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You must sign in to nominate pages for deletion. If you do not sign-in, or you edit anonymously, you will get stuck part way through the nomination procedure.
- To nominate multiple related pages for deletion, follow the multi-page deletion nomination procedure.
- To nominate a single page for deletion, you can use Twinkle, or follow these three steps:
I – Put the deletion tag on the article.
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II – Create the article's deletion discussion page.
The resulting AfD box at the top of the article should contain a link to "Preloaded debate" in the AfD page. Click that link to open the article's deletion discussion page for editing. Some text and instructions will appear. You can do it manually as well:
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III – Notify users who monitor AfD discussions.
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These are the most common criteria you will use. See the pages on criteria for speedy deletion for the full list.
Code | Description | Explanation |
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G1 | Patent Nonsense | Gibberish. Ex: "23983292dkkjkd lollll!!!" Nonsense is NOT bad spelling or punctuation. |
G2 | Test Pages | Pages conducted as experiment. Ex: "Can I make a page?" Note that a page that is an outline is NOT a test. |
G3 | Pure Vandalism | Pages that are nothing but vandalism. Ex: a copy of penis, with stupid jokes. But check the history FIRST to make sure the page wasn't vandalized and actually has good content. If it does, simply revert the vandalism. |
G4 | Already Deleted Material | The recreation of stuff that was deleted using an AfD process. |
G5 | Banned User | Any page created by a banned user should be deleted. Make sure you check the block log to ensure the person really is indefinitely banned, and the user was banned when creating the page. |
G10 | Attack Pages | Page created for no other reason than to attack someone. Ex: "Bob is a cow!" Be very careful with this code, as it is sometimes misused. |
G11 | Blatant Advertising | Spam. Ex: "Buy WhiteRite today, for cleany shiny teeth!" The advertising must be BLATANT -- a link to a website is not advertising ... unless it's the entire article (in which case you can just use A3). |
G12 | Copyright Infringement | For clearcut cases of copyright infringment. Ex: exact copy of a copyrighted website, down to spelling errors. |
A1 | No context | Ridiculously short articles with no context. Ex: "Bob is a famous doctor." Try to get an idea of notability before applying this tag. |
A3 | No content | Articles which don't contain any content at all, but just the title, maintenance tags, external links, etc. |
A7 | Non-notability | Unremarkable people, companies, groups, companies, and websites. Ex: "Weebritz is a web forum with 10 members" Like above, try to see if you can find notability before applying the deletion tag. |