ESB:Convention/Policy reviews - Deletion/voting

	Convention Archive The following convention discussion has been discussed and is now marked as resolved. The page has been protected and now serves as an archive. Do not edit this page. Date Resolved: January 24, 2018 Result: Passed.

Instructions

This page is the voting stage of this discussion: "Policy reviews - Deletion."

With all concerns from the concern stage of this discussion having been resolved and taken into account, the proposal located in the "Proposal" section above has been created and moved to voting. To join the voting, you simply use buttons located in the "Voting" section of this page and fill the resulting page.

Have a happy voting!

Proposal

I would like to propose the following revisions to the deletion policy:

XVII. Deletion

• A. General

• 1. The requests for deletion process is an optional process; administrators can delete anything they believe is necessary.
• 2. If there is any controversy over deleting a certain page, abstain from a deletion war, do not delete the page, and bring the page in question to a deletion discussion as outlined in this article.
• 3. Anyone can nominate a page (article, template, category, image, video, etc.) they feel should be deleted.

• B. Process

• 1. Fill out a the deletion request form including the reason the page should be deleted and save the page to create start a deletion discussion.
• 2. Once the discussion is created, the nominator must explain why they feel the article should be deleted.

• a. If no explanation is given after twenty-four (24) hours, it will be closed as invalid. (merging into one paragraph with #1)

• 3. 2. A discussion will occur, centered on that particular page.
• 4. 3. Neutral votes do not count in the final tally for consensus (70%)

• C. Closing discussions

• 1. Only administrators can close deletion discussions.
• 2. If a discussion closes and the result is deletion, the page can be redirected to another article if there is a useful redirect.
• 3. Deletion discussions generally last seven (7) days.
• 4. Exceptions

• i. If a deletion discussion does not receive a consensus (70%) either way after one (1) month, the discussion can be closed as "no consensus" and the page is kept.
• ii. If the page in question is a spam page, the deletion discussion may be closed immediately, and the page will be deleted.
• iii. The creator of a deletion discussion may withdraw their the discussion at their sole discretion.

This voting stage ends on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 8:50 p.m., eastern time. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 01:46, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

Voting

Choose your input: Support • Neutral • Oppose • Comment

• Support - — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 01:46, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Strong Oppose - An explanation gives the RFD more context and negotiates better with the voters.  RedBomb1 ^(M•C•E)  01:49, January 17, 2018 (UTC) 

• What do you mean? — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 01:53, January 17, 2018 (UTC)
• I'm referring to the part where you striked out this rule: 2. Once the discussion is created, the nominator must explain why they feel the article should be deleted. I am very supportive of explanations posted by the nominator as to why pages should be deleted, and without them the RfD has little context and may confuse voters as to why it was nominated for deletion.  RedBomb1 ^(M•C•E)  01:58, January 17, 2018 (UTC) 

• I merged it with #1. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 01:59, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Oh, never realized that. Apologies for the confusion.  RedBomb1 ^(M•C•E)  02:02, January 17, 2018 (UTC) 

• No problem. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 02:03, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Support - A better way of putting it IMO. The Ninja5 Empire (Message Wall) 01:49, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Support - (Contact • Contrib) 01:51, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Support - •кσσℓкιттү <мεssαgε ωαℓℓ> (=^ ◡ ^=)• 02:01, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Support -  Figmeister ^(W•C•E)  02:09, January 17, 2018 (UTC) 

• Support -  RedBomb1 ^(M•C•E)  02:26, January 17, 2018 (UTC) 

• Support - Again, no problems here. Qwertyxp2000 II (talk | contribs) 03:05, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Support -  Nicko756 ^{(M•C•E) Sign!}  03:42, January 17, 2018 (UTC) 

• Support - --Data 08:59, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Support - • тυмвlrdeѕхх • <мeѕѕage wall>

• Support - I agree with this.Muzzarino 14:28, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Support - While I support this proposal, I think that it would make more sense and it would be more transparent if the person who created a soon-to-be-deleted article was notified that it was being deleted by the administrator deleting it or someone else, excluding instances of obvious spam pages. Then the creator of the article would be able to ask questions and argue against the article's deletion. ~~ Snowstripe Are message walls an instrument?

• Sometimes there are article in which multiple people are editing, so not just the creator. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 15:38, January 17, 2018 (UTC)

• Support -  SpongeBot678 ^(M•C•E)  18:44, January 17, 2018 (UTC) 

• Neutral -  EmpressYzma ^(M•C•E) 

• Support - ThomasGaming64   ^{Wall Contribs}