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When an article is deleted, the article's talk page is generally also deleted, as are links that redirect to the deleted article. Deletion discussions are carried out on separate pages dedicated to that purpose and are not deleted. Wikipedia administrators can see content that has been deleted, but other editors and visitors to the site do not.
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 . Templates , categories , images , redirects and pages not in the main article space (including user and Wikipedia namespace pages) have their own deletion processes separate from AfD.
The ones near the bottom from Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation were only proposed articles, not real articles. Anything that is promotional should not be preserved here when it's been deleted to get it out of the encyclopedia (eg, "File:Singh Rashmi's book The Fallen Love release at WORLD BOOK FAIR 2012 PUBLISHED BY PIGEON BOOKS NEW DELHI ...
A small note of explanation is OK, but please do not sign it – this isn't a talk page. This is for articles or redirects that really existed on Wikipedia which have been deleted – provide proof of the deletion if you can, generally in the form of an XFD discussion page (AFD debates can be quite humorous themselves) or deletion log entry (for articles deleted before December 2004; see also ...
If the page has recently been deleted: the deletion report (who deleted it, when and why). If the page was deleted after 23 December 2004 (the date of the MediaWiki 1.4 upgrade), all deletions and restorations will appear. If the page has not been restored yet: the deleted page history. To undelete all revisions, simply press the Restore button.
A merge outcome is the policy-based alternative to copying material from a deleted article elsewhere within Wikipedia. It functionally removes the offending article, preserves attribution, and allows non-admins to see the article history that might be used to create a new, better, keepable article in the future.
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 ...
Wikipedia orphaned talk pages that should not be speedily deleted (952 P) P. Pages at deletion review (1 C, 3,695 P) ... Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles;