User:Pingveno/Edit Checking Cheat sheet

This is a cheat sheet I have made to avoid having to look up the same Wikipedia policies every time I am doing edit checking.

User Warnings

Warning templates should always be used with the "subst:" keyword, as strongly suggested on Wikipedia:Template substitution. They are shown without subst here to reduce the display space occupied by this table, not to encourage their use without subst. For example, type {{subst:uw-vandalism1}}~~~~ (not {{uw-vandalism1}}) to warn common first-time vandals.

The levels of templates are:

1. Assumes good faith
2. No faith assumption
3. Assumes bad faith; stern cease and desist
4. Assumes bad faith; strong cease and desist, last warning

Speedy Deletes

Criteria

• Uncontroversial deletes
• Advertising or other spam without relevant content (but not an article about an advertising related subject)
• Content not suitable for an encyclopedia
• Copyright infringement
• Hoax articles (but not articles describing a notable hoax)
• Images that are unused, obsolete, violate fair-use policy, or are unencyclopedic
• Inappropriate user pages
• Inflammatory redirects
• Article information that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources
• All attempts to find reliable sources in which article information can be verified have failed
• Newly-coined words or terms (i.e., neologisms).
• Overcategorization
• Patent nonsense or gibberish
• Redundant templates
• Subject fails to meet the relevant notability guideline (WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:CORP and so forth)
• Vandalism that is not correctable

Process

Place one of the following tags on the page. If willing to improve the article, place {{holdon}} at top.

