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These limits of circumstances are called the criteria for speedy deletion, and pages that meet them are usually removed quickly. If you find one, you can mark it for deletion by adding the text {{delete| reason}} to the top of the page, replacing "reason" with the reason it should be deleted. Most articles do not meet the criteria, however, so ...
If the substantial content of a page has been incorporated into that of another, then the first page can be blanked and replaced with a redirect to the second page. For a description of this process, see Merging. Repeated, unnecessary page blanking may get a user blocked indefinitely. To warn users about inappropriate blanking, use {{subst:uw ...
If the page is in your own user space (i.e. starts with "User:YourName/"), then you can request immediate deletion of the page at any time. Simply edit the page and put the template {{db-u1}} at the top of the page. An administrator will see that the page is in your own user space and delete it.
Tip: To keep your user space from getting cluttered, you can save articles vertically in a "stack" by using a single page in your user space to store them. Each time you wish to add an article to the stack, blank the page, cut and paste the new article to the page, and save. The previous article is preserved in the page's history.
Intentionally blank pages are usually the result of printing conventions and techniques. Chapters conventionally start on an odd-numbered page ; therefore, if the preceding chapter happens to have an odd number of pages, a blank page is inserted at the end. Book pages are often printed on large sheets because of technical and financial ...
If no page exists whose title exactly matches it, you will be given the option to create one. A new page is distinguished from a blank page: the latter has a page history. However, creating a new page is just like editing a blank page, except that a new page displays the text from MediaWiki:Newarticletext (which may vary by project).
For page blanking, see Wikipedia:Page blanking; For blanking user pages, see Wikipedia:User pages § Removal of comments, notices, and warnings; For blanking articles in the main namespace in bad faith, see Wikipedia:Types of vandalism; For blanking an article in which content is available elsewhere, see blank and redirect.
How to do this: Edit the page to add the following text to the top: {{subst:prod|reason}}, writing your reasoning in the "reason" field. If you disagree: Any editor who disagrees with a proposed deletion can simply remove the tag. Even after the page is deleted, any editor can have the page restored by any administrator simply by asking. In ...