD G12" refers to criterion 12 under general (copyright infringement) and "CSD U1" refers to criterion 1 under user (user request). Some in-between numbers are skipped, as abbreviations denoting obsolete criteria remain unused. These abbreviations can be confusing to new editors or anyone else unfamiliar with this page; in many situations a plain-English explanation of why a specific page was or should be deleted is preferable.
Requesting speedy deletion
Immediately following each criterion below is a list of templates used to mark pages or media files for speedy deletion under the criterion being used. To alert administrators to the nomination, place the relevant speedy deletion template at the top of the page or media file you are nominating (but see § Pages that need to be tagged in a special manner below). Please be sure to supply an edit summary that mentions that the page is being nominated for speedy deletion. All of the speedy deletion templates are named as Db-X with Db standing for 'delete because'. A list of the Db-X templates can be found at Misplaced Pages:Criteria for speedy deletion/Deletion templates.
If a page falls under more than one of the criteria, instead of adding multiple tags it is possible to add a single {{Db-multiple}} tag to cover them all. For example, if an article seems both to be blatantly promotional (G11) and also to fail to indicate the significance of its subject (A7) then the tag {{Db-multiple|G11|A7}}
can be used to indicate both of these concerns. The article can then be speedily deleted if an administrator assesses it and decides that either or both of the criteria apply.
There is a strong consensus that the creators and major contributors of pages and media files should be warned of a speedy deletion nomination (or of the deletion if not informed before). All speedy deletion templates (using criteria other than U1, G5, G6, G7, and G8) thus contain in their body a pre-formatted, suggested warning template to notify the relevant party or parties of the nomination for speedy deletion under the criterion used. You can copy and paste such warnings to the talk pages of the creators and major contributors, choose from others listed at Category:Speedy deletion warning templates, or place the unified warning template, {{subst:CSD-warn|csd|Page name}}
, which allows you to tailor your warning under any particular criterion by replacing csd
with the associated criterion abbreviation (e.g. g4, a7).
Use common sense when applying a speedy deletion request to a page: review the page history to make sure that all earlier revisions of the page meet the speedy deletion criterion, because a single editor can replace an article with material that appears to cause the page to meet one or more of the criteria.
Pages that need to be tagged in a special manner
Some pages either cannot or should not be tagged for speedy deletion in the normal manner:
- Pages that you cannot edit (e.g., due to protection), or JSON pages: place the template on the corresponding Talk page instead, along with an explanation of which page to delete.
- Template: pages: place the template within a noinclude tag, like this:
<noinclude>{{Db-x}}</noinclude>
- Module: pages (except for /doc pages): place the template with Module:Module wikitext, like this:
require('Module:Module wikitext')._addText('{{Db-x}}')
- CSS (including sanitized CSS) or JavaScript pages: place the template in a comment, like this:
/* {{Db-x}} */
Pages that have survived deletion discussions
For general principles of how deletion processes interact, see Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy § Process interaction.As an exception to the norm that a page surviving its most recent deletion discussion means that it should not be speedily deleted, the following criteria apply also to those pages, with or without any specified limitations:
- § G5. Creations by banned or blocked users, or in violation of general sanctions – subject to the strict condition that the XfD participants were unaware that the page would have met this criterion
- § G6. Technical deletions – only if the deletion is temporary, or if no actual content will be removed
- § G8. Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page
- § G9. Office actions
- § G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement
- § G13. Abandoned drafts and Articles for creation submissions – if 6 months have passed since the deletion discussion and any subsequent human edits
- § F8. Files available as identical copies on Wikimedia Commons – if the image did not exist on Commons at the time of the FfD
- § F9. Unambiguous copyright infringement
- § U1. User request
These criteria may only be used in such cases when no controversy exists; in the event of a dispute, start a new deletion discussion. However, newly discovered copyright violations should be tagged for G12 if the violation existed in all previous revisions of the article. G5 may be also used at discretion, subject to meeting the criterion outlined above.
General
Shortcut
These apply to every type of page with exclusions listed for specific criteria, and so apply to articles, drafts, redirects, user pages, talk pages, files, etc. Read the specifics for each criterion to see where and how they apply.
G1. Patent nonsense
Shortcut Further information: Misplaced Pages:Patent nonsenseThis applies to pages consisting entirely of incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history. It does not cover poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, implausible theories, vandalism, hoaxes, fictional material, coherent non-English material, or poorly translated material. In short, if it is understandable, G1 does not apply. It also does not apply to pages in the user namespace.
G2. Test pages
ShortcutThis applies to pages created to test editing or other Misplaced Pages functions. It applies to subpages of the Misplaced Pages Sandbox created as tests, but does not apply to the Sandbox itself, pages in the user namespace, or valid but unused or duplicate templates.
G3. Pure vandalism and blatant hoaxes
Shortcut Further information: Misplaced Pages:Vandalism and Misplaced Pages:Do not create hoaxesThis applies to pages that are blatant and obvious misinformation, blatant hoaxes (including files intended to misinform), and redirects created by cleanup from page-move vandalism. Articles about notable hoaxes are acceptable if it is clear that they are describing a hoax.
- {{Db-g3}}, {{Db-vandalism}} – for vandalism
- {{Db-hoax}} – for hoaxes
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as vandalism (0), Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as hoaxes (0)
G4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion
ShortcutThis applies to sufficiently identical copies, having any title, of a page deleted via its most recent deletion discussion. It excludes pages that are not substantially identical to the deleted version, and pages to which the reason for the deletion no longer applies. It excludes pages in userspace and draftspace where the content was converted to a draft for explicit improvement (but not simply to circumvent Misplaced Pages's deletion policy). This criterion also does not cover content undeleted via a deletion review, or that was only deleted via proposed deletion (including deletion discussions closed as "soft delete") or speedy deletion.
- {{Db-g4}}, {{Db-repost}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as pages previously deleted via deletion discussion (0)
G5. Creations by banned or blocked users, or in violation of general sanctions
Shortcut Further information: WP:BANREVERTThis applies to pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, as well as pages created in violation of general sanctions, and that have no substantial edits by others not subject to the ban or sanctions.
- To qualify for a ban- or block-based speedy deletion, the edit or page must have been made while the user was actually banned or blocked. A page created before the ban or block was imposed or after it was lifted will not qualify under this criterion.
