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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] Crit 1

EMRP:

Accidentally created page while testing a bot. Thing wasn't even supposed to be able to save. Sorry 'bout that. -- ^The Rooster 21:27, 4 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Image:Firetwig.jpg

Crit 1 of Image:Twiggy.JPG, which is actually being used.--Karek^maps?! 08:46, 3 July 2008 (BST)

But the lettering is different. Is it close enough?-- AHLG T H 15:52, 3 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Crit One

Huntley Heights Motels - information has been moved to respective pages, no links
Buttonville Streets - information has been moved to respective pages, no links
- Buttonville streets - associated redirect
Dakerstown Zone - page not needed, no links
Dunningwood Warehouses - information has been moved to respective pages, no links
Rhodenbank Parks - information has been moved to respective pages, one user page link
Sparkes Tower - duplicate of this
Yagoton/Survivor News page not needed, news goes here

--Scotw 15:59, 4 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Served Speedy Deletions

[edit] Crit 7 and 10

Template:ZergEntryCoord and Template:ZergEntryNonCoord. --Viktor Suvorov^{(talk)(404)(E!)} 21:34, 3 July 2008 (BST)

Done.--Karek^maps?! 11:12, 4 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Defunct SIM Components

All these components are now unneeded given the changes to the way the SIM works.

Delete everything within this category and then the category itself: Category:SIM images
(Includes 81 images and one template)

Unused templates:

Template:SIMimage - (Also listed in the above category)
Scenteral Intelligence Map/head foot
Scenteral Intelligence Map/side
Scenteral Intelligence Map/core map
Scenteral Intelligence Map/core map/diagnostic
Scenteral Intelligence Map/locations tooltips

This image can go:

Image:Transparent Scent Grid.gif

-- ^The Rooster 17:07, 2 July 2008 (BST)

They don't seem to fit into any of the Speedydelete categories, individually, but if Swiers vouches that they are all unneeded (given that he seems to be the other major contributor to the project) I'll delete them under crit 1, as the system as a whole has been duplicated elsewhere. I haven't been involved in the project, so don't want to go deleting something that is needed -- boxy ^{talk • i} 02:33 3 July 2008 (BST)

All of the pages listed above are now rendered irrelevant and I don't have any use for them, so if crit 7 applies, they can go. Oddly enough, crit 7 seems to work against collaborative authorship here; technically even if Rooster (or his bot!) was the only other person to edit them, crit 7 is a no go. Either we need to bend the rules a bit to get them all cleared out, or they should go to deletion voting ASAP. Or, yeah, we could edit them to just say "spam" and apply crit 1. ^‌_‌^‌ ☢ 05:06, 3 July 2008 (BST)

It might be prudent to bring them to deletions, so as not to set a bad precedent. --Pdeq^Talk* 05:45, 3 July 2008 (BST)

There were a few articles I could clearly crit 1. All of the 81 images in Category:SIM images are also subject to crit 1, I'll be going through them but could use help. Once those are done, the category itself is subject to crit 7, as is Scenteral Intelligence Map/core map. Which leaves only articles 1,2 & 3 above, all of which I'm the original author of and Rooster is the only other editor of. If processing a crit 1 speedy on those (which now exist only as unused elements of another page) sets a precedent, I'd say its a good and useful one, not a bad one! ^‌_‌^‌ ☢ 06:57, 3 July 2008 (BST)

No, my only concern was stretching crit 7 a bit far. But it fits nicely under crit 1 (duplicated elsewhere to no purpose - there's a more modern version of sim pages), so I'm fine with that. --Pdeq^Talk* 16:04, 3 July 2008 (BST)

Done, all of it.--Karek^maps?! 08:07, 3 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Dingus 22

Dingus 22 user page in the main namespace, duplicated at User:Dingus 22 -- boxy ^{talk • i} 03:48 3 July 2008 (BST)

I see, not moved. Deleted. -- AHLG T H 04:29, 3 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] User:Garum/Omnimap

crit 7 & 8: stuff left over from making the omnimap. Everything useful is now in mainspace. Garum 16:50, 2 July 2008 (BST)

Gone -- boxy ^{talk • i} 02:36 3 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Complexity

Crit 2. Maybe it was being used as a sandbox. It doesn't seem to have a purpose. --Pdeq^Talk* 05:24, 2 July 2008 (BST)

Done.--Karek^maps?! 08:28, 2 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Crit 4s

All unused with no reason for being kept around.--Karek^maps?! 10:57, 1 July 2008 (BST)

Terminated. --Zs H 22:16, 1 July 2008 (BST)

[edit] Sekta

Crit 9 - no content that is not already on User:Sekta. --Pdeq^Talk* 05:55, 30 June 2008 (BST)

Gone. --Zs H 20:06, 30 June 2008 (BST)

[edit] Crit 1

Josaphat General Hospital Lockettside

Not a proper redirect, style guides do not request a redirect of this style. -- ^The Rooster 21:22, 28 June 2008 (BST)

Gone. --Zs H 20:06, 30 June 2008 (BST)

[edit] Crit 10

SIMexpired

No longer used since the SIM system was changed. -- ^The Rooster 20:26, 28 June 2008 (BST)

Gone. --Zs H 20:06, 30 June 2008 (BST)

[edit] Operation Clean sweep

No content--J3D ^SR ^! 03:18, 28 June 2008 (BST)

Done.--Karek^maps?! 06:36, 28 June 2008 (BST)

[edit] Anything special happening today?

Crit 2. --Pdeq^Talk* 23:13, 27 June 2008 (BST)

Done--Karek^maps?! 06:36, 28 June 2008 (BST)

[edit] Template:DeletionPageNotice

Crit 10. --Pdeq^Talk* 22:38, 27 June 2008 (BST)

Done--Karek^maps?! 06:36, 28 June 2008 (BST)

[edit] Unqueued S/D Candidates

The above two pages are tagged for Speedy Deletion in Category:Speedy Deletion Candidates but are not in the S/D queue. I do not know the criterion or reasons for their deletion. The pages should be deleted if they do match a S/D criterion or the tag should be removed. -- ^The Rooster 19:03, 27 June 2008 (BST)

The first one was on speedy deletions here, and was not deleted, so I'm removing the tag. The second one is on deletions, but it is protected so I am unable to update the tag. --Pdeq^Talk* 20:15, 27 June 2008 (BST)

It appears that Karek took care of it, which takes care of this request. --

^The Rooster 21:50, 27 June 2008 (BST)

[edit] Crit 1

User:NT Status

Duplicate of User:NTstatus which is the userspace which contains all the data, the other one is unused. -- ^The Rooster 21:02, 27 June 2008 (BST)