Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion

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Criteria for speedy deletion specify the limited cases where administrators may delete Wikipedia pages or media without discussion. Non-administrators can request speedy deletion by adding an appropriate template (see below). In this context, "speedy" refers to the simple decision-making process, not the length of time since the article was created.

This page contains the criteria for speedy deletion and a list of templates that can be used to tag a candidate for speedy deletion. These criteria are worded narrowly, so that in most cases reasonable editors will agree what does and does not meet a given criterion. Where reasonable doubt exists, discussion using another method under the deletion policy should occur instead. If a page has survived a prior deletion discussion, it may not be speedily deleted, except in the case of newly discovered copyright infringements.

Deletion is not required if a page meets these criteria. Before nominating an article for speedy deletion, consider whether it could be improved, reduced to a stub, merged or redirected elsewhere or be handled with some other action short of deletion. If this is possible, speedy deletion is probably inappropriate. Contributors sometimes create articles over several edits, so try to avoid deleting a page too soon after its creation if it appears incomplete. Users nominating a page for speedy deletion should specify which criteria the page meets and consider notifying the page's creator.

Any editor who is not the creator of a page may remove a speedy tag from it. The creator may not do this. A creator who disagrees with the speedy deletion should instead add {{hangon}} to the page, and explain the rationale on the page's discussion page.

The list of current candidates for speedy deletion is at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion.

Template:CSD CriteriaCriteria

Abbreviations are sometimes used to refer to these criteria. For example, "G12" refers to criterion 12 under general (copyright infringement) and "U1" refers to criterion 1 under user (user request). These abbreviations can be confusing to new editors (who are most likely to have created articles that can be speedily deleted) and should be avoided.

A table listing the template(s) for each of these criteria is provided below.

Template:CSD GeneralGeneral criteria

These criteria apply to all namespaces, and are in addition to namespace-specific criteria in following sections.

1. Patent nonsense and gibberish, an unsalvageably incoherent page with no meaningful content. This does not include: poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, vandalism, fictional material, material not in English, badly translated material, implausible theories, or hoaxes of any sort; some of these, however, may be deleted as vandalism in blatant cases.
2. Test pages. Testing is permitted in the sandbox and in users' own user space.
3. Pure vandalism. This includes blatant and obvious hoaxes and misinformation, and redirects created by cleanup from page-move vandalism.
4. Recreation of deleted material. A copy, by any title, of a page deleted via a deletion discussion, provided the copy is substantially identical to the deleted version and that any changes in the recreated page do not address the reasons for which the material was deleted. This does not apply to content that has been undeleted via deletion review, deleted via proposed deletion, or to speedy deletions (although in that case, the previous speedy criterion, or other speedy criteria, may apply). Also, content moved to user space for explicit improvement is excluded, although material moved or copied to circumvent Wikipedia's deletion policy is not.
5. Banned user. Pages created by banned users in violation of their ban, with no substantial edits by others.
6. Housekeeping. Non-controversial maintenance, such as temporarily deleting a page to merge page histories, performing uncontroversial page moves, or cleaning up redirects.
7. Author requests deletion, if requested in good faith, and provided the page's only substantial content was added by its author. If the author blanks the page, this can be taken as a deletion request.
8. Talk pages whose corresponding article does not exist. This excludes any talk page which is useful to the project, and in particular: deletion discussions that are not logged elsewhere, user talk pages, talk pages for images on Wikimedia Commons, and talk subpages (such as archives) whose corresponding "top-level" page exists. This includes talk pages of pages which were deleted since the creation of the talk page.
9. Office actions. The Wikimedia Foundation office reserves the right to speedily delete a page temporarily in cases of exceptional circumstances. Deletions of this type should not be reversed without permission from the Foundation.
10. Pages that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject or some other entity (e.g., "John Q. Doe is an imbecile"). These are sometimes called "attack pages". This includes a biography of a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced, where there is no neutral version in the history to revert to. Administrators deleting such pages should not quote the content of the page in the deletion summary, and if the page is an article about a living person it should not be restored or recreated by any editor until it meets biographical article standards.
11. Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote some entity and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion.
12. Blatant copyright infringement. Text pages that meet all of the following (for images and media, see I9):
    • The material was copied from another website or other source (but consider the possibility that the other copy was obtained from Wikipedia—see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks);
    • There is no non-infringing content on either the page itself, or in the history, worth saving;
    • The material was introduced at once by a single person; and
    • There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license (see also List of countries' copyright length as a guide)
    Notify the page's creator when tagging a page for deletion under this criterion; the template {{nothanks-sd}} is available for this. After deleting, administrators should recreate the page from earlier noninfringing page content if available. If multiple deletion criteria apply, list them all on the deletion summary. If notified of a plausible error, the deleting administrator should restore the content and, if a confirmation e-mail has not been received, follow the Wikipedia:Copyright problems procedure, replacing the article with the {{copyvio}} template. Some suspected copyright infringements are listed at Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations.

