CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion/Administrator instructions

This page outlines administrators instructions for articles for deletion (AfD) discussions, which are used to determine whether or not an article should be deleted. For more information, please see CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion.

Closing the AfD
To process an AFD debate listed on a day page containing debates old enough to be closed:
 * If it may take significant time to assess the debate and/or perform the closing edits, consider letting others know that you are in assessing the discussion by adding to the very top of the page and  to the very bottom of the page. Alternatively, ) can be added to the very top of the page.
 * Determine, using the guidelines set forth at CorporisPublica:Deletion guidelines for administrators, if there is a consensus to delete the article, and if the associated talk or sub-pages should also be deleted.
 * Close the deletion discussion by doing the following:
 * Remove the // tags from the page, if they were placed beforehand.
 * Do the following:
 * If additional explanation is needed as to why you have closed a deletion discussion as a certain result, add additional comments immediately after  RESULT.  on the first line.
 * Save the page with an edit summary such as "Closing AfD, result was ..."

After closing, the page should look like this: RESULT. [Additional comments]. Example (talk), 28 August 2024 (UTC)

PageName

 * DISCUSSION THREAD

Carrying out the AfD close
Depending on the decision, proceed as follows:

delete: For most administrators using the current deletion interface, the box will automatically contain that.  G8: Page dependent on a deleted or nonexistent page  For most administrators using the current deletion interface, this can be selected in the drop-down box under "Reason:".
 * Delete the article, adding a link to the deletion discussion  CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion/Article  to the "Other/additional reason:" box.
 * Delete the article's talk page per speedy deletion criterion G8, placing the following in the "Other/additional reason:" box:
 * Go to Special:WhatLinksHere on the deleted article and delete any redirects that point to the deleted article, using speedy deletion criterion G8.

keep:
 * Click "edit" on the article page and copy the entire template that is inside the AfD tag, then paste that entire template onto the article's talk page (normally below the WikiProject tags, if applicable), and then save using an edit summary such as "Adding Old AfD multi".
 * If the is not present in the tag, then the AfD is likely a repeat nomination, and it will need to be manually added to the current  tag on the article's talk page. Please see Template:Old AfD multi/doc for instructions on how to format it. After adding the current AfD results to the template, save using an edit summary such as "Appending to Old AfD multi".
 * Remove the AfD tag from the article itself; that is, everything between (and including)  . Save using an edit summary such as "Removing AfD tag. Consensus was "keep"."
 * If the consensus was to keep and clean up, consider adding the tag on top of the article.

no consensus:
 * Follow the exact same procedures in keep above, but replace keep with no consensus.

redirect: If the article's talk page exists, follow the same procedures as in keep for adding the tag to the article's talk page. Normally, WikiProject tags are also removed, unless they support a Redirect-Class, in which those tags can be modified instead of removed.
 * Make sure you specify on the AfD page where the article should be redirected to.
 * If the article's talk page does not exist, then no tag needs to be added to the talk page.
 * Redirect the article to the target as consensus prescribes.

merge: If the article's talk page exists, follow the same procedures as in keep for adding the tag to the article's talk page. Normally, WikiProject tags are also removed, unless they support a Merge-Class, in which those tags can be modified instead of removed.
 * Make sure you specify on the AfD page where the article should be merged to.
 * If the article's talk page does not exist, then no tag needs to be added to the talk page.
 * On the AfD'd article's page, replace the AfD tag (by removing everything as prescribed in keep above) with the following:
 *  
 * On the destination article's talk page, add the following (normally below the WikiProject tags):
 *  

Relisting AfDs
If insufficient discussion took place to determine a consensus or lack thereof, the AfD can be relisted by doing the following:

If additional comments need to be made upon relisting, add  Comments about the relist  instead.
 * At the very bottom of the deletion discussion, add  
 * Go to the day the AfD was listed; this can be found by clicking What links here on the AfD page and then clicking the AfD log page (e.g. CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion/Log/ ). On that AfD log page, comment out (using   ) the transclusion of the relisted deletion discussion. It should look like this:
 *  </tt>
 * Save that AfD log page with an edit summary such as " Relisting CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion/Article ".


 * Go to CP:AFD/T, and add to the top of the list of AfDs the relisted AfD, adding  </tt> at the end. It should look like this:
 *  </tt>
 * Save the CP:AFD/T page with an edit summary such as " Relisting CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion/Article ".

Closing out an AfD log page
Every day, the AfD log page (e.g. CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion/Log/) that is more than seven days old should be moved to CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion/Old (currently, this is automatically done by User:Mathbot). With few exceptions (e.g., an AFD-nominated article that qualifies for CorporisPublica:Speedy keep or deletion under CP:CSD), the decision to keep or delete a page is to be implemented only after this move has been performed.

If all deletion discussions on an AfD log page have been closed, then please go to CorporisPublica:Articles for deletion/Old and remove that AfD log page (which Mathbot can do automatically by clicking here). Then, go to CorporisPublica:Archived deletion discussions and paste that AfD log page at the top in the appropriate month (currently, this is also automatically done by Mathbot).

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