Wikipedia:Speedy deletions
If you've come here from a recently created page whose text may soon be deleted, then please understand that we mean no harm in deleting your page. In fact, welcome to Wikipedia. We're delighted to have you, but the page you created seemed to be something other than an encyclopedia article. If it was a test, congratulations - you succeeded in creating a page. Please use the sandbox for further testing, or create yourself a user page.
If your article was not a test, you may have created a page that was a candidate for speedy deletion. If so, please see our guidelines on writing perfect stubs to see how you could improve the page to something that will not be instantly deletable.
For more information, please read our deletion policy
Using this page
For articles that need deletion, add {{delete}} to the top of the page. You should not wipe out the contents as it helps to check the contents to be deleted without having to look at the page history. This expands to:
This redirect may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, but no reason has been given for why it qualifies. Please ensure that your reason is based on one of the speedy deletion criteria. Replace this tag with {{db|1=some reason}}.
If this redirect does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice, but do not remove this notice from pages that you have created yourself. If you created this page and you disagree with the given reason for deletion, you can click the button below and leave a message explaining why you believe it should not be deleted. You can also visit the talk page to check if you have received a response to your message. Note that this redirect may be deleted at any time if it unquestionably meets the speedy deletion criteria, or if an explanation posted to the talk page is found to be insufficient.
Note to administrators: this redirect has content on its talk page which should be checked before deletion. Administrators: check links, talk, history (last), and logs before deletion. Consider checking Google.This page was last edited by Anthony Appleyard (contribs | logs) at 12:32, 11 November 2004 (UTC) (19 years ago) |
You can also add it to the list at the bottom of this page, but you don't have to.
Note that if you just replace the content with {{delete}} the prior content will not be automatically added to the deletion log summary when the page is deleted.
Use {{deletebecause|your reason here}} to give a reason.
See below for instructions regarding the deletion of personal subpages.
For articles that are not candidates for speedy deletion, please use wikipedia:votes for deletion. Please do not list pages that are already listed there.
Advice for administrators
- Use Category:Candidates for speedy deletion for a list of pages
- Use What links here for Template:Delete (This is an older method superseded by categorisation, but temporarily still in use until full switch is possible.)
- Check talk pages, page history, what links here (especially for potentially controversial user pages), etc.—if there is a dispute over whether the page should be deleted, consider first listing it on wikipedia:votes for deletion.
- Review our admin deletion guidelines
- If you delete an article marked for deletion, please do not include {{delete}} in the summary
Deletion of personal pages
Unless you are a sysop, it is not possible to delete your own user pages and subpages, so they must be listed here. If you are a sysop, it is recommended that you also list your pages here so they can be deleted by another sysop. For your main user or talk pages, you must list them here, not delete them yourself, to avoid the appearance that sysops can delete to hide negative comments, while others can't.
Only post pages from your own personal page, and only if you have a genuine reason for requesting a personal page of yours be deleted, please list it here.
Please see Wikipedia:User page for further instructions, and Wikipedia talk:Personal subpages to be deleted for past discussion on this issue.
Current list
- User:ScudLee... again. Thanks. - 18:23, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC) Lee (talk)
New notices
Only list here if you feel it might need a short discussion as using the {{delete}} template automatically lists pages on Category:Candidates for speedy deletion