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If you've come here having recently created a page which has just been marked to say it may soon be deleted, then please understand that we mean no harm in deleting your page. In fact, welcome to Misplaced Pages. We're delighted to have you, but the page you created seemed to be something other than an encyclopedia article. If it was a test, congratulations – you succeeded in creating a page. Please use the sandbox for further testing, or create yourself a user page.

If your article was not a test, you may have created a page that met the criteria for speedy deletion. If so, please see our guidelines on writing perfect stubs to see how you could improve the page to something that will not be instantly deletable.

For more information, please read our deletion policy.

Using this page

For articles that need deletion, add {{deletebecause|Reason.}} or {{db|Reason.}} to the top of the page. You should not wipe out the contents as it helps to check the contents to be deleted without having to look at the page history. This expands to:

If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Misplaced Pages:Speedy deletions. If this page obviously does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice, but do not remove this notice from articles that you have created yourself.

Replace Reason with the reason why the page should be deleted under the speedy deletion criteria.

Other templates available that give a reason include {{nonsense}} and {{db-bio}}. They may be used where appropriate.

(You can also use {{delete}} or {{d}} if you prefer not to provide a reason, but it is generally a good idea to provide a reason, even where it seems "obvious" to you.)

You can also add the page to the list at the bottom of this page, but you don't have to.

Note that if you just replace the content with {{db|reason}} the prior content will not be automatically added to the deletion log summary when the page is deleted.

See below for instructions regarding the deletion of personal subpages.

For articles that do not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, please use Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion. Please do not list pages here that are already listed there.

Advice for administrators

• Use Category:Candidates for speedy deletion for a list of pages
• Use What links here for Template:Delete (This is an older method superseded by categorisation, but temporarily still in use until full switch is possible.)
• Check talk pages, page history, what links here (especially for potentially controversial user pages), etc. If there is a dispute over whether the page should be deleted, consider first listing it on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion
• Review our admin deletion guidelines
• If the page to be deleted is directly related to a specific user or that user's activities, consider moving the page to that user's personal userspace (and deleting the redirect) instead of deleting it outright.

Deletion of personal pages

Unless you are a sysop, it is not possible to delete your own user pages and subpages, so they must be listed here. If you are a sysop, it is recommended that you also list your pages here so they can be deleted by another sysop. For your main user or talk pages, you must list them here, not delete them yourself, to avoid the appearance that sysops can delete to hide negative comments, while others can't.

Only post pages from your own personal page, and only if you have a genuine reason for requesting a personal page of yours be deleted, please list it here.

Please see Misplaced Pages:User page for further instructions, and Misplaced Pages talk:Personal subpages to be deleted for past discussion on this issue.

Requested pages

I Drink, You Drink; patent nonsense.--132.205.7.87 23:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Note: Please list only user pages and subpages below this line. For all other pages, please add {{deletebecause|Reason.}} or {{db|Reason.}} as mentioned above.

• User talk:86.140.12.233 please delete86.140.12.233 13:23, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• User talk:Decius. --My User:Decius account is finished (that's it), and I'd like to have User talk:Decius deleted. It will be recreated as a redirect (without the excess edit history) to my new talk page, User talk:Alexander 007. There are no pending reasons to preserve the old talk page; everything on it is settled, a bunch of old baggage. Thanks again folks, -Alexander 007 06:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Totalitarian dictators -- Idiosyncratic POV reproduction of the contents in the deleted Category:Totalitarian dictators The contents were a problem in the category namespace, and they are a problem too in the main namespace... I originally listed the article at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Totalitarian dictators, but all the feedback suggested that the article be placed on speedy deletions instead. 172 | Talk 07:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Evidently 172 does not like the term totalitarian dictator. he also does not like following the rules. The vote to delete Category:Totalitarian dictators had been closed without a consensus, so that category should still be around. 172 removed the notice of closing and then proceeded to solicit votes to support his position, after supporters of the category thought the voting was over. Consult with the admins on that deletion for the details of his behavior. This is an article, far more notable than many articles, and not only is it different than a category, there is different text than that which was voted down in the category. I had prepared this text for the category page, after there was no consensus for deletion of the page, and the voting had been closed, in order to improve the category so that it would answer 172s objections and do better should there be another attempt to delete the category. 172 of course, will deny that it addresses his objections, but that doesn't matter, many others will see that it takes the stings out of his assertions that this cannot be implimented in a NPOV manner. Instead of pressing for arbcom review of 172s behavior, and a restoration of the catagory due to the voting irregularies he fostered. I was just going to wait a month and create it again. In the mean time this is as legitimate as any article. Unfortunately, a lot of work by several editors was destroyed during the vote for catagory deletion process by 172s behavior, since he was busy deleting the category from all articles while the vote was still going on and had to be admonished. As far as I know there is no easy central place to recover those totalilitarian dictator candidates. In summary:

1. the original category should still be around and was only defeated due to irregularities by 172 after the voting had been closed without a consensus
2. so that event is irrelevant to making this a candidate for speedy deletion, this article is notable in its own right
3. this article is different than a category
4. the text in this article is different than that in the category, at least at the time of the voting and irregularities, so its merits are different, and its relation to the previous irregular events has been broken
5. the changes in the text are intended to address 172s objections, not his satisfaction, but perhaps to the satisfaction of others
6. 172 should be banned from editing the article, since he cannot edit it good faith, he has already concluded that it cannot be made workable, so any edits are likely to be as disruptive as his other behavior has been

--Silverback 09:58, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

See also

• Articles for deletion
• Speedy redirection - Similar to speedy deletion.

• Speedy deletion
• Misplaced Pages deletion