User:LDBot/AFD

WP:AFD

Articles for Deletion (AfD) (formerly Votes for deletion) is where Wikipedians discuss whether articles should be deleted. Items sent here usually wait five days or so while debate takes place on whether the article should be deleted or not; then the deletion process can proceed based on Wikipedia community consensus. The page is then:

Kept

Deleted per the deletion policy

Sent to Cleanup or Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense

Merged and/or redirected to an existing article

Transwikied (moved to another Wikimedia project, such as Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wiktionary, or another language's Wikipedia), or

Renamed/Moved to another title

Userfied to the creator's user page or user subpage

More information can be found at the Guide to deletion.

Things to consider

It is important to read and understand the Wikipedia deletion policy, which explains valid grounds for deletion, before adding comments to this page. Click "what links here", in the sidebar of the article page, to see how the page is being used and referenced within Wikipedia. Consider that adding a tag to an article may be a better option than deleting, for instance Cleanup tags or disputed tags. Read over the article's talk page: it may provide reasons why the article should or should not be deleted.

If a page can serve as a useful redirect or be merged somewhere, do not list it here. Doing so only clutters AfD.

If you believe your nomination will be uncontroversial, you can use the Proposed Deletion process instead, which simply involves adding one template to the page. If your proposed deletion is contested, you will need to bring it to AfD.

AfD etiquette

Please be familiar with the policies of not biting the newcomers, Wikiquette, no personal attacks, civility, and assume good faith before making a recommendation as to whether the article should be deleted or not, or making a comment.
Sign any recommendation or comment you add, by adding this at the end: ~~~~.
Notify the creator and/or main contributor(s) of the article when nominating, as they may be able to address concerns raised. Templates {{AFDWarningNew}} {{AFDWarning}} and {{Adw}} are available to this purpose.
If you are the primary author or otherwise have a vested interest in the article, say so openly, and clearly base your recommendations on the deletion policy.
Your opinion will be given the most weight if you are logged in with an account that already existed when the nomination was made. Unregistered and new users are welcome to contribute to the discussion, but their recommendations may be discounted, especially if they seem to be made in bad faith (for example, if they misrepresent their reasons).
Please make your recommendation only once. If there is evidence that someone is using sock puppets (multiple accounts belonging to the same person) to make multiple recommendations, such additional recommendations will be discounted.
Please familiarize yourself with the frequently cited guidelines WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:FICT, WP:WEB and WP:VAIN.
Before making your recommendation please review the talk page for the nomination, if there is one, often additional important information about the article or points raised may be found there.
If the article links to other pages, place a notification on those pages (if they are relevant enough). This will (hopefully) get those with knowledge on the subject the ability to participate on the debate.
If recommending that the article be speedily deleted, please give the criteria that it meets, such as "A7" or "non-notable biography".
Editors usually state their suggested course of action in bold, such as "keep" or "delete". Giving it more than once makes that position seem like it has more support than it actually has. If you change your mind, modify your original recommendation.

You don't have to make a recommendation on every nomination; consider not participating if:

A nomination involves a topic with which you are unfamiliar.
You agree with the consensus that has already been formed.

Also, please see this discussion on the talk page of Wikipedia:Deletion Policy regarding notability.

Week at a glance

You may also wish to see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/Today and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/Yesterday.

Additionally, AllyUnion runs a bot to maintain a half-hourly-updated AFD List (related changes). This list of discussions keeps a list of 7 days of discussions. Please DO NOT try to update the AFD Week at a glance pages, or start a new day yourself, as it will confuse the AFD Bot (note: these pages are not the deletion log pages referred to in step III of the instructions, below).

Purge server cache for today's AFD page

Current discussions

Articles being considered for possible deletion are indexed by the day on which they were first listed.

Add a new entry -- but if you think it is not a controversial issue, consider using {{prod|reason for deletion}} instead (see Wikipedia:Proposed deletion). See the proposed deletion current nominations.

Old discussions

How to list pages for deletion

This section describes how to list articles and their associated talk pages for deletion. For pages that are not articles, list them at other appropriate deletion venues or use copyright violation where applicable. As well, note that deletion may not be needed for problems such as pages written in foreign languages, duplicate pages, and other cases. Use Wikipedia:Proposed mergers for discussion of mergers.

