Saturday, April 30, 2011

Speedy deletion

(Spam Twitter)-Criteria for speedy deletion specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus support to, at their discretion, bypass deletion discussion and immediately delete Wikipedia pages or media. They cover only the cases specified in the rules below.
Deletion is reversible, but only by administrators, so other deletions occur only after discussion. Speedy deletion is intended to reduce the time spent on deletion discussions for pages or media with no practical chance of surviving discussion.
Administrators should take care not to speedy delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases. If a page has survived a prior deletion discussion, it should not be speedy deleted except for newly discovered copyright violations. Contributors sometimes create pages over several edits, so administrators should avoid deleting a page that appears incomplete too soon after its creation.
Anyone can request speedy deletion by adding one of the speedy deletion templates. Before nominating a page for speedy deletion, consider whether it could be improved, reduced to a stub, merged or redirected elsewhere, reverted to a better previous revision, or handled in some other way. Users nominating a page for speedy deletion should specify which criteria the page meets, and should consider notifying the page creator and any major contributors.
Criteria
Abbreviations (G12, A3...) are often used to refer to these criteria, and are given in each section, though plain-English explanations are often more appropriate.
Immediately following each criterion below is a list of templates used to mark pages or media file for speedy deletion under the criterion being used. In order to alert administrators of the nomination, place the relevant speedy deletion template at the top of the page or media file you are nominating (within for templates). Please be sure to supply an edit summary that mentions that the page is being nominated for speedy deletion. All of the speedy deletion templates are named as "db-X" with "db" standing for "delete because". A list of the "db-X" templates can be found at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Deletion templates.
Deprecated criteria
Deprecated criteria include:
A4. Attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title
Merged with and later superseded by "No content" (A3) in November 2005 as part of a bold rewrite that was made to simplify the CSD criterion (Archived Discussion 1, Discussion 2, Discussion 3).
A6. Attack articles
Superseded by "Attack pages" (G10) in March 2006 (Discussion).
A8. Blatant copyright infringement articles
Superseded by "Unambiguous copyright infringement" (G12) in October 2006 (Unopposed proposal).
R1. Redirects to non-existent pages
Merged into "Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page" (G8) in September 2008 (Discussion)
C3. Categories solely populated from a template
Merged into "Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page" (G8) in October 2008 (Discussion)
T1. Divisive and inflammatory templates
Was repealed in February 2009 (Discussion). Instead, "attack pages" (G10) may be applicable in some cases. Otherwise, use Wikipedia:Templates for discussion.

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