Wikipedia:Overzealous deletion

There are quite a lot of false beliefs held by many editors that probably lead to many of the deletion proposals that do take place. Anyone who is considering deletion of an article should read this and also consider these facts below before making such a proposal.

If you have concern about how well you personally know about a subject, you may want to click the tab a number of times and see what comes up. How many of the subjects named in the title have you heard of? It is very likely that quite a lot of these subjects, possibly the majority of them, will be equally unknown to you.

There are some materials that should be deleted. If you come across any articles or other materials with these issues, feel free to get them deleted.

. Any pages that serve the sole purpose of advertising should be speedy deleted, marked with {{}}.

An article about a notable topic that is written like an advertisement, with a promotional tone and style, but which does qualify for an article (under WP:N, the Notability policy) should not be deleted, but should be marked {{}}, notifying others to change the writing style to give it a neutral tone.

It is of prime importance that articles about people or groups of people be accurate, and the people described in the articles be notable.

Any pages that describe a clearly unremarkable person or group of people can be speedy-deleted. Some tags for various categories include {{}} for individuals, {{}} or {{}} for articles about businesses, {{}} for articles about insignificant organizations, or {{}} for articles about unimportant musicians or bands. For anyone not falling into any of these categories, one can simply write {{db|reason for deletion}} at the top. If there is any doubt, they can be prodded or sent to AfD.

An article that presents only one, unbalanced point of view regarding a subject – for example an article promoting a topic that the author is affiliated with – may be deleted if it cannot reasonably be cleaned up to present a more neutral point of view. Similarly, a heavily biased section of an article might be removed if it's unsalvageable.

Pages written intentionally to disparage the subject should be speedy deleted, as set out in the policy prohibiting attack pages. The tag {{}} can be used to mark a page to be speedy deleted for this reason.

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