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Before listing an article for deletion here, consider whether a more efficient alternative is appropriate:
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Articles for discussion (AfD) is where Wikipedians discuss whether an article should be deleted. Articles listed are debated for at least seven days, after which the deletion process proceeds based on community consensus. Then the page may be kept, merged or redirected, transwikied (copied to another Wikimedia project), renamed/moved to another title, userfied to a user subpage, or deleted per the deletion policy.
This page explains what you should consider before nominating, the steps for nominating, and how to discuss an AfD. It also links to the lists of current debates, and two companion processes to AfD: Wikipedia:Speedy deletion has a clearly-defined set of criteria such as such as vandalism and patent nonsense. whereas Wikipedia:Proposed deletion is used to suggest discussions that no editor would contest.
If you want to nominate an article, the Wikipedia deletion policy explains the criteria for discussion, and may help you understand when an article should be nominated for discussion. The guide to deletion explains the discussion process. If an article meets the criteria for discussion and you understand the process, consult the instructions below. If you are unsure whether a page should be nominated for discussion, or if you need more help, try this page's talk page or Wikipedia's help desk.
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This section describes how to list articles and their associated talk pages for deletion. For pages that are not articles, list them at other appropriate deletion venues or use copyright violation where applicable. As well, note that deletion may not be needed for problems such as pages written in foreign languages, duplicate pages, and other cases. Use Wikipedia:Proposed mergers for discussion of mergers.
Only a registered, logged-in user can complete steps II and III. (Autoconfirmed registered users can also use the Twinkle tool to make nominations.) If you are unregistered, you should complete step I, note the justification for deletion on the article's talk page, then post a message at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion requesting that someone else complete the process.
You must sign in to nominate pages for deletion. If you do not sign-in, or you edit anonymously, you will get stuck part way through the nomination procedure.
I – Put the deletion tag on the article.
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II – Create the article's deletion discussion page.
The resulting AfD box at the top of the article should contain a link to "Preloaded debate" in the AfD page. Click that link to open the article's deletion discussion page for editing. Some text and instructions will appear. You can do it manually as well:
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III – Notify users who monitor AfD discussions.
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While it is sufficient to list an article for discussion at AfD, nominators and others sometimes want to attract more attention from and participation by informed editors. Keep in mind that all such efforts must comply with Wikipedia's guideline against biased canvassing.
To encourage participation by less experienced editors you should avoid Wikipedia-specific abbreviations in the messages you leave about the discussion, link to any relevant policies or guidelines, and link to the AfD discussion page itself. If you are recommending that an article be speedily deleted, please give the criterion that it meets, such as "A7" or "biography not asserting importance". Unless it is obvious from the page's title, the nomination should also indicate what the nominated article is about (e.g., "Broda Otto Barnes, a physician that developed a now-discredited idea about thyroid function").
Once listed, discussion discussions can, optionally, also be transcluded into an appropriate Deletion sorting category, such as the ones for actors, music, academics, or for specific countries. Since many people watch discussion sorting pages for subject areas that particularly interest them, including your recent AfD listing on one of these pages helps attract people familiar with a particular topic area. Please see the the complete list of categories.
Many projects have subscribed to Wikipedia's article alerts service, a fully automated program that keeps track of AfD discussions for subscribed projects. Projects that have not subscribed may welcome a brief, neutral note on their project's talk page about the AfD.
While not required, it is generally considered courteous to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the articles that you are nominating for discussion. Do not notify bot accounts, people who have made only insignificant 'minor' edits, or people who have never edited the article. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the article and/or use Duesentrieb's ActiveUsers tool or Wikipedia Page History Statistics. For your convenience, you may use these neutrally worded notification templates:
((subst:AFDWarningNew|Article title)) ~~~~
((subst:AFDWarning|Article title)) ~~~~
((subst:Adw|Article title)) ~~~~
((subst:AFDNote|Article title)) ~~~~
Sometimes you will find a number of related articles, all of which you feel should be deleted together. To make it easier for those participating in the discussion, it may be helpful to bundle all of them together into a single nomination. However, for group nominations it is often a good idea to only list one article at afd and see how it goes, before listing an entire group.
Examples of when articles may be bundled into a single nomination:
If any of the articles you are considering for bundling could stand on its own merits, then it should be nominated separately. Or to put it more succinctly, if you are unsure of whether to bundle an article or not, do not.
For the sake of clarity, debates should be bundled only at the start or near the start of the debate, before most of the discussion.
To bundle articles for discussion, follow these steps:
I. | Nominate the first article for discussion.
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II. | Nominate the remaining articles.
On each of the remaining articles, at the top insert the following:
Replace PageName with the name of the first page to be deleted, not the current page name. In other words, if Some article was the first article you nominated, replace PageName with Some article. As before, please include the phrase "AfD: Nominated for discussion; see [[Wikipedia:Articles for discussion/PageName]]" in the edit summary (again replacing PageName with the first page to be deleted), and do not mark the edit as minor. Save the page. Repeat for all articles to be bundled. (If the article has been nominated before, use ((subst:afdx)) instead of ((subst:afd1)), and replace "PageName" with the name of the page plus a note like "(second nomination)" for a second nomination, etc. See Template talk:Afdx for details.) |
III. | Add the remaining articles to the nomination.
Go to the first article's discussion discussion page,
In the edit summary, note that you are bundling related articles for discussion. |
AfDs are a place for rational discussion of whether an article is able to meet Wikipedia’s article guidelines and policies. Reasonable editors will often disagree, but valid arguments will be given more weight than unsupported statements. When an editor offers arguments or evidence that do not explain how the article meets/violates policy, they may only need a reminder to engage in constructive, on-topic discussion. But a pattern of groundless opinion, proof by assertion, and ignoring content guidelines may become disruptive. If a pattern of disruptive behavior persists after efforts are made to correct the situation through dialogue, please consider a dispute resolution process outside the current AfD.
There are a few basic practices that most Wikipedians use in AfD discussions:
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There are many good ways to advocate keeping, deleting, or even redirecting an article. This includes:
If the reasons given in the discussion nomination are later addressed by editing, the nomination should be withdrawn by the nominator, and the discussion discussion will be closed by an admin. If the nominator fails to do it when you think it should have been done (people can be busy, so WP:AGF on this point), leave a note on the nominator's talk page to draw their attention.
You do not have to make a recommendation on every nomination; consider not participating if:
Please also see Wikipedia:Notability.
Nothing. If the discussion has been listed according to the rules above, at the end of the discussion period (seven days), it should be closed within a few more days at most. Asking for someone to close the discussion is unnecessary.
After seven days have passed, the discussion is moved to Wikipedia:Articles for discussion/Old, and an uninvolved (i.e. one who has not participated in the discussion discussion) admin or editor in good standing (observing the recommendations for non-admin closure) will assess the discussion and make a decision to Keep, Delete, Merge, Redirect, or Transwiki the article based on a judgment of the consensus of the discussion. If there has been no obvious consensus to change the status of the article, the person closing the AfD will state No consensus, and the article will be kept. If not enough people have joined in the discussion to judge consensus, the article will be relisted for several more days.
The majority of AfD discussions are expected to run for at least seven days. In some cases a closure earlier than seven days may take place if a reason given in either Wikipedia:Speedy keep or Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion applies. If there is some concern over the validity of the closure, questions may first be asked of the person who closed the AfD, and, failing satisfaction there, raised at Wikipedia:Deletion review.
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