Smash Hit Wiki:Rules/Deletion Policy

The rules contain the policy of deletion.

A page should be immediately deleted if it is found unsuitable for the Smash Hit Wiki, including the title. (If the title has some relevance, but the content is irrelevant to Smash Hit, then replace the content with stub as a prompt to restart the page. Alternatively, the admin should just delete the page. (The new editors who want to make the page again will see why it was deleted, including a brief snippet of content.)

Deletion reasons
In the reason for deletion, leave the "content was: content" reason in the box, but you can put another reason in front of it, such as "irrelevant to Smash Hit: content was: content".

For example, using the reason Spam, and then putting irrelevant to Smash Hit in front of the content makes:
 * Spam
 * Irrelevant to Smash Hit: content was: "content"

Marked for deletion
If a page is marked for deletion with the delete template, then consider if the page can be improved upon instead. If the title is relevant to Smash Hit, then consider removing the category and restarting the page (by replacing content with stub first, and then beginning a description of the subject (for example, Cubes was deleted because it was spammed by 72.211.221.109, and then restarted by Commuter.))Note that any editor can do this. If it is complete nonsense, then the page should be deleted (and protected).Only admins can delete the page, just request in the comments if you are a normal editor, or put the template delete directly on the page.

If the page is otherwise relevant to Smash Hit, but was nominated for deletion by a spammy edior who vandalised the page by adding the category:Pages nominated for deletion, then simply use the classic editor or VisualEditor's source editor to take the category away.

Admins should delete:

 * New spammy pages.
 * Pages that cause harrasment/terrorism/vandalism.
 * Pages that can violate the Fandom's ToS/ToU.
 * Messages that can terrorize/vandalize people. (like Emir Mert Kaydu)
 * Fanon pages. (they can be moved to the fanon wiki, they also have the template fanon:)

Pages that can be deleted use this template, delete:
 * Images/videos that are offensive or irrelevant to Smash Hit.
 * Pages nominated for deletion.
 * Nonsense edits. (Delete the page, even if it's relevant to Smash Hit, then select all the good edits, then restore the page, with the reason Removing nonsense edits. The reason can also be used during deletion as well. Uncheck the anonymous user's boxes unless they come from any 260... IP, or 73.162.231.31, 75.8.100.181, 79.184.236.100, 79.184.236.111, 5.173.184.154, 1.157.202.30, 208.80.222.66 or 58.164.80.148.)
 * This can be done after any vandalism, as instead of cluttering page history with the bad edits of the past (and destroying the reputation of the Smash Hit Wiki), the vandal's edits may be complied into an Edit War, to be seen by other spammy editors who would otherwise know what not to do after seeing their user templates and bad edits.

Categories too, with the template deleteCat: (but it's only used on categories with content, otherwise it makes a new category page even with the template. Another way is to just blank the category.)