BetaWiki:Deletion policy

The BetaWiki deletion policy defines the circumstances under which is a page eligible for removal and procedures for doing so. Deleting removes the page and its history from public view, however, administrators can still access it and undelete it if required.

Any page can be nominated for deletion by transcluding the  template. After transclusion, a message box appears on the top of the page containing a link to a discussion page, where the deletion request should be explained. See Delete requests/Archived/2018-11-28/Windows 10 build 9622 or Delete requests/Archived/2019-02-18/Windows Longhorn M1 pages for examples of a delete request discussion page. A page is eligible for deletion seven days after the initiation of the delete request, if the majority of users who took part in the discussion vote in favor of deletion of the page.

Deletion should be always used as a last resort option. If editing can improve the page, then this is the preferred course of action as opposed to deleting the page.

Criteria for speedy deletion
Any BetaWiki page can be speedily deleted without prior discussion if it meets at least one of the following criteria:

General

 * Patent nonsense
 * Test pages (this does not apply to Sandbox or user pages)
 * Pages whose content is unambiguosly beyond BetaWiki's scope
 * Pure vandalism
 * Pages created by blocked users
 * Pages that don't serve any other purpose than attack their subject
 * Recreation of a page that was deleted after prior discussion
 * Reasonably justified author request, if the particular user is the only editor of said page
 * Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page
 * Blatant advertising and/or promotion
 * Unambiguous copyright infringement
 * Technical deletion

Articles

 * Apparent non-encyclopedic content, such as proclamations, mere opinions with no source etc.
 * Extremely short articles, containing only incomplete information out of context
 * Non-English articles
 * Articles that contain no useful content aside from external links, category tags, a rephrasing of the title, and/or images