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Deletion guidelines for administrators

Here are some guidelines that those tasked with permanently deleting pages can generally be expected to follow in making the decision to delete a page or not:

1. As a general rule, don't delete pages you nominate for deletion. Let someone else do it.
2. Simply deleting a page does not automatically delete its talk page or any subpages. Please delete these pages first, and then the main page. Also, if you delete a page, remove it from the list as well.
3. Use common sense and respect the judgment and feelings of Misplaced Pages participants.
4. When in doubt, don't delete.
5. Do not delete a page containing a personal essay or other content from the main article namespace without first posting a copy elsewhere (e.g., in a different namespace or on the meta), unless the content is simply vandalism. Misplaced Pages is not a repository for all manner of nonsense that happens to be posted. To be clear, however, a good faith attempt to write an encyclopedia article, no matter how poorly worded, biased, or otherwise flawed, will not be considered vandalism.
6. Copyright: See Misplaced Pages:Copyrights for deletion policy on copyright infringement (and m:Misplaced Pages and copyright issues and m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia for perspective).
7. When deleting articles, consider whether they should be on our list of requested articles.
8. Don't delete pages unless you know how to undelete as well! See wikipedia:votes for undeletion.
9. Redirects to deleted pages should be deleted or redirected elsewhere to avoid broken redirects.