Bharatpedia:Speedy deletion

"BP:SD" and "BP:SPEEDY" redirect here. For other uses, see BP:SD (disambiguation) and BP:SPEEDY (disambiguation).

Speedy deletion is a process that provides administrators with broad consensus to bypass deletion discussion, at their discretion, and immediately delete certain Bharatpedia pages or files that meet one of the criteria for speedy deletion (CSD) listed below. Because deletion is reversible only by administrators, other deletions occur only after discussion, unless they are proposed deletions. Speedy deletion is intended to reduce the time spent on deletion discussions for pages or files with no practical chance of surviving discussion. Anyone can request speedy deletion by adding one of the speedy deletion templates, but only administrators may actually delete. There are ways to contest the speedy deletion requests, although in most cases the page creator must refrain from removing the tag.

Before nominating a page for speedy deletion, consider whether it could be improved, reduced to a stub, merged or redirected elsewhere, reverted to a better previous revision, or handled in some other way (see Bharatpedia:Deletion policy § Alternatives to deletion). A page is eligible for speedy deletion only if all of its history is also eligible. Users nominating a page for speedy deletion should specify which criteria the page meets, and should notify the page creator and any major contributors. If a page needs to be removed from Bharatpedia for privacy reasons (e.g., non-public personal information, a child disclosing their age, or possible libel), request oversight instead.

Administrators should take care not to speedily delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases. If a page has survived its most recent deletion discussion, it should not be speedily deleted except for newly discovered copyright violations and pages that meet specific uncontroversial criteria; these criteria are noted below. Contributors sometimes create pages over several edits, so administrators should avoid deleting a page that appears incomplete too soon after its creation.

Besides speedy deletion, there are the following methods of deletion:

• Bharatpedia:Deletion discussions venues (AfD, CfD, FfD, MfD, RfD, TfD), the normal method for discussing potentially controversial deletions.
• Bharatpedia:Proposed deletions, for nominating articles and files for uncontroversial deletion.
• Bharatpedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people, for articles on living persons without sources.
• Bharatpedia:Presumptive removal of AI-generated content (a.k.a. "LLM PROD") for articles in which the community has acknowledged that the creator was misusing AI.

Nomenclature

Letter-number abbreviations (G12, A3...) are often used to refer to the criteria for speedy deletion, and are given in each section. For example, "CSD G12" refers to criterion 12 under general (copyright infringement) and "CSD U1" refers to criterion 1 under user (user request). Some in-between numbers are skipped, as abbreviations denoting obsolete criteria remain unused. These abbreviations can be confusing to new editors or anyone else unfamiliar with the process; in many situations a plain-English explanation of why a specific page was or should be deleted is preferable.

Requesting speedy deletion

Immediately following each speedy deletion criterion below is a list of templates used to mark pages or files for speedy deletion under the criterion being used. To alert administrators to the nomination, place the relevant speedy deletion template at the top of the page or file you are nominating (but see Template:Sectionlink below). Please be sure to supply an edit summary that mentions that the page is being nominated for speedy deletion. All of the speedy deletion templates are named as Db-X with Db standing for 'delete because'. A list of the Db-X templates can be found at Bharatpedia:Speedy deletion/Deletion templates.

If a page falls under more than one of the criteria, instead of adding multiple tags it is possible to add a single {{Db-multiple}} tag to cover them all. For example, if an article seems both to be blatantly promotional (G11) and also to fail to indicate the significance of its subject (A7) then the tag {{Db-multiple|G11|A7}} can be used to indicate both of these concerns. The article can then be speedily deleted if an administrator assesses it and decides that either or both of the criteria apply.

There is a strong consensus that the creators and major contributors of pages and files should be warned of a speedy deletion nomination (or of the deletion if not informed before). All speedy deletion templates (using criteria other than U1, U2, G5, G6, G7, G8, C4) thus contain in their body a pre-formatted, suggested warning template to notify the relevant party or parties of the nomination for speedy deletion under the criterion used. You can copy and paste such warnings to the talk pages of the creators and major contributors, choose from others listed at Category:Speedy deletion warning templates, or place the unified warning template, {{subst:CSD-warn|csd|Page name}}, which allows you to tailor your warning under any particular criterion by replacing csd with the associated criterion abbreviation (e.g., G4, A7).

Use common sense when applying a speedy deletion request to a page: review the page history to make sure that all earlier revisions of the page meet the speedy deletion criterion, because a single editor can replace an article with material that appears to cause the page to meet one or more of the criteria.

Pages that need to be tagged in a special manner

Some pages either cannot or should not be tagged for speedy deletion in the normal manner:

• Pages that you cannot edit (e.g., due to protection), or JSON pages: place the template on the corresponding Talk page instead, along with an explanation of which page to delete.
• Template: pages: place the template within a noinclude tag, like <noinclude>{{Db-x}}</noinclude>, so the deletion tag doesn't get included in a page using it.
• Module: pages (except for /doc pages): place the template with Module:Module wikitext, like this: require('Module:Module wikitext')._addText('{{Db-x}}')
• CSS (including sanitized CSS) or JavaScript pages: place the template in a comment, like this: /* {{Db-x}} */

Contesting speedy deletion requests

If the page has been tagged for speedy deletion but has not been deleted yet, any editor other than the creator may remove the tag, which should be taken in as a good faith sign that the deletion is controversial and another deletion process should be used. The creator of a page may remove a speedy deletion tag only if the criterion in question is G6, G7, G8, G13, G14, C1, C4, T5, U1, or U6. For all other speedy deletion criteria, the creator of a page must not remove the speedy deletion tag from it. A creator who disagrees with the speedy deletion shall instead click on the "Contest this speedy deletion" button that appears inside the speedy deletion tag. This button links to the discussion page with a pre-formatted area for the creator to explain why the page should not be deleted.

If a page has already been speedily deleted, any editor (including the creator) can request its undeletion by using the box below if the page was deleted under one of the following criteria:Bharatpedia:Requests for undeletion/HeaderBharatpedia:Requests for undeletion/HeaderBharatpedia:Requests for undeletion/Abandoned pagesIf the page was not deleted under one of the criteria listed above and you believe the deletion was erroneous, you can contact the administrator who performed the deletion or you can formally contest the decision by opening a deletion review.

Pages that have survived deletion discussions

As an exception to the policy that if a page's most recent deletion discussion was closed as "keep" or "no consensus" it should not be speedily deleted, the following criteria also apply to those pages, with or without any specified limitations:

• § G5. Creations in violation of bans, blocks, or general sanctions – subject to the strict condition that the XfD participants were unaware that the page would have met this criterion
• § G6. Technical deletions – only if the deletion is temporary, or if no actual content will be removed
• § G8. Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page
• § G9. Office actions
• § G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement
• § G13. Abandoned drafts and Articles for creation submissions – if 6 months have passed since the deletion discussion and any subsequent human edits
• § G14. Unnecessary disambiguation pages – if extant pages listed have decreased down to 0 (or to 1, other requirements being met), since the deletion discussion
• § F9. Unambiguous copyright infringement
• § U1. User request

These criteria may only be used in such cases when no controversy exists; in the event of a dispute, start a new deletion discussion.

General

These criteria for speedy deletion apply to every type of page, such as articles, drafts, redirects, user pages, talk pages, and files, with exclusions listed for specific criteria.

G1. Patent nonsense

Further information: Bharatpedia:Patent nonsense

This applies to pages consisting entirely of incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history. It does not cover poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, implausible theories, vandalism, hoaxes, fictional material, coherent non-English material, or poorly translated material. In short, if it is understandable, G1 does not apply. It also does not apply to pages in the user namespace.

• {{Db-g1}}, {{Db-nonsense}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as nonsense pages (6)

G2. Test pages

This applies to pages created to test editing or other Bharatpedia functions. It applies to subpages of the Bharatpedia Sandbox created as tests, but does not apply to the Sandbox itself, pages in the user namespace, or valid but unused or duplicate templates.

• {{Db-g2}}, {{Db-test}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as test pages (0)

G3. Pure vandalism and blatant hoaxes

Further information: Bharatpedia:Vandalism and Bharatpedia:Do not create hoaxes

This applies to pages that only consist of vandalism, redirects created by cleanup from page-move vandalism, blatant and obvious misinformation (including files intended to misinform) and blatant hoaxes. Articles about notable hoaxes are acceptable if it is clear that they are describing hoaxes.

• {{Db-g3}}, {{Db-vandalism}} – for vandalism
• {{Db-hoax}} – for hoaxes
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as vandalism (0), Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as hoaxes (2)

G4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion

This applies to sufficiently identical copies, having any title, of a page deleted via its most recent deletion discussion. It excludes pages that are not substantially identical to the deleted version, and pages to which the reason for the deletion no longer applies. It excludes pages in userspace and draftspace where the content was converted to a draft for the explicit purpose of improvement (but not simply to circumvent Bharatpedia's deletion policy). This criterion also does not cover content undeleted via a deletion review, or that was only deleted via proposed deletion (including deletion discussions closed as "soft delete") or speedy deletion.

A page being creation protected is not a factor in whether G4 applies; the content still has to be substantially identical. For cases that are not substantially identical it may be wise to move to draft space without leaving a redirect.

• {{Db-g4}}, {{Db-repost}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as pages previously deleted via deletion discussion (0)

G5. Creations in violation of bans, blocks, or general sanctions

For broader coverage of this topic, see Bharatpedia:Banning policy § Edits by and on behalf of banned and blocked editors.

See also: Bharatpedia:Speedy keep § 4. Nomination in violation of a ban or block

This applies to pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, as well as pages created in violation of creation restrictions imposed by general sanctions, and that have no substantial edits by others not subject to a block, ban, or sanction. Pages created by a sockpuppet account are eligible if they were created while any of that person's accounts was blocked or banned.

• For topic-banned editors, the entire page must fall within the scope of the user's topic ban. If only parts of the page violate the ban and another speedy deletion criterion would not immediately apply if they were removed, the page is ineligible for G5.
• For violations of creation restrictions imposed by general sanctions, such as the extended confirmed restriction, the remedies must specifically permit deletion as an enforcement measure.
• This criterion does not apply to transcluded templates or populated categories unless they have been transcluded or populated entirely by the banned or blocked user; these edits need to be reverted before deletion.
• {{Db-g5|banned or blocked user}}, {{Db-banned|banned or blocked user}}, {{Db-gs|contentious topic code}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as having been created by blocked or banned users (0), Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as having been created in violation of general sanctions (0)

G6. Technical deletions

See also: Bharatpedia:What G6 is not

This is for uncontroversial maintenance, including:

• Pages which prevent page moves, such as redirects. Administrators should be aware of the proper procedures where a redirect or page holding up a page move has a non-trivial page history. An administrator who deletes a page that is blocking a move should ensure that the move is completed after deleting it.
• Pages unambiguously created in error or in the incorrect namespace, or redirects left behind after page moves that promptly correct an obviously unintended title.
• Templates orphaned as the result of a consensus at Bharatpedia:Templates for discussion.

