Wikipedia:Speedy deletions
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For more information, please read our deletion policy
Using this page
For articles that need deletion, add {{msg:delete}} to the top of the page. Usually, you should not wipe out the contents as it helps to check the contents to be deleted without having to look at the page history. This expands to:
This page is a candidate for speedy deletion.
If you disagree that the page should be deleted, please explain this on the talk page, or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions.
You can also add it to the list at the bottom of this page, but you don't have to.
Note that if you just replace the content with {{msg:delete}} the prior content will not be automatically added to the deletion log summary when the page is deleted.
See below for instructions regarding the deletion of personal subpages.
For articles that are not candidates for speedy deletion, please use wikipedia:votes for deletion. Please do not list pages that are already listed there.
Advice for administrators
- Use What links here for Mediawiki:Delete
- Check talk pages, page history, etc -- if there is a dispute over whether the page should be deleted, consider first listing it on wikipedia:votes for deletion
- Review our admin deletion guidelines
Deletion of personal pages
Unless you are a sysop, it is not possible to delete your own user pages and subpages, so they must be listed here. If you are a sysop, it is recommended that you also list your pages here so they can be deleted by another sysop. For your main user or talk pages, you must list them here, not delete them yourself, to avoid the appearance that sysops can delete to hide negative comments, while others can't.
Only post pages from your own personal page, and only if you have a genuine reason for requesting a personal page of yours be deleted, please list it here.
Please see Wikipedia:User page for further instructions, and Wikipedia talk:Personal subpages to be deleted for past discussion on this issue.
New notices
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Obvious tests/vandalism
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- Johan Tobin - here's another one, and I don't know what language it's in. Gentgeen 07:41, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Not a speedy delete, but is for Wikipedia:Pages needing translation. Dysprosia 07:42, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Joe Calzaghe --ALargeElk 10:13, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Theory of cognitive dissonance - Content is "For the time being - go and look somewhere else for Festinger. " -- chris_73 10:23, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Abraham Paulton: Content is "Abraham Paulton was a great man. He was responsible for the input of the phantom megadrive when under suspicion of murder in 1864. This led to the assassination of his brother and compatriot, James Murphy.'"" -- there is an Abraham Paulton mentioned in John Bright, but there is no google hit on "phantom megadrive" or "James Murphy" AND "Abraham Paulton". Seems to be nonsense -- chris_73 10:28, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)