Guns and Hunting Wiki:Criteria for speedy deletion policy

Many pages on the wiki can be deleted without going through Articles for Deletion. Pages such as these are considered to be up for speedy deletion by adding sdelete to the top of the article. In order for a page to be speedy deleted, it must meet certain criteria, as listed below.

Good cases

 * Vanity pages and articles which contain information that have very little chances of becoming real pages. For example, a page with just "AKs suk ballz but I love FALs so much dont you? lol" contributes nothing to the wiki and isn't helping anyone. Pages like this will be deleted.


 * Pages containing original research or a large bias. For example, "According to a poll I conducted among my friends, .300 Winchester Magnums are extremely overpowered for Deer Hunting." This doesn't help at all and it's personal opinion. These pages will be deleted.


 * User pages that have been created by an I.P., or possess content that blatantly violates one of Guns and Hunting Wiki's policies (i.e. offensive language). Older user pages can be deleted only if the user requests it. It is impossible to delete an account, though the user page can be deleted.


 * Advertising and spam. Posting random websites or things like "Google is awful; try Brand X Search Engine free for 10 days!" aren't contributing anything to the wiki.


 * Pages that are filled with nonsense. For example, pages with titles such as "dahoshagohfoug" or content like "dafjkl;afjlstupiddkaf;jdsk" have no point in being on this wiki.


 * Useless redirects. For example, one like #REDIRECT: That one guy who shot a hunter in da back 2 isn't helping anyone.


 * Redirects left behind when moving a page between different namespaces.


 * Useless or duplicated categories, like a "hehehe" category.


 * Useless or duplicated templates, like a "hehehe" template.


 * Pages in another language. This is an English wiki, and as such, articles should be only in English.


 * Useless, unused, duplicate or policy violating images, like "File:Lulz.jpg".

Bad cases

 * Stubs, no matter how small, could one day become very long articles.


 * Fragments of a topic that can be combined. For example, if someone created a page with "elmer keith made da .44" the page may be deleted, but the information can be added to .44 Remington Magnum and that the .44 Remington Magnum was designed in the 1950's by Elmer Keith.


 * A page that requires a cleanup. These pages are just in need of attention, they do not need to be deleted.


 * Vandalism. Blanking pages, adding unneeded images, and inserting random words, while not helping the wiki, can all be reverted. The exception to this case is if a new page was created solely for the purpose of vandalism.


 * A page that has existed for a long period of time but is not notable. This should instead be nominated for deletion by adding deletion to the page and bringing it up at Articles for Deletion.