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This page is for the request of speedy page deletions within the Urban Dead wiki. Due to concerns about loss of data, the ability to delete pages is restricted to the system operators. As such, regular users will need to request a deletion from the sysops. For consistency and accountability, system operators also adhere to the guidelines listed here.
In a restricted set of circumstances, system operators may delete pages without full consultation of the wiki community. This is usually restricted to pages that do not seem to have any legitimate information or function within the wiki, or for pages that have been created by mistake and are requested to be deleted by the author. In these circumstances, a Speedy Deletion may take place, allowing system operators to quickly remove these pages from the wiki.
[edit] Guidelines for Speedy Deletion Requests
All Deletion Requests must contain the following information in order to be considered:
- A link to the page in question. Preferably bolded for visibility.
- A reason for deletion. This should be short and to the point.
- A signed datestamp. This can be easily done by adding
~~~~to the end of your request.
Further, you should place {{speedydelete}} at the top of the page you are nominating for speedy deletion.
Any deletion request that does not contain these three pieces of information will not be considered, and will be removed by a system operator.
Once the speedy deletion request has been entered, the request shall remain on this page, where it will be reviewed by a member of the moderation team, and action taken accordingly. Once action has been taken, the request will be moved into the Archive, and the system operator shall add a signed datestamp to the archived request.
A Speedy Deletion may be circumvented by a single vote of Keep under the request. If this occurs, the system operator shall move the Speedy Deletion request to the Deletion Request Queue, where the normal rules for Deletion of the page shall apply. Further, a user may choose to move a request from the Speedy Deletion queue to the Deletion Request Queue should they feel that the deletion may attract controversy within the wiki community, but do not wish to cast a Keep vote for the request. Should either of these circumstances occur, the deletion candidate should remain in the Deletion Request Queue until the alloted two weeks is up.
In the event of a sysop requesting Speedy Deletion, all the previous points will apply, excepting that a system operator other than the requester shall review and take action on the request.
[edit] Speedy Deletion Eligibility
To be eligible for a Speedy Deletion Request, the page must fall under at least one of the following criteria:
- No Content: The page contains no more than a line or two of content that cannot clearly be expanded, consists of random or incoherent content, or is duplicated elsewhere to no purpose. Pages created by Spambots typically fall under this category.
- Off-Topic: The page is a clearly off-topic page.
- Unused Redirect: The page is an unused or underused (ie, only 1-2 pages using the link) redirect.
- Empty Category: The page is a Category page that has no entries within it.
- Missed Talk Page: The page is a Talk: Page from a previous deletion request that has not been deleted with the request (please note the relevant deletion request if this is so)
- Deletion Workaround: The page is a duplicate of a page that has been deleted from a previous deletion request (please note the relevant deletion request if this is so). A page that fits this criterion is immediately qualified for deletion without requiring it be nominated on the 'Speedy Deletions' page. Recreating a page that fits this criterion will get you a polite message to stop doing so. Any further infractions of this nature will qualify as vandalism and will be treated as such. Note that criterion 6 does not apply when the page has been restored through Undeletions.
- Author Edit Only: The page has been requested for speedy deletion by the original author, and has been edited only by its author. Note that edits by adbots or vandals and reverts caused by them do not count.
- User Page: The page is a User subpage that has been requested for speedy deletion by the original author.
- Personal Page (Prefix Rule): The page is named after a user without the "User:" or "Journal:" prefixes and its content has been moved to the appropriate User or Journal page. Includes pages that should be User subpages, ie. in-game characters.
- Unused Template: The page is a template that has existed for at least one week and is currently unused within the wiki.
- Non-existent User Page: The page is a User: page for a user that doesn't exist, and any content on the page has been moved to the appropriate User: or Journal: page.
Defunct group page: The page is a non-historical group page, it is over two months old, it has not had an update in a month, and is not on the stats page. Such pages will remain in the queue for 5 days to determine their defunct status has been correctly identified. Due to the large number of pages that fit into this criterion, please {{speedydelete12}} on the pages to ensure that they are categorized differently from normal speedy deletion requests.- As of 2007, September 16, this is no longer a valid criterion.