- For topic-banned editors, the page must be a violation of the user's specific ban, and must not include contributions legitimately about some other topic.
- For general sanctions, the page must have been created in violation of creation restrictions, such as the extended confirmed restriction, and the remedies must specifically permit deletion as an enforcement measure.
- When a blocked or banned person uses an alternate account (sockpuppet) to avoid a restriction, any pages created via the sock account after the earliest block or ban of any of that person's accounts qualify for G5 (if not substantially edited by others); this is the most common case for applying G5.
- G5 should not be applied to transcluded templates or populated categories unless they have been transcluded or populated entirely by the banned or blocked user; these edits need to be reverted before deletion.
- {{Db-g5|name of banned user}}, {{Db-banned|name of banned user}}, {{Db-gs|contentious topic code}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as having been created by blocked or banned users (0), Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as having been created in violation of general sanctions (0)
G6. Technical deletions
Shortcut See also: Misplaced Pages:What G6 is notThis is for uncontroversial maintenance, including:
- Deleting redirects or other pages which prevent page moves. Administrators should be aware of the proper procedures where a redirect or page holding up a page move has a non-trivial page history. An administrator who deletes a page that is blocking a move should ensure that the move is completed after deleting it.
- Deleting pages unambiguously created in error or in the incorrect namespace, or redirects created by moving away from a title that was obviously unintended.
- Deleting templates orphaned as the result of a consensus at Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion.
- {{Db-g6|rationale=reason}} – If none of the special tags below applies, this tag should be used with a reason specified in the
|rationale=
parameter. - {{Db-copypaste|page to be moved}} – for cut-and-paste page moves that need to be temporarily deleted to make room for a clean page move.
- {{Db-move|page to be moved|reason}} – for pages that are currently holding up a non-controversial or consensual page move.
- {{Db-moved}} – for pages that were holding up a page move, until they were moved out of the way by a page mover.
- {{Db-afc-move|Draft:page to be moved}} – for pages that are currently holding up a non-controversial or consensual page move as a result of an Articles for creation (AFC) review, typically for articles in draft space.
- {{Db-xfd|fullvotepage=link to closed deletion discussion}} – for pages where a consensus to delete has been previously reached via deletion discussion, but which were not deleted.
- {{Db-error}} – for pages obviously created in error.
- Category:Candidates for technical speedy deletion (0)
G7. Author requests deletion
ShortcutIf requested in good faith and provided that the only substantial content of the page was added by its author. For redirects created as a result of a page move, the mover must also have been the only substantive contributor to the pages before the move. If the sole author blanks a page other than a userspace page, a category page, or any type of talk page, this can be taken as a deletion request. If an author requests deletion of a page currently undergoing a deletion discussion, the closing admin may interpret that request as agreement with the deletion rationale.
- {{Db-g7}}, {{Db-author}}, {{Db-blanked}}, {{Db-self}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user (1) (same category as U1)
G8. Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page
ShortcutExamples include, but are not limited to:
- Talk pages with no corresponding subject page
- Subpages with no parent page
- TimedText pages without a corresponding file (or when the file has been moved to Commons)
- Redirects to target pages that never existed or were deleted
- Editnotices of non-existent or unsalted deleted pages
This criterion excludes any page that is useful to Misplaced Pages, and in particular:
- Deletion discussions that are not logged elsewhere
- User talk pages
- Talk page archives (except article talk page archives where the corresponding article and main talk page have been deleted and the page is not otherwise useful to Misplaced Pages – check for page-moves and merges before using G8 on article-talk-page-archives; the parent article might still exist under a different name)
- Redirects that were broken as a result of a page move or retargeting (these should instead be retargeted to their target's new name), except where R2 speedy deletion would then immediately apply if they were fixed (e.g., redirects to articles that have been draftified)
- Plausible redirects that can be changed to valid targets
- User subpages
- Talk pages for files that exist on Wikimedia Commons
- Pages that should be moved to a different location
Exceptions may be sign-posted with the template {{G8-exempt}}.
- {{Db-g8}} – for cases not covered by any of the special tags below
- {{Db-redirnone}} – for pages that redirect to nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion
- {{Db-subpage}} – for subpages of nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion
- {{Db-talk}} – for talk pages of nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as dependent on a non-existent page (0), Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as broken redirects (0)
G9. Office actions
Shortcut Main page: Misplaced Pages:Office actionsIn exceptional circumstances, the Wikimedia Foundation office reserves the right to speedy-delete a page. Deletions of this type must not be reversed without permission from the Foundation.
G10. Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate, or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose
Shortcut Main page: Misplaced Pages:Attack pageExamples of "attack pages" may include: libel, legal threats, material intended purely to harass or intimidate a person, or biographical material about a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced. These pages should be speedily deleted when there is no neutral version in the page history to revert to. Both the page title and page content may be taken into account in assessing an attack. Articles about living people deleted under this criterion should not be restored or recreated by any editor until the biographical article standards are met. Other pages violating the Biographies of living persons policy might be eligible for deletion under the conditions stipulated at Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons § Summary deletion, creation prevention, and courtesy blanking, although in most cases a deletion discussion should be initiated instead.
Redirects from plausible search terms are not eligible under this criterion. For example, a term used on the target page to refer to its subject is often a plausible redirect – see Misplaced Pages:RNEUTRAL.
- {{Db-g10}}, {{Db-attack}}, {{Db-attackorg}}, {{Db-personal attack}}
- {{Db-negublp}} – for articles about living persons that are unsourced, entirely negative in tone, and have no neutral version to revert to
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages (0)
G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion
Shortcut Main page: Misplaced Pages:Spam See also: Misplaced Pages:Identifying blatant advertisingThis applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to serve as encyclopedia articles, rather than advertisements. If a subject is notable and the content could plausibly be replaced with text written from a neutral point of view, this is preferable to deletion. Note: Any article that describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion. However, "promotion" does not necessarily mean commercial promotion: anything can be promoted, including a person, a non-commercial organization, a point of view, etc.
