Delete

Purpose

This template is used to nominate pages for deletion.

It displays a message box about page deletion and places the page into the Candidates for deletion category.

Usage

This template should be placed at the top of the page to be deleted.

Although it can be used without any parameters, it is not recommended to do so since rationale should be provided for any deletion request.

Blank template

To use this template, you can copy and paste the following code to the page you want to use it on, and fill in the parameter.

{{Delete
  | rationale =
}}

Courtesy

If you nominate a page for deletion, please consider notifying the main contributor(s) to the page of your decision. The best way is often to edit their User talk page.

Parameters

Anonymous parameters

Parameter	Description	Values
1st	Usage: Optional Prevents the page from being added to the Candidates for deletion category if the value is demo. This makes it possible to use the template in a demonstration page without being itself nominated for deletion. Basically, all examples in this documentation page use this parameter. However, when you use this template for its regular purpose, this parameter should be omitted.	Type: Fixed values: demo

Named parameters

Parameter	Description	Values
rationale	Usage: Optional Reason(s) why the page should be deleted. This is included in the first sentence of the message box, after "This page is a candidate for deletion because". As a consequence, it should: start with a lower case letter, remain short (if needed, consider giving more details in the talk page), not end with a period nor any punctuation mark. Note that this template adapts the sentence to the namespace of the page to be deleted. It will write "category", "file", "template", or "talk page" instead of "page" if the page is in the corresponding namespace. In demo mode, however, it will write "page" whatever the namespace is. If this parameter is omitted, the message explicitly states that no reason has been given.	Type: Wiki-formatted text Examples: it's name is inappropriate its content is already discussed in [[another page]]

Examples

Deletion without reasons example

{{Delete}}

Result:

Recommended example

{{Delete
  | rationale = its content is inappropriate
}}

Result:

Demonstration example

The following template can be used in a page which is actually not a candidate for deletion.

{{Delete | demo
  | rationale = <''insert a reason here''>
}}

Result:

Related templates

• Message box