Deleting an Uploaded Image on a Wiki

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This page is for deletion requests where users request the deletion of media files or pages (deletion requests for categories are posted via Eatables:Categories for discussion). This is for requests that require legal input or community discussion prior to eventual deletion. Obvious copyright violations, duplicate images, and incorrectly-named images should exist handled through the speedy deletion process rather than listed here.

Please note: The procedures on this page differ significantly from those of other Wikimedia projects such as the English language Wikipedia's Files for discussion. Please read the post-obit instructions advisedly.

Overview

Anyone can annotate on the deletion requests posted here, and tin express an stance as to whether a particular file should exist kept or deleted. Please give reasons for your opinion, preferably based on your knowledge of:

any binding copyright law (run into, due east.m., Commons:Copyright rules by territory and Eatables:Copyright rules by subject matter);
the applicability of any relevant Commons policies, for example Eatables:Deletion policy, Commons:Project scope or Commons:Photographs of identifiable people; or
any relevant facts such every bit date or place of publication, author, date of author'south death and so on.

Once an ambassador has sufficient information to come to a decision, the deletion request will be airtight and the file either deleted or flagged every bit kept. Where the determination to delete is an obvious one (eg the file is an obvious copyright violation or is otherwise speedy deletable) the deletion request may exist airtight immediately. Less clear cases should remain open for at least seven days. Complicated cases tin remain open up for weeks or even months.

The debates are not votes, and the closing admin will utilise copyright law and Commons policy to the all-time of his or her ability in determining whether the file should be deleted or kept. Any expressed consensus will be taken into account then far as possible, but consensus tin can never trump copyright law nor can it override Commons Policy. If the closing admin is unable to say with reasonable certainty that the file tin can validly be kept, it should exist deleted in accordance with Commons' precautionary principle.

It is not the job of the closing admin to engage in detailed legal or factual research in order to find a rationale to keep the file. Under the rules of evidence we apply here, the brunt of showing that the file can be validly hosted hither lies with the uploader and anyone arguing that information technology should be kept.

Deletion requests are not the place to endeavour to change Eatables policy, nor may requests be made only to make a point. Whatsoever such requests may be speedily closed. Please apply the Village Pump or the policy talk page if yous wish to propose a modify in policy.

Starting requests

You can nominate private media files directly by going to the media clarification page and clicking on Nominate for deletion in the Tools menu on the left. More detailed instructions and browser requirements are described at the help page. Click Nominate for deletion only on the page you would similar to nominate for deletion.

If you lot prefer to list the asking manually, meet Eatables:Deletion requests/Listing a request manually.

To request deletion of multiple files (mass nomination), see Commons:Deletion requests/Mass deletion asking.

If the media is a duplicate use {{Indistinguishable}}, or was uploaded under the wrong file name, employ {{Rename}}.

Nomination guidelines

Please follow these guidelines to brand the deletion request as complete and clear as possible:

When requesting deletion of a duplicate, add the link to the duplicate paradigm. The closing admin needs to run into it.
When requesting deletion of a redundant file, link to the redundant image. The closing admin needs to see information technology.
When nominating an epitome suspected of copyright violation, say why the image is a suspected copyvio. The more than detail, the better (a deletion request that only casts a vague accusation can be considered as "incomplete"). And "minor size and missing EXIF data" is not a deletion reason by itself (at best that is merely supporting testify for copyvio).
When nominating all the files of a category, list every file (not just the category itself). The endmost admin needs to be able to hands click in the DR to access each image.
When participating in a word of a mass deletion (i.east. 10+ images), strike out the images that are agreed to be kept, ~~strike~~ them in the original list.
When requesting deletion of a nudity/sex activity/porn related images, mention this in the nomination. This allows reviewers and admins to prepare themselves or choose non to review.

Closing discussions

In full general, requests tin can be airtight by an administrator after 7 days. Deletion requests for obvious copyright violations can exist airtight earlier. Problematic or complex requests (such as highly used templates) can look longer – fifty-fifty for several months if necessary. Not-admins may close a deletion asking as keep if they have a good understanding of the process, and provided the closure is not controversial. If in incertitude, don't do information technology.

Administrators closing deletion requests are expected to provide adequate explanation for their decision. In many cases, where at that place is petty discussion and no disagreement with the request, no details are required. However the more circuitous a discussion, and the more than users have argued for the opposite event than the ambassador's decision, the clearer the caption of the decision is required. In any issue, administrators are expected to clarify or explicate their decisions on request.

The nominator may asking early on closure or withdrawal of a deletion request they started by adding a annotate in the deletion request, for case when subsequent edits have corrected bug or missing details on the epitome folio. Deletion requests must not be closed past the nominator that created them unless done before anyone else has contributed to the request.

Administrators are encouraged to check whether the uploader was notified on their talk page of the awaiting deletion request (unless the image is an obvious violation, in which case the image can be speedy deleted).

Procedure

Add {{Delh}} but to a higher place the section head with the file in information technology.
Add a line (----), then, on a new line, either Kept or Deleted, an optional comment, your signature (~~~~), and {{Delf}} at the bottom of the asking.
If the give-and-take concluded to keep the file:
1. Add {{Kept}} to the file talkpage.
2. Remove the deletion template from the file description page.
- Note: An easier way to do this is to utilise DelReqHandler (Internet Explorer is not supported), available to admins as a gadget nether Special:Preferences.
If necessary, add/re-categorize the deletion request into advisable categories.

Highly-seasoned decisions

If you disagree with an admin'southward conclusion to delete a file, or non to delete it, yous should first set out your reasons on the admin's talk folio and inquire for reconsideration. If the admin declines to reverse the conclusion, y'all tin can request a review:

for a file that was deleted, at Commons:Undeletion requests
for a file that was kept, by renominating it for deletion. This should non be done unless you tin can add new information or clarification.

Bear in listen, though, that admins cannot ignore Commons policies or any applicable copyright law even if a bulk of users expressing opinions want them to do then.

Lists of requests

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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests

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