• {{Db-g6|rationale=reason}} – If none of the special tags below apply, this tag should be used with a reason specified in the |rationale= parameter.
• {{Db-copypaste|page to be moved}} – for cut-and-paste page moves that need to be temporarily deleted to make room for a clean page move.
• {{Db-move|page to be moved|reason}} – for pages that are currently holding up a non-controversial or consensual page move.
• {{Db-moved}} – for pages that were holding up a page move, until they were moved out of the way by a page mover.
• {{Db-afc-move|Draft:page to be moved}} – for pages that are currently holding up a non-controversial or consensual page move as a result of an Articles for creation (AFC) review, typically for articles in draft space.
• {{Db-xfd|fullvotepage=link to closed deletion discussion}} – for pages where a consensus to delete has been previously reached via deletion discussion, but which were not deleted.
• {{Db-error}} – for pages obviously created in error.
• Category:Candidates for technical speedy deletion (0)

G7. Author requests deletion

If requested in good faith and provided that the only substantial content of the page was added by its author. For redirects created as a result of a page move, the mover must also have been the only substantive contributor to the pages before the move.

Exceptions may be sign-posted with the template {{G8-exempt}}.

• {{Db-g8}} – for cases not covered by any of the special tags below
• {{Db-redirnone}} – for pages that redirect to nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion
• {{Db-subpage}} – for subpages of nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion
• {{Db-timedtext}} – for Timed Text pages of nonexistent/deleted files, or files currently flagged for speedy deletion
• {{Db-talk}} – for talk pages of nonexistent/deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for speedy deletion
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as dependent on a non-existent page (0), Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as broken redirects (0)

G9. Office actions

In exceptional circumstances, the Bharatmedia Foundation may immediately delete a page as an office action. Deletions of this type must not be reversed without permission from the Foundation.

G10. Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate, or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose

Main page: Bharatpedia:Attack page

Examples of attack pages may include: libel, legal threats, material intended purely to harass or intimidate a person, or biographical material about a living person that is entirely negative in tone and unsourced. These pages should be speedily deleted when there is no neutral version in the page history to revert to. Both the page title and page content may be taken into account in assessing an attack. Articles about living people deleted under this criterion should not be restored or recreated by any editor until the biographical article standards are met. Other pages violating the Biographies of living persons policy might be eligible for deletion under the conditions stipulated at Template:Sectionlink, although in most cases a deletion discussion should be initiated instead.

Redirects from plausible search terms are not eligible under this criterion. For example, a term used on the target page to refer to its subject is often a plausible redirect – see Bharatpedia:RNEUTRAL.

• {{Db-g10}}, {{Db-attack}}, {{Db-attackorg}}, {{Db-personal attack}}
• {{Db-negublp}} – for articles about living persons that are unsourced, entirely negative in tone, and have no neutral version to revert to
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages (0)

G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion

Main page: Bharatpedia:Spam

See also: Bharatpedia:Identifying blatant advertising

This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to serve as encyclopedia articles, rather than advertisements. If a subject is notable and the content could plausibly be replaced with text written from a neutral point of view, this is preferable to deletion. Note: Any article that describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion. However, "promotion" does not necessarily mean commercial promotion: anything can be promoted, including a person, a non-commercial organization, a point of view, etc.

• {{Db-g11}}, {{Db-promo}}, {{Db-spam}}
• {{Db-spamuser}} – for userpages used only for publicity and promotion, with a username that promotes or implies affiliation with the entity being promoted
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as spam (4)

G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement

Main page: Bharatpedia:Copyright violations

This applies to text pages that contain copyrighted material with no credible assertion of public domain, fair dealing, or a compatible free license, where there is no non-infringing content on the page worth saving. Only if the history is unsalvageably corrupted should it be deleted in its entirety; earlier versions without infringement should be retained. For equivocal cases that do not meet speedy deletion criteria (such as where there is a dubious assertion of permission, where free-content edits overlie the infringement, or where there is only partial infringement or close paraphrasing), the article or the appropriate section should be blanked with {{subst:Copyvio}}, and the page should be listed at Bharatpedia:Copyright problems. Please consult Bharatpedia:Copyright violations for other instructions. Public-domain and other free content, such as a Bharatpedia mirror, do not fall under this criterion, nor is mere lack of attribution of such works a reason for speedy deletion. For files, see the equivalent criterion in the "Files" section here, which has more specific instructions.

• {{Db-g12|url=source URL}}, {{Db-copyvio|url=source URL}}

Note: If other criteria apply in addition to G12, the template {{Db-multiple}} should be used instead, so we do not waste time seeking copyright permission after deleting the page.

• {{Db-multiple|g12|url=source URL|other criteria}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations (0) (same category as F9)

G13. Abandoned drafts and Articles for creation submissions

Further information: Bharatpedia:Articles for creation

This applies to any non-redirect pages that have not been edited by a human in six months found in:

1. Draft namespace,
2. Userspace with an {{AFC submission}} template

Pages deleted under G13 may be restored upon request by following the procedure at Bharatpedia:Requests for undeletion/Abandoned pages.

