Help:Deleting Pages

Deleting pages is done by administrators. If the value of some content is questionable, then it is put up for debate among administrators. Following are some guidelines for deleting pages:


 * 1) Pages with no meaningful content.
 * 2) Test pages (e.g., "Can I really create a page here?").
 * 3) Pure vandalism, including redirects created during cleanup of page move vandalism.
 * 4) Banned user. Pages created by banned users while they were banned.
 * 5) Housekeeping. Non-controversial maintenance tasks such as temporarily deleting a page to merge page histories, or performing a non-controversial page move like reversing a redirect.
 * 6) Any page for which deletion is requested by the original author in good faith, 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.
 * 7) Pages that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject or some other entity (e.g., "John Q. Doe is an imbecile").
 * 8) Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group, service, or person.
 * 9) Blatant copyright infringement.