Help:How to delete a page
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In general, pages are rarely deleted. It's not often necessary to do so. This article talks about how to delete a page, and what to do when you think you need to delete a page, but you actually don't.
Understanding deletion
Many people, when they first start using a wiki like 92104.org, think of pages on the wiki like files on their own computer. You can create them and edit them, so therefore you should be able to delete them just as easily, right?
But Wiki pages are different from normal files. Anyone can modify the page, and sometimes, through malice or accident, they do a bad job of it. We mitigate this by keeping a history of all the different versions, so other people can fix bad modifications and revert to old versions if absolutely necessary.
When a page is deleted, however, nobody else can do this. We usually try not to delete pages, for this reason, unless they are really messed up.
Fake deletions
It's possible to get the effects of deleting a page without actually deleting it. These are some things that anyone can do to "delete" a page.
- If a page has content on it that you think is incorrect or badly written, you can simply change it.
- If a page has a good name, but there's no good content on it, you can just blank it. Edit the page, and delete everything in it. It'd be nice if you could add some stub information to get things started, but if not, just leave it blank, and the next person coming through will add some data.
- If a page is a duplicate of another page (it covers the same subject as another page), you can change it to redirect to the other page. If two or more pages are duplicates of each other, merge their content onto the page that has the "best" name (according to the article naming conventions), and redirect all the other ones there.
Permanent deletions
If you feel that an article really needs to be deleted, then leave a comment on User:Admin's Talk Page, or email info@92104.org along with all the details.
