User:Adam mugliston/Adopt/CSD
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Advanced Speedy Deletion[edit]
If you have this lesson, that means that you have asked to have it. I decided not to include this in the general lesson about deletion, as there is a lot of criteria and you probably won't come across very many types, however if you want to work in speedy deletions then this is here for you to use.
Here, I have basically simplified what is at WP:CSD to the minimum, but enough so you can still get the whole picture. Keep this handy for the future, you are bound to come across the more common ones sooner or later and hopefully this guide could help you.
| CSD | Name | Reason for use | Templates |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | |||
| G1 | Nonsense | Gibberish or other sort of un-readable text. NOT a different language. If you can understand it, it's not G1. | {{db-g1}}, {{db-nonsense}} |
| G2 | Test pages | All test pages, except: Sandbox itself, userspace, unused/duplicate templates. | {{db-g2}}, {{db-test}} |
| G3 | Vandalism | Misinformation (including images), hoaxes, redirects created only by page-move vandalism | {{db-g3}}, {{db-hoax}} |
| G4 | Recreation | An almost identical/unimproved copy of a recently deleted article, unless the reason no longer applies or it's in userspace. | {{db-g4}}, {{db-repost}} |
| G5 | Ban violation | Pages created by a banned user under a different name, unless they have substantial content by other users. | {{db-g5}}, {{db-banned}} |
| G6 | Technical | Unnecessary disambiguations, categories, pages created in error/wrong namespace, other uncontroversial maintenance | See: WP:CSD#G6 |
| G7 | Request | Deletion request by author, providing no other user added substantial content or blanked by sole author. Not talk pages. | {{db-g7}}, {{db-self}}, {{db-author}} |
| G8 | Dependant | E.g.: Talk page without corresponding page, subpage with no parent page, redirects to invalid targets. Can be exempt. | {{db-g8}}, see: CSD G8 |
| G9 | Office | Any page can be temporarily deleted under G9 by the Foundation and the Foundation only. Do not revert those. | None |
| G10 | Threatening | Any page that has been created to threaten/harass/intimade someone. Only if no neutral version to revert to. | {{db-g10}}, see: CSD G10 |
| G11 | Advertising | Pages that were created only to advertise and need complete re-writing to be encyclopaedic. NOT if written with a NPOV | {{db-g11}}, {{db-promo}} |
| G12 | Copy vio | Pages that have only content, that is not under a fair use or compatible license. NOT if some content is not copyrighted. | {{db-g12|url=source URL}} |
| Article | |||
| A1 | No context | Articles without context to identify the subject of the article. Only applies to short articles. Content not involved in A1. | {{db-a1}}, {{db-nocontent}} |
| A2 | Foreign | A copy of text on a different Wikipedia. If the article doesn't exist on the correct Wikipedia, use {{Not English}} | {{db-a2}}, {{db-foreign}} |
| A3 | No content | An article consisting only of links, tags and see also sections. Also, if content is only text from the Article wizard. | {{db-a3}}, {{db-nocontent}} |
| A5 | Transwikied | An article consisting only of something that is already on another Wiki (e.g. a dictionary definition on Wiktionary) | {{db-a5}}, {{db-transwiki}} |
| A7 | Unimportant | Article with content with no indication of importance. This is a very difficult criteria, see: CSD A7 | {{db-a7}}, see: CSD A7 |
| A9 | (A7) Music | Article about a musical recording with no indication of importance and when the artist does not have a page. | {{db-a9}}, {{db-album}} |
| A10 | Duplicate | An article that duplicates an existing article on the English Wikipedia with no improvement or expansion. | {{db-a10|article=article title}} |
| Redirects | |||
| R2 | Redirects | Redirects from main article space to other name spaces excluding: Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: | {{db-r2}}, {{db-rediruser}} |
| R3 | Typos | Redirects created from implausible typos or misnomers. Not for redirects with ending (disambiguation) or to converted stubs | {{db-r3}}, {{db-redirtypo}} |
| Files | |||
| F1 | Redundant | Unused duplicates/lower-quality versions of existing files in the same file format. NOT if one of the duplicates is on Commons. | {{db-f1|file name}} |
| F2 | Empty | Corrupt or empty files or ones that contain non-metadata info. Includes image description pages for Commons images. | {{db-f2}}, {{db-nofile}} |
| F3 | Bad license | Media license as: 'for non-commercial use only', 'for Wikipedia use only', 'no derivative use' or 'used with permission'. | {{db-f3}}, {{db-noncom}} |
| F4 | No license | Media files that do not have any license information after 7 days from upload. Note: license info may be in summary. | {{db-f4}}, {{db-unksource}} |
| F5 | Orphaned | Images not under a free license, that have not been used in an article for 7 days or their only use was in a deleted article. | {{db-f5}}, {{db-unfree}} |
| F6 | No rationale | Non-free files under fair use, that have no use rationale for over 7 days. A disputed rationale, does not qualify file for F6. | {{db-f6}}, {{db-norat}} |
| F7 | Bad fair-use | Non-free files with invalid fair-use tag, from commercial source or if identify as being replaceable by free image. | {{db-f7}}, {{db-badfairuse}} |
| F8 | In Commons | There are very many conditions to be met for a file to qualify as F8, see: CSD F8. | {{db-f8}}, {{Now Commons}} |
| F9 | Copy vio | Obviously non-free images, not under fair use. A URL of origin must be mentioned. Not if under compatible free license. | {{db-f9|source URL}} |
| F10 | Useless | Files uploaded that are not an image, sound or video and are not used in any article and are unlikely to be. | {{db-f10}}, {{db-badfiletype}} |
| F11 | No permit | Files where the uploader gave a license and a third party as the source, but gave no evidence of permission from the source. | db-f11}, {{db-nopermission}} |
| Categories | |||
| C1 | Unpopulated | Categories unpopulated for at least 4 days. Except disambiguations, redirects, CfDs and project categories. | {{db-c1}} |
| C2 | Renamed | There are several criteria that would qualify a category for C2, so see: CSD C2 | {{subst:Cfr-speedy|newname}} |
| User pages | |||
| U1 | Request | User pages or subpages, request by the user in their own userspace. NOT for user talk pages. | {{db-u1}}, {{db-userreq}} |
| U2 | No user | User pages of users that do not exist. To check, see: Special:Listusers. Not for pages of anonymous users. | {{db-u2}}, {{db-nouser}} |
| U3 | Galleries | Userspace galleries consisting only of non-free or fair use images. Non-free images cannot be used in userspace. | {{db-u3}}, {{db-gallery}} |
| Templates | |||
| T2 | Bad policy | Templates that are unambiguous misinterpretations of policy. Includes all kinds of templates. | {{db-t2}}, {{db-policy}} |
| T3 | Duplicate | Templates that are not used or serve the same purpose as another template. Must be tagged for at least 7 days. | {{db-t3|~~~~~| OtherTemplate}} |
| Portals | |||
| P1 | As article | If the portal was an article and if that article would be subject to speedy deletion, the portal should be deleted as P1. | {{db-p1}} |
| P2 | Underpop. | A portal that only has a stub header and less than 3 non-stub article appropriate for the portal. | {{db-p2}}, {{db-emptyportal}} |
Questions[edit]
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