• {{Db-g13}}, {{Db-afc}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions (0)

G14. Unnecessary disambiguation pages

This applies to the following:

• Disambiguation pages with titles ending in "(disambiguation)" that list only one extant Bharatpedia page.
• Disambiguation pages, regardless of title, that list zero extant Bharatpedia pages. (including previous revisions that are substantially similar) that exhibits any of the three following signs which indicate that the page could only plausibly have been generated by large language models (LLMs).
• Communication intended for the user – This may include collaborative communication (e.g., "Here is your Bharatpedia article on..."), knowledge-cutoff disclaimers (e.g., "Up to my last training update ..."), self-insertion (e.g., "as a large language model"), and unfilled placeholders (e.g., "Smith was born on [Birth Date]" rather than the person's actual birth date).
• Non-existent or nonsensical references – This may include external links that are dead on arrival, ISBNs with invalid checksums and no WorldCat results, unresolvable or unrelated DOIs (e.g., a paper about a species of beetle in an article about computer science), citations that exhibit invalid temporality (e.g., news reports about an accident before the accident occurred), or incorrect metadata (e.g., misattributed authors). To rule out other causes like typos and link rot, tagging editors should consult the Wayback Machine and not take a single example as definitive. When a page includes a large number of references, the references of concern should be noted in the rationale.
• Technical indicators – This may include model-specific citation bugs like the insertion of oaicite, attributionIndex JSON blocks, or turn0search0, as well as the presence of ```wikitext or ```wiki markdown code blocks (additional explanation).

In addition to the clear-cut signs listed above, there are other, more subjective signs of LLM writing that may also plausibly stem from human error or unfamiliarity with Bharatpedia's policies and guidelines, which should not serve as the sole basis for applying this criterion. For less clear-cut cases, consider starting a discussion at the AI noticeboard or Articles for deletion.

• {{Db-g15}}, {{Db-ai}}, {{Db-llm}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unambiguously LLM-generated content (0)

Articles

These criteria for speedy deletion apply only to pages in the article (main) namespace. They do not apply to redirects. For any articles that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Bharatpedia:Articles for deletion or Bharatpedia:Proposed deletion.

A1. No context

This applies to articles lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. For example, if the page title is "Alex", and the page only has the content "He is a funny man with a red car and makes people laugh.", there isn't sufficient context to identify who is meant by "Alex". It applies only to very short articles. Note that context is different from content, treated in A3. This excludes coherent non-English material and poorly translated material. If any information in the title or on the page, including links, allows an editor, possibly with the aid of a web search, to find further information on the subject in an attempt to expand or edit it, A1 is not appropriate. Do not tag under this criterion in the first few minutes after a new article is created.

• {{Db-a1}}, {{Db-nocontext}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as lacking context (0)

A2. Foreign-language articles that exist on another Bharatpedia wikis

This applies to articles not written in English that have essentially the same content as an article on another Bharatpedia projects. If the article is not the same as an article on another project, use the template {{Not English}} instead, and list the page at Bharatpedia:Pages needing translation into English for review and possible translation.

• {{Db-a2}}, {{Db-foreign}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as existing on foreign Bharatmedia projects (0)

A3. No content

This applies to articles consisting only of external links, category tags, "See also" sections, a rephrasing of the title, attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title, questions that should have been asked at a noticeboard, chat-like comments, template tags, or images. This may also apply to articles consisting entirely of the framework of the Article wizard with no additional content, or no content at all. However, this criterion does not cover very short articles that have context, which may be valid stubs, and articles consisting only of an infobox. This criterion excludes poor writing, coherent non-English material, and poorly translated material. Do not tag under this criterion in the first few minutes after a new article is created.}} that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant, except for educational institutions. This is distinct from verifiability and reliability of sources, and is a lower standard than notability. This criterion applies only to articles about the listed subjects; in particular, it does not apply to articles about albums (these may be covered by A9), products, books, films, TV programs, software, or other creative works, nor to entire species of animals. The criterion does apply if the claim of significance or importance given is not credible, and any article with a blatantly false claim may also be submitted for speedy deletion as a hoax. If the claim's credibility is unclear, you can improve the article yourself, propose deletion, or list the article at articles for deletion.

• {{Db-a7}}
• {{Db-person}} – for people
• {{Db-band}} – for bands
• {{Db-club}} – for clubs, societies and groups
• {{Db-inc}} – for commercial and non-commercial organizations
• {{Db-web}} – for web content
• {{Db-animal}} – for individual animals
• {{Db-event}} – for events
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as importance or significance not asserted (1) (same as A9)

A9. No indication of importance (musical recordings)

Further information: Bharatpedia:Credible claim of significance

This applies to any article about a musical recording or list of musical recordings where none of the contributing recording artists has an article and that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant (both conditions must be met). This is distinct from questions of verifiability and reliability of sources, and is a lower standard than notability. This criterion does not apply to other forms of creative media, products, or any other types of articles.

The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify on Bharatpedia's notability guidelines.

• {{Db-a9}}, {{Db-album}}, {{Db-song}}, {{Db-discog}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as importance or significance not asserted (1) (same as A7)

A10. Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic

This applies to any recently created article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing Bharatpedia article, and that does not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article(s) on the subject, and where the title is not a plausible redirect. This does not include split pages or any article that expands or reorganizes an existing one or that contains referenced, mergeable material. It also does not include disambiguation pages.

• {{Db-a10|article=Existing article title}}, {{Db-same|article=Existing article title}}

The title chosen for the vast majority of duplicate articles will be a plausible misspelling of, or alternative name for, the existing article, and a redirect should be created instead of deletion. This criterion should, accordingly, only be used rarely, and only for pages whose titles are not plausible redirects.

• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as duplicate articles (0)

A11. Obviously invented

Main page: Bharatpedia:Bharatpedia is not for things made up one day

Further information: Bharatpedia:Credible claim of significance

This applies to any article that plainly indicates that the subject was invented, coined, or discovered by the article's creator or someone they personally know and does not credibly indicate why its subject is important or significant. The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance, even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify under Bharatpedia's notability guidelines. Note: This is not intended for hoaxes (see G3).

• {{Db-a11}}, {{Db-invented}}, {{Db-madeup}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as obviously invented (0)

Redirects

These criteria for speedy deletion apply to redirects, including soft redirects, in any namespace, with exclusions listed for specific criteria. Redirects whose page histories are necessary for attribution, including redirects created by merges, and articles or stubs that have been converted into redirects are not eligible for speedy deletion. For any redirects that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Redirects for discussion. In some cases, it may be possible to make a useful redirect by changing the target instead of deleting it.

R2. Cross-namespace redirects

See also: Bharatpedia:Cross-namespace redirects, Category:Cross-namespace redirects, and Bharatpedia:Manual of Style/Linking § General points on linking style

This applies to redirects from the main namespace to any other namespace except the Category:, Template:, Bharatpedia:, Help:, and Portal: namespaces.

• {{Db-r2}}, {{Db-rediruser}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as inappropriate cross-namespace redirects (0)

R3. Recently created, implausible typos

This applies to recently created (unless nothing was at the title until recently), and to redirects that point to a disambiguation page and end with "(disambiguation)".

• {{Db-r3}}, {{Db-redirtypo}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as implausible redirects (0)

Other issues with redirects

• For redirects to deleted or non-existent pages, see G8.
• For redirects that end in "(disambiguation)", see G14.
• For redirects that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Redirects for discussion.

Redirects that do not work because of software limitations, such as redirects to special pages or to pages on other wikis, may be converted to soft redirects if they have a non-trivial history or other valid uses.

For reversal of redirects, use {{Db-move}}, a special case of {{Db-g6}}.

Files

These criteria for speedy deletion apply to files, images, and other media. These criteria formerly began with I (e.g., I1, I2, I3) but have since been replaced with F, without the actual criteria being changed. This was because the file namespace was formerly known as the image namespace.

For any files that are not speedy deletion candidates, use the Proposed deletion or Files for discussion processes.

F1. Redundant

Not to be confused with BP:Formula One.

This applies to unused duplicates or lower-quality/resolution copies of another Bharatpedia file having the same file format. This excludes files hosted on a designated shared media repository used by Bharatpedia; for these, see criterion F8.

• {{Db-f1|replacement file name.ext}}, {{Db-redundantfile| replacement file name.ext}}, {{Isd|replacement file name.ext}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as redundant files (0)

F2. Corrupt, missing, or empty file

This applies to files that are corrupt, missing, empty, or that contain superfluous and blatant non-metadata information. This also applies to file description pages that lack a corresponding file or correspond to Commons files and do not include information that is specific to Bharatpedia (like {{FeaturedPicture}}).

• {{Db-f2}}, {{Db-nofile}}, {{Db-fpcfail}}
• {{Db-imagepage}} – for file description pages with no corresponding file
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as missing files (0)

F3. Improper license

This criterion is used to flag files licensed as "for non-commercial use only" (including non-commercial Creative Commons licenses), "no derivative use", "for Bharatpedia use only", or "used with permission". These may be deleted, unless they comply with the limited standards for the use of non-free content. Files which do not meet the criteria for using the GNU Free Documentation License may be deleted under this criterion.

• {{Db-f3}}, {{Db-noncom}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as files with unacceptable licenses (0)

F4. Lack of licensing information

This applies to files lacking the necessary licensing information to verify copyright status after being identified as such for seven days. Administrators should check the upload summary, file information page, and the file itself for a source before deleting under this criterion.

• {{subst:Di-no source}}, {{subst:Nsd}} – no source
• {{subst:Di-no license}}, {{subst:Nld}} – no license
• {{subst:Di-no source no license}}, {{subst:Nsdnld}} – neither source nor license
• {{subst:Di-dw no source}}, {{subst:Dw-nsd}} – derivative work with no source for the incorporated work
• {{subst:Di-dw no license}}, {{subst:Dw-nld}} – derivative work with no license for the incorporated work
• {{subst:Di-dw no source no license}}, {{subst:Dw-nsdnld}} – derivative work with neither source nor license for the incorporated work
• Category:Bharatpedia files with unknown source, Category:Bharatpedia files with unknown copyright status

F5. Orphaned non-free use files

This applies to files that are not under a free license or in the public domain and that are not used in any article. These may be deleted after being identified as such for more than seven days or immediately if the file's only use was on a deleted article and it is very unlikely to have any use on any other valid article. This includes previous revisions of the files overwritten by copyright violations. Reasonable exceptions may be made for files uploaded for an upcoming article.

• {{Db-f5}} – for immediate F5 deletions
• {{subst:Di-orphaned non-free use}}, {{subst:Orfud}} – for files
• {{subst:Orphaned non-free revisions}}, {{subst:Orfurrev}} – for revisions only
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as orphaned non-free use files (0)

F6. Missing non-free use rationale

This applies to non-free files claiming fair dealing but without a non-free use rationale. These may be deleted after being identified as such for seven days. The boilerplate copyright tags setting out fair dealing criteria does not constitute a rationale. This criterion does not apply to situations where a use rationale is provided but is disputed.

• {{Di-no non-free use rationale}}, {{subst:Nrd}} – no non-free use rationale
• {{Di-missing article links}} – missing non-free use rationale for one or more articles
• Category:All Bharatpedia files with no non-free use rationale (0)

F7. Invalid non-free use claim

2. Non-free files from a press agency or photo agency (e.g., Associated Press, Getty Images), where the file itself is not the subject of sourced commentary, are considered an invalid claim of fair dealing and fail the strict requirements of Bharatpedia:Non-free content criteria, and may be deleted immediately.
3. Non-free files that have been identified as being replaceable by a free file and tagged with {{Rnfu}} may be deleted after two days, if no justification is given for the claim of irreplaceability. If the replaceability is disputed, the nominator should not be the one deleting the file.
4. Invalid fair-use claims tagged with {{Dnfu}} may be deleted seven days after they are tagged, if a full and valid fair-use use rationale is not added.

• {{Db-f7}}, {{Db-badfairuse}} – for immediate F7 deletions
• {{subst:Di-replaceable non-free use}}, {{subst:Rnfu}} – replaceable with free files
• {{subst:Di-disputed non-free use rationale}}, {{subst:Dnfu}} – disputed non-free use rationales
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as files with clearly invalid fair-dealing claims (0)

F8. Files available as identical copies on a designated shared media repository

Provided the following conditions are met:

• The Commons version is in the same file format and is of the same or higher quality and resolution.
• The file's license and source status are beyond a reasonable doubt, and the license is undoubtedly accepted at Commons. To avoid deletion at Commons, please ensure the Commons page description has all of the following:
  • Name and date of death of the creator of the artistic work represented by the file, or else clear evidence that a free license was given. If anonymous, ensure the page description provides evidence that establishes the anonymous status.
  • Country where the artistic work represented by the file was situated, or where it was first published.
  • Date when the artistic work represented by the file was created or first published, depending on the copyright law of the origin country.
  • All file revisions that meet the first condition have been transferred to Commons as revisions of the Commons copy and properly marked as such.
• The file is not marked as {{Do not move to Commons}} or as {{Keep local}}.
• All information on the file description page is present on the Commons file description page, including the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages (the upload history is not necessary if the file's license does not require it, although it is still recommended). If there is any information not relevant to any other project on the file description page (like the {{FeaturedPicture}} template), the file description page must be undeleted after the file deletion.
• If the file is available on Commons under a different name than locally, all local references to the file must be updated to point to the title used at Commons.
• The file is not protected. Do not delete protected files, even if there is an identical copy on Commons, unless the file is no longer in use (check what links here). They are usually locally uploaded and protected here since they are used in the interface or in some widely used high-risk templates. Deleting the local copy of an image used in the interface does break things. More about high-risk images.
• {{C-uploaded}} files may be speedily deleted as soon as they are off the Main Page.
• {{Db-f8}}, {{Now Commons}}, {{Now Commons|File:name of file on Commons.ext}}

F9. Unambiguous copyright infringement

This applies to obviously non-free files that are not claimed by the uploader to be fair dealing. A URL or other indication of where the file originated should be mentioned. This does not include files with a credible claim that the owner has released them under a Bharatpedia-compatible free license. Most files from stock photo libraries such as Getty Images will not be released under such a license. Blatant infringements should be tagged with the {{Db-filecopyvio}} template. Non-blatant copyright infringements should be discussed at Bharatpedia:Files for discussion.

• {{Db-f9|url=URL of source}}, {{Db-filecopyvio|url=URL of source}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations (0) (same category as G12)

F11. No evidence of permission

If an uploader has specified a license and has named a third party as the source or copyright holder without providing evidence that this third party has in fact agreed, the item may be deleted seven days after notification of the uploader. Acceptable evidence of licensing normally consists of either a link to the source website where the license is stated, or a statement by the copyright holder e-mailed or forwarded to Template:Mailto. Such a confirmation is also required if the source is an organization or web publication that the uploader claims to represent or own.

Instances of obvious copyright violations where the uploader would have no reasonable expectation of obtaining permission (e.g., major studio movie posters, television images, album covers, or logos) without a claim of fair dealing should instead be speedily deleted per F9 (unambiguous copyright infringement). Files tagged with {{Permission pending}} for more than 30 days may also be speedily deleted under this criterion. (.) Files tagged {{Permission received}} whose permissions have not been confirmed after 30 days may be deleted immediately under this criterion, without waiting an additional seven days, provided a check of the ticket is performed by a VRT agent to confirm that no further interaction is ongoing.

• {{subst:Di-no permission}}, {{subst:Npd}}
• {{subst:Db-no permission-VRT}}
• Category:Bharatpedia files missing permission

Categories

These criteria for speedy deletion apply only to pages in the category namespace. For any category pages that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Categories for discussion instead.

C1. Unpopulated categories

This criterion applies to categories that have been unpopulated (or only populated by pages themselves tagged for speedy deletion) for at least seven days. This does not apply to disambiguation categories, category redirects, categories under discussion at a deletion discussion venue, or project categories that by their nature may become empty on occasion (e.g., cleanup categories, or Category:Bharatpedians looking for help). Place {{Possibly empty category}} (or, for administrative categories, {{Bharatpedia category}}) at the top of the page to prevent such categories from being deleted.

• {{Db-c1}}, {{db-catempty}}.
• {{Db-empty}} – context-specific version: calls {{Db-c1}} for categories, and {{Db-a3}} everywhere else.
• Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion (0), and after seven days Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as empty categories (0)

C2. Speedy renaming and merging

Assorted sub-criteria that are used only at Categories for discussion/Speedy; please see that page for its speedy criteria.

