Wikipedia talk:How to delete a page
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Checks and Balances in the Articles for Deletion Nomination Process
There needs to be better checks and balances in the process of how articles are currently nominated for deletion, to prevent notable topics from being deleted without actual qualification per Wikipedia article deletion guidelines. This is a significant problem, because it is very likely that notable topics are being injustly deleted. It's easy to nominate an article for deletion and then type five or six words and wait to see if an article will be deleted, whereas it takes more time to refute nominations. Perhaps there should be more sophisticated criterion to nominate articles for deletion. As it is now, anyone can nominate any article without providing a just rationale for doing so, and can instead simply base the nomination upon basic, generic and inspecific statements such as "doesn't pass general notability guidelines", while not specifically stating which parts of the guidelines they are supposedly referring to. If nobody comes along to correct an injust or baseless nomination, the article is then deleted based upon unqualified, general statements that don't actually correspond with the required source searching per
Please place responses regarding this matter here on this Wikipedia talk:How to delete a page Discussion page below, rather than on my personal talk page. In this manner, other users can view and respond to responses. Thank you. Northamerica1000 (talk) 07:29, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- This now the fifth place in close succession where Northamerica1000 has posted the same thing, and each time he asked to have the discussion on that specific page. I think it would be wiser to have this discussion in one location, and suggest that Fram (talk) 07:54, 22 September 2011 (UTC)]
- Please refer to: Wikipedia talk: Articles for deletion— Checks and Balances in the Articles for Deletion Nomination Process. Thank you. Northamerica1000 (talk) 17:37, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
The template to propose a page for deletion no longer works
Someone correct me if i used it just used it wrong, but if it doesn't work can someone replace it with an updated one?JoshBM16 (talk) 18:18, 15 December 2015 (UTC)