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The following is a proposed Misplaced Pages policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption.

Preamble

This is a proposed policy with the intention of generating agreement on when closing debates at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion before the normal discussion period ends. This proposal will only apply to closing such discussions with a "Keep" result - i.e. it is intended to be complementary to Speedy deletion.

Also proposed are a set of associated guidelines to accompany the policy. The guidelines are independent of the policy and so one or both may be accepted or rejected.

This is not about deletion reform, the policy and guidelines are intended to work for the current system only, and in that way can be considered interim. Whether they are relevant to a future system or wanted by the community in a future system is irrelevant.

The proposed policy

1. "Speedy keep" means to remove the AFD notice from the article and close the AFD discussion, but not to unlist or delete that discussion.
2. An article can be speedily kept ONLY if either
   • the nominator withdraws the AFD and there have been no votes to delete so far
   • the nominator clearly states that s/he actually wants the article renamed, merged, moved or redirected, and happens to have used the wrong tag for that
   • the nomination was clear-cut vandalism or WP:POINT and nobody disputes this or votes to delete it anyway (since calling a nomination vandalistic does not make it so and actual POINT-making AFD nominations appear far less frequently than accusations thereof).
3. Please realize that while you may personally dislike having an AFD tag on your favorite article, it is not actually doing any harm, and will be gone in less than a week.

When a discussion is closed as a speedy-keep the following actions MUST be completed:

1. subst the {{at}} and {{ab}} templates at the top and bottom respectively of the AfD sub-page. The outcome of the debate should be listed as "Speedy keep"
2. remove the afd tag from the nominated article, noting in the edit summary that the outcome of the debate was a speedy keep (e.g. "Removing AfD Tag - SPEEDY KEEP").

• The AfD subpage should not be deleted.

The proposed guidelines

1. Although closing AfD discussions that end in keep votes can be done by non-admins, it is recommended that only administrators close discussions as speedy-keeps. Normal users are encouraged to vote "speedy keep" instead.
2. Whether a record of the nomination is added to the talk page of the article is at the discretion of the closing user. If it is noted, it is recommended that {{subst:oldafdfull|date=date of nomination|result=Speedy Keep|votepage=article name}} be used.

Discussion

All discussion on the talk page please.

Voting

WP:NOT a democracy. Since this is an attempt to codify what already happens, this should not require a formal vote. Please discuss on the talk page whether you agree that this matches current practice.

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