Wikipedia:Update/1/Deletion policy changes, 2011

4th quarter 2011
Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion Substantial changes since September

3rd quarter 2011

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- Under Criteria, changed: "All speedy deletion templates thus contain in their body a pre-formatted, suggested warning template to notify the relevant parties of the nomination for speedy deletion under the criterion used." to "All speedy deletion templates (using criteria other than G6, G7, and G8) thus contain in their body a pre-formatted, suggested warning template to notify the relevant parties of the nomination for speedy deletion under the criterion used."
- Under
  WP:G5
  , added: "G5 should not be applied to transcluded templates."
- Under
  decided by consensus
  or the page clearly meets a criterion for speedy deletion and is tagged as such."
- Under
  WP:NOTPROMOTION
  for the policy on this."
- Under
  WP:A3
  , changed: "Similarly, this criterion doesn't cover a page with an infobox with non-trivial information." to "Similarly, this criterion does not cover a page having only an infobox, unless its contents also meet the above criteria."
- Under
  schools)" to "(for example, a band, club, or company, not including educational institutions
  )".
- Under
  WP:F2, added a new template, {{db-fpcfail
  }}
- Under Procedure for administrators, added: "User:Σ/CSD defcon" (transcluded onto the page).
- Under
  Wikipedia:What to do if your article gets CSD tagged

Wikipedia:Deletion policy
- In
  WP:DEL#Editing and discussion
  , changed: [Deletion discussions that are really unresolved content disputes may be closed by an] "administrator" to "uninvolved editor".
- In
  WP:DEL#Speedy deletion
  , added: "Speedy deletion is meant to remove pages that are so obviously inappropriate for Wikipedia that they have no chance of surviving a deletion discussion. Speedy deletion should not be used except in the most obvious cases. [break] If a page has survived a prior deletion discussion, it should not be speedy deleted except for newly discovered copyright violations."

Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
- In
  WP:BLPPROD#Nominating
  , removed: [the process requires that the article contain no] "reliable" [sources in any form]

2nd quarter 2011

Wikipedia:Attack page
- In the introduction, added: "Attack pages may also be
  blanked as courtesy
  ."

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- In the introduction, changed: "add {{discussion page with a pre-formatted area for the creator to explain why the page should not be deleted."





Wikipedia:Deletion policy
In neutral point of view
, and whose articles have been deleted at AfD on lack of neutrality grounds."
New subsection: WP:DEL#Tagging
In WP:DEL#Merging
, changed: "Stub pages about minor characters in works of fiction generally are merged into list articles." to: "Pages about non-notable fictional elements are generally merged into list articles or articles covering the work of fiction in which they appear."
New subsection: WP:DEL#Partial deletion



Wikipedia:Proposed deletion
In the introduction, added: "Proposed deletion is only applicable to lists, and disambiguation pages; it cannot be used with redirects, userspace pages, templates, categories, or pages in any other namespace
."

In WP:PROD#Objecting, added: "and tags removed by banned users
 may be restored."

New section: WP:PROD#Patrolling or checking
New section: WP:PROD#Procedure for administrators




Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
In WP:BLPPROD#Nominating
, changed: [To place a BLPPROD tag, the process requires that the article] "contain no sources, whether reliable or not, and in any form ..." to: "contain no reliable sources in any form ..."

1st quarter 2011

Wikipedia:Attack page
- In the introduction, changed: "An attack page is a Wikipedia article, page, template, category, redirect or image that was created primarily to disparage its subject ... warn the user who created them by using the {{uw-npa}} series of
  user warning template
  ."

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- Under
  merge page histories
  "
- Under
  WP:R2, added: [Redirects,] "apart from shortcuts
  ..."
- Under
  WP:F8, added: [please ensure the Commons page description has all of the following]: "The image is not marked as {{keep local
  }}."
- Under
  .css and .js
  pages), but its categorization should work."

Wikipedia:Proposed deletion
- In
  WP:PROD#Objecting, added: " It will be undeleted automatically on request, though it may then be nominated at WP:Articles for deletion
  ."

Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
- In
  WP:BLPPROD#Nominating
  , added: "To place a BLPPROD tag, the process requires that the article contain no sources, whether reliable or not, and in any form (references, external links, etc.), which support any statements made about the person in the biography. Please note that this is a different criterion than is used for sources added after the placement of the tag."