Wikipedia:Deletion policy

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This page is an official policy on the Simple English Wikipedia. Many people agree with it. They see it as a standard way that all users should follow. When changing the page, please check that the other people agree with your changes. Use the talk page when you are not sure or when you want to propose a change.
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Only administrators have the technical ability to delete pages, categories, and images. Sometimes, pages can be deleted immediately. Other times, the deletion should be talked about with other editors.

Sometimes, creating a redirect to an existing article is an adequate solution to requesting deletion, if the article title is helpful for finding information.

The admin that deletes a page takes care that internal links are not broken.

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[edit] Immediate deletion

Administrators must always check the page's edit history to see if the page can be reverted to some earlier version.

These types of pages can be deleted immediately:

  • Pages posted as pure vandalism.
  • Obvious nonsense/gibberish ("This website is KEWL!" or "SDWEWE$T%E%$") or user tests
  • Confirmed copyright violations
  • Self-promotion, such as advertisements or "vanity" pages.
  • Articles created to either directly attack ("Jimbo Wales is stupid.") or disparage the subject, where no sources are cited and where there is no good revision to revert to.
  • Images uploaded in violation of the Wikipedia:Image use policy.
  • Pages copied directly from any other Wikimedia project, where little or no attempt was made to make it work on Simple English.
  • Very short articles which are not Wikipedia:Core articles, especially those containing no wikilinks, interwiki, category, or stub notice.

If you are not sure if something is a copyright violation, blank the page and list it on Wikipedia:Requests for deletion.

[edit] Discussed deletion

Some pages should be discussed for seven (7) days before deletion. List these on Wikipedia:Requests for deletion:

[edit] Pages that should not be deleted

[edit] Logging

This should be archived when it gets too large. A link to the archive must be made on Wikipedia talk:Deletion log.

[edit] Undeletion

If you believe something was deleted unnecessarily, contact an administrator for assistance.

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