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This page in a nutshell: To request a speedy deletion of a page: if it is not a page you created yourself, put {{delete | [your reason] }} at the top of it; if it is a page you created yourself, add {{db-author}} at the top.
Users who want to see the article's history destroyed should explicitly recommend Delete then Redirect. Userfy/Draftify is a recommendation to move the article to either a subpage of the author's user page or the Draft namespace. Wikipedia allows greater leniency in the userspace than the main article space. The resultant redirect is always ...
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 ...
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 ...
Another registered user's contributions page. To access the contributions of a logged-in user (named account), go to the user page (e.g., User:Example) and click on the User contributions link listed under the Tools menu on the left-hand side of the screen. This works even if the user page has not been created yet (i.e., an edit box displays).
This page in a nutshell: Administrators have the ability to delete and undelete articles and other Wikipedia pages. These powers are exercised in accordance with established policies and guidelines , and community consensus.
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.
For pages that should not be recreated, incoming links in other pages (except in discussions, archives and tracking pages) should be removed. If speedy deletion is inappropriate for a page: Please remove the speedy deletion tag from the page. Doing so will automatically remove the page from Category:Candidates for speedy deletion.