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Removed text is not permanently lost, and can easily be restored from the page history. This page explains how to ask for an article to be deleted from Wikipedia. For all the gritty details, see the deletion policy. Bear the following things in mind: It is better to improve an article than to delete it for not being good enough.
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Deleting a page is straightforward: click on Delete in the Tools menu on the page (this option is only visible to administrators), select a reason or enter a custom reason, and click Delete page. Admins can likewise undelete pages, usually due to a request at WP:Requests for undeletion or WP:Deletion review .
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.
The resulting page history does not show the deletion and restoration themselves. If a new page with the same name had been created, this shows up as if the last deleted version was modified to the first version of the new page. Special:Log/delete is a full record of when, why, and by whom each page was deleted. It also records undeletions and ...
A Wikipedian prepares to do some cutting. Content removal is the removal of material that provides information from an article, without deleting the article itself. While an entire page can be deleted only via the deletion process (ultimately completed by an administrator), even a single unregistered editor can boldly remove part of a page.
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One admin was discussing the deletion of the main page in IRC and asked if the technical ability to delete pages with over 5,000 revisions, like the main page, had ever been re-enabled. Another admin (jokingly) commented that he had tested it and found that the main page still couldn't be deleted.