Template:CSD ArticlesArticles

For any articles that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Wikipedia:Articles for deletion or Wikipedia:Proposed deletion. Note that all these criteria apply to Portals as well.

1. No context. Very short articles lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Example: "He is a funny man with a red car. He makes people laugh." Context is different from content, treated in A3, below.
2. Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project. If the article does not exist on another project, use the template {{notenglish}} instead, and list the page at Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English for review and possible translation.
3. No content. Any article (other than disambiguation pages) consisting only of external links, category tags and "see also" sections, a rephrasing of the title, attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title, chat-like comments, and/or images. However, a very short article may be a valid stub if it has context, in which case it is not eligible for deletion under this criterion. Similarly, this criterion doesn't cover a page with an infobox with non-trivial information.
4. (Deprecated - placeholder to preserve numbering; merged with A3.)
5. Transwikied articles. Any article that either consists only of a dictionary definition, has already been transwikied (e.g., to Wiktionary or Wikisource), or has been discussed at Articles for deletion with an outcome to move it to another wiki, after it has been properly moved and the author information recorded.
6. (Deprecated - placeholder to preserve numbering; superseded by G10.)
7. An article about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. This is distinct from questions of verifiability and reliability of sources, and is a lower standard than notability; to avoid speedy deletion an article does not have to prove that its subject is notable, just give a reasonable indication of why it might be notable. A7 applies only to articles about web content or articles on people and organizations themselves, not articles on their books, albums, software and so on. Other article types are not eligible for deletion by this criterion. If controversial, as with schools, list the article at Articles for deletion instead.
8. (Deprecated - placeholder to preserve numbering; superseded by G12.)

Template:CSD RedirectsRedirects

For any redirects that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. Redirect pages that have useful page history should never be speedy deleted. In some cases it may be possible to make a useful redirect by changing the target instead of deleting it.

1. Redirects to deleted pages and to nonexistent pages, including redirect loops that do not end with a page with content.
2. Redirects to the Talk:, User: or User talk: namespace from the article space. If this was the result of a page move, consider waiting a day or two before deleting the redirect.
3. Recently created redirects from implausible typos or misnomers. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful, as are redirects in other languages.

Template:CSD Images-mediaImages and media

For any images and other media that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion.