- Missed sub-page: The page is a sub-page from a previous deletion request that has not been deleted with the request, and that serves no individual purpose (please note the relevant deletion request).
[edit] Speedy Deletion Queue
[edit] Category
Category:Wiki Resources
Crit 4. It had one item inside it, but that turned out to be an uncreated page. Thanks. --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 12:50, 12 October 2008 (BST)
- Ummm, Category:Wiki Resources has a number of pages and one sub category in it. Looks useful -- boxy talk • i 08:41 13 October 2008 (BST)
Balls. I cut and pasted the wrong one.--RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 09:16, 13 October 2008 (BST)
I meant
Category:Suggestion 10 February 2007
Crit 4.--RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 09:16, 13 October 2008 (BST)
- That's a strange one. I'll leave this to see if any of the other sysops have any luck working out why that non-page is included in the category -- boxy talk • teh rulz 17:11 13 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Served Speedy Deletions
[edit] Ye Olde Subpage
EMRPs to PRocess, Unused. Get its talk page too.
And /UT please... And /FB too...
I think..
(Criterion I) ■■ 03:57, 11 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] User:Revenant/GM/BiggerSpeechBox.user.js
Crit 8. Unusable without Mediawiki RawFile extension. —[Revenant] [Hey, you!] [Cades] 
08:03, 11 October 2008 (BST)
- See below.
[edit] Amusing Locations in Malton/Colloquialisms
Unneeded. Crit 7.--Nick? Club Head 18/10/08. Be there. 07:12, 11 October 2008 (BST)
Both of these requests seem to have been fulfilled already.--– Nubis 11:30, 12 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Crit 7
NaP I created the page, and as far as I can remember, am the only member of the group who ever edited it. (I think one other person might have corrected a typo, but I'm not sure). The group has been defunct for some time...not to mention it's a Monroeville group. It's not deserving of historic status by any stretch of the imagination (unlike, say, a group like the Monroeville Many)...so...can we reduce wiki clutter, and get rid of it, please? --Jen 04:00, 12 October 2008 (BST)
- Moved request from Deletions since it is a crit 7 and done.--– Nubis 11:27, 12 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Crit 1 / 7
Malton Mercenarys New Arkham Fight Club
- deleted. --– Nubis 13:16, 11 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Crit 7
Image:Kempsterbank_war_sm.PNG, the former logo of SFHNAS. Nothing uses it, only I've edited it. We've rebranded! Billy Forks 21:00, 8 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Various DHPD pages
DHPD/Confirmed_Brain_Rot_Roster
I'm posting these here hoping that Conndraka or some other DHPDer will verify that these are indeed unused since the remodel of their page. They were cleared by Marty Banks. I'm not going to rush to delete them. --– Nubis 14:12, 7 October 2008 (BST)
- I would assume that they are but don't we normally not delete anything under name spaces unless requested by author if the whole root isn't deleted? Conndrakamod TAZM CFT 05:13, 8 October 2008 (BST)
- I'll check in with the rest of the group - we've been reworking the wiki pages recently, and I'm not sure where we're up to. It'd be appreciated if you could hold off until I check back in Sanpedro 06:05, 8 October 2008 (BST)
- They were on the uncategorized pages list and had been blanked by Marty. I was thinking he just didn't bother to post them. If they are going to be used again can you just stick a DHPD category on them please? --– Nubis 02:53, 9 October 2008 (BST)
Kept for now, however if these pages don't have content on them within a week or so, and they reappear here, they can indeed be speedydeleted under crit 1 (regardless of being group sub pages). I'm leaving the SD template on them, so they will be found shortly, and they have categories on them. The brain rot roster, at least, has been moved to another location -- boxy talk • i 10:59 9 October 2008 (BST)
- We're still in process of remodeling/archiving... please don't clear anything with content yet; once I'm finished I'll put everything cleaned on the list... I want to make sure we don't miss anything from the old department for our historical archive. Thanks for the quick action though Nubis, I just need more time to get everything set... college and work has taken up my free time.
