User:M.O.X/Admin coaching/Lesson 2

In this lesson we will review CSD criteria.

Let's start with the General Speedy Deletion Criteria. Summarize each deletion criterion, with your own words, in a few sentences. If there are any outstanding exceptions to any criterion, please be sure to describe them in detail and explain why they are exceptions. You may wish to use Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#General for your reference.

G1: - Pages lacking coherence or comprised entirely out of gibberish (eg. Manbearpig giant claw supermarket red van hghssdf). Exclusions to this criterion are poorly written or partisan material, obscenities (eg. Fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck (South Park reference :P)), implausible theories (eg. Geocentricism), vandalism and hoaxes (covered by G3, example would be a page saying Wikipedia will shutdown in the next 24 hours), fictional (Hobbits), non-English/poorly or translated material, sandboxes and userspace pages.
G2: - Pages created purely for the purpose of testing Wikipedia's various functions that aren't in the sandbox or user subpage. User subpages and deprecated templates are not covered by this criterion, though templates are covered by criterion T3.
G3: - Pages consisting of pure misinformation, blatant hoaxes and images intended to illustrate misinformation and redirects created following page-move vandalism cleanup. There are no exclusions for this criterion except real life hoaxes that have occured, eg. the Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax.
G4: - Pages recreated after deletion per a deletion discussion that do not differ at all or are very similar. Exclusions are pages that unidentical to the deleted version, pages where the reason for deletion is inapplicable, userfied pages that do not circumvent Wikipedia's deletion policy, content undeleted via deletion review, content deleted via proposed deletion or speedy deletion (although those reasons may still stand).
G5: - Pages created by blocked or banned users in violation of their ban/block, that has not been substantially edited by others.
G6: - Uncontroversial technical deletions: after a history merge, removing unnecessary disambiguation, moving a page to the location of the G6'd page. In cases where none of the specialised tags can be used, a reason should be included in the edit summary or generic tag.
G7: - Pages where the author requests deletion in good faith, the only substantial contributor to the page and its respective talk page must have been the author alone (the same applies for redirects created as a result of a move, the author must have been the only substantial contributor to the prior location of the page). This criterion does not cover user talk pages, which are deleted under very exceptional circumstances, such as when invoking one's right to vanish. If the sole author blanks a page that is not userspace or category page, this can be construed as a deletion request.
G8: - Pages dependent upon a deleted or non-existant page (talk page without corresponding subject page for example), this excludes pages useful to Wikipedia (un-logged deletion discussions).
G9: - Speedy temporary deletions made by the Foundation under exceptional circumstances, which should not be reversed without permission.
G10: - Attack pages which do not contain any neutral material in its page history. Articles about living people deleted under G10 should not be recreated or reversed until it meets the policy on BLPs.
G11: - Blatant advertising or promotion, eg. pages where the author makes no attempt to include spam subtly (OMG THESE GUYS ARE THE BEST, for example), and where that page would require a complete rewrite for neutrality are able to be G11'd. Articles about companies or products which are written from a neutral point of view are not included.
G12: - Obvious copyright infringement, pages which copy content from copyrighted sources, e.g. newspapers, or where no assertion of the content being fair-use, public domain or freely-licensed has been made and where there is nothing on the page worth saving. If the page's history has been corrupted, the non-infringing revision history should be retained and the rest deleted.

Good work. Looks like general CSD isn't going to be a problem. Please answer the following application questions and we'll move on:

1. There is a fine line determining whether a "hoax" article should be deleted per WP:CSD#G3 or taken to WP:AFD. What is/are the determining factor(s)?

A: If the article itself is on a hoax it is not speedy deletable, if it is a blatant hoax it may be tagged under G3. If the article is written from an in-universe style of writing this is also not considered a hoax even though the material is fictious, such articles should be nominated at AfD if there are underlying problems with the article.