1. Redundant. Any image or other media file that is a redundant copy, in the same file format and same or lower quality/resolution, of something else on Wikipedia. This does not apply to images duplicated on Wikimedia Commons, because of license issues; these should be tagged with {{subst:ncd|Image:newname.ext}} or {{subst:ncd}} instead.
2. Corrupt or empty image. Before deleting this type of image, verify that the MediaWiki engine cannot read it by previewing a resized thumbnail of it. Even if it renders, if it contains superfluous information that cannot be accounted for as metadata directly relating to the image data, it may be deleted. It is always possible for the uploader to correct the problem by uploading an image that contains only a good image plus acceptable metadata.
3. Improper license. Images licensed as "for non-commercial use only", "non-derivative use" or "used with permission" that were uploaded on or after May 19, 2005, except where they have been shown to comply with the limited standards for the use of non-free content. [1] This includes images licensed under a "Non-commercial Creative Commons License".[2] Such images uploaded before May 19, 2005 may also be speedily deleted if they are not used in any articles.
4. Lack of licensing information. Images in category "Images with unknown source", "Images with unknown copyright status", or "Images with no copyright tag" that have been in the category for more than seven days, and which still lack the necessary information, regardless of when uploaded. Note, editors sometimes specify their source in the upload summary, so be sure to check the circumstances of the image.
5. Unused unfree images. Images and other media that are not under a free license or in the public domain, that are not used in any article, and that have been tagged with a template that places them in a dated subcategory of Category:Orphaned fairuse images for more than seven days. Reasonable exceptions may be made for images uploaded for an upcoming article. Use {{subst:orfud}} to tag images for forthcoming deletion.
6. Missing non-free use rationale. Non-free images or media claiming fair use but without a use rationale may be deleted seven days after they are tagged. The boilerplate copyright tags setting out fair use criteria do not constitute a use rationale. Offending images can be tagged with {{subst:nrd}}, and the uploader notified with {{subst:missing rationale|Image:image name}}. Such images can be found in the dated subcategories of Category:Images with no fair use rationale. If a use rationale is provided but disputed, this criterion does not apply.
7. Invalid fair-use claim. Non-free images or media that are used in at least one article and that fail any part of the non-free content criteria (except criterion 1) may be deleted forty-eight hours after notification of the uploader, except that for media uploaded before 13 July 2006 or tagged with the Replaceable fair use template, the uploader will be given seven days to comply with this policy after being notified. Invalid fair-use claims may be tagged with {{subst:dfu}} for review after a seven-day period, and the uploader may be notified with {{subst:no fair|Image:image name}}. Such images can be found in the dated subcategories of Category:All disputed non-free images. Non-free images or media with a clearly invalid fair-use tag (such as a {{Non-free logo}} tag on a photograph of a mascot) may be deleted at any time.
8. Images available as bit-for-bit identical copies on the Wikimedia Commons, provided the following conditions are met:
   • The image's license and source status is beyond reasonable doubt, and the license is undoubtedly accepted at Commons.
     • All image revisions that meet the first condition have been transferred to Commons as revisions of the Commons copy and properly marked as such.
   • All information on the image description page is present on the Commons image description page, including the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages.
     • If there is any information not relevant to any other project on the image description page (like {{FeaturedPicture}}), the image description page must be undeleted after the file deletion.
   • The image is not protected, and the image description page does not contain a request not to move it to Commons.
   • The image has been marked with {{NowCommons}} for at least one week. Waiting one week is not necessary if it was the uploader who moved the image and marked it.
   • If the image is available on Commons under a different name than locally, all local references to the image must be updated to point to the title used at Commons.
   • {{c-uploaded}} images may be speedily deleted as soon as they are off the Main Page.

   This also includes empty (i.e., no content) image description pages for Commons images.

9. Blatant copyright infringement. Images that are claimed by the uploader to be images with free licenses when this is obviously not the case. This does not include images used under a claim of fair use, nor does it include images with a credible claim that the owner has released them under a Wikipedia-compatible free license. Includes images that do not have a license compatible with such as stock photo libraries like Getty Images or Corbis. Blatant infringements should be tagged with the {{Db-imgcopyvio}} template. Non-blatant copyright infringements should be discussed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images.

Template:CSD CategoriesCategories

Also listed at Wikipedia:Category deletion policy#Speedy delete policy. For any categories that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Wikipedia:Categories for discussion or Wikipedia:User categories for discussion. Due to technical restrictions, renaming or merging a category effectively deletes the original category.

1. Empty categories that have been empty for four days. This does not apply to categories presently on deletion discussions, or to disambiguation categories.
2. Speedy renaming.
   1. Typographic fixes (e.g., Brdiges → Bridges), but not changes between British and American spelling.
   2. Capitalization fixes (e.g., Heads Of State → Heads of state).
   3. Conversions from singular to plural, or back (e.g., Steamship → Steamships).
   4. Non-conformance with "x by y", "x of y", or "x in y" categorization conventions specified at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories).
   5. Expanding abbreviated country names (e.g., U.S. → United States).
3. Template categories. If a category is populated solely from a template (e.g., Category:Wikipedia cleanup from {{cleanup}}) and the template is deleted per deletion policy.

