Wikipedia:Update/1/Deletion policy changes, 2011


 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Substantial changes since September


 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Under Criteria, changed: "All speedy deletion templates thus contain in their body a pre-formatted, suggested warning template to notify the relevant parties of the nomination for speedy deletion under the criterion used." to "All speedy deletion templates (using criteria other than G6, G7, and G8) thus contain in their body a pre-formatted, suggested warning template to notify the relevant parties of the nomination for speedy deletion under the criterion used."
 * Under WP:G5, added: "G5 should not be applied to transcluded templates."
 * Under WP:G8, added: "In certain cases, G8 can be used even if the depending page still exists, i.e. if the deletion of the page has already been decided by consensus or the page clearly meets a criterion for speedy deletion and is tagged as such."
 * Under WP:G11, added: ""Promotion" does not necessarily mean commercial promotion: anything can be promoted, including a person, a non-commercial organisation, a point of view, etc. See WP:NOTPROMOTION for the policy on this."
 * Under WP:A3, changed: "Similarly, this criterion doesn't cover a page with an infobox with non-trivial information." to "Similarly, this criterion does not cover a page having only an infobox, unless its contents also meet the above criteria."
 * Under WP:A7, changed: "(e.g. band, club, company, etc., except schools)" to "(for example, a band, club, or company, not including educational institutions)".
 * Under WP:F2, added a new template, db-fpcfail
 * WP:F5 heading changed: "Unused unfree images." to "Orphaned non-free use images."
 * Under WP:F9, removed: "(or, for image files, the template)"
 * Under WP:F11, added: "Files tagged with OTRS pending for more than 30 days may also be speedily deleted under this criterion."
 * Under WP:T3, changed: "and are either: substantial duplications of another template" to "i.e., orphaned, deprecated, substantial duplications of another template"
 * Under Procedure for administrators, added: "User:Σ/CSD defcon" (transcluded onto the page).
 * Under See also, removed: What to do if your article gets CSD tagged and Wikipedia:Policy consensus discussions, and added: What to do if your article gets CSD tagged


 * Deletion policy
 * In WP:DEL, changed: [Deletion discussions that are really unresolved content disputes may be closed by an] "administrator" to "uninvolved editor".
 * In WP:DEL, added: "Speedy deletion is meant to remove pages that are so obviously inappropriate for Wikipedia that they have no chance of surviving a deletion discussion. Speedy deletion should not be used except in the most obvious cases. [break] If a page has survived a prior deletion discussion, it should not be speedy deleted except for newly discovered copyright violations."


 * Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
 * In WP:BLPPROD, removed: [the process requires that the article contain no] "reliable" [sources in any form]


 * Attack page
 * In the introduction, added: "Attack pages may also be blanked as courtesy."


 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * In the introduction, changed: "add to the page and explain the rationale on the page's discussion page." to: "click on the button that looks like this: Speedy delete contest button.png which appears inside of the speedy deletion tag. This button links to the discussion page with a pre-formatted area for the creator to explain why the page should not be deleted."
 * Under WP:G1, added: "This excludes the sandbox and pages in the user namespace. In short, if you can understand it, G1 does not apply."
 * Under WP:G2, changed: "This excludes the sandbox and the users' own user space, as well as pages that were created in error (see G6)." to: "A page created to test editing or other Wikipedia functions. Subpages of the Wikipedia Sandbox created as tests are included, but not the Sandbox itself. This criterion does not apply to pages in the user namespace, nor does it apply to valid but unused or duplicate templates (although criterion T3 may apply)."
 * Under WP:G8, added: "In certain cases, G8 can be used even if the depending page still exists, i.e. if the deletion of the page has already been decided by consensus or the page clearly meets a criterion for speedy deletion and is tagged as such."
 * Under WP:G10, changed: "Pages that disparage or threaten their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose." to: "Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose." Added: "material intended purely to harass or intimidate a person".
 * Under WP:G11, changed: "Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion." to: "Note: An article about a company or a product which describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion."
 * Under WP:R3, changed: "This criterion also applies to redirects created as a result of a page move of pages created with an implausible title." to: "This criterion also applies to redirects created as a result of a page move of pages recently created at an implausible title."
 * Under WP:F10, added: ".png, .svg"


 * Deletion policy
 * In WP:DEL, added: [Disputes over page content are] "usually" [not dealt with by deleting the page,] "except in severe cases." ... "If the article's content severely fails the verifiability or neutral point of view  policies, but when the topic is notable, the article may be reduced to a stub  or completely deleted by consensus at WP:AfD. The Arbitration Committee has topic banned editors who have serially created articles failing the neutral point of view, and whose articles have been deleted at AfD on lack of neutrality grounds."
 * New subsection: WP:DEL
 * In WP:DEL, changed: "Stub pages about minor characters in works of fiction generally are merged into list articles." to: "Pages about non-notable fictional elements are generally merged into list articles or articles covering the work of fiction in which they appear."
 * New subsection: WP:DEL


 * Proposed deletion
 * In the introduction, added: "Proposed deletion is only applicable to mainspace articles, lists, and disambiguation pages; it cannot be used with redirects, userspace pages, templates, categories, or pages in any other namespace."
 * In WP:PROD, added: "and tags removed by banned users may be restored."
 * New section: WP:PROD
 * New section: WP:PROD


 * Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
 * In WP:BLPPROD, changed: [To place a BLPPROD tag, the process requires that the article] "contain no sources, whether reliable or not, and in any form ..." to: "contain no reliable sources in any form ..."


 * Attack page
 * In the introduction, changed: "An attack page is a Wikipedia article, page, template, category, redirect or image that was created primarily to disparage its subject ... warn the user who created them by using the series of user warning templates." to: "An attack page is a page, in any namespace, that exists primarily to disparage its subject ... warn the user who created it using the Attack user warning template."


 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Under WP:G6, removed: "temporarily deleting a page to merge page histories"
 * Under WP:R2, added: [Redirects,] "apart from shortcuts ..."
 * Under WP:F8, added: [please ensure the Commons page description has all of the following]: "The image is not marked as ."
 * Under WP:U1, added: "Note: The template may not display on certain pages (such as .css and .js pages), but its categorization should work."
 * In WP:CSD, added: [Before deleting a page, check the page history to assess whether it would instead be possible to revert and salvage a previous version,] "or there was actually a cut-and-paste move involved."  Changed: "For articles that should not be re-created, incoming links in other articles should be removed." to: "For pages that should not be re-created, incoming links in other pages (except in discussions, archives and tracking pages) should be removed."


 * Proposed deletion
 * In WP:PROD, added: " It will be undeleted automatically on request, though it may then be nominated at WP:Articles for deletion."


 * Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
 * In WP:BLPPROD, added: "To place a BLPPROD tag, the process requires that the article contain no sources, whether reliable or not, and in any form (references, external links, etc.), which support any statements made about the person in the biography. Please note that this is a different criterion than is used for sources added after the placement of the tag."


 * Deletion policy changes, July 2010 to December 2010
 * Deletion policy changes, January 2010 to June 2010
 * Deletion policy changes, July 2009 to December 2009
 * Deletion policy changes, December 2008 to June 2009