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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.
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.
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.
Keep in mind, once you remove the username, any data stored for that name on your computer will be deleted, though the actual account may still exist. 1. Click Settings. 2. Click Manage users in the General tab. 3. Select the username you want removed. 4. Click Remove. 5. Click Remove again, then Continue to confirm you really want to remove ...
Articles are discussed at Articles for deletion; other pages elsewhere go through different processes (see deletion discussion for a complete list). Such discussions normally last seven days, after which an administrator will delete the page if there is a consensus to do so. Anyone may participate in such a discussion, however they are not "votes".
Remove suspicious activity. From a desktop or mobile browser, sign in and visit the Recent activity page. Depending on how you access your account, there can be up to 3 sections. If you see something you don't recognize, click Sign out or Remove next to it, then immediately change your password.
This page in a nutshell: There are jokes, and then there are "oh, hell no" situations. Just the fact that you can push the button doesn't mean you should . 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.
In today's puzzle, there are seven theme words to find (including the spangram). Hint: The first one can be found in the top-half of the board. Here are the first two letters for each word: DR. IN ...