C4. Unused maintenance categories

This criterion applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past (e.g., Category:Articles lacking sources from July 2022), tracking categories no longer used by a template after a rewrite, or empty subcategories of Category:Bharatpedia sockpuppets or Category:Suspected Bharatpedia sockpuppets. Note that empty maintenance categories are not necessarily unused—this criterion is for categories that will always be empty, not just currently empty. If you are unsure whether a category is still being used by a template, consider asking the creator of the category or at the template's talk page before tagging.

• {{db-c4}}, {{db-templatecat}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unused maintenance categories (0)

Templates

Template:Redir-dist These criteria for speedy deletion apply only to pages in the template namespace. For any templates and Lua modules that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Bharatpedia:Templates for discussion.

T5. Unused template subpages

This applies to unused subpages of templates or modules, such as:

• Template documentation subpages unused by the template itself (editors tagging and deleting such pages should ensure that all relevant content, including categories, has been moved to the template page or the replacement documentation)
• /core subpages which are not called by the template itself
• Old subpages of {{POTD protected}}
• Unnecessary subpages of {{Taxonomy}}, e.g., because it is incorrectly set up, or relates to a taxon no longer used

It excludes sandbox and test cases subpages, subpages of Module:Sandbox, as well as anything tagged with {{T5-exempt}}. Reasonable exceptions apply for subpages which will be used soon, and editors are free to request undeletion.

• {{Db-t5}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unused template subpages (0)

User pages

These criteria for speedy deletion apply only to pages in the User: and User talk: namespaces. For any user pages that are not speedy deletion candidates, use Bharatpedia:Miscellany for deletion instead.

U1. User request

Personal user pages and subpages (but not user talk pages) upon request by their user. This also includes editnotices for user pages. In some rare cases, there may be an administrative need to retain the page. Pages that have previously been moved are only eligible if all previous titles were in the user's userspace.

• {{Db-u1}}, {{Db-userreq}} (These templates are not displayed on pages such as .css and .js, but their categorization still works.)
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user (0) (same category as G7)

U2. Nonexistent user

"BP:U2" redirects here. For the WikiProject for the band, see Bharatpedia:WikiProject U2.

This applies to user pages, user subpages, and user talk pages of users that do not exist on Bharatpedia (check Special:ListUsers), except user pages for IP users who have edited, redirects from misspellings of an established user's user page, and redirects created due to a user being renamed. Pages of users who exist on other WMF wikis but do not have local accounts are eligible for deletion.

Before tagging or deleting a page under this criterion, consider whether it is preferable to move the page to another location, such as a user subpage of the primary contributor.

• {{Db-u2}}, {{Db-nouser}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as userpage or subpage of a nonexistent user (0)

U6. Abandoned user subpages of non-contributors

Further information: Bharatpedia:Replacement of CSD U5 FAQ

User subpages of users who have made few or no edits outside of user space, which have not been edited by a human in at least six months, Promising drafts may be moved to draftspace by any editor as an alternative to deletion.

The CSD U6 Bot automatically tags unambiguous U6 candidates. In addition to tagging newly-eligible pages, it is working through the backlog of eligible pages predating U6's adoption. Its taggings carry a one-week delay to allow for human review and potential draftification. Humans may apply U6 tags as with any other criterion, without the delay, but are discouraged from scripted mass-tagging of pages that will eventually be handled by the bot.

• {{Db-u6}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned user subpages of non-contributors (0)
• Category:Bot-tagged U6 candidates pending deletion (0)

U7. Excessively unrelated non-draft subpages by non-contributors

Further information: Bharatpedia:Replacement of CSD U5 FAQ

User subpages of users who have made few or no edits outside of user space, were created more than six months ago, could not be interpreted as draft articles (even very bad ones), and consist entirely of:

1. creative or persuasive writing unrelated to Bharatpedia (e.g., fan fictions or political essays)
2. lengthy descriptions of a person's professional accomplishments that are written in the first person or formatted like a résumé or curriculum vitae and do not serve as paid-contribution disclosures
3. lengthy

For similar content on a page that is not eligible under this criterion (e.g., a top-level user page), blanking or selective removal may be appropriate as described at Bharatpedia:User pages § What may I not have in my user pages?.

• {{Db-u7}}
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as excessively unrelated non-draft subpages by non-contributors (0)

Non-criteria

Bharatpedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Common requests

The following are not by themselves sufficient to justify speedy deletion:

