Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-33546104-20160407143001/@comment-26273552-20160407200649

Some more things to note, on a similar topic to this...

Deletion templates should really only be added to pages by staff members.
Yes. Only by staff. And dare I venture to say... Only by administrators. If you see a page that you think needs to be deleted or fixed, leave a message on any of our message walls, and we'll judge the page for ourselves to see if it needs to be fixed.

Now, why is this, you ask?

Well, it's our job.

Seriously, we're here to moderate the pages, and decide which ones need to be fixed. Although users are also capable of judging a page as substandard, they should not be the ones who make the call in saying that it is such.

It is in our authority to tell people that they must improve their page or it will be deleted. It is not in the users'.

Do not add a deletion template as a joke.
I haven't seen very much of this, but it's still something I need to get out there, to admins and users alike.

It's not funny. We actually use those templates to track down pages that need to be removed from the wiki permanently. Having any out there that are a joke is not a good idea, because it might get the page removed, despite it not being substandard.

Do not mark your own page for deletion.
That's slow, and unreliable. If you want your page deleted, contact an admin on their wall to get it done quickly.

If you've fixed your page after it got a deletion warning, TELL US.
I can't say this enough.

We do not, I REPEAT, we do not go around and check the pages we've marked for deletion regularly to see if they've been fixed. That means that the deletion warning could sit there for months after the problems were resolved, and nobody would have a clue.

So please, for the love of God, tell us.

And if you're wondering, yes. You can absolutely get the warning removed. Just don't do it yourself. Fix the problems outlined on it, and tell an admin. They'll review the page (or send you to another admin) and give you either the thumbs up or down. If they give you a thumbs down, they'll tell you what still needs fixing.

~The Second (talk) 20:06, April 7, 2016 (UTC)