- {{Db-g11}}, {{Db-promo}}, {{Db-spam}}
- {{Db-spamuser}} – for userpages used only for publicity and promotion, with a username that promotes or implies affiliation with the entity being promoted
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as spam (1)
G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement
Shortcut Main page: Misplaced Pages:Copyright violationsThis applies to text pages that contain copyrighted material with no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a compatible free license, where there is no non-infringing content on the page worth saving. Only if the history is unsalvageably corrupted should it be deleted in its entirety; earlier versions without infringement should be retained. For equivocal cases that do not meet speedy deletion criteria (such as where there is a dubious assertion of permission, where free-content edits overlie the infringement, or where there is only partial infringement or close paraphrasing), the article or the appropriate section should be blanked with {{subst:Copyvio|url=insert URL here}}, and the page should be listed at Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems. Please consult Misplaced Pages:Copyright violations for other instructions. Public-domain and other free content, such as a Misplaced Pages mirror, do not fall under this criterion, nor is mere lack of attribution of such works a reason for speedy deletion. For images and media, see the equivalent criterion in the "Files" section here, which has more specific instructions.
- {{Db-g12|url=source URL}}, {{Db-copyvio|url=source URL}}
- Note: If other criteria apply in addition to G12, the template {{Db-multiple}} should be used instead, so we do not waste time seeking copyright permission after deleting the page.
- {{Db-multiple|g12|url=source URL|other criteria}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations (2) (same category as F9)
G13. Abandoned drafts and Articles for creation submissions
Shortcut Further information: Misplaced Pages:Articles for creationThis applies to any pages that have not been edited by a human in six months found in:
- Draft namespace,
- Userspace with an {{AFC submission}} template
- Userspace with no content except the article wizard placeholder text.
Redirects are exempt from G13 deletion. Adding a CSD template to a page does not reset the six-month clock, but removing a CSD template does. Pages deleted under G13 may be restored upon request by following the procedure at Misplaced Pages:Requests for undeletion/G13.
- {{Db-g13}}, {{Db-afc}}, {{db-blankdraft}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions (0)
G14. Unnecessary disambiguation pages
ShortcutThis applies to the following disambiguation pages and redirects:
- Disambiguation pages that have titles ending in "(disambiguation)" but disambiguate only one extant Misplaced Pages page.
- Regardless of title, disambiguation pages that disambiguate zero extant Misplaced Pages pages.
- Redirects that end in "(disambiguation)" but target neither disambiguation pages nor pages that perform disambiguation-like functions (such as set index articles or lists).
If a disambiguation page links to only one article and does not end in (disambiguation), it should be changed to a redirect, unless it is more appropriate to move the linked page to the title currently used for the disambiguation page.
- {{Db-g14}}, {{Db-disambig}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages (1)
Articles
Shortcut
These criteria apply only to pages in the article (main) namespace. They do not apply to redirects. For any articles that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion or Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion.
A1. No context
ShortcutThis applies to articles lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Example: "He is a funny man with a red car. He makes people laugh." It applies only to very short articles. Note that context is different from content, treated in A3. This excludes coherent non-English material, and poorly translated material. If any information in the title or on the page, including links, allows an editor, possibly with the aid of a web search, to find further information on the subject in an attempt to expand or edit it, A1 is not appropriate. Do not tag under this criterion in the first few minutes after a new article is created.
A2. Foreign-language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project
ShortcutThis applies to articles not written in English that have essentially the same content as an article on another Wikimedia project. If the article is not the same as an article on another project, use the template {{Not English}}
instead, and list the page at Misplaced Pages:Pages needing translation into English for review and possible translation.
- {{Db-a2}}, {{Db-foreign}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as existing on foreign Wikimedia projects (0)
A3. No content
ShortcutThis applies to articles consisting only of external links, category tags or "See also" sections, a rephrasing of the title, attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title, questions that should have been asked at a noticeboard, chat-like comments, template tags, or images. This may also apply to articles consisting entirely of the framework of the Article wizard with no additional content, or no content at all. However, a very short article may be a valid stub if it has context, in which case it is not eligible for deletion under this criterion. Similarly, this criterion does not cover a page having only an infobox, unless its contents also meet another speedy deletion criterion. This criterion excludes poor writing, coherent non-English material, and poorly translated material. Do not tag under this criterion in the first few minutes after a new article is created.
- {{Db-a3}}, {{Db-nocontent}}, {{Db-contact}}
- {{Db-empty}} – context-specific version: calls {{Db-c1}} for categories, and {{Db-a3}} everywhere else.
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as empty articles (0)
A7. No indication of importance (people, animals, organizations, web content, events)
Shortcut Further information: Misplaced Pages:Credible claim of significanceThis applies to any article about a real person, individual animal, commercial or non-commercial organization, web content, or organized event that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant, with the exception of educational institutions. This is distinct from verifiability and reliability of sources, and is a lower standard than notability. This criterion applies only to articles about the listed subjects; in particular, it does not apply to articles about albums (these may be covered by CSD A9), products, books, films, TV programs, software, or other creative works, nor to entire species of animals. The criterion does apply if the claim of significance or importance given is not credible, and any article with a blatantly false claim may be submitted for speedy deletion as a hoax instead. If the claim's credibility is unclear, you can improve the article yourself, propose deletion, or list the article at articles for deletion.
The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify on Misplaced Pages's notability guidelines.
- {{Db-a7}}
- {{Db-person}} – for people
- {{Db-band}} – for bands
- {{Db-club}} – for clubs, societies and groups
- {{Db-inc}} – for commercial and non-commercial organizations
- {{Db-web}} – for web content
- {{Db-animal}} – for individual animals
- {{Db-event}} – for events
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as importance or significance not asserted (0) (same as A9)
A9. No indication of importance (musical recordings)
Shortcut Further information: Misplaced Pages:Credible claim of significanceThis applies to any article about a musical recording or list of musical recordings where none of the contributing recording artists has an article and that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant (both conditions must be met). This is distinct from questions of verifiability and reliability of sources, and is a lower standard than notability. This criterion does not apply to other forms of creative media, products, or any other types of articles.
The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify on Misplaced Pages's notability guidelines.
