Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Talk; Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 2024. Toggle 2024 subsection. 1.1 Deletion discussions/2024 December. ... Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 ...
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.
If you find any other pages which contained detailed debates on whether or not to delete an article, please link them here. If a page is to be deleted and it was debated on the talk page, move the debate to a separate page called [[Talk:NAME OF ARTICLE/deletion]] and store that delete debate record here to preserve a record of past wiki debates.
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.
This page details arguments that are commonly seen in deletion discussions that have been identified as generally unsound and unconvincing. These are arguments that should generally be avoided – or at the least supplemented with a better-grounded rationale for the position taken, whether that be "keep", "delete" or some other objective.
For some, it can be very frustrating when an article you wrote or one you otherwise like is proposed for deletion. For others, there are articles you wonder why they are on Wikipedia, and you may wish for them to get deleted. But either way, there are some important things to know before commenting in a deletion discussion. Don't panic. You may ...
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 ...
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 ...