This is a documentation subpage for Template:Article for deletion. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should always be substituted (i.e., use ((subst:Article for deletion))). Any accidental transclusions will be automatically substituted by a bot.

If you plan to make breaking changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's users and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy, as the standard installation of Twinkle adds and removes this template. Thank you!

If you plan to make breaking changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify XFDcloser's users and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:XFDcloser as a courtesy, as this template is used in the standard installation of XFDcloser. Thank you!

If you plan to make breaking changes to this template, move it, change scope, or nominate it for deletion or deprecation, please notify the Article Alerts project at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts as a courtesy, as this page is used by the AAlertBot bot to detect and report pages. Thank you!

This template will categorise articles into Category:Articles for deletion. This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.

This template should always be substituted onto pages it appears on, because it requires that the ((PAGENAME)) variable be substituted. (This is so that the link to the AFD discussion does not break when the page is renamed during AFD discussions.) If this template is not substituted, a warning message will be shown instead.

This template results in 3 lines of wikitext that make use of ((AfDM)).

Usage

For proposed deletion, use ((proposed deletion)) or ((prod)). WP:PROD takes load off WP:AFD and should always be used instead, if reasonable.

((subst:article for deletion)) or ((subst:afd))

This template will place a notice that the page has been nominated for deletion. It should be placed at the top of the page and substituted.

((subst:afd|Weather in London)) ((subst:afd|Weather in London (2nd nomination)))

The parameter will link to a specific AFD discussion sub-page. Use this for linking multiple articles to a single AFD discussion page (bulk nominations) or for re-nominations of articles that have already been nominated for deletion before. (For the latter purpose, the ((afdx)) template can also be used. )