Template	Aliases	Criteria	Used for
Whenever possible, use a reason-specific template.
{{db-g1}}	{{db-nonsense}}	CSD G1	Patent nonsense. You can put {{subst:Db-nonsense-notice|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g2}}	{{db-test}}	CSD G2	Test page. You can put {{subst:uw-creation1|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g3}}	{{db-vandalism}}	CSD G3	Vandalism. You can put {{subst:uw-creation2|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
	{{db-pagemove}}	CSD G3	Nonsense redirects that are created from the cleanup of page move vandalism. You can put {{subst:mp2-n|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
	{{db-hoax}}	CSD G3	Blatant hoaxes. You can put {{subst:uw-hoax|"page name"}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g4}}	{{db-repost}}	CSD G4	Copies of material that was previously deleted after an XfD discussion. Articles that were only previously speedily deleted do not fall under this category. You can put {{subst:repost-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g5}}	{{db-banned|name of banned user}}	CSD G5	Contributions made by a banned user while they were banned.
	{{db-gs|contentious topic code}}	CSD G5	Contributions made in violation of general sanctions
{{db-g6}}	{{db-move|page to be moved| reason for move}}	CSD G6	Making way for a non-controversial move. Please add the name of the page that is to be moved and the reason for the move.
	{{db-copypaste|page to be moved}}	CSD G6	Cleaning up copy-and-paste page moves to make way for a clean, non-controversial move. Please add the name of the page that is to be moved.
	{{db-xfd}}	CSD G6	An experienced editor has closed a deletion debate as a "delete", but the page did not get deleted.
	{{db-g6}}	CSD G6	Other non-controversial "housekeeping" tasks, such as reversing a redirect.
{{db-g7}}	{{db-author}} {{db-self}}	CSD G7	Speedy request by only editor.
	{{db-blanked}}	CSD G7	Page blanked by only editor.
{{db-g8}}	{{db-talk}}	CSD G8	Talk page of a deleted or nonexistent page.
	{{db-subpage}}	CSD G8	Subpage of a deleted or nonexistent page.
	{{db-redirnone}}	CSD G8	Redirect to non-existent page.
	{{db-templatecat}}	CSD G8	Category that is populated solely by a template that has been deleted.
{{db-g10}}	{{db-attack}}	CSD G10	Attack page intended to disparage its subject. You can put {{subst:attack|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g11}}	{{db-spam}}	CSD G11	Blatant advertising. You can put {{subst:spam-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g12|url=URL of source}}	{{db-copyvio|url=URL of source}}	CSD G12	Blatant copyright violation. You can put {{subst:uw-copyright|page name|url=URL of source}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-g13}}	{{db-afc}} {{db-blankdraft}}	CSD G13	Any page in draftspace or user drafts that are blank or with only the default Article Wizard text, if unedited for six months.
{{db-g14}}	{{db-disambig}}	CSD G14	Unnecessary disambiguation pages.
{{db-a1}}	{{db-nocontext}}	CSD A1	Very short articles without context. Use {{subst:db-nocontext-notice|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-a2}}	{{db-foreign}}	CSD A2	Foreign language article duplicated on other Wikimedia project.
{{db-a3}}	{{db-nocontent}} {{db-contact}}	CSD A3	No content other than external links of whatever kind, or an attempt to contact subject of article.
{{db-a7}}	{{db-bio}}– for a person	CSD A7	Article about a real person, individual animal(s), group, company, or web content that does not indicate the importance of the subject. Try to use one of the more specific templates rather than {{db-a7}}. You can put {{subst:nn-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page, or, if it seems that someone has created a user page in the encyclopedia section instead of their user page, you can put {{subst:nn-userfy|page name}}-- ~~~~ on their talk page.
	{{db-person}} – for people
	{{db-band}} – for bands
	{{db-club}} – for clubs, societies, groups, and organizations
	{{db-inc}} – for companies and corporations
	{{db-web}} – for websites
	{{db-animal}} – for individual animals
{{db-a9}}	{{db-album}} {{db-song}}	CSD A9	Article about a musical recording (album, single, etc.) that does not indicate the importance of the subject, and where the artist's article does not exist.
{{db-a10}}	{{db-same}}	CSD A10	Recently created article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing English Wikipedia article, and that does not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article(s) on the subject, and where the title is not a plausible redirect.
{{db-a11}}	{{db-invented}} {{db-madeup}}	CSD A11	Article that plainly indicates that the subject was invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone the creator personally knows, and does not credibly indicate why its subject is important or significant.
{{db-r2}}	{{db-rediruser}}	CSD R2	Redirect to an article talk page, image description page, image talk page, mediawiki page, mediawiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, or user talk. You can put {{subst:rediruser-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-r3}}	{{db-redirtypo}} {{db-redirmisnomer}}	CSD R3	Recently created redirect that is a result of an implausible typo or misnomer. You can put {{subst:redirtypo-warn|page name}}~~~~ on the user's talk page.
{{db-r4}}	{{db-redircom}}	CSD R4	Redirects in the file namespace that shadow a Commons file or redirect.
{{db-f1|replacement file name.ext}}	{{db-redundantfile| replacement file name.ext}} {{isd|replacement file name.ext}}	CSD F1	Same or better file exists on Wikipedia (see {{db-f8}} for files now on Commons).
{{db-f2}}	{{db-nofile}}	CSD F2	Corrupt or empty file. File page for a file on Commons without Wikipedia-related or assessment information.
	{{db-imagepage}}	CSD F2	Image page without a corresponding image.
{{db-f3}}	{{db-noncom}}	CSD F3	"No commercial use" or "by permission" files uploaded after target date.
{{db-f4}}	{{db-unksource}}	CSD F4	Lack of licensing – Should only be used if the file has been previously tagged with {{di-no license}}, {{di-no source}}, or a similar template.
{{db-f5}}		CSD F5	Unused copyright file – Should only be used if the file has been previously tagged with {{or-cr}}, {{or-fu}}, or a similar template.
{{db-f6}}	{{db-norat}}	CSD F6	File with fair use tag but no fair use rationale - must have been tagged as such for seven days and uploaded after May 4, 2006.
{{db-f7}}	{{db-badfairuse}}	CSD F7	Bad fair use template – file tagged as fair use with a template that is patently irrelevant to the actual file, like {{game-screenshot}} on a photo of a celebrity. Please notify uploader on their talk page using {{subst:badfairuse|File:file name|tag that was on the file}}.
{{db-f8}}	{{db-nowcommons}} {{db-nowcommons| name of file on Commons.ext}}	CSD F8	Identical file has been moved to or is otherwise available on Commons.
{{db-f9|url=URL of source}}	{{db-filecopyvio|url=URL of source}}	CSD F9	Blatant copyright infringements.
{{db-f11}}	{{db-nopermission}}	CSD F11	No evidence of permission from copyright holder to publish under license asserted by uploader – file must have been tagged with {{no permission}}, and uploader notified for seven days.
{{db-c1}}	{{db-catempty}}	CSD C1	Category that has been empty for at least four days.
{{db-c4}}	{{db-templatecat}}	CSD C4	Unused maintenance category.
{{db-u1}}	{{db-userreq}}	CSD U1	User page or subpage requested to be deleted by the user with whom it is associated.
{{db-u2}}	{{db-nouser}}	CSD U2	Userpages of users who do not exist.
{{db-u5}}	{{db-notwebhost}}	CSD U5	Inappropriate use of userpages as web hosting.
If you are not sure, you can use these general templates:
{{db}}	{{db-reason|reason}} {{deletebecause|reason}} {{delbecause|reason}} {{delete|reason}} {{d|reason}} {{Speedy deletion|reason}} {{Speedy|reason}} {{csd|reason}}		Replace reason with a specific reason for speedy deletion. Please try to write out a reason that will be comprehensible to non-Wikipedians.

Deletion Process

1. Mark with {{subst:prod|reason}}

See also Wikipedia:Deletion policy

Mark for Improvements

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
• {{cleanup}} for poor writing
• {{expert}} for pages needing expert attention
• {{notenglish}} for articles written in a foreign language
• {{npov}} for bias
• {{stub}} for a short article
• {{verify}} for lack of verifiability
• {{merge}} for a small article which could be merged into a larger one.

Improvement Instructions

• Template:Citation