Misplaced Pages

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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• Use What links here for Template:Delete (This is an older method superseded by categorisation, but temporarily still in use until full switch is possible.)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)

See also

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

• Speedy deletion
• Misplaced Pages deletion