Wikipedia:Speedy deletions: Difference between revisions

If you've come here from a recently created page whose text may soon be deleted, then Welcome to Wikipedia. Please understand that we mean no harm in deleting your page. In fact, 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 Wikipedia: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 {{msg:delete}} to the top of the page. Usually, 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 page is a candidate for speedy deletion.

If you disagree that the page should be deleted, please explain this on the talk page, or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions.

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 {{msg:delete}} the prior content will not be automagically added to the deletion log summary when the page is deleted.

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 What links here for Mediawiki:Delete
• Check talk pages, page history, 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

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.

Optim

• User:Optim and all subpages. User_talk:Optim and subpages if any. Please note, there is a page User:Optim/Links which some people may find useful and you can keep it in the wikipedia namespace or anywhere you like. I leave the project, so I don't think there is any need to keep the pages. The only useful content I can think of is the list with the articles I wrote; if for any reason you like to keep this list you may do so. I deleted the pages but Jamesday told me some people felt uncomfortable with this, so you can undelete them and let people discuss about the issue. As long as my userpages or their page history does not contain any personal info, such as name and email, I have no real problem to let you keep them. The talk page does not contain any useful info I can think of. Note, however, that I was used to move people's comments on their talk pages. So, the recent discussions are still available at other Wikipedians' talk pages. Optim 20:06, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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