User:LDBot/AFD

Articles for Deletion (AfD) (formerly Votes for deletion) is where Wikipedians discuss whether articles should be deleted. Items sent here usually wait five days or so while debate takes place on whether the article should be deleted or not; then the deletion process can proceed based on Wikipedia community consensus. The page is then:


 * Kept
 * Deleted per the deletion policy
 * Sent to Cleanup or Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
 * Merged and/or redirected to an existing article
 * Transwikied (moved to another Wikimedia project, such as Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wiktionary, or another language's Wikipedia), or
 * Renamed/Moved to another title
 * Userfied to the creator's user page or user subpage

More information can be found at the Guide to deletion.

Things to consider
It is important to read and understand the Wikipedia deletion policy, which explains valid grounds for deletion, before adding comments to this page. Click "what links here", in the sidebar of the article page, to see how the page is being used and referenced within Wikipedia. Consider that adding a tag to an article may be a better option than deleting, for instance Cleanup tags or disputed tags. Read over the article's talk page: it may provide reasons why the article should or should not be deleted.

If a page can serve as a useful redirect or be merged somewhere, do not list it here. Doing so only clutters AfD.

If you believe your nomination will be uncontroversial, you can use the Proposed Deletion process instead, which simply involves adding one template to the page. If your proposed deletion is contested, you will need to bring it to AfD.

AfD etiquette

 * Please be familiar with the policies of not biting the newcomers, Wikiquette, no personal attacks, civility, and assume good faith before making a recommendation as to whether the article should be deleted or not, or making a comment.
 * Sign any recommendation or comment you add, by adding this at the end: ~.
 * Notify the creator and/or main contributor(s) of the article when nominating, as they may be able to address concerns raised. Templates AFDWarningNew AFDWarning and Adw are available to this purpose.
 * If you are the primary author or otherwise have a vested interest in the article, say so openly, and clearly base your recommendations on the deletion policy.
 * Your opinion will be given the most weight if you are logged in with an account that already existed when the nomination was made. Unregistered and new users are welcome to contribute to the discussion, but their recommendations may be discounted, especially if they seem to be made in bad faith (for example, if they misrepresent their reasons).
 * Please make your recommendation only once. If there is evidence that someone is using sock puppets (multiple accounts belonging to the same person) to make multiple recommendations, such additional recommendations will be discounted.
 * Please familiarize yourself with the frequently cited guidelines WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:FICT, WP:WEB and WP:VAIN.
 * Before making your recommendation please review the talk page for the nomination, if there is one, often additional important information about the article or points raised may be found there.
 * If the article links to other pages, place a notification on those pages (if they are relevant enough). This will (hopefully) get those with knowledge on the subject the ability to participate on the debate.
 * If recommending that the article be speedily deleted, please give the criteria that it meets, such as "A7" or "non-notable biography".
 * Editors usually state their suggested course of action in bold, such as "keep" or "delete". Giving it more than once makes that position seem like it has more support than it actually has. If you change your mind, modify your original recommendation.

You don't have to make a recommendation on every nomination; consider not participating if: Also, please see this discussion on the talk page of Deletion Policy regarding notability.
 * A nomination involves a topic with which you are unfamiliar.
 * You agree with the consensus that has already been formed.

Week at a glance
You may also wish to see Articles for deletion/Log/Today and Articles for deletion/Log/Yesterday.

Additionally, AllyUnion runs a bot to maintain a half-hourly-updated AFD List ([ related changes]). This list of discussions keeps a list of 7 days of discussions. Please DO NOT try to update the AFD Week at a glance pages, or start a new day yourself, as it will confuse the AFD Bot (note: these pages are not the deletion log pages referred to in step III of the instructions, below).

[ Purge server cache for today's AFD page]

How to list multiple related pages for deletion
Sometimes you will find a number of related articles, all of which you feel should be deleted together. To make it easier for those participating in the discussion, it may be helpful to "bundle" all of them together into a single nomination.

Examples of when articles may be bundled into a single nomination:
 * An article about a band and three articles about its members, none of whom has done anything else outside of the band.
 * An article about a company/organization and a second article about its founder, who has done nothing else of note.
 * An article about a video game/book and related articles for characters within it.
 * An article about an album and related articles for its songs.
 * An article about any topic and other articles with the same content but with different titles.

If any of the articles you are considering for bundling could stand on its own merits, then it should be nominated separately. Or to put it more succinctly, if you are unsure of whether to bundle an article or not, don't.

To bundle articles for deletion, follow these steps: