User:Rd232/speedydraft
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This page sets out the speedy deletion policy of Wikimedia Commons, explaining how to request or deal with speedy deletion. This page does not explain copyright or licensing issues; for such information, please see Commons:Licensing.
The criteria for speedy deletion specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus support to, at their discretion, bypass deletion discussions and immediately delete files or pages. They cover only the cases specified in the rules below.
Administrators should take care not to speedy delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases. If a page has survived a prior deletion discussion, it should not be speedy deleted except for newly discovered copyright violations. Contributors sometimes create pages over several edits, so administrators should avoid deleting a page that appears incomplete too soon after its creation.
There is strong consensus that the creators and major contributors of pages and files should be warned of a speedy deletion nomination; if you tagged any content for speedy deletion, be sure to notify its creator.
Namespace-specific
[edit](Gallery)
[edit]- 1. Gallery without images or other media files.
- Mainspace pages (galleries) that are empty or contain no useful content, such as pages that contain text but no images or other media.
- 2. Gallery created by mistake.
- User intended to create a category, userpage, or other page, but a typo or misplaced character(s) in the prefix prevented the content from being the intended type. In particular, note that the prefix must be in English.
- 3. User intended to create encyclopedic content.
- Page intended to be an encyclopedic article. Articles and biographies belong to the Wikipedia projects, and are out of Commons's project scope.
- 4. Promotional content.
- Mainspace content is of no apparent use or value, and is intended to promote a business, person, or other entity. Such content is out of the project scope.
Under Commons:Deletion policy this requires regular deletion.
Category
[edit]- 1. Empty category.
- The category is unpopulated/empty. Categories that are empty are subject to speedy deletion. Users may request the deleting administrator to restore the deleted "empty category" if they are no longer empty. This does not apply to maintenance and project categories that are routinely emptied.
- Current Commons:Deletion policy:
Categories that are empty because all of the files they included were deleted can generally be deleted as well.
- 2. Renamed or duplicate category.
- Categories that are renamed, or those that duplicate an existing, may be redirected to the new category, or deleted. See Rename a category#Should the old category be deleted?
Under current Commons:Deletion policy, these cases would need to be listed at Commons:Categories for discussion.
- 3. Improperly named category.
- Improperly named categories, or categories that violates the basic naming conventions, may be speedily deleted. See Rename a category#Should the old category be deleted?
Under current Commons:Deletion policy, these cases would need to be listed at Commons:Categories for discussion, unless it's a misspelling, in which case {{Bad name}} may be used.
Commons
[edit]- 1. Improperly filled or routinely emptied deletion request or log.
- This includes Deletion Requests (DRs) that are corrupted or incorrect and cannot be fixed. Or redundant DRs for pages that are eligible for speedy deletion; this requires either formally closing the DR in order to both close the DR and have the bot remove it from the log, or deleting the DR page and removing the daily log entry. Deletion logs are also routinely emptied as discussions are closed, when empty they may be deleted immediately. Note that this does not apply to DR archives, which are separate from the working logs.
File
[edit]- 1.
ApparentObvious copyright violation.
{{Copyvio}} for obvious copyright violations. Use {{copyvio|Reason}} or {{copyvio|source=URL}} to explain why it's a copyright violation.
- 2. Fair use content.
- Fair use content. Such content is not allowed on Wikimedia Commons and is subjected to speedy deletion. Where possible, moving the file to a Wikimedia project that accepts fair use content is encouraged, especially if the file has been erroneously moved to Commons from such a project.
{{Fair use}} for files that have been tagged with a fair use rationale.
- 3. Derivative work of non-free content.
- Derivative works based on non-free content (such as screenshots of non-free content). This does not include Freedom of panorama cases.
Current Commons:Deletion policy does not mention derivative works specifically.
- 4. Failed license review.
- License review concluded that the recently uploaded content is based on a non-free license, disallowing commercial use and/or derivative works. Files tagged by OTRS Reviewers as having insufficient permission, or files tagged with OTRS pending for over 30 days, may also be speedily deleted under this criteria.
Current Commons:Deletion policy does not cover these cases specifically.
- 5. Missing essential information.
- The file is missing essential information, such as a license, permission, or source. Such content may be given a grace period of seven days (since tagging) before being deleted.
Per Commons:Deletion policy, such files are currently tagged and given 7 days grace. (See Commons:Deletion_policy#Missing_legal_information.) Marked red because may is substantially weaker than the current policy, which treats 7 days' grace as a fact.
- 6. License laundering.
- Content uploaded via license laundering techniques. Users uploading in such techniques may be subjected to their account being temporarily or permanently blocked.
Current Commons:Deletion policy does not cover these cases specifically.
- 7. File is empty.
- The file-namespace is empty. Empty file-pages are subjected to uncontroversial speedy deletion, unless they are being used as redirects.
Current Commons:Deletion policy only covers empty pages.
- 8. Exact or scaled-down duplicate.
- The file is an exact or scaled-down duplicate of an older existing file. The generally accepted rule is to delete the newer duplicate, but that may not always be the case, such as when comparing between a user uploaded file, and a bot uploaded file.
Template
[edit]- 1. Duplicate template.
- A recently created template that duplicates an existing older template.
- Current Commons:Deletion policy does not cover this.
- 2. Unused template
- Unused templates (except maintenance/project templates that are substituted), are subjected to speedy deletion.
- Current Commons:Deletion policy does not cover this.
User
[edit]- 1. User requested deletion in own userspace.
- User requested deletion of their own userpage or user-subpage. Userpages that are blanked by the user may also be deleted under this criterion.
- 2. Userpage of a non-existent user.
- Userspace of non-existent user. Redirects may be created (and protected) for those usernames of which the account was renamed.
- 3. Inappropriate use of userpages.
- Inappropriate use of userpages. These include userpages that contains purely advertising or promotional material, or those that are created with the intention of harassment or attack. Those that contain gibberish or unrecognisable content may also be deleted under this criteria.
- Current Commons:Deletion policy requires regular deletion, except cases which might fall under "Patent nonsense, a test or vandalism.", for which {{Speedydelete}} is available.
- 4. Userpage of indefinitely blocked user.
- The user owning this userpage is indefinitely blocked.
- Current Commons:Deletion policy does not cover this.
General reasons
[edit]- 1. Test page, accidental creation, or page containing nonsense or no valid content.
- Page contains redundant content that was previously used for testing, or was accidentally created, or contains content that is gibberish or of nothing meaningful. This may include text or messages placed in talkpages (which has no further history) that doesn't help or refer to the related page.
- 2. Unused and implausible, or broken redirects.
- Page is an unused and implausible, or a redirect that is dependant on deleted or non-existent content. Unused talkpage redirects that was created as a result of a page move, or cross-namespace redirects, may also be deleted under this criteria.
- Current Commons:Deletion policy only has "A redirect to a nonexistent page." covered by {{Speedydelete}} use.
- 3. Content intended as vandalism, threat, or attack.
- Content that is posted with the intention of causing damage, or with the intention of threatening, harassing, or attacking another person or user. Users that commit such acts are subjected to their accounts being temporarily or permanently blocked, depending on the severity of the content. Content posted with the intention of creating/spreading hoaxes may also be deleted under this criteria.
- 4. Recreation of content previously deleted per community consensus.
- Page or file matches content that was previously deleted per community consensus. Repeated recreation of such content may lead to the user's account being blocked. The author or uploader may ask the deleting administrator to restore the file, or file an Undeletion Request.
- 5. Temporary deletion for history cleaning or revision suppression.
- Content temporarily deleted to remove specific revisions containing vandalism, threats/attacks, or personal information. Content may also be temporarily deleted to perform a history merge or split.
- 6. Uncontroversial maintenance.
- Content temporarily deleted to make way for page move, or other uncontroversial maintenance tasks that require temporary or permanent deletion.
- 7. Author or uploader request deletion.
- Original uploader or author requests deletion of recently created (<7 days) unused page or file. Author/uploader requests for deletion of content that are in use should be files at the Deletion Requests page. Older content (>7 days) may not be speedily deleted per author/uploader requests, as they may be used by external websites and would thus not show up in Special:GlobalUsage. Such content would also require a Deletion Request.
- 8. Page dependent on deleted or non-existent content.
- The page or file depends on content that was deleted or no longer existing. Orphaned talkpages without useful content may also be deleted under this criteria.
- 9. Office actions.
- Criteria reserved for office actions. The Wikimedia Foundation office reserves the right to speedily delete content temporarily or permanently in cases of exceptional circumstances. No administrator may delete content citing this criteria, unless they are officially part of the Wikimedia Staff. Deletions of this type should not be reversed without permission from the Foundation.