:MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown

• General (can apply to any page)

{{#switch:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:2}}=|

• G1: Patent nonsense, meaningless, or incomprehensible
• G2: Test page

}}

• G3: Vandalism
• G3: Blatant hoax
• G4: Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion
• G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban
• G5: Enforcement of general sanctions
• G6: Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup
• G7: One author who has requested deletion {{#switch:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:2}}|{{ns:14}}|{{TALKSPACE}}=–| or blanked the page –}} to retrieve it, see {{#ifeq:{{#invoke:effective protection level
• G8: Page dependent on a deleted or nonexistent page
• G10: Attack page or negative unsourced BLP
• G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion
• G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement
• G13: Abandoned draft or Articles for Creation submission – to retrieve it, see WP:REFUND/G13
• G14: Unnecessary disambiguation page

{{#switch:{{NAMESPACE}}

|{{ns:0}}=

• Article namespace
• A1: Short article without enough context to identify the subject
• A2: Article in a foreign language that exists on another project
• A3: Article that has no meaningful, substantive content
• A7: No credible indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events)
• A9: Music recording by redlinked artist and no indication of importance or significance
• A10: Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic
• A11: Made up by article creator or an associate, and no indication of importance/significance

|File=

• Files
• F2: Corrupt or empty file
• F2: Unneeded file description page for a file on Commons

|Category=

• Categories
• C1: Empty category
• C4: Unused maintenance category

|User|User talk=

• Userspace
• U1: User request to delete page in own userspace – to retrieve it, see {{#ifeq:{{#invoke:effective protection level
• U2: Userpage or subpage of a nonexistent user
• U5: Misuse of Wikipedia as a web host

|Talk|{{TALKSPACE}}=

• Talk pages
• G8: Talk page of a nonexistent or deleted page, {{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}

|Template|Module=

• Template space
• G8: Component or documentation of a deleted template
• T5: Unused template subpage

}}

• Redirect pages
• R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace
• R3: Recently created, implausible redirect
• R4: Redirect in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons
• G8: Redirect to a deleted or nonexistent page
• X3: Redirect with no space before a parenthetical disambiguation
• Other criteria
• Listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems for over seven days
• WP:PDEL: Page created by contributor with extensive history of copyright violations
• WP:PROD: Nominated for seven days with no objection
• WP:BLPPROD: Nominated for seven days with no reliable sources present in the article