MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown

• General
  • Other reason
  • G1: Patent nonsense, meaningless, or incomprehensible
  • G2: Test page
  • G3: Vandalism
  • G3: Blatant hoax
  • G4: Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion
  • G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban
  • G6: Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup
  • G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page – to retrieve it, see BP:REFUND
  • G8: Page dependent on a deleted or nonexistent page
  • G10: Attack page or negative unsourced BLP
  • G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion
  • G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement
  • G13: Abandoned draft or Articles for Creation submission – to retrieve it, see BP:REFUND/G13
  • G14: Unnecessary disambiguation page

• Redirects
  • R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace
  • R3: Recently created, implausible redirect
  • R4: Redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons
  • G8: Redirect to a deleted or nonexistent page
• Other
  • Listed at Bharatpedia:Copyright problems for over seven days
  • BP:PROD: Nominated for seven days with no objection
  • BP:BLPPROD: Nominated for seven days with no reliable sources present in the article
• FOR USE BY OVERSIGHTERS ONLY, when suppressing privacy and defamation:
  • User edited while logged-out, revealing IP address
  • Disclosure of non-public identifying or personal information
  • Self disclosure by apparent minor
  • Potentially libelous/defamatory
  • Other defamation/personal information issues
  • Copyright violation on advice of WMF counsel