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*While not required, it is generally considered civil to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the miscellany that you are nominating. To find the main contributors, look in the [[Help:Page history|page history]] or [[Help:Talk page|talk page]] of the article and/or use [[tools:~tim/cgi-bin/contribution-counter|TDS' Article Contribution Counter]] or [http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ Wikipedia Page History Statistics.] For your convenience, you may add <blockquote><code>'''<nowiki>{{subst:MFDWarning|</nowiki>''Article''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''</code></blockquote> to their talk page, replacing ''Article'' with the pagename. Please use an edit summary such as <blockquote><code>'''Notice of deletion discussion at <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/</nowiki>''PageName''<nowiki>]]</nowiki>'''</code></blockquote> replacing <code>''PageName''</code> with the name of the nomination page you are proposing for deletion. |
*While not required, it is generally considered civil to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the miscellany that you are nominating. To find the main contributors, look in the [[Help:Page history|page history]] or [[Help:Talk page|talk page]] of the article and/or use [[tools:~tim/cgi-bin/contribution-counter|TDS' Article Contribution Counter]] or [http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ Wikipedia Page History Statistics.] For your convenience, you may add <blockquote><code>'''<nowiki>{{subst:MFDWarning|</nowiki>''Article''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''</code></blockquote> to their talk page, replacing ''Article'' with the pagename. Please use an edit summary such as <blockquote><code>'''Notice of deletion discussion at <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/</nowiki>''PageName''<nowiki>]]</nowiki>'''</code></blockquote> replacing <code>''PageName''</code> with the name of the nomination page you are proposing for deletion. |
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*If the user has not edited in a while, consider sending the user an email to notify them about the MfD if the MfD concerns their user pages. |
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*If you are nominating a Portal, please make a note of your nomination [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals#Portals_for_deletion_at_MfD|here]]. |
*If you are nominating a Portal, please make a note of your nomination [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals#Portals_for_deletion_at_MfD|here]]. |
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Miscellany for deletion (MfD) is a place where Wikipedians decide what should be done with problematic pages in the namespaces outside of the main namespace (also called the "article namespace") which aren't covered by other specialized deletion discussion areas. Items sent here are usually discussed for five days; then are either deleted by an administrator or kept, based on community consensus (determined using the discussion as a guideline).
Introduction
The only currently-used namespaces in which pages are eligible for deletion here are:
- Help:
- Portal:
- MediaWiki:
- Wikipedia:
- This includes WikiProjects, although it is usually preferable to either mark the Project as historical or change it to a task force of the parent Project, unless the Project is entirely undesirable.
- User:
- When a page in the User or User talk namespaces seems worthy of deletion, please explain your concerns using either a personal note or by adding "{{subst:Uw-userpage}} ~~~~" to their talk page. While this step is not required, it does assume good faith and civility; often the user is simply unaware of the guidelines, and the page can either be fixed or speedily deleted using {{db-userreq}}.
- the various Talk: namespaces
- Userboxes, regardless of namespace.
The undeletion of pages deleted after having been discussed here, and debating whether discussions here have been properly closed, is the purview of Wikipedia:Deletion review, which operates in accordance with our undeletion policy.
Please familiarize yourself with the following policies
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy — our deletion policy that describes how we delete things by consensus
- Wikipedia:Guide to deletion — whose guidelines on discussion format and shorthands also apply here
- Wikipedia:User page — our guidelines on user pages
Prerequisites
Please bear in mind that:
- Nominating a Wikipedia policy or guideline page, or one of the deletion discussion areas (or their sub-pages), for deletion will probably be considered disruptive, and the ensuing discussions closed early. This is not a forum for modifying or revoking policy.
- Nominating for deletion a proposed policy or guideline page that is still under discussion is generally frowned upon. If you oppose a proposal, discuss it on the policy page's discussion page. Consider being bold and improving the proposal. Modify the proposal so that it gains consensus. Also note that even if a policy fails to gain consensus, it is often useful to retain it as a historical record, for the benefit of future editors.
- User pages about Wikipedia-related matters by established users usually do not qualify for deletion.
- Normal editing that doesn't require the use of any administrator tools, such as merging the page into another page or renaming it, can often resolve problems.
- If a page is in the wrong namespace (e.g. an article in Wikipedia namespace), simply move it and tag the redirect for speedy deletion using {{db-reason}} using the reason: Redirect left after a cross-namespace move - G6 Housekeeping and notify the author of the original article of the cross-namespace move.
How to list pages for deletion
Please check the aforementioned list of deletion discussion areas to check that you are in the right area.
To list an article/page for deletion, follow this three-step process: (replace PageName with the name of the page, including its namespace, to be deleted)
I. | Edit PageName.
Enter the following text at the top of the page you are listing for deletion:
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II. | Create its MfD subpage.
The resulting MfD box at the top of the page should contain the link "this page's entry"
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III. | Add a line to MfD.
Follow this edit link and add a line to the top of the list:
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- While not required, it is generally considered civil to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the miscellany that you are nominating. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the article and/or use TDS' Article Contribution Counter or Wikipedia Page History Statistics. For your convenience, you may add
to their talk page, replacing Article with the pagename. Please use an edit summary such as{{subst:MFDWarning|Article}}
replacingNotice of deletion discussion at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName]]
PageName
with the name of the nomination page you are proposing for deletion. - If the user has not edited in a while, consider sending the user an email to notify them about the MfD if the MfD concerns their user pages.
- If you are nominating a Portal, please make a note of your nomination here.