Wikipedia:Speedy keep
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This is a codification of commonly accepted practice on deletion pages, in particular articles for deletion. It concerns the issue of closing debates at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and related pages before the normal discussion period ends. This guideline only applies to closing such discussions with a "Keep" result - i.e., it is intended to be complementary to Speedy deletion.
[edit] Definition
"Speedy keep" means to remove the deletion notice from the article and close the deletion discussion before the normal discussion period has elapsed, but not to unlist or delete that discussion.
[edit] Applicability
A page may be speedily kept only if one or more of the following holds:
- No-one other than the nominator recommends that the page be deleted, and the nominator either withdraws the nomination, or wishes the page to be moved, merged, or have something else done to it other than deletion. Also, there are some cases where the nominator specifies they are nominating for the sake of process, for someone else, or some other reason but are not stating an opinion themselves.
- The nomination was unquestionably vandalism or disruption and nobody else recommends deleting it (since calling a nomination vandalistic does not make it so, and vandals can be correct). Examples of this include obviously frivolous nominations (Such as featured articles), nominations which are made solely to provide a forum for disruption (e.g., a userpage of a contestant in a heated edit war by their opponent(s) solely for harassment) and making nominations of the same article with the same arguments after they were strongly rejected.
- The nominator is banned, so they are not supposed to edit. In that case, the nominated page is speedily kept while the nomination can be tagged with {{db-ban}} and speedily deleted as a banned contribution.
- The page is a policy or guideline. The deletion processes are not a forum for revoking policy.
If a page is nominated for deletion on the wrong forum (for example, a template on AfD or an article on MfD), the misplaced discussion may be speedily closed and the page renominated on the proper forum, with the original nomination and any comments made so far copied over to the new nomination. The closing comment should indicate where the discussion has been moved. This does not strictly speaking count as a speedy keep, since the page still remains nominated for deletion.
Please realize that while you may personally dislike having a deletion tag on your favorite article, it is not actually doing any harm, and will be gone in less than a week.
[edit] Procedure
When a discussion is closed as a speedy-keep the following actions should be completed:
- Put the {{subst:at}} and {{subst:ab}} templates at the top and bottom respectively of the AfD sub-page. The outcome of the debate should be listed as "Speedy keep"
- Remove the afd tag from the nominated article, noting in the edit summary that the outcome of the debate was a speedy keep (e.g. "Removing AfD Tag - speedy keep").
- The AfD subpage should not be deleted unless the nominator is banned during that time.
- Although closing AfD discussions that end with an outcome of "keep" can be done by non-admins, it is recommended that only administrators close discussions as speedy-keeps. Normal users are encouraged to recommend a "speedy keep" instead.
- Whether a record of the nomination is added to the talk page of the article is at the discretion of the closing user. If it is noted, it is recommended that {{oldafdfull|result=Speedy keep|votepage=as appropriate|date=date of nomination}} be used (be aware that whilst the name of the votepage usually matches that of the article, this is not always the case).