It think your answer may have been cut off. If not, could you clarify your answer please? -FASTILY ^(TALK) 03:29, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Duly noted and fixed, thanks Fastily :) —James ^{(Talk • Contribs)} • 2:26pm • 04:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah, now that's much better! -FASTILY ^(TALK) 04:30, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

2.The main author of a B class article gets in a dispute with other editors, both registered and IPs, who edit the page on a somewhat infrequent basis. The main author subsequently requests speedy deletion of the article under G7. Do you honor this request? Why or why not?

A: This is a case of WP:OWN, where the author seeks to gain the upperhand in a dispute, however, in the case the author is the only editor to have contributed substantial content to the article I will delete the article per G7. If the IPs and registered users, though infrequent editors, have contributed a substantial amount of content to the article, I would decline the G7 and explain on the author's talk page.

General rule of thumb: Do not delete an article under G7 if requested in bad faith. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 03:29, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

3. What determines whether a article is a copyvio? (Hint: Not all pages copied word for word from other websites/external sources are copyvios. Think about how this could be possible.) [I'm looking for a specific answer here]

A: It's not a copyvio if the website/external source has the licensed the content under CC-BY-SA or GFDL, if the content has no assertion of it being fair use or is in the public domain.

Most succinct answer I have ever seen to this question. Nice. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 03:29, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Moving on. Same instructions as before, summarize the following CSD criteria and indicate any outstanding exceptions.

User pages edit

U1: - Any page in a user's userspace may be deleted upon their request, this excludes talk pages, often user pages may be retained if there is a need to do so, but this is very rare. User talk pages may be MfD'd if the user has decided to invoke their right to vanish.
U2: - User pages of non-existent users, except anonymous users, redirects from misspellings of an established user's userpage, and for the previous name of a recently renamed user, the latter is generally left for 3 months before deletion.
U3: - Galleries in the userspace containing non-free or fair-use images, regardless of whether or not they were uploaded by that user. This excludes free images, CC-BY-SA or GFDL licensed images, images created prior to a certain date, images where copyright has expired and not been renewed or purchased by another person or entity.

Categories edit

C1 - Deprecated/unused categories (4 days or more), that aren't used for maintenance (e.g. Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming). This excludes disambiguation categories, featured topics categories or categories being discussed at CfD.
C2 - Categories renamed or merged from typos or errors in spelling (usually retained where plausible, excludes variants of the English language), renamed or merged to enforce established naming conventions (e.g. WP:COMMONNAME) or categories renamed or merged to match the article for which it is named.

Redirects edit

R2 - Redirects (excluding shortcuts), from the main namespace to another namespace except the Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: namespaces.
R3 - Implausible typos (not including improper capitalisation, English variants or common misspellings, e.g. artifact -> artefact)

Templates edit

T2 - Templates that are blatant misrepresentations of policy, including CSD templates that aren't CSD criteria or disclaimer templates in articles.
T3 - Duplicates of another template or a template with similar function to another template.

Portals edit

P1 - A portal that would be subject speedy deletion as an article, e.g. a Portal on a topic covered by A7.
P2 - Portals for which the topic has very limited articles (less than 3 non-stub articles or a stub article as the main topic)

Please answer the following question:

1. An established editor retires, and tags their talk page for deletion under U1, exercising their right to vanish. Do you delete the page? Map out any potential problems and solutions in as much detail as possible.

A: No, talk pages are retained because a large amount of editors have edited them, they only deleted if there are underlying issues with privacy or potential real world harm, in these cases a bureaucrat facilitates the deletion. Otherwise the talk page should be sent to MfD.

Good. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 05:50, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Good work so far.
A piece of advice: when in doubt, always refer to WP:CSD - it's better to be certain, than to assume and make mistakes. Also, recall that WP:XFD is a valid route for dispelling any uncertainty or dealing with pages that do not explicitly meet any of the CSD criteria.
Proceed to Lesson 3 (this one's a long one) please.