Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion: Difference between revisions

Current list: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion

There are a few limited cases where

1. Patent nonsense, i.e. no meaningful content, unsalvageably incoherent page. This does not include: poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, vandalism, badly translated material, implausible theories or hoaxes.
2. Test pages (e.g., "Can I really create a page here?").
3. Pure vandalism, including redirects created during cleanup of page move vandalism.
4. Recreation of deleted material. A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was deleted according to the
   undeletion policy
   . Before deleting again, the admin should ensure that the material is substantially identical, and not merely a new article on the same subject.
5. Banned user. Contributions made by a
   banned user while they were banned
   .
6. History merging. Temporarily deleting a page in order to
   merge page histories
   .
7. Author requests deletion. Any page for which deletion is requested by the original author, provided the page was edited only by its author.
8. Talk pages of already deleted pages, unless they contain the deletion discussion and it isn't logged elsewhere.

For any articles that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. 1 Very short articles providing little or no context (e.g., "He is a funny man that has created Factory and the Hacienda. And, by the way, his wife is great."). Limited content is not in itself a reason to delete if there is enough context to allow expansion. Google may help in determining context, though, and allow for the article's expansion.

2. Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project.

3&4. No content whatsoever. Any article whose contents consist only of links elsewhere (including hyperlinks, category tags and "see also" sections), and/or a rephrasing of the title, and/or attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title.

5. Transwikied 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.

6. Attack pages. Articles which serve no purpose but to disparage their subject (e.g., "OMFG! Joe Random is a l0ser n00bface lolol!!!11").

7. Unremarkable people. An article about a real person that does not assert that person's importance or significance. If the assertion is disputed or controversial, it should be taken to AFD instead. For details, see

8. An article that is a blatant copyright infringement and meets these parameters:

• Material is unquestionably copied from the website of a commercial content provider (e.g. encyclopedia, news service) and;
• The article and its entire history contains only copyright violation material, excluding tags, templates, and minor edits and;
• Uploader makes no assertion of permission or fair use, and none seems likely and;
• The material is identified within 48 hours of upload and is almost or totally un-wikified (to diminish mirror problem).
  • When tagging a page for deletion under this criterion, a user should notify the page's creator using wording similar to {{
    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 creator was not logged in and did not use a consistent IP address, such notification is unneeded.

Redirects

For any

1. Redirects to non-existent pages (although it may be a possible to make it a useful redirect to some other target)
2. Redirects to the User: 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.
3. Making room for a
   page move that is non-controversial or consensual
   , for instance reversing a redirect.
4. Redirects as a result of an implausible
   typo
   that were recently created. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful.

1. Redundant. An
   NowCommons
   |Image:newname.ext}} instead.
2. A corrupt or empty image.
3. Improper "fair-use". Images licensed as "for non-commercial use only" or "used with permission" which were uploaded on or after May 19, 2005. [1]
4. Lack of licensing. Images in category "Images with unknown source" or "Images with unknown copyright status" which have been tagged with a template that places them in the category for more than 7 days, regardless of when uploaded.
5. Unused copyrighted images. Copyrighted images uploaded without permission of the copyright holder, or under a license which does not permit commercial use, which are not used in any article, and which has been tagged with a template which places them in
   or-fu-re
   }} place an image in this category.

Categories

For any categories that are not speedy deletion candidates, use

1. 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
   WP:CFD
   . If the category isn't relatively new, it possibly contained articles earlier, and deeper investigation is needed.
2. Speedy renaming. Empty categories that have qualified for
   speedy renaming
   .
   1. Typo fixes (e.g., Brdiges -> Bridges), but not changes between British and American spelling.
   2. Capitalization fixes (e.g., characters In harry Potter -> Characters in Harry Potter)
   3. Conversions from singular to plural, or back (e.g., Steamship -> Steamships)
   4. Renaming to conform with the "by country"
      categorization conventions
   5. Abbreviation expanding for country names
      , e.g. changing "U.S." to "United States"
3. Template categories. If a category is solely populated from a template (e.g. Category:Wikipedia cleanup from {{cleanup}}) and the template is deleted per deletion policy, the category can also be deleted without further discussion.

User pages

For any

1. Owner request. Personal
   Wikipedia:User_page
   for full instructions and guidelines.
2. (reserved for future use)
3. Recycling IP pages. User talk pages of non-logged in users where the message is no longer relevant. This is to avoid confusing new users who happen to edit with that same IP address.

The following templates add articles to Category:Candidates for speedy deletion but do not appear in the category themselves:

• {{

  Delbecause

  |reason}}

  replace reason with a specific reason for speedy deletion

• Specific reason templates are:
  • {{
    db-nonsense
    }} : CSD G1 - patent nonsense. You can put {{subst:test-n|page name}} -- ~~~~ on the user's talk page.
  • {{
    db-test
    }} : CSD G2 - test page
  • {{
    db-vand
    }} : CSD G3 - vandalism. You can put {{subst:test-n|page name}} -- ~~~~ on the user's talk page.
  • {{
    db-repost
    }} : CSD G4 - previously deleted material
  • {{
    db-ban
    }} : CSD G5 - contributions made by a banned user
  • {{
    db-histmerge
    }} : CSD G6 - history merge
  • {{
    db-author
    }} : CSD G7 - speedy request by only editor
  • {{db-talk}} : CSD G8 - talk page of a deleted page
  • {{
    nocontext
    }} : CSD A1 - very short articles without context
  • {{
    db-foreign
    }} : CSD A2 - foreign language article duplicated on other Wikimedia project
  • {{
    db-nocontent
    }} : CSD A3 - no content other than external links of whatever kind
  • {{
    db-contact
    }} : CSD A4 - no content other than attempt to contact subject of article
  • {{db-transwiki}} : CSD A5 - transwikification completed
  • {{
    db-attack
    }} : CSD A6 - insult / attack
  • {{
    nn-bio
    }} : CSD A7 - non-notable biography / vanity. You can put {{subst:nn-warn|page name}} -- ~~~~ on the user's talk page.
  • {{
    nothanks-sd
    |pg=page name|url=url of source}} -- ~~~~
  • {{Missing image}} : CSD I2 - corrupt or empty image
  • {{
    Isd
    |name of replacement image without the Image: prefix}} : CSD I1 - same or better image exists on Wikipedia (not for now on Commons)

• {{
  d
  }}: Request Speedy Deletion, without providing a reason. This template should only be used in patently obvious cases.

• Wikipedia:Deletion policy
• Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators
• Wikipedia:Guide to deletion
• Wikipedia:Lost images