BoyWiki:Deletion policy

The BoyWiki deletion policy describes how pages that do not meet the relevant criteria for content of BoyWiki are identified and removed from BoyWiki.

Deletion of a BoyWiki article removes the current version and all previous versions from public view. Unlike page blanking, which can be performed (or reverted) by any user, only administrators can perform deletion, view deleted pages, and reverse ("undelete") any deletion. If in doubt as to whether there is consensus to delete a page, administrators normally will not delete it.

Reasons for deletion

Reasons for deletion include, but are not limited to, the following (subject to the condition that improvement or deletion of an offending section, if practical, is preferable to deletion of an entire page):

• 1. Patent nonsense
• 2. Test pages
• 3. Pure vandalism and blatant hoaxes
• 4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion
• 5. Creations by banned or blocked users
• 6. Technical deletions
• 7. Author requests deletion
• 8. Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page
• 9. Free Spirits administrative actions
• 10. Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose
• 11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion
• 12. Unambiguous copyright infringement
• 13. Abandoned Articles for creation submissions

Articles

• 14. No context
• 15. Foreign language articles that exist on another BoyWiki language wiki
• 16. No content
• 17. Articles that are not relevant to boylove
• 18. No indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events)
• 19. No indication of importance (musical recordings)
• 20. Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic
• 21. Obviously invented

Categories

• 22. Unpopulated categories
• 23. Renaming or merging

User pages

• 24. User request
• 25. Nonexistent user
• 26 No longer relevent or page is too long