Bharatpedia:Speedy keep

This page documents a Bharatpedia guideline.

It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

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This page documents a deletion guideline for Bharatpedia. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page.

This guideline applies only to "speedy keep" closures; the criteria for speedy deletion cover the circumstances under which pages may be deleted immediately.

Applicability

Reasons for a speedy keep decision are:

• Absence of a deletion rationale. Normally the nominator will provide grounds for deletion in the delete rationale, but if (a) the nominator withdraws the nomination, perhaps because of improvements to the article that happen during the discussion, or (b) the nominator failed to give intelligible grounds for content deletion (i.e. arguments that would support deletion, userfying or redirection, perhaps only proposing an alternative action such as moving or merging) and no new delete rationale appears in the deletion discussion.
• The nomination was unquestionably made for the purposes of vandalism or disruption and, since questionable motivations on the part of the nominator do not have a direct bearing on the validity of the nomination, no uninvolved editor has recommended deletion or redirection as an outcome of the discussion. For example:
  • Obviously frivolous or vexatious nominations (such as recently featured content or April Fools jokes).
  • Nominations which are made solely to provide a forum for disruption, e.g. when a contestant in an edit war nominates an opponent's userpage solely for harassment.
  • Making nominations of the same page with the same arguments immediately after they were strongly rejected in a recently closed deletion discussion.
  • Nominations that are clearly an attempt to end an editing dispute through deletion, where dispute resolution is a more appropriate course.
• The nomination is completely erroneous. No accurate deletion rationale has been provided.

Exceptions

• If the nominator indicates that the nomination is procedural in nature, then the nomination is ineligible for speedy keep. This includes a "relist" result from deletion review, fixing errors in the nomination process, or if a user stated a page should be deleted on a talk page without actually nominating it.
• If the nomination would otherwise qualify for a close to speedy redirect then suggestions to redirect the page are treated the same as moving or merging.
• Where the nominator withdraws their nomination, check whether other editors still recommend a delete or redirect outcome before speedily closing. If a good-faith editor in good standing recommends delete or redirect, the discussion should not be speedily closed using this ground.

Procedure

When a discussion is closed as a speedy keep, the closing administrator should:

1. Remove the deletion notice from the page.
2. Close the deletion discussion with a result of "speedy keep".
3. Not unlist or delete the actual discussion page.

See also

• Bharatpedia:Deletion policy
• Bharatpedia:Deletion process
• Bharatpedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators
• Bharatpedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
• Bharatpedia:Speedy redirect