User:Ezeu/Closing AFDs

Closing AFD

Deletion

1. Close AFD using {{subst:at}} RESULT. ~~~~ and {{subst:ab}}
2. Go to article page. Click "What links here." Delete any redirects, or redirect them elsewhere. If the page you are deleting should never have an article, remove all links to it.
3. Delete Talk and any related subpage.
4. Delete article, placing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/"Article" in "Reason for deletion" box.

No consensus, merges, redirects, keeps

1. As above.
2. Remove AFD tag from article. Link Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/"Article" in edit summary.
3. On Talk page, place {{subst:oldafdfull|date=date of nomination|result=result|votepage=article name}}
4. If redirecting, fix double redirects.

Miscellaneous

1. Merge and delete decisions: Refs Rossami's and Dan PB Smith's comments. Methods here.
2. When closing out a day's AFD log:
   • Edit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old#Date lists of debates older than five days by cutting the link for the day, which will look like [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/Year Month Day]]
   • Go to Wikipedia:Archived delete debates and paste the link at the bottom
   • Edit the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Old discussions section of the main AFD page by deleting the link for the day, which looks something like ''[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/Year Month Day|Day^th]]''.