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Check the "what links here" link to see how the article is being used within Wikipedia. Check interwiki links to pages "in other languages" which may provide additional material for translation. Read the article's talk page, which may provide reasons why the article should or should not be deleted. Check that what you wish to delete is an article.
On the tag that now appears at the top of the article, find the link labelled "Preloaded debate" and click it. Follow the instructions that appear. Discussions last for seven days, at the end of which an administrator will delete the article if there is general agreement to do so, and remove the deletion tag if not.
The mop symbolizes the work done by administrators – they "clean up" Wikipedia, which can include deleting articles. Volunteer editors of Wikipedia delete articles from the online encyclopedia regularly, following processes that have been formulated by the site's community over time. The most common route is the outright deletion of articles ...
On Wikipedia, many pages are deleted each day through the processes outlined below. Deletion of a Wikipedia article removes the current version and all previous versions from public view. Page blanking can be performed (or reverted) by any user, but only administrators can perform deletion, [1] view deleted pages, and reverse ("undelete") any ...
If a deletion discussion receives minimal participation, the article may be deleted. However, in this case, the article can be restored for any reason on request. If your article was soft-deleted, you can request it be restored at Requests for undeletion. The closer should make it clear the deletion is a soft delete as part of the close ...
Wikipedia is a work in progress. Articles are not expected to be perfect. However, Wikipedia content, policies and qualities are to be expected in all articles. They are: Neutral point of view – articles are expected to be written neutrally, representing views fairly and without bias. If an article is beyond help, it should be deleted, but ...
The consensus was to delete an article, not a draft, for reasons that the article was not suitable as an article, which does not mean that the draft is not suitable as a draft. To G4-delete a draft, the page it copies also needs to have been a draft, deleted through a Miscellany for deletion discussion.
Do not blank a page to delete an article (that's considered vandalism and can get you in trouble). The physical removal of articles from Wikipedia is handled by its system administrators, usually after they are nominated for deletion, and then based specifically on the outcome of the corresponding deletion discussions called Articles for ...