UDWiki:Administration/Speedy Deletions
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.
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.
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.
- 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)
- As of 19 May 2010, Crit 5 is now a scheduled deletion.
- 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.
- As of 2011, August 29, Crit 9 is now a scheduled deletion.
- 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.
- As of 20 June 2009, Crit 11 is now a scheduled deletion.
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).
A page may also fall under a scheduled deletion and should be posted here if it is missed by the sysops.
Speedy Deletion Queue
Template:FAK00
Author edit/unused templates. Might as well make it rain: Template:FAK01 Template:FAK02 Template:FAK03 Template:FAK04 Template:FAK05 Template:FAK06 Template:FAK07 Template:FAK08 Template:FAK09 Template:FAK10 Template:FAK11 Template:FAK12 Template:FAK13 Template:FAK14 Template:FAK15 Template:FAK16 Template:FAK17 Template:FAK18 Template:FAK19 Template:FAK20 Template:FAK97 Template:FAK98 Template:FAK99 -MHSstaff 05:12, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Served Speedy Deletions
User:Labla/PT Melville and File:Pt-melville.jpg
Cleaning up my space: zombies don't need backstory. --Labla 23:07, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Ze Purists
Talk page created with no accompanying mainspace page. I think this is crit 1, but if not, feel free to move over to regular Deletions. Bob Moncrief EBD•W! 16:04, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Valerie
Prefix rule and non existent user. Page belongs in userspace. ~
07:01, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
- Moved it to the user's space since it's a character page, from what I can tell. —Aichon— 16:42, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Suggestion 20130211 Barricade the Streets
Crit 1 & 7: Blanked by creator due to namespace typo; actual page at Suggestion:20130211 Barricade The Streets. Bob Moncrief EBD•W! 00:52, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Csiri1
Breaks the prefix rule. (I think this should be in Speedy Deletions but that page seems to be semi-protected or something, as I personally can't edit it.) ^Quinnr^ 00:21, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
- Yep, its a crit 9. will check out speedy deletions for protections issues. --Rosslessness 00:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
User talk:Sexualharrison/War On TZH
trying to keep all talk on my main user space. kill it!--User:Sexualharrison19:43, 8 February 2013
User:Schiz0 and Schiz0
Non-existent user page, prefix rule and userpage redirects. All scheduled criterion. ~ 19:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
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