If a page needs to be removed from Wikipedia for privacy reasons (e.g. non-public personal information, a child disclosing their age, possible libel), request oversight instead.
[2] Administrators should take care not to speedily delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases.
Some in-between numbers are skipped, as abbreviations denoting obsolete criteria remain unused.
This applies to pages consisting entirely of incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history.
[4] It excludes pages in userspace and draftspace where the content was converted[5] to a draft for explicit improvement (but not simply to circumvent Wikipedia's deletion policy).
If requested in good faith and provided that the only substantial content of the page was added by its author.
Examples include, but are not limited to: This criterion excludes any page that is useful to Wikipedia, and in particular: Exceptions may be sign-posted with the template {{G8-exempt}}.
Examples of "attack pages" may include: libel, legal threats, material intended purely to harass or intimidate a person, or biographical material about a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced.
For example, a term used on the target page to refer to its subject is often a plausible redirect – see Wikipedia:RNEUTRAL.
This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to serve as encyclopedia articles, rather than advertisements.
If a subject is notable and the content could plausibly be replaced with text written from a neutral point of view, this is preferable to deletion.
Note: Any article that describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion.
Only if the history is unsalvageably corrupted should it be deleted in its entirety; earlier versions without infringement should be retained.
For equivocal cases that do not meet speedy deletion criteria (such as where there is a dubious assertion of permission, where free-content edits overlie the infringement, or where there is only partial infringement or close paraphrasing), the article or the appropriate section should be blanked with {{subst:Copyvio|url=insert URL here}}, and the page should be listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems.
Public-domain and other free content, such as a Wikipedia mirror, do not fall under this criterion, nor is mere lack of attribution of such works a reason for speedy deletion.
This applies to any pages that have not been edited by a human in six months found in: Redirects are exempt from G13 deletion.
This applies to articles consisting only of external links, category tags or "See also" sections, a rephrasing of the title, attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title, questions that should have been asked at a noticeboard, chat-like comments, template tags, or images.
However, a very short article may be a valid stub if it has context, in which case it is not eligible for deletion under this criterion.
This does not include split pages or any article that expands or reorganizes an existing one or that contains referenced, mergeable material.
This criterion does not apply to redirects created as a result of a page move,[8] unless nothing was at the title until recently.
This applies to files that are corrupt, missing, empty, or that contain superfluous and blatant non-metadata information.
This applies to media files lacking the necessary licensing information to verify copyright status after being identified as such for seven days.
Administrators should check the upload summary, file information page, and the image itself for a source before deleting under this criterion.
This applies to obviously non-free images (or other media files) that are not claimed by the uploader to be fair use.
This does not include images with a credible claim that the owner has released them under a Wikipedia-compatible free license.
Instances of obvious copyright violations where the uploader would have no reasonable expectation of obtaining permission (e.g. major studio movie posters, television images, album covers, logos that are not simple enough to be public domain, etc.)
Files tagged {{Permission received}} whose permissions have not been confirmed after 30 days may be deleted immediately under this criterion, without waiting an additional seven days, provided a check of the ticket is performed by a VRT agent to confirm that no further interaction is ongoing.
This criterion applies to categories that have been unpopulated (excepting pages themselves tagged for speedy deletion) for at least seven days.
Pages of users who exist on other WMF wikis but do not have local accounts are eligible for deletion.
The following proposals for new speedy deletion criteria are frequently raised, but have repeatedly failed to gain consensus: A7, A9 and A11 do not apply to any other subject that does not indicate importance.