Wikipedia:Speedy keep

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Speedy keep is the process of closing debates at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and related pages with a result of "keep" before the normal discussion period ends, but without unlisting or deleting the actual discussion. This guideline applies only to "keep" closures; the criteria for speedy deletion cover the circumstances under which pages may be deleted immediately.

[edit] Applicability

Reasons for a speedy keep decision include:

  1. No-one other than the nominator recommends that the page be deleted, and the nominator either withdraws the nomination, or wishes the page to be moved, merged, or have something else done to it other than deletion. Also, there are some cases where the nominator specifies they are nominating for the sake of process, for someone else, or some other reason but are not stating an opinion themselves.
    An example of this includes posting a nomination in response to a proposed deletion but advocating a keep position. (If you dispute the deletion of a prod-ed article, just remove the prod-tag, sometimes nobody will want to pursue deletion of the article via AFD anyway.)
  2. The nomination was unquestionably vandalism or disruption and nobody unrelated recommends deleting it (since calling a nomination vandalism does not make it so, and vandals can be correct).
    Examples of this include (i) obviously frivolous nominations (such as featured articles), (ii) nominations which are made solely to provide a forum for disruption (e.g., a userpage of a contestant in a heated edit war by their opponent(s) solely for harassment), (iii) making nominations of the same article with the same arguments after they were strongly rejected, and (iv) nominations that are clearly an attempt to end an editing dispute through deletion, where dispute resolution is a more appropriate course.
  3. The nominator is banned, so they are not supposed to edit. In that case, the nominated page is speedily kept while the nomination can be tagged with {{db-ban}} and speedily deleted as a banned contribution. However, if subsequent editors added substantive comments in good faith before the nominator's banned status was discovered, the nomination may not be speedily closed (though the nominator's opinion will be discounted in the closure decision).
  4. The page is a policy or guideline. The deletion processes are not a forum for revoking policy.

If a page is nominated for deletion on the wrong forum (for example, a template on AfD or an article on MfD), the misplaced discussion may be speedily closed and the page renominated on the proper forum, with the original nomination and any comments made so far copied over to the new nomination. The closing comment should indicate where the discussion has been moved. This does not strictly speaking count as a speedy keep, since the page still remains nominated for deletion.

Please realize that while you may personally dislike having a deletion tag on your favorite article, it is not actually doing any harm, and will be gone in less than a week.

[edit] Procedure

When a discussion is closed as a speedy-keep the following actions should be completed:

  • Put the {{subst:at}} and {{subst:ab}} templates at the top and bottom respectively of the AfD sub-page. The outcome of the debate should be listed as "Speedy keep"
  • Remove the afd tag from the nominated article, noting in the edit summary that the outcome of the debate was a speedy keep (e.g. "Removing AfD Tag - speedy keep").
  • The AfD subpage should not be deleted unless the nominator is banned during that time.
  • Although closing AfD discussions that end with an outcome of "keep" can be done by non-admins, it is recommended that only administrators close discussions as speedy-keeps. Normal users are encouraged to recommend a "speedy keep" instead.
  • Whether a record of the nomination is added to the talk page of the article is at the discretion of the closing user. If it is noted, it is recommended that {{oldafdfull|result=speedy keep|votepage=as appropriate|date=date of nomination}} be used. Be aware (a) that whilst the name of the votepage usually matches that of the article, this is not always the case); and (b) the prefix "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" should not be part of the "votepage" name.

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