WikiQueer:New admin school/Deleting

The relevant policy can be found at WikiQueer:Deletion policy.

Part of an administrator's role is to delete pages due to speedy deletion criteria, XfD discussions or articles that have been proposed for deletion.

Deleting a page is relatively easy. Basically, click on the "delete" tab at the top of the page (the tab will only appear if you are an administrator logged in to your account), enter a reason (or edit the automatically supplied reason), and hit delete. On very rare occasions, you might post a note at the Deletion Review page to allow others to review your speedy delete action, but that is not a usual practice. Restoring etiquette is the same as deleting etiquette when done per consensus such as per an XfD. However, if you restore a page without a consensus, it is considered proper to notify the page deleting admin of your actions and the reasons for your actions.

Below are instructions on how to delete and restore pages. Please follow the instructions to delete and then restore WikiQueer:New admin school/Deleting/delete2.

For information on the revision deletion function, please have a look at that page. As a new administrator, it is advised you do not use that extension until you have accommodating experience with admin functions.

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 * 1) Go to the article you wish to delete, in this case, we will use WikiQueer:New admin school/Deleting/delete.
 * 2) Above the article, you will see tabs, in between history and move you will see [[Image:Dtab-NAS.PNG|60px| ]] - click this button.
 * 3) Next to reason for deletion, type the reason the page is to be deleted into the box, this should refer to a particular discussion page for XfD's, or a particular criteria for speedy deletion such as A7. You should use an informative reason: "G12" is not helpful, "Speedy deletion per G12- Copyright infringement." is much better. If text from the article already appears in the "reason for deletion" box, please review that text to remove any libelous, attacking, or other personal information which may appear there; otherwise that material will appear in the deletion log, where it is very difficult to remove.
 * 4) Click the button Delete this page.
 * 5) All revisions of the page will then be deleted.[[Image:Delete-NAS.PNG|right|thumb|500px |Many pre-loaded deletion rationales can be found using the drop down option (shown here)]]

Ensure that the delete rationale is valid
Needless to say, an admin should never delete a page just because someone requests the deletion. It is incumbent on an admin ensuring that the page under consideration meets the criteria. In some cases, this is reasonably straightforward. In other cases, it may take some investigation to ensure that the criteria are met. For example, when a request for deletion of a page due to copyright violation occurs, it will be easy to confirm in some cases, but more difficult in other cases. Text Copyright Violations 101 is a helpful resource for admins new to copyright violation issues.

Deleting a revision
Under certain circumstances, such as edits involving libel or a user's private information, a particular revision may need to be deleted from history. To do so, go to the page history, and selectively tick which revisions should be deleted in the square boxes immediately to the left of the revision. Then to go to the upper right of the history page and click the "Del/undel selected revisions" button. You will be taken to a screen where you select whether to revision-delete the content, the edit summary, the username or all three. You must provide a revision deletion summary; become familiar with the revision deletion reasons before use. Prior to deleting revisions, make sure that the material to be deleted is no longer in the article. Delete all revisions where the material to be deleted is present on the screen.

Please note that in some cases, revision suppression (which has replaced the old "oversight" process) may be required; see WikiQueer:Oversight for edits that may be suppressed. Administrators may elect to first revision delete the material, and then notify an oversighter directly or via WikiQueer's email:

It is possible to delete individual revisions of a page by deleting the entire page and then selecting revisions to be undeleted, but this method is no longer used routinely.

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 * 1) Go to the article you wish to restore, in this case, it is WikiQueer:New admin school/Deleting/delete.
 * 2) Just below the title, you will see "View or restore (one) deleted edit?" - Click on (one) deleted edit.
 * 3) This will list all the deleted revisions of the article. Next to each revision you will check boxes. If you are wanting to restore all the revisions, leave all the boxes unchecked.
 * 4) Towards the middle of the screen, there is a box with comment next to it. Type the reason you are going to restore the page into the box.
 * 5) Click on restore.
 * 6) The page will then be restored.

Restoring selected revisions

 * 1) Go to the article WikiQueer:New admin school/Deleting/delete.
 * 2) Insert an edit in which you will want to avoid restoring after you delete the page.
 * 3) Repeat steps 2-4 of Deleting a page.
 * 4) Repeat steps 1-4 of Restoring a page.
 * 5) In order to restore selected revisions and not restore the edit that needs to be removed from the page history, select the checkboxes only of the edits you need to restore (note: by holding the shift key on your keyboard and selecting one checkbox and the checkboxes above or below it, you can select multiple checkboxes without having to click on each one by one.)
 * 6) Repeat steps 5-6 of Restoring a page and the revisions you selected from the checkboxes will be restored.

Closing deletion discussions

 * Closing deletion discussions - Process for recording community decisions
 * Articles for Deletion
 * Miscellany for Deletion
 * Categories for Discussion
 * Templates for Deletion page
 * Redirects for Discussion
 * Stub types for deletion
 * Files for Deletion
 * Undeletion
 * Deletion review