PS: DHPD/Template:Header, and DHPD/Confirmed_Brain_Rot_Roster have been archived completely and can be removed though... --Marty Banks (aka. Mundane) <DHPD> 20:08, 11 October 2008 (BST)
- We're still in process of remodeling/archiving... please don't clear anything with content yet; once I'm finished I'll put everything cleaned on the list... I want to make sure we don't miss anything from the old department for our historical archive. Thanks for the quick action though Nubis, I just need more time to get everything set... college and work has taken up my free time.
[edit] Crit 1
Looks like even the almighty Dr.Sinclair's struggling with the credit crunch. :P
- Sinclair Hotels/Sinclair Pharmaceutical <-- Wiped
- Sinclair Hotels/The Sinclair Family <-- Wiped also -- Cheese WTF!RandomSysOp? 22:35, 7 October 2008 (BST)
- Now people will have to buy their drugs on the street or the internet like in real life.--– Nubis 02:55, 9 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Crit 7
Created accidentally during active vandalism. -- St. Iscariot GC PK WTE 23:22, 7 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Church of Reathxia/Sandbox
Crits 13 and 7. The original article was deleted due to it being a parody group but this got missed.--SirArgo Talk | Won't you be my neighbor? 04:26, 7 October 2008 (BST)
- The page that it is a sub-page of hasn't been deleted, so it's not a crit 13, but as you are the only author, deleted under crit 7 -- boxy talk • i 10:28 7 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Suggestion:20081007 Suggestion Dupe Change
Crit 2. This is totally worthless and was created just to vandalize. The user who made this page just got banned for vandalism anyway.--SirArgo Talk | Won't you be my neighbor? 04:30, 7 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Suggestion:20080919 Lighter, the item and him uses
1,7. -- AHLGTH 19:45, 5 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Template:Lighter,_the_item_and_him_uses
Crit 1 from reading it, crit 2 because it's not a template and therefore off topic and crit 10 because it's in the template namespace and isn't used. -- St. Iscariot GC PK WTE 19:35, 5 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] crit 1's
- Malton Backup Squad - previously put up for speedydelete, but not deleted due to worries about the validity of the page wipe... too late now that the history is gone.
- Ferrum Leo - duplicated at User:Ferrum Leo, moved manually by author.
- Talk:Brain Rot\archive - would have been nominated, but happened while A/SD was unavailable.
- Neice - unused redirect resulting from page move to User:Ryannx25/Neice
-- boxy talk • i 14:13 5 October 2008 (BST)
- Nobody reverted the MBS page, so I think it is safe to assume it's ok. -- AHLGTH 19:45, 5 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Crit 7, again
Editing Template:ExtremeRepair/Gallery - Blank, and won't be used anyway. --WanYao 13:01, 2 October 2008 (BST)
- Ummm, it's a red link, so no page there to delete -- boxy talk • i 13:12 2 October 2008 (BST)
- But it exists, it was created... it's just blank... There, it's no longer blank. :P --WanYao 09:09, 4 October 2008 (BST)
- You just created that page, simply to put {{speedydelete}} on it (check the page history) :-/ -- boxy talk • i 14:51 4 October 2008 (BST)
- But it exists, it was created... it's just blank... There, it's no longer blank. :P --WanYao 09:09, 4 October 2008 (BST)
Deleted Conndrakamod TAZM CFT 17:27, 4 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Crit 7
Ta.--Nick? Club Head 18/10/08. Be there. 10:51, 2 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Crit 7
It's been replaced and is no longer in use. --WanYao 11:49, 2 October 2008 (BST)
[edit] Archives
Please place speedy deletion requests more than one week in old in the archive and delete them from this page.
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