User:ThatIPEditor/Sandbox1

This policy governs when, and how, pages that does not meet our guidelines can be deleted. When a page is deleted, it is removed from the public's view, along with all of its revisions. Currently, only Content Moderators, Administrators, and office has the technical ability to delete pages.

Process
There are three ways a page can be deleted: Speedy deletion, Proposed deletion, and Discussed deletion.

Speedy Deletion
Speedy deletion is the quickest method of deleting a page. However, the deletion must be unambiguous, and meet one of the criteria below. If it does not, you must request a Proposed Deletion, or a deletion discussion

General rules - Applies to all pages

 * G1 - All the text on this page is nonsense. Nonsense includes content that does not make sense or is not meaningful. However, this does not include bad writing, or things that are fake. Non-english pages may be tagged with this deletion criteria. An example of nonsense is "John was a good boy", or "jfldkjldsafj".


 * G2 - Test page. An example of a test page is "Can I actually make a page here?".


 * G3 - Vandalism. The page makes sense, but it is an unambiguously vandalism. Consider G1 and G6 deletion, as it may be faster.


 * G4 - Uncontroversial housekeeping - This is only used when you are deleting the page due to a technical reason, such as to make way for move.


 * G5 - Author wants deletion - If an author blanks a page, or nominates the page for deletion under this criteria, and there are nobody else that significantly contributed to the page, it may be deleted under G5.


 * G6 - Personal attacks - The entire page is a personal attack. An example of this is "John is garbage at SkyBlock"


 * G7 - Blatant advertising - The entire page is made to promote a specific player or a group.


 * G8 - Obviously breaks copyright laws - This means pages that are copied and pasted from another website without licence, or otherwise violate copyright laws.

Article Rules

 * A1 - Obviously invented - The article's subject is not an actual SkyBlock item, event, NPC, feature, mob, potion, pet, etc.


 * A2 - Duplicate article - This article has another article about the same subject.


 * A3 - Coming soon articles without any confirmation - This includes fringe theories, random reddit posts that someone just claims that there is a new item that is coming without any proof, or ideas that has gained significant popularity, but has not been officially confirmed.

File Rules

 * F1 - No obvious use - This file has no obvious use, and has not been used on any page in any namespace. This file has been on this wiki for at least 3 hours.


 * F2 - Copyright Violation - This file is a copyright violation of another image, without any licence or fair use claim.

Category Rules

 * C1 - Unpopulated category with no real use - This category has less than two items, and there are no real use to such category.


 * C2 - Duplicate Category - This category duplicates another category.

Proposed Deletion
A page may be proposed to be deleted. This process can only be used once every 30 days. Once a page is proposed to be deleted, the deletion notice must sit on the article for 3 days. However, during the three days, any editor, in good standing, may remove the notice, and cancel the deletion. However, the notice may be re-applied without the 30 days of cooldown if it was done in bad-faith. After three days, and no editor removed the notice, the article may be deleted by any user with the technical abilities of deletion. However, if the notice was deleted, than the only option is to proceed with a deletion discussion.

Deletion discussion
Controversial deletions need a consensus before it is deleted. Discussion is the main way to achieve consensus on this wiki. To start a discussion, go to it's talk page, and create a new section called "Deletion", and tag the page with the Deletion discussion template. After a consensus has been reached, any user with the technical ability of deletion will come and close the discussion with either closed, or kept. There are no cooldown with such discussions, although if it is used in bad faith, the user may be blocked.