JoCopedia:Deletion Policy

Articles that require maintenance or deletion are currently organized into three types with different procedures for each type. Note that these guidelines are not a significant change from current practice at the time of this update. Procedures are as follows:

[edit] Quick Votes for Deletion

Examples:

• Vandalism
• One-liners
• Clear Vanity
• Opaque Sloth
• Plagiarism
• Unneeded Redirects
• Mistakenly Created Pages
• Recreated Articles
• Redundant or Duplicate Pages

Deletion Procedure:

• Admins may delete these articles on sight
• Users should place a link to the article in QVFD under the correct date heading. Include explanation as needed

Examples:

• One or two paragraph pages
• Pages too incoherent to be good
• Pages too messy to have value

Exceptions:

• Articles that are insubstantial but acceptable for another reason should be marked as stubs. Examples include:

• Stubs that are part of a series
• Stubs that are linked to from a common template
• Stubs that support another article but which are not mergable

[edit] Articles of low quality but not low enough to warrant deletion

Examples:

• Older pages that are low quality
• Pages that are not embarrassingly rough, but still should be improved
• Popular pages that have become messed up over time through many edits
• Pages that have a redeemable core idea but bad execution and need tidying

Maintenance Procedure

• Add the page to the list on WikiProject:Tidy Up or work on it yourself!

[edit] JoCopedia:VFD

In a perfect world we wouldn't need VFD. You could just use one of the previous procedures. Sometimes things aren't perfect and to resolve that ambiguity we need democracy. This is where VFD comes in. Use VFD sparingly and if you are in doubt just add it to WikiProject:Tidy Up.

Procedure

• Add {{VFD}} to top of the page. Write "+VFD" in the edit summary.
• List the page on VFD as a heading
• Place your vote under the page's heading and sign it with four tildes (~)
• An admin will delete the page if a consensus for deletion is reached, or if a consensus for keeping is reached, {{VFDSurvivor}} will be placed on the page's discussion page by the admin.