Help talk:Delete

File:DeletionScreen.jpg
What happened to the image for deletion reasons: File:DeletionScreen.jpg? Thanks! — Spike Toronto  20:47, February 21, 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks like it was never uploaded. Some of these rewrites were pulled in from other testbed/holding wikis, and its possible that some images were forgotten to be re-uploaded here. I'll ask sarah about it. --Uberfuzzy 22:30, February 21, 2011 (UTC)

Deleting categories
There's no explanation for deleting categories, and also I have found no way of doing so yet. (Chadias 18:48, July 22, 2011 (UTC))


 * I do not understand the issue. For me, I just go to the pulldown next to Edit and there it is: delete. From that point on it looks like it is pretty standard. But, you will still have to remove the category from each and every page that is categorizing to it. That would require a bot, the AutoWiki Browser, or one-by-one manual effort. — Spike Toronto  19:10, July 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * I believe the issue here is that the category does not exist in the first place. Yes, it is blue linked on pages, but without any actual page content the category does not exist and can't be deleted. It's for this reason that most people opposed the idea of bluelinking categories.


 * No longer having red linked categories is driving me nuts! Yes, it looks nice, but I cannot tell which ones need to be created and which ones do not. Also, it creates the illusion that every category is populated. And yes I know that there are Special: pages for these two things, but it’s knowing at a glance that a category needs to be created that is helpful. Also, a red link is often one’s first indication that one has made a mistake in entering the category name. Now we no longer have that check. — Spike Toronto  03:26, July 23, 2011 (UTC)

(reset indent) Unfortunately, that option doesn't appear for me in the drop menu. I can only protect categories, and there's no other option. Here's a print screen to make it clearer: — Chadias (talk) 20:05, July 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * It is as Monchoman45 suspected: The category you want to delete does not actually exist. Up until recently, it would have displayed, on those pages that would populate it were it to exist, as a red link. You do not have the Delete option because the page does not exist. The clue is where it says"This page needs content. You can help by adding a sentence or a photo"This is part of the software. Hope that helps! — Spike Toronto  22:58, July 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much! I'm very new to this... Sorry for the trouble.
 * It would be nice to add it to the deletion page though, to make it clearer. I think I can do that, not sure... I will try. Chadias 23:25, July 25, 2011 (UTC)

Selective restores
I found out recently that if you restore a deleted page, you can select which revisions to be brought back. It might be useful to point this out so that if someone wanted to more permanently get rid of vandalism in a page, they could delete it, then restore the good versions. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 23:56, January 28, 2012 (UTC)

There is NO delete function and the edit button doesn't have a delete function!

You, CAMERAPEDIA, know that and don't fix it, why?

Why is it impossible to delete a personal picture?

Frank Gosebruch (talk) 10:29, October 15, 2012 (UTC)

Extra Steps
Besides deleting a page, an admin should also keep the following in mind: GFallen (talk) 13:36, November 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * Check the page history, previous revisions may be worthy of keeping.
 * Special:WhatLinksHere to check if there are any pages that link to the deletion candidate.
 * Talk pages, if any were created these should be removed alongside with the main page.

Removed Wikis
Does Wikia save removed wikis? Galzigler (talk) 00:28, March 25, 2013 (UTC)

No Delete
I try to delete a page as you told me, but the "delete" was no on the list

Still doll85 (talk) 16:43, June 11, 2014 (UTC)


 * You have to be an admin to delete things. -- Tupka 217 16:56, June 11, 2014 (UTC)

Disabled account
Hi, I don't know if I am allowed to write here, or if this topic belongs here, but I have a big problem. I already disabled my account called Jammer484493, but I want to know if all my comments are deleted, because I am getting so many Jam-a-Grams asking and asking for everything that I have typed in that account. If you can delete ALL my comments from Jammer484493 somehow, that would be really great. If not, really sorry that I bothered you guys.

Autumn Ghost (talk) 17:08, January 31, 2015 (UTC)Autumn Ghost


 * I have no idea what a jam-a-gram is, but to answer your question: when your account is disabled, all edits remain. The account and its edits are still there, it just can't be accessed any more. -- Tupka 217 17:15, January 31, 2015 (UTC)


 * You can read more about account closure here: Help:Closing an account. If you need comments deleted, I suggest either asking an admin on your wikia, or send in a Special:Contact request for Wikia's community team to look into it. 15:30, February 2, 2015 (UTC)

Deletion
Hi,

I was wondering if an admin could close my account. It's just I don't use Wikia that much and if that's the case, what's the point in me having a account that I don't use? I hope the Wikia community understands this.

