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Go to the page you want to delete, in this case Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Deleting/delete2. Click on the Delete link in the Tools menu. This won't immediately delete the page—you'll review the deletion on a separate screen. (On some skins, this may be in the More drop-down near the search box.) Using the Reason: menu, select a reason ...
Double square brackets: [[page name]]. If you wish to link to a page while displaying text different from the page name, use [[page name|text]]. To add a link, find an article that supports both the immediate context and main topic. The spelling of the page name can come from visiting the target and copying its title, from the search box name ...
In order to do this, you have to be a logged-in user; log in or create an account first if necessary. First, add the text {{subst:afd}} to the top of the article, and save the page. This adds a deletion 'tag' to the page. On the tag that now appears at the top of the article, find the link labelled "Preloaded debate" and click it.
The easiest way is to click the "Preferences" link on the upper right of the page (which you won't see unless you have a registered account and are logged in), go to the "Gadgets" tab. Under the "Appearance" heading Select "Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page" and then click Save button.
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.
Links and references – a list of page to help with creating links or dealing with references. Images and media – a list of pages dealing with using images, videos and sound files. Tracking changes – a list of pages about tracking the evolution of a page or how to follow a user. Policies and guidelines – a list of community standards.
To tag a page for speedy deletion (to get an administrator's attention in order to delete the page), add {} to the top of the article. It is often a good idea to note the specific criterion being used. There are many reason-specific templates to use in doing this. See WP:CSD for a list. When tagging an article for speedy deletion, it is a good ...
Clarification: I don't necessarily agree with the above suggestion. I do think VFD is so broken it should just be taken out and shot. What to replace it with (there is a need for a deletion mechanism; I've done Special:Newpages patrol, and you don't know horror till you've done newpages patrol on a Sunday evening US time, when it runs 30-50% shoot on sight) is another question, one to be ...