User:Mtmelendez/Tool box

Criteria for speedy deletion

 * Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
 * User:Mtmelendez/Salt of the Earth
 * Orphan talk pages

General criteria

 * 1) Patent nonsense and gibberish, an unsalvageably incoherent page with no meaningful content. This does not include: poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, vandalism, fictional material, material not in English, badly translated material, implausible theories, or hoaxes of any sort; some of these, however, may be deleted as vandalism in blatant cases.
 * 2) Test pages (e.g., "Can I really create a page here?").
 * 3) Pure vandalism.
 * 4) Recreation of deleted material. A copy, by any title, of a page deleted via a deletion discussion, provided the copy is substantially identical to the deleted version and that any changes to it do not address the reasons for which it was deleted. This does not apply to content that has been moved to user space, undeleted via deletion review, or deleted via "proposed deletion", or to speedy deletions (although in that case, the previous speedy criterion, or other speedy criteria, may apply).
 * 5) Banned user. Pages created by banned users while they were banned.
 * 6) Housekeeping. Non-controversial maintenance, such as temporarily deleting a page to merge page histories, performing a uncontroversial page moves, or cleaning up redirects.
 * 7) Author requests deletion, if requested in good faith, and provided the page's only substantial content was added by its author. If the author blanks the page, this can be taken as a deletion request.
 * 8) Talk pages whose corresponding article does not exist, except for deletion discussion that is not logged elsewhere, User Talk pages, talk pages for images on Wikimedia Commons, or talk subpages (such as archives) whose corresponding "top-level" page exists.
 * 9) 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.
 * 10) Pages that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject or some other entity (e.g., "John Q. Doe is an imbecile"). These are sometimes called "attack pages". This includes a biography of a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced, where there is no neutral version in the history to revert to. Administrators deleting such pages should not quote the content of the page in the deletion summary.
 * 11) Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote some entity and which 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.
 * 12) Blatant copyright infringement. Text pages that meet all of the following:
 * 13) * The material was copied from another website or other source (but consider the possibility that the other copy was obtained from Wikipedia - see Mirrors and forks);
 * 14) * There is no non-infringing content worth saving;
 * 15) * The material was introduced at once by a single person; and
 * 16) * There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license.
 * Notify the page's creator when tagging a page for deletion under this criterion; the template  is available for this. After deleting, administrators should recreate the page from earlier noninfringing page content if available.  If multiple deletion criteria apply, list them all on the deletion summery.  If notified of a plausible error, the deleting administrator should restore the content and, if a confirmation e-mail has not been received, follow the Copyright problems procedure, replacing the article with the   template. Some suspected copyright infringements are listed at Suspected copyright violations. 

Articles

 * 1) No context. Very short articles with little or no context for their statements. Example: "He is a funny man with a red car and makes people laugh." Context is different than content, treated in A3, below.
 * 2) Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project. If the article does not exist on another project, use the template  instead, and list the page at Pages needing translation into English for review and possible translation.
 * 3) No content. Any article (other than disambiguation pages) consisting only of links, category tags and "see also" sections, rephrasing of the title, and/or chat-like comments. However, a very short article may be a valid stub if it has context.
 * 4) (Placeholder to preserve numbering; merged with A3.)
 * 5) Transwikied articles. Any article that either consists only of a dictionary definition or 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.
 * 6) (Placeholder to preserve numbering; superseded by .)
 * 7) No assertion of importance/significance. An article about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content that does not state why its subject is important or significant. This is distinct from questions of notability, verifiability and reliability of sources. If controversial, list the article at Articles for deletion instead.
 * 8) (Placeholder to preserve numbering; superseded by .)

Redirects

 * Special:BrokenRedirects
 * Special:DoubleRedirects
 * Redirects for discussion

In some cases it may be possible to make a useful redirect by changing the target instead of deleting it.


 * 1) Redirects to deleted pages and to nonexistent pages.
 * 2) Redirects to the Talk:, User: or User talk: namespace from the article space (this does not include the Wikipedia shortcut pseudo-namespaces). If this was the result of a page move, consider waiting a day or two before deleting the redirect.
 * 3) Recently created redirects from implausible typos or misnomers. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful, as are redirects in other languages.

Images
Images that have no source, or have an unknown copyright, or are unused or replaceable fair-use, or are fair-use without rationale can be marked so that they will be deleted after a week, and should not be listed on this page. Add one of the following to the image page:
 * 1) {{subst:nsd}}    ...if an image has no source indicated
 * 2) {{subst:nld}}    ...if an image has a source but no licensing information
 * 3) {{subst:orfud}}  ...if an image has a fair use tag but isn't used in any articles
 * 4) {{subst:rfu}}    ...if an image has a fair use tag but could be replaced by a free image
 * 5) {{subst:frn}}    ...if an image has no fair use rationale and was uploaded after May 4, 2006
 * 6)    ...for speedy deletion if the other image is on Wikipedia, not on Commons
 * 7)    ...if the image now exists on Commons, or {{subst:ncd}} for images with the same name on Commons

For other licensing issues, use Possibly unfree images.

Images that are hosted on Wikimedia Commons cannot be deleted via this process. Please use the Commons deletion page instead.


 * Template:Non-free use rationale

Closing discussion

 * See also: Deletion process


 * Result ~



For RfDs: use and

Proposed deletion

 * Nominate:     reason


 * Agree:        reason


 * Warn creator:  Article title ~

Welcome

 * {{subst:W-graphical}} - General, for identified usernames
 * {{subst:Firstarticle|article}} ~  → to leave a message for new users whose first contribution has been deleted or marked for speedy deletion.
 * {{subst:welcometest}} ~  → for new users who have had their first edit reverted.
 * {{subst:Welcome-anon}} ~  → for anonymous users; encourages getting a username.
 * {{subst:Welc-anon}} ~  → variation of above, with border.
 * {{subst:W-graphical-anon}} ~  → for anonymous users, encourages getting a username, based off of graphical welcome template.
 * {{subst:Welcome-anon-vandal}} → for anonymous users who have vandalized a page.
 * {{subst:Welcome-anon-vandalism-fighter}} ~  → for anonymous users who fight vandalism to urge them to create an account
 * {{subst:Welcome - Copyright}} ~  → with additional discussion of copyright policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of inserting a block of copyrighted text.
 * {{subst:Welcomestudent|article}} ~  → for editors who seem to be students editing Wikipedia as part of their assignment (see message above for course instructor welcome template)
 * {{subst:Welcometeacher|article}} ~  → for editors who seem to be course instructors having their students edit Wikipedia as part of some assignment (see message above for student welcome template)

Other useful links

 * Special:Prefixindex


 * User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary


 * Userpage icons


 * Article Edit History


 * Wikiquote


 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


 * Editor's Index to Wikipedia


 * AntiVandal


 * Public domain image resources


 * Formatting text


 * Wikipediholism test


 * Keyboard shortcuts


 * Watch flickr


 * Milestones query


 * User:Mtmelendez/WatchedCategories.js

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