Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Administrator instructions

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Administrator instructions for Templates for deletion:

Every day, the day page (that is, [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Year Month Day]]) more than seven days old should be removed from Wikipedia:Templates for deletion. The decision to keep or delete a template is to be implemented only after the discussion for that template has been closed.

1. If it may take significant time to assess the debate and/or do the closing edits, consider first editing the discussion section for the template and adding {{Closing}} just after the section header, to notify others that a close of the particular discussion is in progress. This helps to avoid edit conflicts during the close.
2. Determine whether or not a rough consensus to delete has been reached. See: Deletion guidelines for administrators.
3. After the template's section header, add:

   {{subst:tfd top|result}} ~~~~

   (where result is usually either Delete or Keep)

4. Remove {{Closing}} if you added it earlier.
5. At the end of the template's section, but before the next template's section header, add:

   {{subst:tfd bottom}}

6. If the decision is Keep (including any variant such as "Redirect" or "No Consensus"):
   1. Add a link on the template's talk page to the discussion sub-page.
      • The template {{tfdend}} is recommended for this, so add one of:

      {{tfdend|section heading|date=date of nomination|result=result}}

      {{tfdend|date=date of nomination|result=result}}

      {{tfdend|date=date of nomination}}

      (the default section heading is the template's name, so that parameter may be omitted entirely)

      (the default result is "Keep", so that parameter may be omitted)

      • If the discussion failed to reach consensus, then the template is kept by default, but the decision should generally include a reference to the lack of consensus, in order to minimize ambiguity and future confusion.
   2. Remove {{tfd}} or {{tfm}} from the template (be sure the TfD Category is also removed).
   3. If the page becomes a redirect, remember to fix double-redirects.
7. If the decision is Delete, then list it under the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Holding cell. Be sure to include the link to the TfD day page above the listing. On the template page, change {{tfd}} to {{being deleted|YYYY Month DD}}. After all instances of the template used in pages have been removed, the template can be deleted by an administrator.
8. There is no such thing as quorum. If after the normal time period, there are no objections to deletion of a template, it can simply be deleted.
9. If the template has a matching category that is not used for other purposes (for example, {{cleanup}} and Category:Wikipedia cleanup), delete the category as well.

This relies on the discretion and common sense of the user closing a debate. If you disagree with a decision, please discuss it with that user.

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After closing the discussion, the page will look like this:

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