User:OrenBochman/Adoption/Deletion

This is an assignment for

adoption

program. You are welcome to edit this page if you notice any errors or have any additional information to add, but as a courtesy, please notify OrenBochman if you make any major changes to avoid any possible confusion between him and his adoptee(s). Thanks!

Deletion policies and process

Deletion

of an article and basically any page occurs when the page would take a fundamental re-write to conform with Wikipedia's accepted criteria for content of the encyclopedia. There are many reasons why a page would be deleted.

Content that meets at least one of the criteria for speedy deletion
Copyright violations and other material violating Wikipedia's non-free content criteria
Vandalism, including inflammatory redirects, pages that exist only to disparage their subject, patent nonsense, or gibberish
Advertising or other spam without relevant content (but not an article about an advertising-related subject)
Content forks
(unless a merger or redirect is appropriate)
Articles
hoaxes
(but not articles describing notable hoaxes)
Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed
Articles whose subjects fail to meet the relevant
WP:CORP
and so forth)
Articles that breach Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons
Redundant or otherwise useless templates
Categories representing overcategorization
Files that are unused, obsolete, or violate the Non-free
policy

Any other use of the

user

namespace that is contrary to the established separate policy for that namespace.

Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia

Criteria for Speedy Deletion (CSD)

The fastest way a page can be deleted is through

speedy deletion

. If a page meets at least one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, it must be tagged for speedy deletion, the creator of the page should be notified, and the page be deleted immediately.

Here is a list of all general criteria and important article criteria. For a complete list please view

WP:CSD

.

General criteria

Here is a list of general criteria. The criteria apply to all pages (meaning articles, talk pages, user pages, and even Wikipedia namespace pages.)

db-nonsense
}}
db-test
}}
db-vandalism}} or {{db-hoax
}}

db-repost

}}

db-banned

|banned user name}}

G8 – Dependent on Non-Existent Page. A page that is dependent on a non-existent or deleted page, such as a talk page with no corresponding subject page, subpages with no parent page, an image page with no image, or a redirect to a bad target, such as nonexistent targets, redirect loops, and bad titles. Tag with one of these: {{db-g8}}, {{db-talk}}, {{db-subpage}}, {{db-imagepage}}, {{db-redirnone}}, {{db-templatecat
}}

db-attack}} and tag negative unsourced BLP's with {{db-negublp
}}

Articles

I only have listed the most important article criteria here. These criteria apply only to articles. This means

Articles for Creation

submissions do not count.

articles for deletion. Tag with either {{db-person}}, {{db-band}}, {{db-club}}, {{db-inc}}, {{db-web}}, or {{db-animal
}}

db-album

}}

db-same

|other page title}}

Proposed deletion (PROD)

If a page does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion but you feel that it can be deleted without any controversy, you can propose it for deletion via

subst:prod

|reason}} and then notify the page creator.

There is only one disadvantage to proposed deletion. Anyone, even the page creator, can prevent the proposed deletion by removing the template. If you still believe the article should be deleted if that happens, open an

Articles for Deletion debate

, which I'll explain about below.

If the tag is not removed after seven days, the proposed deletion will expire and so the page will be deleted by an administrator.

PROD of unsourced BLP's

A

reliable source

.

The page is deleted if the tag is not removed after ten days, or if there are still no references.

Deletion discussions (XfD)

Deletion discussions (XfD, stands for Anything for Deletion) allows Wikipedians to discuss whether an article should be deleted or not. The result of the discussion depends on

clear

.

The template on the right shows all types of XfD's; the most common is

AfD

.

Discussion

Any questions or would you like to take the test?