Wikipedia:Deletion policy
If you believe a page was wrongly deleted, or should have been deleted but wasn't, or a deletion discussion improperly closed, you should discuss this with the person who performed the deletion, or closed the debate, on their talk page. If this fails to resolve the issue, you can request review of the closure at Wikipedia:Deletion review.
If a page was obviously deleted "out of process" (per this policy), then an admin may choose to undelete it immediately. In such a case, the admin who deleted the page should be informed. However, such undeletions without gaining consensus may be viewed as disruptive, so they should be undertaken with care.
If a page was deleted under Proposed deletion, then it should be immediately undeleted by request. However, it may immediately be brought to WP:AFD.
If an article was deleted for lacking content or for having inappropriate content (this applies to most speedy deletions) and you wish to create a better article about the same subject, you can simply go ahead and do so, with no need for review. It is especially wasteful to go to deletion review over an unsourced stub when the alternative of creating a sourced article is available.
The deletion review process is not decided solely by head count. The review normally lasts for five days, sometimes extended for up to ten if the outcome is unclear.
Overturned deletions may go to a deletion discussion if someone still wishes to delete and chooses to nominate.
- Where to find them: Wikipedia:Deletion review
- How to do this: Follow the instructions at the top of the page.
- If you disagree: Go to the review page and explain why you disagree.
- Renominations: As with deletion discussions, a certain amount of time should pass between repeated requests for deletion review, and these requests should be carefully considered in light of policy. Renominations that lack new arguments or new evidence are likely to be closed quickly.
Process interaction
- Issues that are on the wrong process (e.g. templates on the article-deletion page) are simply moved to the proper one.
- A page on deletion review should not be listed on a deletion discussion page until the review closes, and a page on a deletion discussion page should not be listed on deletion review until the discussion closes.
- Deletion discussion trumps proposed deletion, so for a page listed on both, the former takes precedence.
- Pages that meet the criteria for speedy deletion can be deleted regardless of other circumstances. If a page on a deletion debate is speedied, the debate is closed.
- If it is doubtful whether a page is or is not speedily deletable, a deletion discussion takes precedence. In practice this means that a page that had a deletion discussion resulting in 'keep' or 'no consensus' should not be speedily deleted.
- Pages that violate copyright can be deleted regardless of circumstances or earlier discussion.
Access to deleted pages
Pages which have been deleted can no longer be generally viewed, but temporarily remain in the database and are accessible to administrators, along with their edit history. Any user with a genuine reason to view a copy of a deleted page may request a temporary review. Note that these requests are routinely denied if the content has been deleted on legal grounds (such as defamation or copyright violation), or if no good reason is given for the request.
Courtesy blanking
From time to time, a discussion about an article will have a majority of its content that, in the judgment of the community may potentially cause harm to some person or to some organization. This harm can range from invasion of privacy, libel or emotional distress. Due consideration should be given if the person or organization in question requests such blanking. In order to avoid having such text in the most recent version and thus be indexed by search engines, the debate will be blanked out of courtesy. For AfDs, the entire debate can be replaced with the afd-privacy template; the actual content remains accessible via the edit history. In more serious cases, the entire history of the page may be deleted. Courtesy blanking, history blanking or oversighting should be rare, and should be performed after due consideration is given to fairness issues.
How to do this: Remove all text from the subpage and then add {{subst:courtesy blanking}}; for AfD, use {{subst:afd-privacy|article|result}} with the correct parameters.
See also
- Alternative outlets to recreate deleted articles
- Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- Deletion guidelines for administrators
- Deletion precedents
- Deletion process
- Deletion review guide
- Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
- Guide to deletion
- Introduction to deletion process
- Why was my article deleted?
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