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  reason in the box, but you can put another reason in front of it, such as.

For example, using the reason, and then putting  note that  don't work until the reason is confirmed in front of the content, after deletion makes (during deletion):

which comes out as:

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/Expand first, and then beginning a description of the subject (for example,  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. It looks like:

If the page is otherwise relevant to Smash Hit, but was nominated for deletion by a spammy editor 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.

Pages that should be deleted

 * New, spam/gibberish-only pages.
 * Pages that cause harassment/terrorism/threats/vandalism. (like  page made by one of the Mouse Katya (Mышкa Кaтя) users)
 * Pages that can violate the Fandom's ToU.
 * Messages that can terrorize/vandalize/threaten people. (like Emir Mert Kaydu's messages)
 * Fanon pages. (they can be moved to the fanon wiki, they also have the template fanon, displayed below)

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 . The reason can also be used during deletion as well. Uncheck the anonymous user's boxes unless they come from trusted anonymous editors, e.g. 260... IPs, 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, 97.115.143.112, 109.120.249.86, 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.
 * Unused or nonsense redirects. (e.g. from pagemoves done by vandals)

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.)

Do not delete (straightaway)
Note that these pages can be slow-deleted if needed.
 * Pages with titles relevant to Smash Hit. (Blank the page and use Stub, Expand or PageWanted instead.)
 * Pages with content relevant to Smash Hit, that just have a nonsense title. (Move the page to the appropriate title instead.)
 * Opinion-only pages. (Rewrite the page, or if it is from a single user's point of view, to a blog post.