Editing Appropedia:Deletion

{{Archived notice}}

Some of the suggestions are temporary measures. Later we may use templates similar to [[Wikipedia:Template:Db]] and [[Wikipedia:Template:Db-reason]] (once we have ParserFunctions installed, perhaps, to allow optional arguments?)

== Deleting your own page ==

If you have been working on a page, and then decide it needs to be deleted, check first&mdash;do you need to delete it, or just move it? (Click the move tab at the top of the page.) Or create a [[Wikipedia:meta:Help:Redirect|redirect]] to another page.

If you want to delete, for now the best way to request a page to be deleted is to replace all the text with just the word DELETE. Then a admin or bot will come along and delete the page.

== Proposing the deletion of other people's pages ==

It is proposed that we adopt a "good faith deletion process" where pages are moved to userspace and contributors are engaged in discussion, or at the very least given a clear explanation (this can be done by template, even if the admin or user proposing deletion is busy) rather than simply deleting the page.

For now, if you have concerns about a page, contact an [[Appropedia:Administrators|Admin]] via their talk page. 

== Userfying ==

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We usually prefer not to delete people's work, even if it's unsuitable for Appropedia's [[Appropedia:mainspace|mainspace]]. A friendlier approach is to "userfy" the pages, i.e. to move the page to [[Appropedia:userspace]], as a subpage of the userpage of the main editor.

We may delete the redirect which is created by the move, especially if it's a topic article - this is to prevent someone accidentally landing on an unsuitable page, and not realizing that it might be unsuitable as a regular Appropedia article.

== See also ==

* [[Appropedia:Userfication]]
* [[Appropedia:Quality]]