Help:Deletion and undeletion/es

Los usuarios normales y los administradores no pueden eliminar permanentemente una página wiki, pero los administradores pueden borrar una página de tal forma que puede ser restaurada. Este funcionamiento es intencionado, y es una parte importante de por qué funcionan los wikis. Cualquier operación de edición puede ser revertida por otro usuario, y esto incluye la restauración de contenido borrado. No produce un desperdicio significativo de espacio; y, como no es más que una etiqueta «borrado», la página queda efectivamente borrada en la práctica.

Por otra parte, borrar una página es una operación sencilla para cualquiera que tenga permisos de administrador: permite eliminar de forma semipermanente una página del wiki hasta que un administrador la vuelve a restaurar con la misma facilidad. Lo habitual es que los administradores busquen etiquetas de borrado y hagan un borrado apropiado de estas páginas pasado un periodo de tiempo. Si por alguna razón necesitas que una página sea borrada con más rapidez, tendrás que contactar con un administrador para pedírselo.

La eliminación de revisiones ofrece una forma más granular de borrar ediciones con problemas particulares.

Before deleting
Sysops should also be aware of the general advice given on When not to delete a page: in particular, there are many situations where a deletion is too drastic. For example, a redirect is often more appropriate.

Before deleting you could perform various checks:


 * Use the "What links here" tool. This gives an indication as to how important a page is, and what subjects it relates to. Perhaps the page is still linked to prominently from many places. All incoming links will become red links if you proceed with the delete. Ideally all incoming links should be changed/removed, if there is genuinely no need for this page to exist. You could do this work prior to deleting, or ask others in the wiki community to do it.
 * Check the page history and the associated talk page. Who was proposing the deletion? Does anyone disagree? ¿Se ha discutido apropiadamente? Did people have adequate time to raise objections? Did somebody vandalize a page, which then led to a deletion proposal?

The care taken over these things might depend on the size of the wiki community, and how clear-cut the case for deletion is. Remember that only sysop users can undo a delete action, so to a normal user the information appears to be lost forever.

Use the 'delete' action
Sysops should see a 'delete' tab or action menu option at the top of every page. To find the action menu, look for a down arrow or triangle next to the "View History" tab. If you mouse over the triangle you should see "delete", "move", "protect" and "watch". Click the delete action to delete the page. When using browsers which support keyboard shortcuts, you can also use (Control-Alt-D). You will be asked to confirm, and to supply a "Reason for deletion". This is a short textual description of why the page is being deleted. Your action will appear on the recent changes display, and in the deletion log (Special:Log).

Remember only the administrator can delete uploaded photograph files.

Undeleting
To undelete a page you must navigate to the exact page name of the page. You can find this in the deletion log (Special:Log) if you don't remember it.

You should then see a link to "". Tick the box next to the revision you wish to restore.

Configuring deletion reasons
The list of reasons in the dropdown box is maintained at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown.

When not to delete a page
Typically you would delete a page if the contents are entirely inappropriate and do not match the purposes of the Wiki. In other situations, you would take a less extreme course of action, for example:


 * The page should have a different title. Véase.
 * The contents should have been placed on a different page -- Add the contents to the other page, and then supply a redirect. Véase.
 * The contents are already on a different page -- Delete the duplicate content and leave a redirect. That way, the page title, which made sense to somebody, will helpfully redirect to the information. Véase.
 * The page is out-of-date -- Re-word sentences to be in the past tense, to make the page a historical record. Alternatively, label the information as out-of-date, with a warning notice.
 * m:Don't delete redirects.

An actual delete is generally necessary only if the title of the page is inappropriate. In other situations, a merge and redirect is more appropriate.

Proposing changes
Deciding on appropriate content/page titles can be a difficult aspect of Wiki organization, and one which can often provoke debates. If the merge or deletion you have in mind is one which might cause upset, you should propose the change first. Do this by leaving a note to give your reasons on the talk page. You might also establish a system for labeling the page with a delete/merge proposal template, to make everybody aware of your intentions.

Unlinking a page
The 'What links here' toolbox feature (bottom of left sidebar) will tell you which other Wiki pages link to the current page. Always use this feature to check before proceeding with deleting. These related pages will need to be edited for their links to reflect the change.

Véase también

 * Manual:Administrators#Deletion
 * Help:RevisionDelete - optional feature that must be enabled, see.