Template:CSD User pagesUser pages

For any user pages that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion.

1. User request. Personal user pages and subpages, upon request by their user. In some rare cases there may be administrative need to retain the page.
2. Nonexistent user. User pages of users that do not exist (check Special:Listusers).
3. Non-free galleries. Galleries in the userspace which consist mostly or entirely of "fair use" or non-free images. Wikipedia's non-free content policy prohibits the use of non-free content in userspace, even content which the user has uploaded; use of content in the public domain or under a free license is acceptable.

Template:CSD TemplatesTemplates

For any templates that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Wikipedia:Templates for deletion. When nominating a template for speedy deletion, surround the speedy deletion tag with <noinclude></noinclude>, so that pages that use the nominated template do not themselves get listed as candidates for speedy deletion.

1. Templates in "Template:" space that are divisive and inflammatory. See Wikipedia:Userbox migration for others: general criterion 10 may still apply.
2. Templates that are blatant misrepresentations of established policy. This includes "speedy deletion" templates for issues that are not speedy deletion criteria and disclaimer templates intended to be used in articles.
3. Templates that are not employed in any useful fashion, and are either: substantial duplications of another template, or hardcoded instances of another template where the same functionality could be provided by that other template, may be deleted after being tagged for seven days.

Template:CSD PortalsPortals

For any portals that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion.

1. Any topic that would be subject to speedy deletion as an article.
2. Underpopulated portal. Any portal based on a topic for which there is not a non-stub header article and at least three non-stub articles detailing subject matter that would be appropriate to present under the title of that portal.

Template:CSD Non-criteriaNon-criteria

The following are not sufficient, by themselves, to justify speedy deletion.

• Reasons derived from Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Wikipedia is not: "a dictionary", "an indiscriminate collection of information", "a crystal ball", etc.
• Hoaxes. If even remotely plausible, a suspected hoax article should be subjected to further scrutiny in a wider forum. Note that "blatant and obvious hoaxes and misinformation" are subject to speedy deletion as vandalism.
• Original research. It is not always easy to tell whether an article consists of material that violates the policy against novel theories or interpretations or is simply uncited.
• Neologisms. If not obviously ridiculous, new specialized terms should have a wider hearing.
• Notability. Articles that seem to have obviously non-notable subjects are only eligible for speedy deletion if the article does not assert the importance or significance of its subject.
• Failure to assert importance but not an A7 category. There is no consensus to speedily delete articles of types not specifically listed in A7 under that criterion.
• Author deletion requests made in bad faith. Author deletion requests made in bad faith, out of frustration, or in an attempt to revoke their GFDL contributions are not granted. However, anyone may request deletion of pages in their userspace.
• Author deletion requests after others have contributed substantially. If other editors have substantially edited an article (i.e. more than just minor corrections or maintenance tagging), the original author may not request deletion under G7 because the work of others is involved.
• Very short articles. Short articles with sufficient content and context to qualify as stubs may not be speedily deleted under criteria A1 and A3; other criteria may still apply.
• Copies that are not copyright violations. If content appears both here and somewhere else (possibly in modified form), consider the possibility that Wikipedia's is the original version and the other site copied from us. Alternately, the same author may have written both versions, or the original may be free content.
• PNGs/GIFs replaced by JPEGs. JPEG encoding discards information that may be important later. Do not delete the original PNG/GIF files.
• Questionable material that is not vandalism. Earnest efforts are never vandalism, so to assume good faith, do not delete as vandalism unless reasonably certain.
• Reasons derived from essays, such as Wikipedia:Deny recognition, Wikipedia:Listcruft, or the like.

Template:CSD Deletion templatesDeletion templates

In order to alert administrators that a page meets one of the criteria for speedy deletion, place one of the following relevant templates at the top of the page. Please be sure to supply an edit summary that mentions that the article is being nominated for speedy deletion. All the following templates are named "db-X" with "db" standing for "delete because".

