User:Startus/Meta:Deletion policy

Meta-Wiki's deletion policy specifies which content isn't acceptable on meta and how it can be deleted. Deletion is performed by meta admins and this policy acts as a guide to them.

Speedy deletion
It is possible to delete any page which meets any of the following criteria without going through the standard deletion discussion:

Criteria

 * 1) Author request: This includes deletion per request of the author, if the author is the only significant contributor and the page isn't beneficial to Meta.
 * 2) Housekeeping and non-controvertial: Pages which are dependent on deleted or inexistent pages such as talk pages without the corresponding page and subpages without the parent pages, broken redirects, etc
 * 3) Pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of the ban/block.
 * 4) Test pages
 * 5) Vandalism
 * 6) Out of scope: this includes pages which are out of scope to the purpose of meta such as encyclopedic articles.
 * 7) Pages creted on meta instead of users own wiki.
 * 8) Content policy violations: pages which violate the content policy.
 * 9) Advertising and spam.
 * 10) Attack page/page created solely for harassment.
 * 11) Empty categories with no pages in it after 7 days of creation. This excludes the categories which are tagged as emptycat.
 * 12) File available on Miraheze Commons
 * 13) Unlicensed or unsourced files

Discussed deletion
Any page can be nominated for deletion at Deletion requests with any reason.

How to nominate?
The nomination is done by following the below steps: The request will be open for one week and any user can comment on the discussion. After a week, an administrator will determine the consensus and delete or keep the page accordingly.
 * Place delreq on the top of the page and add the page on Deletion requests with the reason to delete.
 * Notify the page creator with delreq-notice.

Undeletion
If a user disagrees with the deletion of page, they can request the undeletion at Deletion requests. Pages which were deleted as the copyright violations, vandalism and attack pages are unlikely to be undeleted. =Comments by users=