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The deletion policy outlines what happens when articles are deleted or merged and how to request articles be deleted or merged. Articles may be deleted on ESB if they are not up to standard or if they are not needed on the wiki, just to name two examples. The community can request articles be deleted or merged using the policy below.

Deletion policy

The requests for deletion and requests for merge processes should generally be used to discuss deletions and merges of main namespace pages. However, pages may be deleted by an administrator immediately without a discussion if the page breaks any of the "article relevance," "crossover content," and "fanon" sections of the content policy.

Pages in the template namespace that have existed for at least one (1) week, yet that have never been transcluded onto any page, may be immediately deleted by an administrator without a discussion.

If there is a page that a user thinks should be deleted but does not violate the content policy, the user should bring the page in question to a deletion or merge discussion as outlined in this article.

Anyone can nominate a page (article, template, category, image, video, etc.) they feel should be deleted or merged, unless the page is eligible to be deleted without a discussion under one or more of the conditions stated above. There cannot be a combined total of more than 20 deletion or merge requests open at a given time. If there are already 20 requests at one time, do not create more or the requests made over the limit will be marked as invalid.

Low-quality articles for non-characters can be deleted if it falls under any of these criteria:

It is a page that solely describes an inanimate object with a mouth and lacks significant plot relevance.
It is a page for an object that is primarily used as a visual or comedic element without contributing to the plot.
The page is nearly identical to a previously deleted non-character.

Process

Fill out the deletion request or the merge request form where the process is outlined further.