- {{Db-a9}}, {{Db-album}}, {{Db-song}}, {{Db-discog}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as importance or significance not asserted (0) (same as A7)
A10. Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic
ShortcutThis applies to any recently created article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing English Misplaced Pages article, and that does not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article(s) on the subject, and where the title is not a plausible redirect. This does not include split pages or any article that expands or reorganizes an existing one or that contains referenced, mergeable material. It also does not include disambiguation pages.
The title chosen for the vast majority of duplicate articles will be a plausible misspelling of, or alternative name for, the existing article, and a redirect should be created instead of deletion. This criterion should, accordingly, only be used rarely, and only for pages whose titles are not plausible redirects.
A11. Obviously invented
Shortcut Main page: Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages is not for things made up one day Further information: Misplaced Pages:Credible claim of significanceThis applies to any article that plainly indicates that the subject was invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone the creator personally knows, and does not credibly indicate why its subject is important or significant. The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify under Misplaced Pages's notability guidelines. Note: This is not intended for hoaxes (see CSD G3).
- {{Db-a11}}, {{Db-invented}}, {{Db-madeup}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as obviously invented (0)
Redirects
Shortcut
These criteria apply to redirects, including soft redirects, in any namespace, with exclusions listed for specific criteria. For any redirects that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion.
R2. Cross-namespace redirects
ShortcutThis applies to redirects (apart from shortcuts) from the main namespace to any other namespace except the Category:, Template:, Misplaced Pages:, Help: and Portal: namespaces.
- See also Misplaced Pages:Cross-namespace redirects, Category:Cross-namespace redirects, and MOS:LINKSTYLE.
- {{Db-r2}}, {{Db-rediruser}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as inappropriate cross-namespace redirects (1)
R3. Recently created, implausible typos
ShortcutThis applies to recently created redirects from implausible typos or misnomers. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful, as are some redirects in other languages. This criterion does not apply to redirects created as a result of a page move, unless nothing was at the title until recently. It also does not apply to articles and stubs that have been converted into redirects, including redirects created by merges, or to redirects ending with "(disambiguation)" that point to a disambiguation page.
R4. File namespace redirects with names that match Wikimedia Commons pages
ShortcutThis applies to redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons, provided the redirect on Misplaced Pages has no file links (unless the links are obviously intended for the file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons).
- {{Db-r4}}, {{Db-redircom}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as file redirects shadowing Wikimedia Commons files (0)
Other issues with redirects
- For redirects to deleted or non-existent pages, see G8.
- For redirects that end in "(disambiguation)", see G14.
- For redirects without a space before a parenthetical disambiguation, see X3.
- For redirects that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion.
Redirect pages that have useful page history should never be speedily deleted. In some cases it may be possible to make a useful redirect by changing the target instead of deleting it. Redirects that do not work because of software limitations, such as redirects to special pages or to pages on other wikis, may be converted to soft redirects if they have a non-trivial history or other valid uses.
For reversal of redirects, use {{Db-move}}
, a special case of {{Db-g6}}
.
Files
Shortcuts These apply to files, images, and other media.
Note: These criteria formerly began with I (e.g. I1, I6, I9) but have since been replaced with F, without the actual criteria being changed. This was because the file namespace was formerly known as the image namespace.
For any images and other media that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion or Misplaced Pages:Files for discussion.
F1. Redundant
ShortcutThis applies to unused duplicates or lower-quality/resolution copies of another Misplaced Pages file having the same file format. This excludes images in the Wikimedia Commons; for these, see criterion F8.
- {{Db-f1|replacement file name.ext}}, {{Db-redundantfile|replacement file name.ext}}, {{Isd|replacement file name.ext}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as redundant files (0)
F2. Corrupt, missing, or empty file
ShortcutThis applies to files that are corrupt, missing, empty, or that contain superfluous and blatant non-metadata information. This also applies to file description pages that lack a corresponding file or correspond to Commons files and do not include information that is specific to English Misplaced Pages (like {{FeaturedPicture}}
).
- {{Db-f2}}, {{Db-nofile}}, {{Db-fpcfail}}
- {{Db-imagepage}} – for file description pages with no corresponding file
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as missing files (0)
F3. Improper license
ShortcutThis criterion is used to flag media licensed as "for non-commercial use only" (including non-commercial Creative Commons licenses), "no derivative use", "for Misplaced Pages use only" or "used with permission". These may be deleted, unless they comply with the limited standards for the use of non-free content. Files uploaded after 1 August 2021 licensed under versions of the GFDL earlier than 1.3, without allowing for later versions or other licenses, may be deleted.
- {{Db-f3}}, {{Db-noncom}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as files with unacceptable licenses (0)
F4. Lack of licensing information
ShortcutThis applies to media files lacking the necessary licensing information to verify copyright status after being identified as such for seven days. Administrators should check the upload summary, file information page, and the image itself for a source before deleting under this criterion.
- {{subst:Di-no source}}, {{subst:Nsd}} – no source
- {{subst:Di-no license}}, {{subst:Nld}} – no license
- {{subst:Di-no source no license}}, {{subst:Nsdnld}} – neither source nor license
- {{subst:Di-dw no source}}, {{subst:Dw-nsd}} – derivative work with no source for the incorporated work
- {{subst:Di-dw no license}}, {{subst:Dw-nld}} – derivative work with no license for the incorporated work
- {{subst:Di-dw no source no license}}, {{subst:Dw-nsdnld}} – derivative work with neither source nor license for the incorporated work
- Category:Misplaced Pages files with unknown source, Category:Misplaced Pages files with unknown copyright status
F5. Orphaned non-free use files
ShortcutThis applies to images and other media that are not under a free license or in the public domain and that are not used in any article. These may be deleted after being identified as such for more than seven days or immediately if the image's only use was on a deleted article and it is very unlikely to have any use on any other valid article. This includes previous revisions of the image or files overwritten by copyright violations. Reasonable exceptions may be made for images uploaded for an upcoming article.
- {{Db-f5}} – for immediate F5 deletions
- {{subst:Di-orphaned non-free use}}, {{subst:Orfud}} – for files
- {{subst:Orphaned non-free revisions}}, {{subst:Orfurrev}} – for revisions only
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as orphaned non-free use files (0)
F6. Missing non-free use rationale
ShortcutThis applies to non-free files claiming fair use but without a use rationale. These may be deleted after being identified as such for seven days. The boilerplate copyright tags setting out fair use criteria does not constitute a rationale. This criterion does not apply to situations where a use rationale is provided but is disputed.
