User:K50 Dude/Essay on Speedy Deletion

K50 Dude's Essay on Speedy Deletion!

Speedy Deletion is something I have been a part of since the beggining. In the beggining though, I was at the wrong side of Kirby VanBurch, and got that nominated for Speedy Deletion. Hopefully I can make it again...

This is also my own personal reference. Please don't delete or edit this, because I would like to use it when I do my own Speedy Deletion work.

After that though, I tried doing my own work. Four months later (writing this essay), I learned some valuable things.

• The Criteria is tough to learn.
• The process, on the deleters end or the writers end, is difficult.
• Everyone makes mistakes.
• You either really enjoy working the topic, or you hate it.

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Criteria for Speedy Deletion (OFFICIAL CRITERIA is here)

After I started learning the ropes, I learned something...The Criteria is very confusing. You may of also been directed here because your article is under Speedy Deletion, and on my messages (warnings) I write my own links, so ya... I re-wrote the main criteria here. Tell me what you think on my talk page (use the NavBar up top to get there fast).

General

G1...Patent Nonsense

If you are a newcomer, do NOT use this template! The reason is because this one is always used wrong accedentially. Many people take it as nonsense, or it just wont fit under other criteria. This is a very specific criteria, as PATENT nonsense, which pretty much means "random gibberish" or "unidentifiable" or "spam" (use {{db-spam}} for that though). This is not blatant nonsense!

G2...Test Pages

Self-Explanitory. If they are testing out random things, go to the Sandbox, or use Sandbox|your own if you have one. These are pretty identifiable. Don't create a page just to try some experiments out on. That just doesn't work with Wikipedians.

G3...Pure Vandalism

Again, Self-Explanitory. This is also tooken the wrong way, like Patent Nonsense, but not as often. If you are just typing random stuff, use this, G1, or G2.

G4...Recreation of previously deleted stuff

This is tricky to spot, but once it is found, it is hard to put the {{hangon}} on it. If any material was created, deleted by a Discussion eariler back, this meets G4. If it is not nearly identical, it does NOT meet it, but it still has to be completly re-written in totally different words to not meet it. Make sure you check to fully make sure it is different from the previous!

G5...Ban Violation

If you are banned, you cannot make or edit articles. That is what a ban is. If a banned user made the page, it meets the Criteria for Speedy Deletion under G5.

If you have a sockpuppet, beware! You should beware anyway though, because this sounds like it could send it to work, doesn't it?

G6...Technical

Non-controversal "housekeeping" is always helpful to the wiki, like merging page histories. According to the Official Criteria...

If no special tag like {{db-move}} can be used and the reason for deletion is not self-evident, a reason for deletion should be supplied, for example on the talk page or in the edit summary.

G7...Requested by the author

A main contributor to the page may request the page to be deleted under good faith. If you are requesting Speedy Deletion to a page in your own userspace (just don't do it to your main page!), use {{db-u1}} instead. This should be requested very early, because if anybody else edits the page, it is page ownership, and will not be deleted. The main reasons to do this is because there is probably another page out there with better information.

ADMINS: This likely isn't new news, but make sure you check the page history before you delete the page. If there isn't another author, delete it. If there is, remove the CSD tag.

G8...Pages dependent on a non-existent page

If I made a subpage that says User:K60 Dude/How amazing I am or something like that, but there is no actual K60 Dude (which is true to my understanding), that meets Speedy Deletion. This goes the same way with talk pages. If I made User talk:K60 Dude but K60 Dude still doesn't exist, that also meets this criteria.

PLEASE do not accuse me of being a sock-puppeter if a K60 Dude account is created. If there is an account named K60 Dude in time, let me know and i'll change the example name.

G10...Attack Pages

If a page is used as an attack page to another editor, person, or anyone in-between, you will be accused harshly, but also your page will be deleted. I once saw an attack page that said "do not delete this page. The other person knows we are doing this" or something like that. You would be a total idiot-stick if you said something like that because you just told the whole wiki! Also, the name of the article (not telling, so I don't accuse the author any longer) was a give-away. Do not attack people. What would you do if I started ranting at you for no good reason? Think long and hard...

