Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Front matter#How to list pages for deletion

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• If you want to have your own userpage or a draft you created deleted, there is no need to list it here; simply tag it with {{nowrap|{{tl|db-userreq}}}} or {{nowrap|{{tl|db-u1}}}} if it is a userpage, or {{nowrap|{{tl|db-author}}}} or {{nowrap|{{tl|db-g7}}}} if it is a draft. If you wish to clear your user talk page or sandbox, just blank it.

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• Duplications in draftspace are usually satisfactorily fixed by redirection. If the material is in mainspace, redirect the draft to the article, or a section of the article. If multiple draft pages on the same topic have been created, tag them for merging. See WP:SRE.

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• Consider explaining your concerns on the user's talk page with a personal note or by adding {{nowrap|{{tls|Uw-userpage}} ~~~~}}  to their talk page. This step assumes good faith and civility; often the user is simply unaware of the guidelines, and the page can either be fixed or speedily deleted using {{nowrap|{{tl|db-userreq}}.}}
• Take care not to bite newcomers – sometimes using the {{tls|welcome}} or {{tls|welcomeg}} template and a pointer to WP:UP would be best first.
• Problematic userspace material is often addressed by the User pages guidelines including in some cases removal by any user or tagging to clarify the content or to prevent external search engine indexing. (Examples include copies of old, deleted, or disputed material, problematic drafts, promotional material, offensive material, inappropriate links, 'spoofing' of the MediaWiki interface, disruptive HTML, invitations or advocacy of disruption, certain kinds of images and image galleries, etc) If your concern relates to these areas consider these approaches as well, or instead of, deletion.
• User pages about Wikipedia-related matters by established users usually do not qualify for deletion.
• Articles that were recently deleted at AfD and then moved to userspace are generally not deleted unless they have lingered in userspace for an extended period of time without improvement to address the concerns that resulted in their deletion at AfD, or their content otherwise violates a global content policy such as our policies on Biographies of living persons that applies to any namespace.

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• Established pages and their sub-pages should not be nominated, as such nominations will probably be considered disruptive, and the ensuing discussions closed early. This is not a forum for modifying or revoking policy. Instead consider tagging the policy as {{tl|historical}} or redirecting it somewhere.
• Proposals still under discussion generally should not be nominated. If you oppose a proposal, discuss it on the policy page's discussion page. Consider being bold and improving the proposal. Modify the proposal so that it gains consensus. Also note that even if a policy fails to gain consensus, it is often useful to retain it as a historical record, for the benefit of future editors.

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• It is generally preferable that inactive WikiProjects not be deleted, but instead be marked as {{tlp|WikiProject status|inactive}}, redirected to a relevant WikiProject, or changed to a task force of a parent WikiProject, unless the WikiProject was incompletely created or is entirely undesirable.
• WikiProjects that were never very active and which do not have substantial historical discussions (meaning multiple discussions over an extended period of time) on the project talk page should not be tagged as {{tl|historical}}; reserve this tag for historically active projects that have, over time, been replaced by other processes or that contain substantial discussion (as defined above) of the organization of a significant area of Wikipedia. Before deletion of an inactive project with a founder or other formerly active members who are active elsewhere on Wikipedia, consider userfication.
• Notify the main WikiProject talk page when nominating any WikiProject subpage, in addition to standard notification of the page creator.

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• Normal editing that doesn't require the use of any administrator tools, such as merging the page into another page or renaming it, can often resolve problems.
• Pages in the wrong namespace (e.g. an article in Wikipedia namespace), can simply be moved and then tag the redirect for speedy deletion using {{db-g6|rationale= it's a redirect left after a cross-namespace move}}. Notify the author of the original article of the cross-namespace move.

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• Speedy deletion If the page clearly satisfies a "general" or "user" speedy deletion criterion, tag it with the appropriate template. Be sure to read the entire criterion, as some do not apply in the user space.

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{{clear}}

Enter the following text at the top of the page you are listing for deletion:

: {{tlg|mfd|2=1={{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}
for a second or subsequent nomination use {{tlx|mfdx|2nd}}

or

: {{tlx|mfd|GroupName}}
if nominating several similar related pages in an umbrella nomination. Choose a suitable name as GroupName and use it on each page.

:If the nomination is for a userbox or similarly transcluded page, use {{tlsx|mfd-inline}} so as to not mess up the formatting for the userbox.

: Use {{tlsx|mfd-inline|GroupName}} for a group nomination of several related userboxes or similarly transcluded pages.

• Please include in the edit summary the phrase
  Added MfD nomination at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName
  replace PageName with the name of the page that is up for deletion.
• Please don't mark your edit summary as a minor edit.
• Check the "Watch this page" box if you would like to follow the page in your watchlist. This may help you to notice if your MfD tag is removed by someone.
• Save the page

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The resulting MfD box at the top of the page should contain the link "this page's entry"

• Click that link to open the page's deletion discussion page.
• Insert this text:

: {{subst:mfd2| pg={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:PAGENAME}}

• Consider checking "Watch this page" to follow the progress of the debate.
• Please use an edit summary such as
Creating deletion discussion page for PageName
  replacing PageName with the name of the page you are proposing for deletion.
• If appropriate, inform members of the most relevant WikiProjects through one or more "deletion sorting lists". Then add a {{tls|delsort||}} template to the nomination, to insert a note that this has been done.
• Save the page.

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Follow   [{{fullurl:{{NS:4}}:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|action=edit§ion=2}} this edit link]   and at the top of the list add a line:

: {{subst:mfd3| pg=PageName}}
Put the page's name in place of "PageName".

• Include the discussion page's name in your edit summary like
  Added Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName
  replacing PageName with the name of the page you are proposing for deletion.
• Save the page.
• If nominating a page that has been nominated before, use the page's name in place of "PageName" and add

: {{priorxfd|PageName}}
in the nominated page deletion discussion area to link to the previous discussions and then save the page using an edit summary such as
Added Template:priorxfd to link to prior discussions.