User:Gaia Octavia Agrippa/Adoption/Deletion policy

Reasons for deletion
Below are some, but not all, of the reasons to delete a page on wikipedia.


 * Copyright violations and other material violating Wikipedia's fair-use policy
 * Vandalism, including inflammatory redirects, pages which exist only to attack their subject, patent nonsense, or gibberish
 * Advertising or other spam (but not articles about advertising-related subjects)
 * Content forks (unless a merge or redirect is appropriate)
 * Articles which cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources, including neologisms, original theories and conclusions, and articles which are themselves hoaxes (but not articles describing notable hoaxes)
 * Articles for which all attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed
 * Articles whose subject fails to meet the relevant notability guideline (WP:N, WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:CORP and so forth)
 * Articles which breach Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons
 * Redundant, repetitive or otherwise useless templates
 * Categories representing overcategorization
 * Images that are unused, obsolete, or violate fair-use policy
 * Any other use of article, template, project, or user namespace that is contrary to the established separate policy for that namespace.
 * Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia

Speedy deletion
Speedy deletion describes the process when admins can delete an article, or file, without discussion. Non-admins can label articles with a speedy deletion template, and an admin will delete it for you.

Non-criteria
The following are not by themselves enough to justify speedy deletion.
 * Reasons derived from What Wikipedia is not. Wikipedia is not: "a dictionary", "an indiscriminate collection of information", "a crystal ball", etc.
 * Hoaxes. If even remotely plausible, a suspected hoax article should be subjected to further scrutiny in a wider forum. Note that "blatant and obvious hoaxes and misinformation" are subject to speedy deletion as vandalism.
 * Original research. It is not always easy to tell whether an article consists of material that violates the policy against novel theories or interpretations or is simply unsourced.
 * Neologisms. If not obviously ridiculous, new specialized terms should have a wider hearing.
 * Notability. Articles that seem to have obviously non-notable subjects are eligible for speedy deletion only if the article does not give a reasonable indication of why the subject might be important or significant.
 * Failure to assert importance but not an A7 or A9 category. There is no consensus to speedily delete articles of types not specifically listed in A7 or A9 under those criteria.
 * Author deletion requests made in bad faith. Author deletion requests made in bad faith, out of frustration, or in an attempt to revoke their GFDL contributions are not granted. However, anyone may request deletion of pages in their userspace.
 * Author deletion requests after others have contributed substantially. If other editors have substantially edited an article (i.e. more than just minor corrections or maintenance tagging), the original author may not request deletion under G7 because the work of others is involved.
 * Very short articles. Short articles with sufficient content and context to qualify as stubs may not be speedily deleted under criteria A1 and A3; other criteria may still apply.
 * Copies that are not copyright violations. If content appears both here and somewhere else (possibly in modified form), consider the possibility that Wikipedia's is the original version and the other site copied from us. Alternately, the same author may have written both versions, or the original may be free content.
 * PNGs/GIFs replaced by JPEGs. JPEG encoding discards information that may be important later. Do not delete the original PNG/GIF files.
 * Questionable material that is not vandalism. Earnest efforts are never vandalism, so to assume good faith, do not delete as vandalism unless reasonably certain.
 * User pages of IP addresses. Although users are encouraged to create Wikipedia accounts, unregistered users are still allowed to edit Wikipedia, and are identified by their IP addresses. If an unregistered user has a static IP address, it may have a user page and/or user talk page associated with it. IP user talk pages may be deleted only if all of the specific criteria from WP:OLDIP are true.
 * Reasons based on essays. Listcruft, Obscure topics, Deny recognition etc. are not valid reasons for speedy deletion.