Project:Deletion policy

Also known as Wikipedia:Deletion policy, deletion policy

overall policy about deletion (including speedy deletion, proposed deletion, and discussed deletion)

AI overview

Project:Deletion policy is a set of rules that governs how content on a wiki project can be removed when it no longer meets quality or relevance standards. It matters because it provides a fair and transparent process for deciding what stays and what goes, protecting the project from spam and low-quality material while giving content creators a chance to defend their work.

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topic's main category: Category:Wikipedia deletion
partially coincident with: Wikipedia:Guide to deletion

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Encyclopedic overview

The deletion policy describes how articles, media, and other pages that do not meet the relevant criteria for content of the encyclopedia are identified and removed from Wikipedia. On Wikipedia, many pages are deleted each day through the processes outlined below.

Deletion of a Wikipedia article removes the current version and all previous versions from public view. Page blanking can be performed (or reverted) by any user, but only administrators can perform deletion, view deleted pages, and reverse ("undelete") any deletion. All such actions (other than viewing) are recorded in the deletion log, and deletion statistics are recorded at Wikipedia:Deletion statistics. If in doubt as to whether there is consensus to delete a page, administrators will not normally delete it.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Project:Deletion policy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Project:Deletion policy

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