Justapedia:Deletion policy

See also: Quick guide and forum for requesting deletions and Justapedia:Criteria for deletion

Administrators have broad powers of deletion at their discretion, and can immediately delete articles or media that are wholly inappropriate for inclusion. Although Justapedia is free to use and can be edited by any registered user, it is not public property; editing and creating articles are not a fundamental right. Anyone can request deletion by listing a request at Deletions,

Before nominating a page for deletion, consider whether it could be improved, reduced to a stub, merged or redirected elsewhere, reverted to a better previous revision, or handled in some other way (see Justapedia:Deletion policy § Alternatives to deletion). A page is eligible for deletion only if all of its history is also eligible. Users nominating a page for deletion should specify which criterion/criteria the page meets. Deletion requests are not an invitation for comment by the community of editors; only the article or draft creator or a major contributor may comment. If a page needs to be removed from Justapedia for privacy reasons (e.g. non-public personal information, a child disclosing their age, possible libel), request suppression instead.
An article creator or contributing editor who disagrees with the deletion may state their case on the deletion thread at Help:Deletions and explain why the page should not be deleted.

For articles and drafts first created in Justapedia, the author must be notified of a deletion listing.

Deletions are recorded in the deletion log, and deletion statistics are recorded at Justapedia:Deletion statistics. New articles are deleted for not following Justapedia policies and guidelines.

Administrators also have the ability to undelete pages that were previously deleted. These powers are exercised in accordance with established policies and guidelines.
There are often alternatives to deletion.

Reasons for deletion

Further information: Justapedia:Criteria for deletion

New articles or drafts are deleted for not complying with Justapedia policies and guidelines. Reasons for listing articles for deletion at the Deletion forum include, but are not limited to:

1. Content that meets at least one of the criteria for speedy deletion
2. Copyright violations and other material violating Justapedia's non-free content criteria
3. Vandalism, including inflammatory redirects, pages that exist only to disparage their subject, patent nonsense, or gibberish
4. Advertising or other spam without any relevant or encyclopedic content
5. Content forks (unless a merger or redirect is appropriate)
6. Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources, including neologisms, original theories and conclusions, and hoaxes
7. Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed
8. Articles whose subjects fail to meet the relevant notability guideline (JP:N, JP:GNG, JP:BIO, JP:MUSIC, JP:CORP, and so forth)
9. Articles that breach Justapedia's policy on biographies of living persons
10. Redundant or otherwise useless templates
11. Categories representing overcategorization
12. Files that are unused, obsolete, or violate the non-free policy
13. Any other use of the article, template, project, or user namespace that is contrary to the established separate policy for that namespace
14. Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia

Deletion critera used in Twinkle

A1: No sufficient context to identify the subject . A3: No content whatsoever A7: No indication of importance (person) A7: No indication of importance (musician(s) or band) A7: No indication of importance (club, society or group) A7: No indication of importance (company or organization) A7: No indication of importance (website or web content) A7: No indication of importance (individual animal) A7: No indication of importance (organized event) A9: Musical recording where artist's article doesn't exist A10: Article that duplicates an existing topic A11: Made up by creator, and no claim of significance G1: Patent nonsense. Incoherent text or gibberish G2: Test page G3: Pure vandalism G3: Blatant hoax G4: Recreation of previously deleted material G5: Created by a banned or blocked user G6: Copy-and-paste page move G6: Housekeeping and non-controversial cleanup G7: Author requests deletion G8: Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page G10: Attack page G10: Wholly negative, unsourced BLP G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement G14: Unnecessary disambiguation page

Alternatives to Deletion

Merging

Articles that are short and unlikely to be expanded may benefit from being merged into larger articles or lists instead of being deleted. For example, information about family members of a celebrity who are not otherwise notable is generally included in, or merged into, the article on that celebrity. Pages about non-notable fictional elements are generally merged into list articles or articles covering the work of fiction in which they appear.

If two pages are near duplicates or otherwise redundant, one should be blanked, any usable content merged and redirected to the other, using the most common, or more general page name. This does not require deletion.

Note that an outcome of "merge and delete" may potentially cause licensing problems if attribution for the merged content is lost in the process. The guide Justapedia:Merge and delete discusses this, whereas the guide Justapedia:Delete or merge discusses a different case that causes no such licensing problems.

Redirection

A page can be blanked and redirected if there is a suitable page to redirect to, and if the resulting redirect is not inappropriate. If the change is disputed via a reversion, an attempt should be made to reach a consensus before blank-and-redirecting again. Suitable venues for doing so include the article's talk page and the forum at Deletions.

Undeletion

"JP:UDP" redirects here. For undisclosed paid editing, see Justapedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

In the case of pages deleted as a result of summary decisions, undeletion may be requested at Ask an Admin. It serves two primary functions: the restoration of content deleted without discussion, and the userfication of content that is unfit for restoration.

Other issues

Access to deleted pages

Further information: Justapedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages

Deleted pages look like this to administrators

Because many deleted articles are found to contain defamatory or other legally suspect material, deleted pages are not permitted to be generally viewed. However, they remain in the database (at least temporarily) and are accessible to administrators, along with their edit history unless they are oversighted, a form of enhanced deletion which, unlike normal deletion, expunges information from any form of usual access even by administrators.

Revision deletion

It is possible to delete some parts of a page's history, while leaving the current revision of the page intact, so that readers are unaware of the partial deletion (unless they attempt to visit a deleted old page revision). Administrators have access to the Revision Deletion tool, which makes it possible for them to remove selected old revisions of a page (and/or edit summaries or user names). The Revision Deletion policy strictly covers the circumstances in which this is permitted.