Template	Aliases	Criteria	Used for
Whenever possible, use a reason-specific template.
{{db-g1}}	{{db-nonsense}}	CSD G1	Patent nonsense. You can put {{subst:Db-nonsense-notice|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g2}}	{{db-test}}	CSD G2	Test page. You can put {{subst:uw-creation1|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g3}}	{{db-vandalism}}	CSD G3	Vandalism. You can put {{subst:uw-creation2|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
	{{db-pagemove}}	CSD G3	Nonsense redirects that are created from the cleanup of page move vandalism. You can put {{subst:mp2-n|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
	{{db-hoax}}	CSD G3	Blatant hoaxes. You can put {{subst:uw-hoax|"page name"}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g4}}	{{db-repost}}	CSD G4	Copies of material that was previously deleted after an XfD discussion. Articles that were only previously speedily deleted do not fall under this category. You can put {{subst:repost-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g5}}	{{db-banned|name of banned user}}	CSD G5	Contributions made by a banned user while they were banned.
{{db-g6}}	{{db-move|page to be moved| reason for move}}	CSD G6	Making way for a non-controversial move. Please add the name of the page that is to be moved and the reason for the move.
	{{db-copypaste|page to be moved}}	CSD G6	Cleaning up copy-and-paste page moves to make way for a clean, non-controversial move. Please add the name of the page that is to be moved.
	{{db-xfd}}	CSD G6	An experienced editor has closed a deletion debate as a "delete", but the page did not get deleted.
	{{db-g6}}	CSD G6	Other non-controversial "housekeeping" tasks, such as reversing a redirect.
{{db-g7}}	{{db-author}} {{db-self}}	CSD G7	Speedy request by only editor.
	{{db-blanked}}	CSD G7	Page blanked by only editor.
{{db-g8}}	{{db-talk}}	CSD G8	Talk page of a deleted or nonexistent page.
	{{db-subpage}}	CSD G8	Subpage of a deleted or nonexistent page.
	{{db-imagepage}}	CSD G8	Image page without a corresponding image.
	{{db-redirnone}}	CSD G8	Redirect to non-existent page.
	{{db-templatecat}}	CSD G8	Category that is populated solely by a template that has been deleted.
{{db-g10}}	{{db-attack}}	CSD G10	Attack page intended to disparage its subject. You can put {{subst:attack|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g11}}	{{db-spam}}	CSD G11	Blatant advertising. You can put {{subst:spam-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g12|url=URL of source}}	{{db-copyvio|url=URL of source}}	CSD G12	Blatant copyright violation. You can put {{subst:uw-copyright|page name|url=URL of source}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g13}}	{{db-afc}} {{db-blankdraft}}	CSD G13	Any page in draftspace or user drafts that are blank or with only the default Article Wizard text, if unedited for six months.
{{db-g14}}	{{db-disambig}}	CSD G14	Unnecessary disambiguation pages.
{{db-a1}}	{{db-empty}} {{db-nocontext}}	CSD A1	Very short articles without context. Use {{subst:empty-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-a2}}	{{db-foreign}}	CSD A2	Foreign language article duplicated on other Wikimedia project.
{{db-a3}}	{{db-nocontent}} {{db-contact}}	CSD A3	No content other than external links of whatever kind, or an attempt to contact subject of article.
{{db-a7}}	{{db-bio}}– for a person	CSD A7	Article about a real person, individual animal(s), group, company, or web content that does not indicate the importance of the subject. Try to use one of the more specific templates rather than {{db-a7}}. You can put {{subst:nn-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page, or, if it seems that someone has created a user page in the encyclopedia section instead of their user page, you can put {{subst:nn-userfy|page name}}-- ~~~~ on their talk page.
	{{db-person}} – for people
	{{db-band}} – for bands
	{{db-club}} – for clubs, societies, groups, and organizations
	{{db-inc}} – for companies and corporations
	{{db-web}} – for websites
	{{db-animal}} – for individual animals
{{db-a9}}	{{db-album}} {{db-song}}	CSD A9	Article about a musical recording (album, single, etc.) that does not indicate the importance of the subject, and where the artist's article does not exist.
