RetroTechCollection:Deletion policy
 | This page is a RetroTechCollection policy. All editors should follow it. Propose changes on the Village Pump before making them. |
Pages and files on RetroTechCollection are deleted by administrators. A deleted page is hidden from readers but kept in the database, so an administrator can restore it. Every deletion is recorded, with the reason, in the deletion log.
Speedy deletion
[edit source]Pages that clearly meet one of the criteria below can be deleted without discussion. Any editor can nominate a page with Twinkle's CSD tool (see RetroTechCollection:TW); an administrator checks the nomination and deletes the page.
| Code | Criterion | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | Patent nonsense | Pages consisting entirely of incoherent text |
| G2 | Test page | Pages created for testing |
| G3 | Pure vandalism | Pages created as vandalism, with nothing worth keeping |
| G4 | Recreation of deleted content | Pages substantially identical to a previously deleted page |
| G5 | Banned user | Pages created by banned users in violation of their ban |
| G6 | Housekeeping | Uncontroversial technical deletions, such as broken redirects and orphaned talk pages |
| G7 | Author request | Deletion requested by the author, where no one else has edited significantly |
| G8 | Pages dependent on a deleted page | Talk pages, subpages and redirects of deleted pages |
| G10 | Attack page | Pages that exist only to disparage or threaten |
| G11 | Unambiguous advertising | Pages that exist only to promote a product or organisation |
| G12 | Copyright infringement | Pages copied from a copyrighted source without citing it, where the citation cannot be added |
| A1 | No meaningful content | Very short articles with no useful information |
| A2 | No context | Articles without enough context to identify the subject |
| A3 | No content | Articles with only external links, categories or templates |
| R1 | Redirect to a page that does not exist | |
| R2 | Redirect from an implausible typo |
Other deletions
[edit source]Where deletion is not clear-cut, raise it on the page's talk page or on the Village Pump first, so that others can comment before an administrator decides. Often a page can be merged into another or turned into a redirect instead.
Files
[edit source]Files are deleted when a copyright holder asks for their removal (see RetroTechCollection:Copyright violations), when copyrighted material has no citation and none can be found, or as housekeeping. Before deleting a file, administrators check which pages use it.
If your page was deleted
[edit source]The deletion log gives the administrator's name and the reason. Ask that administrator on their talk page to explain the deletion or restore the page.