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Articles for Deletion (AfD) (formerly Votes for deletion) is where Wikipedians discuss whether articles should be deleted. Items sent here usually wait five days or so while debate takes place on whether the article should be deleted or not; then the deletion process can proceed based on Misplaced Pages community consensus. The page is then:
Deletion discussions |
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Articles |
Templates and modules |
Files |
Categories |
Redirects |
Miscellany |
Speedy deletion |
Proposed deletion |
Notability |
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General notability guideline |
Subject-specific guidelines |
See also |
- Kept
- Deleted per the deletion policy
- Sent to Cleanup or BJAODN
- Merged and/or redirected to an existing article
- Transwikied (moved to another Wikimedia project, such as Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wiktionary, or another language's Misplaced Pages)
- Renamed/Moved to another title
More information can be found at the Guide to deletion.
Things to consider
It is important to read and understand the Misplaced Pages deletion policy, which explains valid grounds for deletion, before adding comments to this page. Click "what links here", in the sidebar of the article page, to see how the page is being used and referenced within Misplaced Pages. Consider that adding a tag to an article may be a better option than deleting, for instance Cleanup tags or disputed tags. Read over the article's talk page: it may provide reasons why the article should or should not be deleted.
If a page can serve as a useful redirect or be merged somewhere, do not list it here. Doing so only clutters AfD.
AfD etiquette
- Please be familiar with the policies of not biting the newcomers, Wikiquette, no personal attacks, civility, and assume good faith before making a recommendation as to whether the article should be deleted or not, or making a comment.
- Sign any recommendation or comment you add, by adding this at the end: ~~~~.
- Make a good-faith effort to notify the creator and/or main contributor(s) of the article before nominating, as they may be able to address concerns raised.
- If you are the primary author or otherwise have a vested interest in the article, say so openly, and clearly base your recommendations on the deletion policy.
- Your opinion will be given the most weight if you are logged in with an account that already existed when the nomination was made. Unregistered and new users are welcome to contribute to the discussion, but their recommendations may be discounted, especially if they seem to be made in bad faith (for example, if they misrepresent their reasons).
- Please make your recommendation only once. If there is evidence that someone is using sock puppets (multiple accounts belonging to the same person) to make multiple recommendations, such additional recommendations will be discounted.
- Please familiarize yourself with the frequently cited guidelines WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:FICT, WP:WEB and WP:VAIN.
- Before making your recommendation please review the talk page for the nomination, if there is one, often additional important information about the article or points raised may be found there.
- If the article links to other pages, place a notification on those pages (if they are relevant enough). This will (hopefully) get those with knowledge on the subject the ability to participate on the debate.
- If recommending that the article be speedily deleted, please give the criteria that it meets, such as "A7" or "non-notable biography".
- Editors usually state their suggested course of action in bold, such as "keep" or "delete". Giving it more than once makes that position seem like it has more support than it actually has. If you change your mind, modify your original recommendation.
You don't have to make a recommendation on every nomination; consider not participating if:
- A nomination involves a topic with which you are unfamiliar.
- You agree with the consensus that has already been formed.
Also, please see this discussion on the talk page of Misplaced Pages:Deletion Policy regarding notability.
Week at a glance
You may also wish to see Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Log/Today and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Log/Yesterday.
Additionally, AllyUnion runs a bot to maintain a half-hourly-updated AFD List (related changes). This list of discussions keeps a list of 7 days of discussions. Please DO NOT try to update the AFD Week at a glance pages, or start a new day, yourself, as it will confuse the AFD Bot. (note, these pages are not the deletion log pages referred to in step III of the instructions, below)
Purge server cache for today's AFD page
Current discussions
Articles being considered for possible deletion are indexed by the day on which they were first listed.
Add a new entry -- but if you think it's not a controversial issue, consider using {{prod}} instead (see Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion). See the proposed deletion current nominations.
- Monday, 13 February
- Sunday, 12 February
- Saturday, 11 February
- Friday, 10 February
- Thursday, 9 February
- Wednesday, 8 February
PageName
self-promoting a irrelevant site Wannabebritney 17:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- Refining the administrator elections process
- Blocks for promotional activity outside of mainspace
- Voluntary RfAs after resignation
- Proposed rewrite of WP:BITE
- LLM/chatbot comments in discussions
Old discussions
How to list pages for deletion
This section describes how to list articles and their associated talk pages for deletion. For pages that are not articles, list them at other appropriate deletion venues or use copyright violation where applicable. As well, note that deletion may not be needed for problems such as pages written in foreign languages, duplicate pages, and other cases. Use Misplaced Pages:Proposed mergers for discussion of mergers.
Only a registered, logged-in user can complete steps II and III. (Autoconfirmed registered users can also use the Twinkle tool to make nominations.) If you are unregistered, you should complete step I, note the justification for deletion on the article's talk page, then post a message at Misplaced Pages talk:Articles for deletion requesting that someone else complete the process.
You must sign in to nominate pages for deletion. If you do not sign-in, or you edit anonymously, you will get stuck part way through the nomination procedure.
- To nominate multiple related pages for deletion, follow the multi-page deletion nomination procedure.
- To nominate a single page for deletion, you can use Twinkle, or follow these three steps:
I – Put the deletion tag on the article.
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II – Create the article's deletion discussion page.
The resulting AfD box at the top of the article should contain a link to "Preloaded debate" in the AfD page. Click that link to open the article's deletion discussion page for editing. Some text and instructions will appear. You can do it manually as well:
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III – Notify users who monitor AfD discussions.
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How to list multiple related pages for deletion
Sometimes you will find a number of related articles, all of which you feel should be deleted together. To make it easier for those participating in the discussion, it may be helpful to "bundle" all of them together into a single nomination.
Examples of when articles may be bundled into a single nomination:
- An article about a band and three articles about its members, none of whom have done anything else outside of the band.
- An article about a company/organization and a second article about its founder, who has done nothing else of note.
- An article about a video game/book and related articles for characters within it.
- An article about an album and related articles for its songs.
- An article about any topic and other articles with the same content but with different titles.
If any of the articles you are considering for bundling could stand on its own merits, then it should be nominated separately. Or to put it more succinctly, if you are unsure of whether to bundle an article or not, don't.
To bundle articles for deletion, follow these steps:
I. | Nominate the first article for deletion.
Follow the steps as outlined above. |
II. | Nominate the remaining articles.
On each of the remaining articles, at the top insert the following:
Replace PageName with the name of the first page to be deleted, not the current page name. In other words, if Some article was the first article you nominated, replace PageName with Some article. As before, please include the word "AfD" in the edit summary and please do not mark the edit as minor. Save the page. Repeat for all articles to be bundled. (If the article has been nominated before, use {{subst:afdx}} instead of {{subst:afd1}}, and replace "PageName" with the name of the page plus a note like "(second nomination)" for a second nomination, etc. See Template talk:Afdx for details.) |
III. | Add the remaining articles to the nomination.
Go the first article's deletion discussion page,
In the edit summary, note that you are bundling related articles for deletion. |