Kind regards,

Chaz4eva (talk) 18:21, June 5, 2015 (UTC)Chaz4eva


 * You can just abandon it, and if you change your mind in the future, come back. There's no harm in that. If you're certain you want to close your account, go here. -- Tupka 217 18:25, June 5, 2015 (UTC)

Can't restore a comment
When I delete comments on pages and restore them, the link works, but the comment is nowhere to be seen.

PapiDimmi (talk) 15:54, March 18, 2016 (UTC)


 * So that Wikia Support can investigate this, can you send the details in to Special:Contact/bug, including links? Thanks! 14:38, March 21, 2016 (UTC)

Permanently delete page history
Is it possible to delete the page history permanently? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ameno46 (talk) 23:45, October 27, 2017 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~


 * No. But administrators can delete revisions of page histories by deleting the pages and then restoring the revisions that they want to keep. VSTF, Helpers, and Staff can hide certain revisions so they can't be seen by local users including administrators.


 * VSTF, Helpers, and Utilities can also delete specific revisions of pages without having to delete the whole page first. It would be rather handy if administrators could delete specific revisions as well, but they can't. ― C.Syde  ( talk  |  contribs ) 23:50, October 27, 2017 (UTC)


 * If the page were deleted, does the page history can be seen? Thank you--Ameno46 (talk) 03:15, October 28, 2017 (UTC)


 * The page history will not be seen, but administrators and content moderators can still view deleted revisions of deleted pages, along with their page histories. ― C.Syde  ( talk  |  contribs ) 03:26, October 28, 2017 (UTC)
 * I should note that staff could oversight the revisions in question. On WMF projects, its used often. Oh wikia, its deprecated thus it would take system admin intervention to completely remove from view. &mdash; MechQueste  talk  14:57, October 29, 2017 (UTC)

Community delete?
How can I delete a community? (i am the admin there) Botuczy (talk) 05:58, November 10, 2018 (UTC)


 * You can request deleting through Special:Contact/close-wiki, please note that FANDOM don't usually delete wikis once they have been created. Wikis are community-owned projects, and a wiki you are no longer interested in can wait for someone else to come along and adopt it.


 * Thanks for answering! Botuczy (talk) 13:51, November 10, 2018 (UTC)

Massive Delete or shortcut
Hello there,

I was wondering if there is any way to delete more pages in once, or if there is a shortcut to delete a page without doing all the standard process, to be faster when dealing with a lot of pages to erase. Thank you. Elfrax (talk) 07:35, June 11, 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi there, please check out w:c:dev:AjaxBatchDelete - it's a script you can import to quickly delete pages/files. noreplyz  talk 11:03, June 11, 2019 (UTC)

How will deleting work?

Delete problem
I've been trying to delete one of my mess up pages but I can't find the delete button. I have looked at the instructions over and over, plus the pictures but the button is not there. Will someone please let me know how to delete my page? Thanks!! Element-Of-Nature (talk) 23:53, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

question here, this time, it’s a serious one.
why do I undo edits and then there’s someone who takes care of it his own way, what I mean is: this is my version of undoing: Undo revison 1234 by 72.92.80.128 (Talk) and his version of doing it is: reverted edits by 72.92.80.128 to last revison by (Example) (talk) is this a hole new way of doing reverting? how did they do that different way? 72.92.80.128 23:16, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * When undoing, you can put a different summary than the default one. But what you saw is probably a Rollback. 20:34, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Seeing a deleted page
I was an editor in tropedia.fandom but my 2-3 of my pages got deleted. As a normal user, can I see the (content) pf page that got deleted? I found a page deletion is unique in that it also erase my contribution list in a fandom site. as the one who made the edit I wonder if there is a log/way to see a deleted page other than asking to the mod who delete it. Hyoroemon (talk) 04:55, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * There's a log of the deletion at Special:Log/delete on the wiki. Regular users can't view the content of a deleted page, you'll need to ask one of the admins (or content mods) on the wiki. And yes, pages disappear from your contributions list when they're deleted, however the admins (and content mods) can view your deleted contribs via Special:DeletedContributions on the wiki. --Sophie ♦ 00:53, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

IPs, Rollbacks, And Thread Moderators Can't Delete Pages
Why Can't IPs Rollbacks And Thread Moderators Delete Pages?
 * Becuase that's how it was set up, IPs would leave it open to abuse, and threadmods don't oversee the wiki's content, that's what contentmods do. However, you can also ask staff (or your WR if you have one) to make adjustments to a wiki's usergroups. --Sophie ♦ 00:48, 30 May 2023 (UTC)