Abstract Wikipedia:Deletion policy
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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 Abstract Wikipedia.
Deletion of an Abstract 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 (well, global sysops/stewards, as we have no administrators) can perform deletion, view deleted pages, and reverse ("undelete") any deletion. All such actions (other than viewing) are recorded in the deletion log. If in doubt as to whether there is consensus to delete a page, administrators will not normally delete it.
Reasons for deletion
[edit source]- Copyright violations
- Vandalism
- Advertising or spam
- Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed
- Articles with subjects that fail notability guidelines
- Biographies of living people that fail verifiability
- Redundant or otherwise useless templates
- Categories representing overcategorization
- Any other use of the article, template, project, or user namespace that is contrary to the established separate policy for that namespace
- Articles that interfere with or cause disruption to the software that powers Abstract Wikipedia or WMF infrastructure
- Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia
Processes
[edit source]Copyright violations
[edit source]For legal reasons, Abstract Wikipedia cannot host copyright violations. Just because text has been converted to Abstract Form does not mean the author loses the copyright, unless it is a basic statement of fact.
Copyright violations may be deleted by any administrator regardless of discussion. If you discover a copyright violation, report it on the deletion requests page or on the administrators' noticeboard.
Before deleting a page due to copyright violations, consider removing the copyright violation from the page history if any of the page content is salvageable. Also consider contacting the owner of the work and see if they are willing to release the work under an applicable license or into the public domain.
Speedy deletion
[edit source]Pages that are obvious and unambiguous violations of deletion reasons 2 through 3 and 9 through 11 are eligible for speedy deletion. Any administrator can delete any page that is eligible for speedy deletion.
Deletion discussion
[edit source]In all other cases, deletion occurs through a discussion at Abstract Wikipedia:Requests for deletion. The nominator of a page for deletion must inform the creator of the page upon nominating the article for deletion. If there is a consensus to remove the article, the article will be deleted, otherwise it will be kept.