UESPWiki:Deletion Policy

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UESPWiki: Policies and Guidelines

The deletion policy describes how articles and media that do not meet the content criteria for UESP is identified and removed.

All content here is governed by a standard of quality. Some of the standards include encyclopedic quality, editorial approach, and content copyright. Content that is capable of abiding by these standards can usually be improved upon by editing. However, when content is incapable of meeting inclusion criteria or is in breach of site policy, is should be deleted.

When an article is deleted, the article and its revision history are removed from view. Unlike page blanking, which can be done by any user, deletion can only be done by administrators.

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[edit] Deletion Process

There are four main processes for deletion that are described below. After you decide which process is right for the article involved, you place the appropriate template on the top of the page with the reason why you feel the page should be deleted if required. People may comment on the request during the lag time before deletion either on the talk page of the page being deleted, or on the message board where the deletion was proposed.

Process Required Lag Template Used Description
Speedy Deletion None {{speedydeletion}} For pure vandalism, patent nonsense, or other pages that can be instantly deleted.
Proposed Deletion Seven Days {{proposeddeletion}} For pages that can uncontroversially be deleted, but do not fall under one of the criteria for speedy deletion
Deletion Review Seven Days {{deletionreview}} For debating pages that are contested for deletion or are potentially controversial.
Administrator Noticeboard Ten Days None Proposals that do not fit into one of the above processes, such as batch deletions, can be proposed on the administrator noticeboard.

[edit] Speedy Deletion

Speedy deletion is a deletion process that governs the deletion of articles and media that administrators can delete "on-sight" without further debate. Non-admins can request a page be speedy deleted by adding the tag {{speedydeletion|reason for deletion}} onto the top of an article, which will place the page in the category for speedy deletion candidates. The candidates for speedy deletion can be found at Category:Speedy Deletion.

[edit] Criteria for Speedy Deletion

An article can be speedily deleted only if it falls under one of the criteria listed below. If there is any possible doubt whether or not a page should be speedily deleted, then the page should be listed under one of the other deletion processes.

  1. Pure vandalism that was created in attempt to harm the site, including redirected created from page moves.
  2. Patent nonsense and gibberish pages that contain no meaningful content.
  3. Test pages created by new users experimenting with the wiki.
  4. Attack pages that serve no useful purpose but to assault their subject.
  5. Blatant copyright infringements should be speedily deleted only if
    1. The article was unquestionably copied from the website of a well-known content provider,
    2. The article and its entire history, excluding tag inclusions and minor edits, contains only copyright violation material, and
    3. The editor of the content does not assert that the content was copied with permission nor claims fair use.
  6. Redirects should be speedily deleted if they are orphaned and meet at least one of the following criteria:
    1. The redirect was created as a result of a typo, or
    2. The redirect is broken, meaning that it links to an article that does not exist or was deleted.
  7. Articles in the main namespace that were erroneously created can be instantly deleted as long as content from the page has not been moved to a different location. Redirects cannot be instantly deleted.
  8. Emergency actions. Administrators can speedily delete pages temporarily in response to potential legal problems or exceptional controversy.
Images
  1. Corrupted or empty images.
  2. Redundant images that have another copy that is of the same or better copy and of the same image file format.
User Pages
  1. User request. User sub pages can be speedily deleted upon request from user whose user space the page lies under.
  2. Non-existent users, when there is a user page or user talk page and no user to match these pages.

[edit] Proposed Deletion

Proposed deletion is a deletion process for the deletion of uncontroversial pages that do not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. The purpose of this process is to provide a chance for other editors to look over the proposal and ensure that reasons to keep the page have not been overlooked.

To propose an article for the proposed deletion process, add the {{proposeddeletion|reason for deletion}} tag onto the top of the article. These pages can be deleted after seven days without a full debate — as long as no one objects. If anyone has an objection to the deletion, the page should be moved to the deletion review process instead. Someone deleting the "proposed deletion" tag without explanation should be taken as an implicit indication that there is an objection to the deletion.

The candidates for proposed deletion can be found at Category:Proposed Deletion.

[edit] Deletion Review

The deletion review is where pages that are contested or potentially controversial are debated. To place a page under this process or to vote in this process, you should follow the directions on the deletion review board.

[edit] Criteria for Deletion

These are some examples of when a page may be deleted.

Problem with page Solution
The article is redundant to another established article that discusses the same topic. If possible, merge and redirect the redundant article to the established article. Alternatively, consider redirection only if there is no useful content that can be merged and if the page would be useful as a redirect. If the content cannot be used and the article would not be useful as a redirect, list the page for proposed deletion or on the deletion review
The page is a useless redirect. Deleting redirects, especially old ones, can risk breaking external and internal links. Because of this, you may want to only consider the deletion of very newly created redirects or ones that cause problems. The following are examples of when it would be a good idea to list a redirect for proposed deletion or on the deletion review:
  1. The redirect is a cross namespace redirect, such as when one points from the main namespace to one of the game namespaces. The main exception to this rule is when shortcut redirects are purposely created in the main namespace (such as Daggerfall redirecting to Daggerfall:Daggerfall).
  2. The redirect is offensive or makes no sense, such as redirecting [[Oblivion:Lex is stupid]] to Oblivion:Imperial City.
  3. The redirect is broken, meaning that the page redirects to a page that no longer exists or never existed.

On the other hand, you should avoid deleting redirect if:

  1. The redirect has a potentially useful page history. For example, if the page started out as an article and later was transformed into a redirect because the content was merged into another page.
  2. Someone finds the redirect to be useful. You may not necessarily find it useful, but it may be because people browse in different ways.
  3. The deletion of the redirect risks breaking internal or external links.
  4. The redirect would prevent the (re)creation of duplicate and redundant articles, whether by redirecting the plural form of an article to the singular form, by redirecting a frequent misspelling of a subject to its correct spelling, by redirecting to a synonym, etc. In other words, redirects with no incoming internal links are not grounds for deletion on those terms alone, because they could be of benefit to the reader.
The article is a candidate for speedy deletion for reasons including:
  • The article was created just to vandalise
  • The article is total nonsense
 List the page for speedy deletion using the {{speedydeletion}} template.

[edit] Procedure for Administrators

The deleting administrator has the final authority to determine whether or not an article should be deleted or not. Because of this, the admin also has the responsibility to verify the legitimacy of a request and the support of the request before deleting the article.

If you are the deciding administrator in determining whether or not a page should be deleted:

  1. Check the history to see if the article has been marked for the appropriate length of time.
  2. Review the article's discussion page/deletion review entry and ensure that all votes are legitimate and check for contests.
  3. If you agree that the article should be deleted, delete the article giving an informative reason for deletion and noting the deletion process used.
  4. If you disagree that the article should be deleted, remove the tag and consider proposing the article for the deletion review.
  5. To ensure an extra pair of eyes, an article should not be deleted by the same person who placed the tag on it.

[edit] Undeletion

When an administrator deletes an article, it does not become lost forever – it simply becomes archived so only admins can see them. Because undeletion requests are uncommon, there is no official process for requesting undeletion. For this reason, undeletion requests should be made on the administrator noticeboard. An administrator can either undelete an entire article or partially undelete an article.

[edit] See Also

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