User:Dan Polansky/Deletion

This page is intended to contain material in support of deletion, including how to construct a rationale for deletion.

Some pages and templates:

• Wikibooks:Votes for deletion
• Wikibooks:Deletion policy
• {{vfd}} – vote for deletion.
• {{delete|justification for speedy deletion}} – request for speedy deletion

Example deletion posts from me:

• this edit: {{del}} as having ''no meaningful content'', per [[WB:Deletion]]: "delete pages with no meaningful content" and "Abandoned pages displaying intent, but no actual content". In this state since 18 May 2015‎; 94 words. In particular, TOC-only page with with no actual content.
• Those in Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Conphilosophy, which did not lead to deletion of this "junk".

Stubs, meaningful content and junk:

• Wikibooks:Deletion policy is apparently inconsistent.
  • "In general, keep stubs that can be improved on, but delete stubs that are too narrowly defined or do not have a decent definition of what they are about"
  • "In general, keep modules that need heavy editing, but delete pages with no meaningful content."
    • "Absence of meaningful content includes, but is not limited to: [...] Abandoned pages displaying intent, but no actual content."
  • The above quotes open room for a stub (keep) vs. no meaningful content (delete) debate.
  • Some deletion nomination summaries talk of "little meaningful content" rather than "no meaningful content". This could be seen as a deviation from policy? But a good deviation, I think.