1. Reasons based on Bharatpedia:What Bharatpedia is not or essays. Bharatpedia is not: "a dictionary", "an indiscriminate collection of information", "a crystal ball", "a how-to list"; or essays like Bharatpedia:Listcruft, Bharatpedia:Obscure topics, Bharatpedia:Deny recognition,...; are not valid reasons for speedy deletion.
2. Less-obvious hoaxes. If even only remotely plausible, a suspected hoax article should receive scrutiny in a wider forum. Truth is often stranger than fiction. Note that "blatant and obvious hoaxes and misinformation" are subject to speedy deletion as vandalism.
3. Original research. It is not always easy to tell whether an article consists of material that violates the policy against novel theories or interpretations or is simply unsourced.
4. Notability. Articles that seem to have obviously non-notable subjects are eligible for speedy deletion only if the article does not give a credible indication of why the subject might be important or significant.
5. Failure to assert importance but not an A7, A9 or A11 category. There is no consensus to speedily delete articles of types not specifically listed in A7, A9 or A11 under those criteria. Nor does it apply to neologisms that do not meet A11 because new specialized terms should have a wider hearing.
6. Author deletion requests made in bad faith. Author deletion requests made in bad faith, out of frustration, after others have contributed substantially (because the work of others is involved) or in an attempt to revoke their freely-licensed contributions are not granted. However, anyone may request deletion of pages in their userspace.
7. Very short articles. Short articles with sufficient content and context to qualify as stubs may not be speedily deleted under criteria A1 and A3; other criteria may still apply.
8. Copies that are not copyright violations. If content appears both here and somewhere else (possibly in modified form), consider the possibility that Bharatpedia's is the original version and the other site copied from Bharatpedia's version. Alternatively, the same author may have written both versions, or the original may be free content.
9. PNG / GIF files replaced by JPEG images. JPEG encoding discards information that may be important later. Do not delete the original PNG / GIF files.
10. Questionable material that is not vandalism. Earnest efforts are never vandalism, so to assume good faith, do not delete as vandalism unless reasonably certain.
11. User and user talk pages of temporary accounts. Although users are encouraged to create Bharatpedia accounts, unregistered users are still allowed to edit Bharatpedia and are identified by temporary accounts. If an unregistered user uses a temporary account for some time, it may have a user page and/or user talk page associated with it, and even for abandoned temporary accounts, the history can contain important discussions or information that may be of interest.
12. An article written in a foreign language or script. An article should not be speedily deleted just because it is not written in English. Instead it should be tagged with {{Not English}} and listed at Bharatpedia:Pages needing translation into English. It may be reconsidered after translation whether the article merits deletion, retention or improvement by means of a suitable tag. However, if it already exists on another Bharatmedia project, it might be speedily deletable under criterion A2.
13. Subject request. Sometimes somebody claiming to be the subject of a biographical article requests deletion of the article, or even blanks the article. Article subjects do not have an automatic right to have their articles deleted. Nor does such a criterion apply to namespaces other than article space: for example, pages in the Bharatpedia namespace devoted to a discussion about a particular editor. See also: Template:Sectionlink
14. Orphaned pages or redirects. A page cannot be deleted just because no other pages link to it. This includes redirects – even if 'What links here' returns nothing, a redirect may be a likely search phrase, or have links to it from outside Bharatpedia.
15. Redirects that are poorly targeted. A redirect should not be deleted just because its target is incorrect or confusing. Instead, change the redirect to a better target. If you're not sure where it should be targeted, open a discussion at Redirects for discussion.
16. Drafts covering the same topic as an existing mainspace article. These are not valid deletions under A10 (due to not being articles) nor G6. They can be replaced with a redirect to the mainspace article or merged if necessary.
17. Conflict of interest. Merely having an author connected to its subject, or even one paid to write about it, is not by itself sufficient to speedily delete a page. While users with promotional usernames are frequently blocked, G5 does not apply unless they were already evading a block or ban when they wrote it. G11 can be used to delete exclusively-promotional writing, but doesn't apply to neutrally written material even if the intent is obviously promotional.

Procedure for administrators

See also: Bharatpedia:Deletion process

Make sure to specify the reason for deletion in the deletion summary. Also, in general, the article's creator and major contributors should have been notified.

Before deleting a page, check the page history to assess whether it would instead be possible to revert and salvage a previous version, or if there was actually a cut-and-paste move involved. Also:

• The initial edit summary may have information about the source of or reason for the page.
• The talk page may refer to previous deletion discussions or have ongoing discussions relevant to including the page.
• The page log may have information about previous deletions that could warrant SALTing the page or keeping it on good reason.
• What links here may show that the page is an oft-referred part of the encyclopedia, or may show other similar pages that warrant deletion. For pages that should not be re-created, incoming links in other pages (except in discussions, archives and tracking pages) should be removed.

If speedy deletion is inappropriate for a page:

1. Please remove the speedy deletion tag from the page. Doing so will automatically remove the page from Category:Candidates for speedy deletion.
2. Consider notifying the nominator, using {{speedy-decline}} or {{uw-csd}}.

When deleting a page through the speedy deletion process, please specify the reason for deletion in the deletion summary, so that it will be recorded in the deletion log. Quoting page content in the deletion summary may be helpful, but must not be done for attack content or copyrighted text. In some cases, it would be appropriate to notify the page's creator of the deletion.

Twinkle or CSDHelper can be used to process nominations more quickly and smoothly. When processing a nomination:

• Twinkle can delete the page.
  • Twinkle can notify the page creator if the page is deleted.
• CSDH can delete the page, convert the nomination into a PROD nomination, or decline the nomination.
  • CSDH can notify the nominator if the nomination is converted or declined.

Obsolete

In the past, criteria for speedy deletion beginning with the following letters were used:

• "P" for portals
• "X" for temporary criteria to assist in large-scale cleanups of problematic pages that would otherwise overwhelm the normal deletion processes

All criteria in these groups have been rendered obsolete; as such, these groups are not currently in use.

Some criteria in the active groups were also used in the past but are no longer valid. They are kept here for historical reference and to preserve numbering. Two of the repealed criteria did not have consensus before being enacted, and three were meant to be temporary. The remainder were merged into broader criteria or removed entirely.

See also

• Bharatpedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
• Bharatpedia:Alternative outlets
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
• Category:Speedy deletion warning templates
• Bharatpedia:Speedy deletion/Deletion templates
• Bharatpedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators
• Bharatpedia:Deletion review
• Bharatpedia:No blank pages
• Bharatpedia:Proposed deletion
• Bharatpedia:Undeletion policy
• Bharatpedia:What to do if your article gets CSD tagged
• Bharatpedia:Over-hasty Speedy Deleters
• Bharatpedia:Field guide to proper speedy deletion