- {{Di-no non-free use rationale}}, {{subst:Nrd}} – no non-free use rationale
- {{Di-missing article links}} – missing non-free use rationale for one or more articles
- Category:All Misplaced Pages files with no non-free use rationale (1)
F7. Invalid fair-use claim
Shortcut- Non-free images or media from a press agency or photo agency (e.g. Associated Press, Getty Images), where the file itself is not the subject of sourced commentary, are considered an invalid claim of fair use and fail the strict requirements of Misplaced Pages:Non-free content criteria, and may be deleted immediately.
- Non-free images or media that have been identified as being replaceable by a free image and tagged with
{{Rnfu}}
may be deleted after Two days, if no justification is given for the claim of irreplaceability. If the replaceability is disputed, the nominator should not be the one deleting the image. - Invalid fair-use claims tagged with
{{Dnfu}}
may be deleted seven days after they are tagged, if a full and valid fair-use use rationale is not added.
- {{Db-f7}}, {{Db-badfairuse}} – for immediate F7 deletions
- {{subst:Di-replaceable non-free use}}, {{subst:Rnfu}} – replaceable with free images
- {{subst:Di-disputed non-free use rationale}}, {{subst:Dnfu}} – disputed non-free use rationales
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as files with clearly invalid fair-use claims (0)
F8. Files available as identical copies on Wikimedia Commons
ShortcutProvided the following conditions are met:
- The Commons version is in the same file format and is of the same or higher quality/resolution.
- The file's license and source status is beyond reasonable doubt, and the license is undoubtedly accepted at Commons. To avoid deletion at Commons, please ensure the Commons page description has all of the following:
- Name and date of death of the creator of the artistic work represented by the file, or else clear evidence that a free license was given. If anonymous, ensure the page description provides evidence that establishes the anonymous status.
- Country where the artistic work represented by the file was situated, or where it was first published.
- Date when the artistic work represented by the file was created or first published, depending on the copyright law of the origin country.
- All file revisions that meet the first condition have been transferred to Commons as revisions of the Commons copy and properly marked as such.
- The file is not marked as
{{Do not move to Commons}}
or as{{Keep local}}
. - All information on the image description page is present on the Commons image description page, including the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages (the upload history is not necessary if the file's license does not require it, although it is still recommended).
- If there is any information not relevant to any other project on the file description page (like
{{FeaturedPicture}}
), the image description page must be undeleted after the file deletion.
- If there is any information not relevant to any other project on the file description page (like
- If the file is available on Commons under a different name than locally, all local references to the image must be updated to point to the title used at Commons.
- The file is not protected. Do not delete protected images, even if there is an identical copy on Commons, unless the image is no longer in use (check what links here). They are usually locally uploaded and protected here since they are used in the interface or in some widely used high-risk templates. Deleting the local copy of an image used in the interface does break things. More about high-risk images.
{{C-uploaded}}
images and other files may be speedily deleted as soon as they are off the Main Page.- {{Db-f8}}, {{Now Commons}}, {{Now Commons|File:name of file on Commons.ext}}
- Category:Misplaced Pages files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons, Category:Misplaced Pages files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons
F9. Unambiguous copyright infringement
ShortcutThis applies to obviously non-free images (or other media files) that are not claimed by the uploader to be fair use. A URL or other indication of where the image originated should be mentioned. This does not include images with a credible claim that the owner has released them under a Misplaced Pages-compatible free license. Most images from stock photo libraries such as Getty Images will not be released under such a license. Blatant infringements should be tagged with the {{Db-filecopyvio}}
template. Non-blatant copyright infringements should be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Files for discussion.
- {{Db-f9|url=URL of source}}, {{Db-filecopyvio|url=URL of source}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations (2)
F11. No evidence of permission
ShortcutIf an uploader has specified a license and has named a third party as the source/copyright holder without providing evidence that this third party has in fact agreed, the item may be deleted seven days after notification of the uploader. Acceptable evidence of licensing normally consists of either a link to the source website where the license is stated, or a statement by the copyright holder e-mailed or forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Such a confirmation is also required if the source is an organization that the uploader claims to represent, or a web publication that the uploader claims to be their own. Instances of obvious copyright violations where the uploader would have no reasonable expectation of obtaining permission (e.g. major studio movie posters, television images, album covers, logos that are not simple enough to be public domain, etc.) should be speedily deleted per reason F9 (unambiguous copyright infringement), unless fair-use can be claimed. Files tagged with {{Permission pending}} for more than 30 days may also be speedily deleted under this criterion. (Please note that the backlog for messages sent to the permissions-en queue is currently 0 days. You may wish to wait at least this amount of time before tagging VRT pending images for deletion.) Files tagged {{Permission received}} whose permissions have not been confirmed after 30 days may be deleted immediately under this criterion, without waiting an additional seven days, provided a check of the ticket is performed by a VRT agent to confirm that no further interaction is ongoing.
- {{subst:Di-no permission}}, {{subst:Npd}}
- {{subst:Db-no permission-VRT}}
- Category:Misplaced Pages files missing permission
Categories
Shortcut
For any category pages that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion.
C1. Unpopulated categories
ShortcutThis criterion applies to categories that have been unpopulated for at least seven days. This does not apply to disambiguation categories, category redirects, categories under discussion at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion (or other such discussions), or project categories that by their nature may become empty on occasion (e.g. cleanup categories, or Category:Wikipedians looking for help). Place {{Possibly empty category}} (or, for administrative categories, {{Misplaced Pages category}}) at the top of the page to prevent such categories from being deleted.
- {{Db-c1}}, {{db-catempty}}.
- {{Db-empty}} – context-specific version: calls {{Db-c1}} for categories, and {{Db-a3}} everywhere else.
- Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion (105), and after seven days Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as empty categories (0)
C2. Speedy renaming and merging
Assorted sub-criteria that are used only at WP:CFDS; please see that page for details and instructions.
