Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Administrator instructions

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Administrator instructions for Miscellany for deletion:

To process an MFD debate listed on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion for more than 5 days, where discussion is not ongoing:

  1. If it may take significant time to assess the debate and/or do the closing edits, consider first editing the discussion sub-page and adding {{Closing}} to the top, to notify others that a close is in progress. This helps to avoid edit conflicts during the close.
  2. Determine (using the guidelines) whether the consensus was to keep or delete the page, and if the associated talk or sub-pages should also be deleted.
  3. Enter the following text at the top and bottom of the MFD discussion sub-page. (Together, these two edits will create a shaded box around the discussion thread confirming that it has been closed. See the example below.)
  4. If the decision is DELETE, then delete the page. (This will be automatically recorded in the Deletion log.) Remember to paste a link to the discussion in the "Reason for deletion" box (ie add [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Page]] ). If appropriate, delete the page's talk page or any associated sub-pages first. Also remember to check "what links here" and either delete any redirects or redirect them elsewhere.
  5. If the decision is KEEP (including any variant such as REDIRECT or MERGE), remove the MFD Header from the page (be sure the MFD Category is also removed). Then put a link to the discussion sub-page on the page's talk page (for user pages a personal note is recommended, otherwise use the template {{oldmfd}} for this), so add:
    {{oldmfd|date=date of nomination|result=result|votepage=PageName}}
    (always include the votepage as talk pages won't properly generate and it protects against later page moves)
    (the default result is "keep")
    • Remember to fix double-redirects if the page becomes a redirect.
    • If the discussion failed to reach consensus, then the page 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.
    • If you are closing as "keep" a discussion where the nominated page itself is in a talkspace (or the mainspace), you will need to add the |votepage parameter for the Discussion link to work.
  6. Remove the transclusion and place a wikilink for the discussion in the Closed Discussions section; however, if that was the last open entry on that day's page of deletion discussions you must also:
    1. Remove the day's discussions to the relevant archive by cutting and pasting the date header and the links to the listed deletion pages, which will look like {{Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/foo:foo}}
    2. Go here and open the relevant monthly page, pasting the date header and links at the top.
    3. Convert the transcluded pages {{Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/foo:foo}} to bulleted links * [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/foo:foo]].
  7. If the MfD involved a Portal, please note the closure and result at Portals for deletion at MfD.

[edit] Header and footer text

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

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was RESULT my name date

[edit] Wikipedia:MiscellanyPage

DISCUSSION THREAD

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.