Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1687225-20130412225430/@comment-4674838-20130413051940

Wikia is not affiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, they are separate projects which are unrelated to each other. In many cases, the "wiki way" of doing things is used here and can have many similarities to Wikipedia. Formally speaking however, Wikipedia's policies and procedures do not have any effect here.

You are correct about "author request" &mdash; it is used as a deletion reason when a user requests that a page they created be deleted. Admins will typically grant author requests for deletion as a courtesy so long as the request is within reason.
 * Generally acceptable use of "author request": Requesting deletion of an image you uploaded that is no longer used, or your personal profile page. Basically, if the page/item is only useful to the author, and the author no longer wants it, it is probably OK to delete it.
 * Generally not acceptable use of "author request": Requesting the deletion of an article that you wrote. Articles belong to the wiki as a whole, they are not personal property of the author, and so they should not be deleted by author request.