Only a registered, logged-in user can complete steps II and III. (Autoconfirmed registered users can also use the Twinkle tool to make nominations.) If you are unregistered, you should complete step I, note the justification for deletion on the article's talk page, then post a message at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion requesting that someone else complete the process.

You must sign in to nominate pages for deletion. If you do not sign-in, or you edit anonymously, you will get stuck part way through the nomination procedure.

To nominate multiple related pages for deletion, follow the multi-page deletion nomination procedure.
To nominate a single page for deletion, you can use Twinkle, or follow these three steps:

I – Put the deletion tag on the article.

Insert {{subst:afd1}} at the top of the article. Do not mark the edit as minor.
If this article has been nominated before, use {{subst:afdx|2nd}} or {{subst:afdx|3rd}} etc.
Include in the edit summary AfD: Nominated for deletion; see [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NominationName]]. replacing NominationName with the name of the page being nominated. Publish the page.
The NominationName is normally the article name (PageName), but if it has been nominated before, use "PageName (2nd nomination)" or "PageName (3rd nomination)" etc.)

II – Create the article's deletion discussion page.

The resulting AfD box at the top of the article should contain a link to "Preloaded debate" in the AfD page. Click that link to open the article's deletion discussion page for editing. Some text and instructions will appear.

You can do it manually as well:

Click the link saying "deletion discussion page" to open the deletion-debate page.
Insert this text:
{{subst:afd2 | pg=PageName | cat=Category | text=Why the page should be deleted}} ~~~~
Replace PageName with the name of the page, Category with a letter from the list M, O, B, S, W, G, T, F, and P to categorize the debate, and Why the page should be deleted with the reasons the page should be deleted.
If appropriate, inform members of the most relevant WikiProjects through one or more "deletion sorting lists". Then add a {{subst:delsort|<topic>|<signature>}} template to the nomination, to insert a note that this has been done.
Use an edit summary such as Creating deletion discussion for [[PageName]]. Publish the page.

III – Notify users who monitor AfD discussions.

Open the articles for deletion log page for editing.
At the top of the list on the log page (there's a comment indicating the spot), insert:{{subst:afd3 | pg=NominationName}}
Replace NominationName appropriately (use "PageName", "PageName (2nd nomination)", etc.)
Link to the discussion page in your edit summary: Adding [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NominationName]]. Publish the page.
Consider letting the authors know on their talk page by adding: {{subst:Afd notice|Page name}} ~~~~
If this is not the first nomination, add a second parameter with the NominationName (use "PageName (2nd nomination)" etc.): {{subst:Afd notice|PageName|NominationName}} ~~~~

How to list multiple related pages for deletion

Sometimes you will find a number of related articles, all of which you feel should be deleted together. To make it easier for those participating in the discussion, it may be helpful to "bundle" all of them together into a single nomination.

Examples of when articles may be bundled into a single nomination:

An article about a band and three articles about its members, none of whom has done anything else outside of the band.
An article about a company/organization and a second article about its founder, who has done nothing else of note.
An article about a video game/book and related articles for characters within it.
An article about an album and related articles for its songs.
An article about any topic and other articles with the same content but with different titles.

If any of the articles you are considering for bundling could stand on its own merits, then it should be nominated separately. Or to put it more succinctly, if you are unsure of whether to bundle an article or not, don't.

To bundle articles for deletion, follow these steps:

I.

Nominate the first article for deletion.

Follow the steps as outlined above.

II.

Nominate the remaining articles.

On each of the remaining articles, at the top insert the following:

{{subst:afd1|PageName }}

Replace PageName with the name of the first page to be deleted, not the current page name. In other words, if Some article was the first article you nominated, replace PageName with Some article. As before, please include the word "AfD" in the edit summary and please do not mark the edit as minor. Save the page. Repeat for all articles to be bundled.

(If the article has been nominated before, use {{subst:afdx}} instead of {{subst:afd1}}, and replace "PageName" with the name of the page plus a note like "(second nomination)" for a second nomination, etc. See Template talk:Afdx for details.)

III.

Add the remaining articles to the nomination.

Go the first article's deletion discussion page,
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PageName, and add a note
under your original nomination listing all related pages, for example:

I am also nominating the following related pages because [insert reason here]:

In the edit summary, note that you are bundling related articles for deletion.