C4. Unused maintenance categories
ShortcutThis criterion applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past (e.g. Category:Articles lacking sources from July 2004), tracking categories no longer used by a template after a rewrite, or empty subcategories of Category:Misplaced Pages sockpuppets or Category:Suspected Misplaced Pages sockpuppets. Note that empty maintenance categories are not necessarily unused—this criterion is for categories that will always be empty, not just currently empty. If you are unsure whether a category is still being used by a template, consider asking the creator of the category or at the template's talk page before tagging.
- {{db-c4}}, {{db-templatecat}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unused maintenance categories (0)
Templates
ShortcutFor any templates and Lua modules that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion.
T5. Unused template subpages
ShortcutThis applies to unused subpages of templates, such as:
- Template documentation subpages unused by the template itself
- /core subpages which are not called by the template itself
- Old subpages of {{POTD protected}}
- Unnecessary subpages of {{Taxonomy}}, e.g. because it is incorrectly set up, or relates to a taxon no longer used
It excludes /testcases and /sandbox subpages, subpages of Module:Sandbox, as well as anything tagged with {{T5-exempt}}. Reasonable exceptions apply for subpages which will be used soon, and editors are free to request undeletion.
User pages
Shortcut Further information: Misplaced Pages:User pages
These criteria apply only to pages in the User: and User talk: namespaces. For any user pages that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion.
U1. User request
ShortcutPersonal user pages and subpages (but not user talk pages) upon request by their user. This also includes editnotices for user pages. In some rare cases, there may be administrative need to retain the page. User talk pages are not eligible for speedy deletion under this criterion. Pages that have previously been moved are only eligible if all previous titles were in the user's userspace. Note: The template does not display on certain pages (such as .css and .js pages), but its categorization will work.
U2. Nonexistent user
"WP:U2" redirects here. For the WikiProject for the band, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U2. ShortcutThis applies to user pages, user subpages, and user talk pages of users that do not exist on the English Misplaced Pages (check Special:ListUsers), except user pages for IP users who have edited, redirects from misspellings of an established user's user page, and redirects created due to a user being renamed. Pages of users who exist on other WMF wikis but do not have local accounts are eligible for deletion.
Before placing one of the following templates or deleting a page under this criterion, consider whether moving the page to another location, such as a sub-page of the user page of the primary contributor, is preferable to deletion.
- {{Db-u2}}, {{Db-nouser}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as userpage or subpage of a nonexistent user (0)
U5. A non-contributor's misuse of Misplaced Pages as a web host
ShortcutPages in userspace consisting of writings, information, discussions, or activities not closely related to Misplaced Pages's goals, where the owner has made few or no edits outside of user pages, except for plausible drafts and pages adhering to Misplaced Pages:User pages § What may I have in my user pages? It applies regardless of the age of the page in question.
Before placing this template or deleting a page under this criterion:
- Read Misplaced Pages:User pages § Handling inappropriate content and Misplaced Pages:User pages § Deletion of user pages.
- Consider blanking pages with a significant history unrelated to the content that is being deleted.
- For draft articles that are on a user's main page and which do not otherwise qualify for speedy deletion, consider moving it to a sub-page.
- {{Db-u5}}, {{Db-notwebhost}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as blatant NOTWEBHOST violations (0)
Exceptional circumstances
ShortcutThese temporary criteria apply to large-scale cleanups of problematic pages that would overwhelm the normal deletion processes. Criteria should be deprecated when no longer needed.
X3. Redirects with no space before a parenthetical disambiguation
ShortcutExamples: "Foo(bar)", "Joe Smith(disambiguation)". This does not apply to terms that will correctly or plausibly be searched for without spaces, nor does it apply if the redirect contains substantive page history (e.g. from a merge). Before nominating a redirect under this criterion:
- Create the correctly spaced version as a redirect to the same target if it would make a good redirect but does not exist
- Adjust any incoming internal links to point to the correctly spaced version
- {{db-x3}}
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as redirects with no space before a parenthetical disambiguation (0)
Non-criteria
ShortcutCommonly denied CSD reasons
The following proposals for new speedy deletion criteria are frequently raised, but have repeatedly failed to gain consensus:
- How-to articles
- Essay articles
- Expansion of A7, A9 and A11 to include books, software, schools and/or other subjects
- Neologisms
- Unsourced articles
A7, A9 and A11 scope
A7, A9 and A11 do not apply to any other subject that does not indicate importance. Expanding the scope of A7, A9 and A11 to different subjects (such as products, software, books, schools, etc.) have been proposed several times in the past and failed to gain consensus. Amongst the reasons for those rejections were that such subjects are not created often enough to require speedy deletion (such articles can be handled by proposed deletion or by listing the article at articles for deletion), that such subjects cannot be objectively covered in A7, A9 and A11's wording and that admins are not able to assess claims of importance for certain subjects. Before proposing a change to A7, A9 and A11 to expand their scope, please check whether your proposal has not already been discussed on the talk page (archives).
The following are not by themselves sufficient to justify speedy deletion:
- Reasons based on Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not or essays. Misplaced Pages is not: "a dictionary", "an indiscriminate collection of information", "a crystal ball", "a how-to list"; or essays like Misplaced Pages:Listcruft, Misplaced Pages:Obscure topics, Misplaced Pages:Deny recognition,...; are not valid reasons for speedy deletion.
- Less-obvious hoaxes. If even remotely plausible, a suspected hoax article should be subjected to further scrutiny in a wider forum. Truth is often stranger than fiction. Note that "blatant and obvious hoaxes and misinformation" are subject to speedy deletion as vandalism.
- Original research. It is not always easy to tell whether an article consists of material that violates the policy against novel theories or interpretations or is simply unsourced.
- Notability. Articles that seem to have obviously non-notable subjects are eligible for speedy deletion only if the article does not give a credible indication of why the subject might be important or significant.
- Failure to assert importance but not an A7, A9 or A11 category. There is no consensus to speedily delete articles of types not specifically listed in A7, A9 or A11 under those criteria. Nor does it apply for neologisms that do not meet A11 because new specialized terms should have a wider hearing.
- Author deletion requests made in bad faith. Author deletion requests made in bad faith, out of frustration, after others have contributed substantially (because the work of others is involved) or in an attempt to revoke their freely-licensed contributions are not granted. However, anyone may request deletion of pages in their userspace.
