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| − | Only certain articles may be allowed to appear on Resident Evil Wiki. Pages created for offence or spam purposes will be deleted. |
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| − | ==Redirecting== |
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| + | Generally articles may be immediately deleted when they are either |
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| − | The ability to delete an article rest solely with administrators. However, when one is needed but not present, a user can take action to a small extent. |
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| + | *Pages created just to vandalize or disrupt |
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| + | *Patent nonsense (total gibberish) |
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| + | *Unused duplicate images |
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| + | In other cases, there are more things to consider. |
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| − | By reporting a page to a Wikia staff member, such pages will be removed. Another, quicker way would be to redirect. |
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| + | == Deciding whether to delete == |
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| − | By redirecting to this page, it would stop the page in question from appearing in the [[Special:Wantedpages|Wantedpages]], where it may be re-created. |
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| + | # Whether a "rough consensus" has been achieved |
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| + | # Use common sense and respect the judgment and feelings of Wiki participants. |
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| + | # When in doubt, don't delete. |
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| + | == On deleting pages == |
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| − | For administrators, this redirect method would require the page be removed after the wantedpages is re-cached. |
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| + | Here are some guidelines sysops should follow in making the decision to delete a page or not. |
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| + | # When deleting a page, one may or may not want to delete its talk page or any subpages as well. If the talk page is ''not'' deleted, put a link to the deletion discussion thread on the talk page. |
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| + | # Simply deleting a page does ''not'' automatically delete its talk page. If you delete these as well, do that first, and then the main page. |
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| − | Users and IPs who feel a page is unneeded, for instance; vandalism. |
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| + | # When filling in the "Reason for deletion" text, ensure that the following is ''not'' included: |
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| + | #* Any copyright infringing text |
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| + | #* Personal information, e.g. ''<nowiki>content was: 'John Doe smells bad and his home phone # is (481) 555-2416</nowiki>'' |
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| + | # Don't delete pages unless you know how to undelete as well. |
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| + | # Redirects to deleted pages should be deleted or redirected elsewhere to avoid broken redirects. |
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| + | # If an article title needs to be deleted, but some of the content could be used in a different (existing) article, proceed as follows: move the article from <span style="color:blue;">really silly article title</span> to a <span style="color:blue;">better title</span>, in order to preserve the history. Next, copy the content to the <span style="color:blue;">existing article</span>, with an edit comment like ''(moved content from really silly article title - see the page history of better title for author attribution)''. The <span style="color:blue;">really silly article title</span> will then be a redirect with no page history which can be deleted. <span style="color:blue;">better title</span> would then be changed to redirect to <span style="color:blue;">existing article</span>. |
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| + | ==Things to remember== |
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| − | <nowiki>{{Delete|Vandalism}}</nowiki> |
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| + | *Articles & other pages can be undeleted, however once images are deleted, they are '''completely lost''', including all past versions. Please take this into consideration when thinking about deleting an image. |
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| + | *Excessive and/or unjustified deleting can result in loss of [[Resident Evil Wiki:Administrators|sysop]] powers. |
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| + | == See also == |
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| − | This coding produces this: |
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| + | * [[:Category:Candidates for deletion]] |
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| + | * [[Special:Log/delete|Deletion log]] |
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| + | [[Category:Candidates for deletion| ]] |
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| − | {{Delete|Vandalism}} |
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| − | Although it will be categorised as a page for deletion, the actual removal of such article will still rest with an administrators decision. |
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Deletion Policy[]
Generally articles may be immediately deleted when they are either
- Pages created just to vandalize or disrupt
- Patent nonsense (total gibberish)
- Unused duplicate images
In other cases, there are more things to consider.
Deciding whether to delete[]
- Whether a "rough consensus" has been achieved
- Use common sense and respect the judgment and feelings of Wiki participants.
- When in doubt, don't delete.
On deleting pages[]
Here are some guidelines sysops should follow in making the decision to delete a page or not.
- When deleting a page, one may or may not want to delete its talk page or any subpages as well. If the talk page is not deleted, put a link to the deletion discussion thread on the talk page.
- Simply deleting a page does not automatically delete its talk page. If you delete these as well, do that first, and then the main page.
- When filling in the "Reason for deletion" text, ensure that the following is not included:
- Any copyright infringing text
- Personal information, e.g. content was: 'John Doe smells bad and his home phone # is (481) 555-2416
- Don't delete pages unless you know how to undelete as well.
- Redirects to deleted pages should be deleted or redirected elsewhere to avoid broken redirects.
- If an article title needs to be deleted, but some of the content could be used in a different (existing) article, proceed as follows: move the article from really silly article title to a better title, in order to preserve the history. Next, copy the content to the existing article, with an edit comment like (moved content from really silly article title - see the page history of better title for author attribution). The really silly article title will then be a redirect with no page history which can be deleted. better title would then be changed to redirect to existing article.
Things to remember[]
- Articles & other pages can be undeleted, however once images are deleted, they are completely lost, including all past versions. Please take this into consideration when thinking about deleting an image.
- Excessive and/or unjustified deleting can result in loss of sysop powers.