Delete article

Pages can only be deleted from Wiki-Admins. Deleted pages are, including the versions-history, not visible for normal users and can only be restored by admins. The restoration of deleted pages is very complex, it’s recommended to discuss with another admin before you delete a page. How to delete a page

Users with edit rights can delete wiki pages. If a page is deleted, it can no longer be found using the search function. However, users have the option to restore a deleted page.

How to delete a page?

To delete the page, click Page Tools > Manage page> Delete .

Deleting a page

Before deleting the page, you can:

• Check the version history.
• Check which pages link to this page
• Indicate the reason for the deletion: Since deleting a page can raise questions from other users, it makes sense to leave a short explanation here. This text is shown accordingly in the deletion log.
• Watch the page: If the page is restored by another user, you can receive a notification.

Mass-deleting pages

 

Admin users can mass-delete pages from the special page Special:Nuke.

Which pages should be deleted?

Every user

You can

trace pages which are nominating to be deleted by using the special pages. The common Wiki-“Gardener” is using following special pages:

Spezial:Kürzeste_Seiten (German: shortest pages): Very short articles are sometimes not relevant enough, or could be added in another or superior page.

Spezial:Verwaiste_Seiten (German: orphaned pages): The orphaned pages are pages which aren’t or are only sparsely linked to other pages.

Spezial:Neue_Seiten (German: new pages): Here you can find a list of the recently appended pages. This can be helpful to find

use some pages under Special:SpecialPages to find candidates for deletion:

• Special:ShortPages: With short pages it can be expected that the content of the article is not relevant enough or is better dealt with as a paragraph in another article.
• Special:LonelyPages: Orphaned pages are characterized by a lack of transclusions or links to the page.
• Special:NewPages: Reviewing recently added pages is useful, for example, to detect spam in public wikis.

Where

can

do I find information about deleted pages?

Spezial

• Special:

Logbuch

• Log/delete:

Here is the log of the deleted pages. You can find deleted pages here and there is an option to

• Search for and restore deleted pages.

Spezial

• Special:

Wiederherstellen: Here you can search for a deleted page, too.

Spezial:Gelöschte_Beiträge: On this site you can enter the Name or IP-adress of a certain user and find the articles he deleted.

Restoration of

• DeletedContributions: Search for deleted posts of a specific user (or an IP address).

Recover deleted pages

Deleted pages can be restored

by a Wiki-Admin by

using the

Deletion log and clicking “restore” on the specific page. Hereafter you only have to reason why you want to restore and confirm.

Delete log. If the deleted page was linked to other wiki pages, the page can be restored directly via the redlink on that page.

Which pages shouldn't be deleted?

There are often more sensible alternatives for deleting:

• Move: If a page has an incorrect or incorrect title, the page can be moved.
• Copy: If the content does not match the page title, the content can be copied to another page
• Forward: If the page content already exists on another page, the duplicate content can be deleted and a redirect can be created.
• Obsolete: The content is no longer current. You can mark the page as out of date and other wiki users can update the page later.

Related info

• Nuke: Extension for mass-deleting pages
• Redirects
• Deleting user accounts