- Very short articles. Short articles with sufficient content and context to qualify as stubs may not be speedily deleted under criteria A1 and A3; other criteria may still apply.
- Copies that are not copyright violations. If content appears both here and somewhere else (possibly in modified form), consider the possibility that Misplaced Pages's is the original version and the other site copied from Misplaced Pages's version. Alternatively, the same author may have written both versions, or the original may be free content.
- PNG / GIF files replaced by JPEG images. JPEG encoding discards information that may be important later. Do not delete the original PNG / GIF files.
- Questionable material that is not vandalism. Earnest efforts are never vandalism, so to assume good faith, do not delete as vandalism unless reasonably certain.
- User and user talk pages of IP addresses. Although users are encouraged to create Misplaced Pages accounts, unregistered users are still allowed to edit Misplaced Pages, and are identified by their IP addresses. If an unregistered user has a static IP address, it may have a user page and/or user talk page associated with it, and even for non-static IP addresses, the history can contain important discussions or information that may be of interest.
- An article written in a foreign language or script. An article should not be speedily deleted just because it is not written in English. Instead it should be tagged with {{Not English}} and listed at Misplaced Pages:Pages needing translation into English. It may be reconsidered after translation whether the article merits deletion, retention or improvement by means of a suitable tag. However, if it already exists on another Wikimedia project, it might be speedily deletable under criterion A2.
- Subject request. Sometimes somebody claiming to be the subject of a biographical article requests deletion of the article, or even blanks the article. Article subjects do not have an automatic right to have their articles deleted. Nor does such a criterion apply to namespaces other than article space: for example, pages in the Misplaced Pages namespace devoted to a discussion about a particular editor. See also: Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy § Deletion of biographies and BLPs
- Orphaned pages or redirects. A page cannot be deleted just because no other pages link to it. This includes redirects – even if 'What links here' returns nothing, a redirect may be a likely search phrase, or have links to it from outside Misplaced Pages.
- Redirects that are poorly targeted. A redirect should not be deleted just because its target is incorrect or confusing. Instead, change the redirect to a better target. If you're not sure where it should be targeted, open a discussion at Redirects for discussion.
- Drafts covering the same topic as an existing mainspace article. These are not valid deletions under A10 (due to not being articles) nor G6. They can be replaced with a redirect to the mainspace article if necessary.
- Conflict of interest. Merely having an author connected to its subject, or even one paid to write about it, is not by itself sufficient to speedy delete a page. While users with promotional usernames are frequently blocked, G5 does not apply unless they were already evading a block or ban when they wrote it. G11 can be used to delete exclusively-promotional writing, but doesn't apply to neutrally-written material even if the intent is obviously promotional. U5 can also be used in some cases, but excludes anything plausibly intended as a draft article.
Procedure for administrators
See also: Misplaced Pages:Deletion process
Make sure to specify the reason for deletion in the deletion summary. Also, in general, the article's creator and major contributors should have been notified.
Before deleting a page, check the page history to assess whether it would instead be possible to revert and salvage a previous version, or there was actually a cut-and-paste move involved. Also:
- The initial edit summary may have information about the source of or reason for the page.
- The talk page may refer to previous deletion discussions or have ongoing discussion relevant to including the page.
- The page log may have information about previous deletions that could warrant SALTing the page or keeping it on good reason.
- What links here may show that the page is an oft-referred part of the encyclopedia, or may show other similar pages that warrant deletion. For pages that should not be re-created, incoming links in other pages (except in discussions, archives and tracking pages) should be removed.
If speedy deletion is inappropriate for a page:
- Please remove the speedy deletion tag from the page. Doing so will automatically remove the page from Category:Candidates for speedy deletion.
- Consider notifying the nominator, using {{speedy-decline}} or {{uw-csd}}. (If you're using CSD Helper, it will usually notify the nominator for you; it will normally use its own notification template.)
When deleting a page through the speedy deletion process, please specify the reason for deletion in the deletion summary, so that it will be recorded into the deletion log. Quoting page content in the deletion summary may be helpful, but must not be done for attack content or copyrighted text. In some cases, it would be appropriate to notify the page's creator of the deletion.
Twinkle or CSDHelper can be used to process nominations more quickly and smoothly. When processing a nomination:
- Twinkle can delete the page.
- Twinkle can notify the page creator if the page is deleted.
- CSDH can delete the page, convert the nomination into a PROD nomination, or decline the nomination.
- CSDH can notify the nominator if the nomination is converted or declined.
Obsolete
Shortcuts
In the past, criteria beginning with the following letter were used:
- "P" for portals
All criteria in this group have been obsoleted; as such, this group is not currently in use. Some criteria in the active groups were also used in the past but are no longer valid. They are kept here for historical reference and to preserve numbering. Two of the repealed criteria did not have consensus before being enacted, and two were meant to be temporary. The remainder were merged into broader criteria or deprecated entirely.
- A4. Attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title
- Merged with and later superseded by "No content" (A3) in November 2005 as part of a bold rewrite that was made to simplify the CSD criterion (archived discussion 1, discussion 2, discussion 3).
- A5. Transwikied articles
- Was repealed in December 2022 due to lack of use (unopposed proposal). Instead, use Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion. Deleted articles that are temporarily restored to allow for a transwiki may be re-deleted under "technical deletion" (G6).
- A6. Attack articles
- Superseded by "Attack pages" (G10) in March 2006 (discussion).
- A8. Blatant copyright infringement articles
- Superseded by "Unambiguous copyright infringement" (G12) in October 2006 (unopposed proposal).
- R1. Redirects to non-existent pages
- Merged into "Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page" (G8) in September 2008 (discussion).
- F7a. Non-free images or media with a clearly invalid fair-use tag
- Repealed in March 2021 due to the problem being easily surmountable (discussion). Instead, the invalid tag should be corrected. Once the tag is corrected, other speedy deletion criteria may apply.
- F10. Useless non-media files
- Deprecated in favor of proposed deletion in February 2023 following rare usage and added technical restrictions on what file types can be uploaded (discussion).
- C3. Categories solely populated from a template
- Merged into "Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page" (G8) in October 2008 (discussion), and then later split out to C4. Unused maintenance categories in 2024.
