User talk:Mook47

Your edit to Glencoe Crimson Tide
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Blanking vs. deletion
Hi Mook47, and welcome to Wikipedia. I see that after your first article was tagged for deletion you went ahead and blanked it. While this may look like a deletion, it is not the same thing.

People who are not administrators who come accross pages which are really obvious deletion candidates (see criteria for speedy deletion) can request deletion by adding a "db" tag to the article to notify the administrators at large. When this happens, and you agree that the article should be deleted, just leave the article with the tag alone and the article will usually be deleted within a few minutes. Do not attempt to delete it yourself by blanking the page.
 * "Blanking" means emptying the page from all content. However links to the page remain "blue" indicating that the page still exists. The page still retains the history, which may be accessed through the "history" tab. THe page is still something which might pop up if someone searches for Special:Randompage. The page has therefore not been deleted, a page with no content has merely been placed over it.
 * "Deleting" means that the history is removed, and there is no clue that the page ever existed except for a note in the deletion log that it has been deleted. Since deletion is a pretty powerful tool, it is only given to users with administrator status.

Happy editing and best wishes, Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:39, 22 September 2006 (UTC)