Project:Deletion

This page describes how pages are deleted on MediaWiki.org. While some cases are clear-cut, there are a lot of grey areas. When in doubt, sysops are encouraged to solicit input from the community before making a deletion decision.

What to immediately delete

 * You may nominate your own user page, user talk page or any sub-pages of these for speedy deletion at any time.
 * User pages that contain only vandalism.
 * User pages that are just advertising (grey area here - some advertising may be relevant. If in doubt use a normal tag)
 * User pages or user talk pages for non-logged-in users (e.g. User:127.0.0.1)
 * However, if the page contains comments directed at the anonymous user you should leave it for at least a few days before deleting it.

What not to delete

 * Blanked pages (may have been created to stop red links in user name)

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What to immediately delete

 * Spam, vandalism, off-topic pages. See Project:About for details.  If in doubt use the  tag instead.
 * Copyright infringements.

What not to delete

 * Pages about old versions/deprecated functions of MediaWiki. There are still people using older versions and this information is valuable.  These pages should be marked with the  or  tag instead.

Images

 * If an image appears useful to the project, but is not currently used on any page, add the following tag to the image page: (note 5 tildes!)  This will add a dated tag to the page indicating that it is not used, and put it in Category:Unused files.  For the time being these will be kept, unless a consensus is reached that they should be deleted.
 * Aside from that, the above rules tend to apply.