WikiQueer:Articles for deletion/Administrator instructions

Administrator instructions for Articles for deletion:

Every day, the day page (i.e. WikiQueer:Articles for deletion/Log/Year Month Day ) that is more than seven days old should be moved here. With few exceptions (e.g., an AFD-nominated article that qualifies for WikiQueer:Speedy keep or deletion under WQ:CSD), the decision to keep or delete a page is to be implemented only after this move has been performed.

Process
To process an AFD debate listed on a day page containing debates old enough to be closed: destination article's talk page: '''
 * 1) If it may take significant time to assess the debate and/or perform the closing edits; consider first editing the sub-page and adding AfDh (or Closing) to the top and AfDb to the bottom, to notify others that a close is in progress.
 * 2) Determine (using the guidelines) if there was a consensus to delete the article, and if the associated talk or sub-pages should also be deleted.
 * 3) Remove the line saying . This will decategorise the debate from the active AfD categories.
 * 4) Remove Closing if you added it earlier.
 * 5) Enter the following text at the top and bottom of the AFD discussion sub-page.  (This will create a shaded box around the discussion thread confirming that it has been closed.  See the example below.) Additional usage options are also outlined at Template:At. Note that the header template and closing result go above the top section header, not below it.
 * 6) * At the top:
 *  RESULT. ~ 
 * 1) * At the bottom:
 * 2) Following the result, the closer is recommended to give a rationale as to how he/she weighed the arguments.
 * 3) As an edit summary, you may want to write something like "Closing debate, result was ...".
 * 4) Depending on the decision, proceed as follows
 * 5) * If NO CONSENSUS was reached, then the article is kept by default unless it regards a living person (see below). The decision should generally include a reference to the lack of consensus, such as No consensus - default to keep, in order to minimize ambiguity. Then proceed as described under KEEP.
 * For BLP deletions, the deletion policy states "Discussions on relatively unknown, non-public figures, where the subject has requested deletion and there is no rough consensus may be closed as delete".
 * 1) * for KEEP:
 * 2) *# Remove the AFD Header from the article (be sure the AFD Category is also removed),
 * 3) *# Put a link to the discussion sub-page on the article's talk page; the template oldafdfull is recommended for this, so add:
 * 4) *# If this was not the first nomination, use oldafdmulti instead to consolidate the references to all previous nominations:
 * 5) * For DELETE:
 * 6) *# Delete the article (this action will be recorded in the deletion log).
 * 7) *# Paste a link to the discussion in the "Reason for deletion" box (i.e. add  WikiQueer:Articles for deletion/Article  ); a short explanation is also appreciated, if applicable.
 * 8) *# If appropriate, delete the article's talk page or any associated sub-pages first.
 * 9) *# Check "what links here" and either delete any redirects or redirect them elsewhere.
 * 10) *# If a given title should never have an article, then remove links to it (though not from its deletion discussion page).
 * 11) * For MERGE:
 * 12) *# To mark both pages, add Afd-mergeto and Afd-mergefrom to the top of their respective pages as follows. For details, see their respective descriptions.
 * '''nominated article:
 * 1) * For MERGE:
 * 2) *# To mark both pages, add Afd-mergeto and Afd-mergefrom to the top of their respective pages as follows. For details, see their respective descriptions.
 * '''nominated article:
 * 1) * For REDIRECT:
 * 2) *# Proceed as described at WQ:REDIRECT to create the redirect.
 * 3) *# Put a link to the discussion sub-page on the redirect's talk page; the templates oldafdfull or oldafdmulti can used as described above for KEEP.
 * 4) * For KEEP AND CLEANUP: Add the template cleanup-afd (without subst:) to the kept article. If the AFD discussion is under a different name to the article, use  . For example, if the article is Asdf but the deletion discussion is WikiQueer:Articles for deletion/Qwertyuiop, then add    to Asdf.
 * 5) * If not enough discussion took place to determine a consensus or lack thereof, add   below the last comment and relist the AFD subpage on the listings for the current date. Do not forget to remove the AFD listing from the log for the original date (if the debate is left on the old log, the "ready for closing" list at WikiQueer:Articles for deletion/Old is broken). See WikiQueer:Deletion process for details on when to relist.
 * 6) If that was the last open entry on that day's page of deletion discussions:
 * 7) Edit the old day pages list and remove the link for the day, which will look like WikiQueer:Articles for deletion/Log/Year Month Day.
 * 8) Go to the archive of debates and paste the link at the top in the appropriate month.

Header and footer text after closing
After closing, the page will look like this: RESULT because reason my name date

PageName

 * DISCUSSION THREAD

Lengthy discussions
Sometimes, AFD discussions become excessively long and are temporarily untranscluded from the day's AFD page. This is most often done through the creation of a /temp page for the AFD discussion, containing a message and link to the full discussion. If you close one of these:
 * 1) Edit the AFD day page to re-transclude the long discussion.
 * 2) Delete the /temp page.

Practical advice
There are admin tools available that automate much of this process. One commonly used tool is at User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD. Other tools may be available. Try contacting admins who frequently close AfDs, and ask them what they use.

To find pending AfDs that are awaiting closure, check WQ:AFD/OLD.