G11...Blatant Advertising

Nice company or product you have, but you can go to a web host to do the same thing. I know it costs money, but don't use the wiki to make your business seem "cooler" or whatever by advertising. Write an article about it (beware of {{db-club}}!) instead. No advertising ANYTHING! These are still very able to be AFD'd too. This is also spam.

G12...Plagarism

Also known as copyright infrigement, you cannot just take something from another website and put it's information on your own article. Not only can this get you in big trouble outside of Wikipedia, but people like sources. For images and media, it is Template:db-I9 for Blatant Copyright infrigement.

Article-Specific Criteria

A1...No Context

This is often mistooken for A3 or G1. It really just lacks context to identify what it is trying to tell. If the article nominated has any of the following:

• One or more citations or external links that give information relating to the article
• Categorized and not orphaned; mentioned in those pages and in several other pages to the article (see "What links here")
• Is not a stub

...the article does NOT meet WP:CSD! If it is unclear what it is trying to tell, put {{unclear}} on it.

A2...Not in English (or the language of the proper Wikipedia in which it is written)

The template says it all. "A foreign-language article that exists on another Wikimedia project..." is all you need to know. ¿No Habla Ingles? How sad...try another language!

A3...No Content

If it only has a external link section, it doesn't have "real" content. No content means no point, no point means no go.

A5...Trans-Wiki

Again, the template on the article says it all, although it may be confusing. If there is already an identical page on another Wikiproject (Wikitionary, Wikisource, Wikispecies, etc.) that has already been added to that page, which is it's real "home."

A7...No significance

This is probably the most common one. First of all, if you made a page about yourself, but you haven't done anything significant that the world would care about, that matches A7 (see below). Secondly, if there is an organization (band, church, etc.) that doesn't do anything significant, even to it's relative area, meets A7 as well. Schools, Albums (that have been announced, named, etc.), and books, (that have been announced, named, etc.) do not meet this criterion, but could STILL MEET A9 OR A1.

Another rule of thumb for this: If the article has had an WP:AFD before, it should have an WP:AFD the second time if it still meets the criteria. If it is the same thing STILL, after the AfD, it meets G4.

FOR BOOKS: Books do not meet Speedy Deletion, however can still fail a criteria. WP:NB can be used as a reason for WP:DELETION, although not Speedy Deletion.

FOR ALBUMS: If the album is super-famous, and it has been proven in the article, it doesn't meet the criteria, period. If it isn't that well known, and the songwriter isn't either, or if the songwriter or performer doesn't have their own article (meaning the songwriter isn't well known), it does meet the criteria. See WP:NOTE (albums)

FOR UNSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE:

CREATORS: If you are making a page about yourself, please do so at your own userspace, if you have one. If you don't, make one (you'd be smart!). If you already have a userpage but still want an article about yourself, make a subpage. See User:K50 Dude/What I do on Wikipedia, my personal biography.

DELETORS: Move the page to the person's userspace. For an example, if I made a page called K50 Dude, move it to User:K50 Dude instead, if THAT USER DID SO. If it was an IP adress and you are not sure, I'm personally not either =/. Make sure it is obvious!

Also, make sure that if the person is in a group, the person is mentioned in the group, but is not significant alone, to merge the information into a section in the group's page.

REMEMBER! The only things that fit this criterion are people, groups/companies, and web content. Thats it! Music singles fit A9, but some things still don't fit either; significant or not. This is used the most and the most wrong. If you have questions about it, ask some who knows (like K50 Dude) or an WP:SYSOP.

A9...No significance (specifically music)

This is another common one, and the exact same criteria as A7, just a different subject. This is specifically a musical recording. If the artist's article has been deleted, or not created, it meets A9, as no importance. If there is an article about the artist (that doesn't meet {{db-bio}} or A7, it may not meet A9...so have the Template:HANGON ready!