User:Doc Quintana/Commonly Used Templates

=Templates=

A

 * These apply to articles and portals


 * A1. No context.
 * Articles lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Example: "He is a funny man with a red car. He makes people laugh." This applies only to very short articles. Context is different from content, treated in A3, below.
 * db-a1, db-nocontext, db-short


 * A2. Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project.
 * This applies to articles having essentially the same content as an article on another Wikimedia project. If the article is not the same as an article on another project, use the template instead, and list the page at Pages needing translation into English for review and possible translation.
 * db-a2, db-foreign


 * A3. No content.
 * Any article (other than disambiguation pages, redirects, or soft redirects) consisting only of external links, category tags and "see also" sections, a rephrasing of the title, attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, chat-like comments, template tags and/or images. However, a very short article may be a valid stub if it has context, in which case it is not eligible for deletion under this criterion. Similarly, this criterion doesn't cover a page with an infobox with non-trivial information.
 * db-a3, db-nocontent, db-contact, db-empty


 * A5. Transwikied articles.
 * Any article that consists only of a dictionary definition that has already been transwikied (e.g., to Wiktionary), a primary source that has already been transwikied (e.g., to Wikisource), or an article on any subject that has been discussed at articles for deletion with an outcome to move it to another wiki, after it has been properly moved and the author information recorded.
 * db-a5, db-transwiki


 * A7. No indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content).
 * An article about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (e.g. band, club, company, etc., except schools), or web content that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. This is distinct from verifiability and reliability of sources, and is a lower standard than notability. This criterion applies only to articles about web content and to articles about people, organizations, and individual animals themselves, not to articles about their books, albums, software, or other creative works. This criterion does not apply to species of animals, only to individual animal(s). The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source. The criterion does apply if the claim of significance or importance given is not credible. If the claim's credibility is unclear, you can improve the article yourself, propose deletion, or list the article at articles for deletion.
 * db-a7, db-person – for people, db-band – for bands , db-club – for clubs, societies, groups, and organizations , db-inc – for companies and corporations , db-web – for websites , db-animal – for individual animals


 * A9. No indication of importance (musical recordings).
 * An article about a musical recording that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant and where the artist's article does not exist. This is distinct from questions of  verifiability and reliability of sources, and is a lower standard than notability.  This criterion does not apply to other forms of creative media, products, or any other types of articles.
 * db-a9, db-album, db-song


 * A10. Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic.
 * A recently created article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing English Wikipedia topic, and that does not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article(s) on the subject, and where the title is not a plausible redirect. This does not include split pages or any article that expands or reorganizes an existing one or that contains referenced, mergeable material.
 * db-a10, db-same

For any articles that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Articles for deletion or Proposed deletion.

G
These apply to all namespaces (and so apply to articles, redirects, user pages, talk pages, files, etc):


 * G1. Patent nonsense.
 * Pages consisting entirely of incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history. This excludes poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, implausible theories, vandalism and hoaxes, fictional material, coherent non-English material, and poorly translated material.
 * db-g1, db-nonsense


 * G2. Test pages.
 * This excludes the sandbox and the users' own user space.
 * db-g2, db-test


 * G3. Pure vandalism and blatant hoaxes.
 * This includes blatant and obvious misinformation, blatant hoaxes (including images intended to misinform), and redirects created by cleanup from page-move vandalism.
 * db-g3, db-vandalism, db-hoax


 * G4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion.
 * A sufficiently identical and unimproved copy, having any title, of a page deleted via a deletion discussion. This excludes pages that are not substantially identical to the deleted version, pages to which the reason for the deletion no longer applies, and content moved to user space for explicit improvement (but not simply to circumvent Wikipedia's deletion policy). This criterion also excludes content undeleted via deletion review, or which was deleted via proposed deletion or speedy deletion (although in that case the previous speedy criterion, or other speedy criteria, may apply).
 * db-g4, db-repost


 * G5. Creations by a banned user(s).
 * Pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block having no substantial edits by others.
 * db-g5,


 * G6. Technical deletions.
 * Uncontroversial maintenance, such as temporarily deleting a page to merge page histories, deleting dated maintenance categories, deleting unnecessary disambiguation pages, or performing uncontroversial page moves. If no special tag like db-move can be used and the reason for deletion is not self-evident, a reason for deletion should be supplied on the talk page or in the edit summary.
 * ,, , , , db-maintenance, db-house, db-disambig


 * G7. Author requests deletion,
 * if requested in good faith and provided that the only substantial content to the page and to the associated talk page was added by its author. (For redirects created as a result of a pagemove, the mover must also have been the only substantive contributor to the pages prior to the move.) If the sole author blanks a page other than a userspace page or category page, this can be taken as a deletion request.
 * db-author, db-self, db-blanked


 * G8. Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page,
 * such as talk pages with no corresponding subject page; subpages with no parent page; image pages without a corresponding image; redirects to invalid targets, such as nonexistent targets, redirect loops, and bad titles; and categories populated by deleted or retargeted templates. This excludes any page that is useful to the project, and in particular: deletion discussions that are not logged elsewhere, user talk pages, talk page archives, plausible redirects that can be changed to valid targets, and image pages or talk pages for images that exist on Wikimedia Commons. Exceptions may be sign-posted with the template G8-exempt.
 * db-talk, db-subpage, db-imagepage, db-redirnone, db-templatecat


 * G9. Office actions.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation office reserves the right to speedily delete a page temporarily in cases of exceptional circumstances. Deletions of this type should not be reversed without permission from the Foundation.


 * G10. Pages that disparage or threaten their subject
 * or some other entity, and serve no other purpose. These "attack pages" may include slander, legal threats, and biographical material about a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced. These pages should be speedily deleted when there is no neutral version in the page history to revert to. Both the page title and page content may be taken into account in assessing an attack. Articles about living people deleted under this criterion should not be restored or recreated by any editor until the biographical article standards are met.
 * db-g10, db-attack & db-attackorg


 * G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion.
 * Pages that are exclusively promotional, and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion.
 * db-g11, db-spam, db-promo


 * G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement.
 * Text pages that contain copyrighted material with no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license, where there is no non-infringing content on the page worth saving. Only if the history is unsalvageably corrupted should it be deleted in its entirety; earlier versions without infringement should be retained. For equivocal cases (such as where there is a dubious assertion of permission, or where free-content edits overlie the infringement), please consult Copyright violations. Remember to check that the suspected source of the copyright violation is not itself a Wikipedia mirror, and to notify the page's creator when tagging a page for deletion under this criterion; the template is available for this. For images and media, see the equivalent criterion in the "Files" section below, which has more specific instructions.

CSD Talk Templates

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A1 Welcome

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A7 Welcome

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