- T1. Divisive and inflammatory templates
- Enacted by Jimbo Wales without formally assessing consensus during the userbox wars. Was repealed in February 2009 (discussion). Instead, "attack pages" (G10) may be applicable in some cases; otherwise, use Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion for userboxes and Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion for all other templates.
- T2. Misrepresentation of policy
- Was repealed in July 2020 following rare, often incorrect, use (discussion). Instead, "pure vandalism" (G3) may be applicable in some cases; otherwise, use Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion.
- T3. Duplication and hardcoded instances
- Was repealed in December 2020 due to misuse and the seven day hold (discussion). Instead, use an existing applicable criterion or submit the template to Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion.
- T4. Subpages of non-existent pages
- Merged into "Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page" (G8) in September 2008 (discussion).
- U3. Non-free galleries
- Was repealed in July 2021 since a bot automatically removes non-free images from user pages (discussion).
- U4. Old IP address talk pages that meet specific criteria
- Never enacted as policy anywhere, but deletions occurred nonetheless. Was repealed in March 2009 (discussion).
- P1. Any portal that would be subject to speedy deletion as an article
- Repealed in February 2023 following rare usage (discussion).
- P2. Underpopulated portal
- Repealed in February 2023 following rare usage (discussion).
- X1. Redirects created by Neelix
- Created as a G6 extension in December 2015 shortly after the discovery and arbitration case regarding 50,000+ questionable redirects created by the user Neelix, and later split into its own criterion. Was repealed in April 2018 after cleanup was completed (discussion). Instead, use Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion.
- X2. Pages created by the content translation tool
- Created to delete pages created by the content translation tool prior to 27 July 2016. Was deprecated in July 2017 when consensus agreed to move most of the remaining pages to the draft namespace (discussion).
See also
Find this page confusing? Just use this link to ask for help on your talk page; a volunteer will visit you there shortly!- Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
- Misplaced Pages:Alternative outlets
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
- Category:Speedy deletion warning templates
- Misplaced Pages:Criteria for speedy deletion/Deletion templates
- Misplaced Pages:Deletion guidelines for administrators
- Misplaced Pages:Deletion review
- Misplaced Pages:No blank pages
- Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion
- Misplaced Pages:Undeletion policy
- Misplaced Pages:What to do if your article gets CSD tagged
- Misplaced Pages:Over-hasty Speedy Deleters
- Misplaced Pages:Field guide to proper speedy deletion
Footnotes
- In this context, speedy refers to the simple decision-making process, not the length of time since the article was created.
- The current wording of this paragraph dates to an April 2020 discussion. G14 was added in October 2020. C1 was added in August 2022. C4 was added in September 2024.
- The result of the most recent deletion discussion controls. This means that if the most recent discussion was "keep" or a default to keep through no consensus, G4 does not apply. Likewise, an article that was deleted through its most recent discussion, but was kept in earlier discussions, is subject to the criterion and may be deleted (discussion).
- For the avoidance of doubt, if a page is deleted at AfD and subsequently recreated as a redirect, G4 does not apply, even if that option was discussed and rejected in the AfD (discussion).
- A conversion to draft is when a page from a different namespace is moved, or its content copied, as a draft.
- The arbitration committee and the community have included the following when deciding a topic area should be covered by the extended confirmed restriction: "Non-extended-confirmed editors may not create new articles, but administrators may exercise discretion when deciding how to enforce this remedy on article creations. Deletion of new articles created by non-extended-confirmed editors is permitted but not required."
- ^ Page moves are excluded because of a history of improper deletions of these redirects. A move creates a redirect to ensure that any external links that point to Misplaced Pages remain valid; should such links exist, deleting these redirects will break them. Such redirects must be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion before deletion. However, redirects that were obviously made in error can be deleted as G6, technical deletions.
- Note that new editors sometimes mistakenly start article drafts on talk pages that have no article. If you see this, move the draft to the draft space or to the user's userspace, making sure the new user is listed as author and not you.
- It was determined that the community consensus in this RfC regarding draft namespace redirects amounted to "there is a clear consensus against deletion of draft namespace redirects. There is a rough consensus against the alternative proposal to delete draft namespace redirects after six months."
- Per this RFC.
- An Rfc containing relevant discussions on the A1 criterion
- ^ Consensus has developed that in most cases articles should not be tagged for deletion under this criterion moments after creation as the creator may be actively working on the content; though there is no set time requirement, a ten-minute delay before tagging under this criterion is suggested as good practice. Please do not mark the page as patrolled before that delay passes, to ensure the article is reviewed at a later time.
- Routine coverage of unorganised events – for example, shooting incidents – may not necessarily qualify under A7; deletion discussions should be preferred in such cases.
- Past discussions leading to schools being exempt from A7.
- ^ The definition of recent is intentionally flexible since some pages may receive more notice than others. Pages older than about 3–6 weeks are unlikely to be considered recently created; pages older than about 3–4 months almost never are. Higher-profile pages are considered recently created for shorter periods than those with a lower profile.
- Unlike a hoax, subject to deletion as vandalism under CSD G3 as a bad faith attempt to deceive, CSD A11 is for topics that were or may have been actually created and are real, but have no notice or significance except among a small group of people, e.g. a newly invented drinking game or new word.
- See Misplaced Pages:Merge and delete for an explanation as to why redirects created by merges cannot be deleted in most cases.
- This does not apply to images duplicated on Wikimedia Commons, because of license issues; instead see "Images available as identical copies on the Wikimedia Commons".
- Before deleting this latter type of file/page, check whether the MediaWiki engine can read it by previewing a resized thumbnail of it. Even if it renders, if it contains significant superfluous information that cannot be accounted for as metadata directly relating to the media data, it may be deleted. It is always preferred to correct the problem by uploading a file that contains only good data plus acceptable metadata.
- Content from file description pages that is relevant to the Commons should be copied over before deleting the local page. If necessary, copy the attribution history as well.
- See also: Category:All Misplaced Pages files with unknown source (61) and Category:All Misplaced Pages files with unknown copyright status (64)
- See also: Category:All Misplaced Pages files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons (2) and Category:All Misplaced Pages files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons (0)
- See also: Category:All Misplaced Pages files missing evidence of permission (66)
- Misplaced Pages talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 85 § U2 and global accounts
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