{{db-r2}}	{{db-rediruser}}	CSD R2	Redirect to an article talk page, image description page, image talk page, mediawiki page, mediawiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, or user talk. You can put {{subst:rediruser-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-r3}}	{{db-redirtypo}} {{db-redirmisnomer}}	CSD R3	Recently created redirect that is a result of an implausible typo or misnomer. You can put {{subst:redirtypo-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-r4}}	{{db-redircom}}	CSD R4	Redirects in the file namespace that shadow a Commons file or redirect.
{{db-f1|replacement file name.ext}}	{{db-redundantfile| replacement file name.ext}} {{isd|replacement file name.ext}}	CSD F1	Same or better file exists on Wikipedia (see {{db-f8}} for files now on Commons).
{{db-f2}}	{{db-nofile}}	CSD F2	Corrupt or empty file. File page for a file on Commons without Wikipedia-related or assessment information.
{{db-f3}}	{{db-noncom}}	CSD F3	"No commercial use" or "by permission" files uploaded after target date.
{{db-f4}}	{{db-unksource}}	CSD F4	Lack of licensing – Should only be used if the file has been previously tagged with {{di-no license}}, {{di-no source}}, or a similar template.
{{db-f5}}		CSD F5	Unused copyright file – Should only be used if the file has been previously tagged with {{or-cr}}, {{or-fu}}, or a similar template.
{{db-f6}}	{{db-norat}}	CSD F6	File with fair use tag but no fair use rationale - must have been tagged as such for seven days and uploaded after May 4, 2006.
{{db-f7}}	{{db-badfairuse}}	CSD F7	Bad fair use template – file tagged as fair use with a template that is patently irrelevant to the actual file, like {{game-screenshot}} on a photo of a celebrity. Please notify uploader on their talk page using {{subst:badfairuse|File:file name|tag that was on the file}}.
{{db-f8}}	{{db-nowcommons}} {{db-nowcommons| name of file on Commons.ext}}	CSD F8	Identical file has been moved to or is otherwise available on Commons.
{{db-f9|url=URL of source}}	{{db-filecopyvio|url=URL of source}}	CSD F9	Blatant copyright infringements.
{{db-f11}}	{{db-nopermission}}	CSD F11	No evidence of permission from copyright holder to publish under license asserted by uploader – file must have been tagged with {{no permission}}, and uploader notified for seven days.
{{db-c1}}	{{db-catempty}}	CSD C1	Category that has been empty for at least four days.
{{db-u1}}	{{db-userreq}}	CSD U1	User page or subpage requested to be deleted by the user with whom it is associated.
{{db-u2}}	{{db-nouser}}	CSD U2	Userpages of users who do not exist.
{{db-u5}}	{{db-notwebhost}}	CSD U5	Inappropriate use of userpages as web hosting.
If you are not sure, you can use these general templates:
{{db}}	{{db-reason|reason}} {{deletebecause|reason}} {{delbecause|reason}} {{delete|reason}} {{d|reason}} {{Speedy deletion|reason}} {{Speedy|reason}} {{csd|reason}}		Replace reason with a specific reason for speedy deletion. Please try to write out a reason that will be comprehensible to non-Wikipedians.

Template:CSD Procedure for administratorsProcedure for administrators

See also: Wikipedia:Deletion process

Make sure to specify the deletion reason in the deletion summary. Also, in some cases the article's creator should be notified.

Before deleting a page, check the page history to assess whether it would instead be possible to revert and salvage a previous version. Also:

• The initial edit summary may have information about the source of or reason for the article.
• The talk page may refer to previous deletion discussions, or have ongoing discussion relevant to including the article.
• The page log may have information about previous deletions that could warrant SALTing the article or keeping it on good reason.
• 'What links here' may show that the subject of the article is an oft-referred part of the encyclopedia, or may show other similar pages that warrant deletion. For articles that should not be re-created, incoming links in other articles should be removed.

See also

• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Explanations
• Category:CSD warning templates
• Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace (Grid of warning messages)
• Wikipedia:No blank pages
• Category:Speedy deletion