Fighting Simulator Wiki:Deletion Policy

FSWiki's Deletion Policy describes how articles, media, and other content that do not fit the wiki are identified and removed from the wiki.

Deletion removes the current version, and all previous versions, of the article from public view. "Blanking," or the act of removing all content from a page, can be performed by any user, but only administrators can perform deletion and undeletion.

Due to the low user count of this wiki, deletion will not involve consensus, but will instead be performed by criteria. There are two types of criteria; deletion criteria, and speedy deletion criteria.

What can be deleted?
Only pages in the Main, Template, Module, File, and Category namespaces, and their respective Talk namespaces, can be deleted via these criteria. Pages in the User, Project, and MediaWiki namespaces require special circumstances to be deleted.

Deletion Criteria
If a page or file meets one or more deletion criteria, it will have the Candidate for Deletion template added to it. If the page still meets the criteria after 7 days, it will be removed unless contested.

Not Notable
This criteria is used for when a page is not notable enough for inclusion on this wiki. This is usually used for very minor content, such as a specific "random Joe" phone call recipient. Note that all Skills, items, Structures, and phone Shops are considered notable by default.

Too Short
This criteria is used when a page is extremely short, at most two sentences, and can't easily be expanded. If a page has at least a paragraph, it is not eligible for this criteria, and the template should be used instead.

Speedy Deletion Criteria
If a page or file meets one or more speedy deletion criteria, then, depending on which criteria is met, the page will either be deleted immediately, or will have the associated speedy deletion template added to the page. If the page still meets the criteria after one day, it will be deleted.

PN: Patent Nonsense
This applies to pages that consist entirely of gibberish, with no history or relevance. It does not cover poor writing, vandalism, coherent non-English material, or poorly translated material, nor does it cover pages in the User: namespace. Simply put, if you can understand it, PN does not apply.

PV: Pure Vandalism
This applies to pages that are blatant misinformation, along with blatant hoaxes.

NE: Non-Existant
This applies to pages about things that do not exist in any of the Fighting Simulator games. It does not, however, apply to things that reasonably could exist, such as a tool made of a recently added material tier.

RA: Requested by Author
This applies to pages that have been requested for deletion by the author of the page, if and only if the author is the only person to have made substantial changes to the page. This does not apply to pages in the User: namespace; use RU for that instead.

RU: Requested by User
This applies to pages in the User: namespace that have been requested for deletion by the owner of the page. For pages outside the User: namespace, use RA instead.

DP: Dependent on non-existent or deleted Page
This applies to pages that rely on pages which either never existed or have been deleted. This includes talk pages and subpages with no parent page, and redirects to non-existent pages.

UA: Unambiguous Advertising
This applies to pages that are simply just advertising for a topic or group. In most cases, even if a page for a topic or group isn't advertising, it will still be irrelevant to this wiki, and will likely be deleted via IR instead.

IR: Irrelevant
This applies to pages about topics that are completely irrelevant to Fighting Simulator. This does not necessarily include pages about works that are referenced by FightSim; a page on Minecraft, for example, would be allowed, as it is referenced significantly by FS3.

NC: No Content
This applies to pages that are either completely empty, or consist only of things like external links, category tags, "See Also" sections, templates, and images. This excludes pages that have at least a little context, pages with only infoboxes, or recently created pages.

MF: Missing, corrupt, or empty File
This applies to files in the File: namespace that are either completely blank, non-existent, or corrupted. It does not apply to files that are mostly blank, corrupted on purpose, or are placeholders.

UF: Useless non-media File
This applies to files in the File: namespace that are neither image, sound, nor video, and are unlikely to be used in a page. This criteria is based on the file's content, not its extension.

UW: Use as Web-host
This applies to pages in the User: namespace that consist of content irrelevant to this wiki, where the owner has made few or no edits outside of user pages. It does not apply to drafts.

OT: Other
This criteria is used when a page should be speedily deleted, but does not fall under any of the specific criteria listed above.