Thread:Deletion Policy from Wikipedia (1)

Dear all,

Please also see the following deletion policies from Wikipedia.

We will have the Coffee time for five days from 05/08/2009 for this session of our meeting also. During the coffee time, feel free to copy the sections from below to our policy development work area above and make changes wherever necessary.

Deletion
Warm regards Anil Prasad 15:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Attack pages: A Wikipedia article, page, category, redirect or image that exists primarily to disparage its subject is an "attack page". These pages are subject to being deleted by any administrator at any time.
 * Category deletion policy: Deleting categories follows roughly the same process as articles, except that it is described on a different page. Categories that do not conform to naming conventions can be "speedily renamed".
 * Criteria for speedy deletion:Articles, images, categories etc. may be "speedily deleted" if they clearly fall within certain categories, which generally boil down to pages lacking content, or disruptive pages. Anything potentially controversial should go through the deletion process instead.
 * Deletion policy: Deleting articles requires an administrator and generally follows a consensus-forming process. Most potentially controversial deletions require a three-step process and a waiting period of a week.
 * Office actions: The Wikimedia Foundation office reserves the right to speedily delete an article temporarily in cases of exceptional controversy.
 * Oversight: Page revisions can be deleted for legal reasons.
 * Proposed deletion: As a shortcut around the Articles for Deletion ("AfD") process, for uncontroversial deletions an article can be proposed for deletion, though once only. If no one contests the proposed deletion within seven days, an administrator may delete the article.