| Revision as of 03:28, 11 August 2010 editProtonk (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers24,727 edits →Procedure for AfD: shorten, no need to replicate process. RM comment about NAC speedy keeps. All SK are by definition non-controversial, it is a housekeeping close. RW last section← Previous edit | Revision as of 03:29, 11 August 2010 edit undoProtonk (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers24,727 edits move SNOW to its own section.Next edit → | ||
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| # <span id="policy" />The page is a policy or guideline. The deletion processes are not a forum for revoking policy. | # <span id="policy" />The page is a policy or guideline. The deletion processes are not a forum for revoking policy. | ||
| # The article is currently linked from the ]. In such a case, please use ] to have the link removed before nominating the article. | # The article is currently linked from the ]. In such a case, please use ] to have the link removed before nominating the article. | ||
| ⚫ | ] is a valid keep criterion for an ''early'' close, and is not subject to any of the other criteria necessary for speedy keep, but its use is sometimes discouraged. | ||
| If a page is nominated for deletion on the wrong forum (for example, a template on ] or an article on ]), the misplaced discussion may be speedily closed and the page renominated on the correct forum, with the original nomination, and any comments made so far, copied over to the new nomination. The closing comment should indicate where the discussion has been moved. This does not strictly count as a speedy keep, since the page still remains nominated for deletion. | If a page is nominated for deletion on the wrong forum (for example, a template on ] or an article on ]), the misplaced discussion may be speedily closed and the page renominated on the correct forum, with the original nomination, and any comments made so far, copied over to the new nomination. The closing comment should indicate where the discussion has been moved. This does not strictly count as a speedy keep, since the page still remains nominated for deletion. | ||
| Please realize that while you may personally dislike having a deletion tag on your favorite article, the harm it does is minimal, and either the article and/or the tag will be gone in less than a week. | Please realize that while you may personally dislike having a deletion tag on your favorite article, the harm it does is minimal, and either the article and/or the tag will be gone in less than a week. | ||
| ===What is not a speedy-keep=== | |||
| ⚫ | ] is a valid keep criterion for an ''early'' close, and is not subject to any of the other criteria necessary for speedy keep, but its use is sometimes discouraged. Specifically, a "snow close" is not a speedy keep close and the two should not be confused. | ||
| ==When closing an AfD debate as speedy-keep== | ==When closing an AfD debate as speedy-keep== | ||
Revision as of 03:29, 11 August 2010
 | This page documents an English Misplaced Pages deletion guideline. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page. | Shortcuts |
- WP:KEEP is a deletion guide on entire articles. For the editing policy about keeping information in an article, see WP:PRESERVE.
- WP:SK redirects here; you may be looking for Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Slovakia or Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Saskatchewan.
Speedy keep is the process of closing debates at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion and related pages with a result of "keep" before the normal discussion period ends, but without unlisting or deleting the actual discussion. This guideline applies only to "keep" closures; the criteria for speedy deletion cover the circumstances under which pages may be deleted immediately.
Applicability
Reasons for a speedy keep decision are:
- There are zero remaining arguments for deletion:
- No one other than the nominator recommends that the page be deleted, and
- The nominator withdraws the nomination or fails to advance an argument for deletion—perhaps only proposing a non-deletion action such as moving or merging.
- An example of this includes posting a nomination in response to a proposed deletion but advocating a keep position. (If you dispute the deletion of a prod-ed article, just remove the prod-tag, sometimes nobody will want to pursue deletion of the article via AFD anyway.)
- The nomination was unquestionably vandalism or disruption and nobody unrelated recommends deleting it (since calling a nomination vandalism does not make it so, and vandals can be correct). For example:
- obviously frivolous or vexatious nominations (such as recently featured articles)
- nominations which are made solely to provide a forum for disruption (e.g., a userpage of a contestant in a heated edit war by their opponent(s) solely for harassment)
- making nominations of the same article with the same arguments after they were strongly rejected
- nominations that are clearly an attempt to end an editing dispute through deletion, where dispute resolution is a more appropriate course
- nominations which are so erroneous that they indicate that the nominator has not even read the article in question
- The nominator is banned, so they are not supposed to edit. In that case, the nominated page is speedily kept while the nomination can be tagged with {{db-ban}} and speedily deleted as a banned contribution. However, if subsequent editors added substantive comments in good faith before the nominator's banned status was discovered, the nomination may not be speedily closed (though the nominator's opinion will be discounted in the closure decision).
- The page is a policy or guideline. The deletion processes are not a forum for revoking policy.
- The article is currently linked from the Main Page. In such a case, please use Misplaced Pages:Main Page/Errors to have the link removed before nominating the article.
If a page is nominated for deletion on the wrong forum (for example, a template on AfD or an article on MfD), the misplaced discussion may be speedily closed and the page renominated on the correct forum, with the original nomination, and any comments made so far, copied over to the new nomination. The closing comment should indicate where the discussion has been moved. This does not strictly count as a speedy keep, since the page still remains nominated for deletion.
Please realize that while you may personally dislike having a deletion tag on your favorite article, the harm it does is minimal, and either the article and/or the tag will be gone in less than a week.
What is not a speedy-keep
WP:SNOW is a valid keep criterion for an early close, and is not subject to any of the other criteria necessary for speedy keep, but its use is sometimes discouraged. Specifically, a "snow close" is not a speedy keep close and the two should not be confused.
When closing an AfD debate as speedy-keep
When a discussion is closed as a speedy-keep:
- Close the debate as you would a standard close.
- Record the nomination to the talk page of the article using {{oldafdfull|result=speedy keep|votepage=as appropriate|date=date of nomination}}. Be aware (a) that whilst the name of the votepage usually matches that of the article, this is not always the case); and (b) the prefix "Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion" should not be part of the "votepage" name.