Help:Deleting a page
From Eugene Neighbors
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A user with delete-rights (typically a sysop) can delete a page. He has a delete link linking to http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=pagename&action=delete
The content of Template:Smb and, if applicable, Template:Smb
appears.
This makes the current and old revisions inaccessible for non-sysops. Sysops see on the "non-existent" page the content of Template:Smb linking to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/pagename. This leads to a page with the deletion log and deleted page history, with the texts Template:Smb and Template:Smb
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[edit] Combining edits
Multiple, consecutive edits can be combined in the page history by deleting the page and restoring all versions except those resulting from edits to be combined, and restoring the version resulting from the last of the edits to be combined.
Conditions to make this suitable:
- all edits to be combined are by the same user
- there are not too many edits apart from those to be combined (the reason for this condition is that all versions to be restored have to be marked)
- the edit summary of the last edit of those to be combined, if any, is suitable for the combined edit as well
To keep the time of edit fairly accurate (e.g. to keep the order correct with respect to related edits of other pages, by the same or another user) one may add the condition:
- all edits to be combined are made within a short time
The condition "there are not too many edits apart from those to be combined" seems to limit the usefulness of the procedure most, since shortening the list of revisions is not very needed if it is not very long.
Alternatively, if import is enabled (currently it is disabled on Wikimedia), that can be used in combination with export; in that case a new edit summary can be put.
[edit] See also
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[edit] Links to other help pages
- Help contents (all help pages)
- Meta | Wikinews | Wikipedia | Wikiquote | Wiktionary | commons: | mw: | b: | s:
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- Meta | Wikinews | {{#if:|{{#if:Wikipedia|Wikipedia|w:Help:Deleting_a_page#}}|{{#if:Wikipedia|Wikipedia|w:Help:Deleting_a_page}}}} | Wikiquote | Wiktionary
- Links to this page from Meta (int) Meta (ext) Wikipedia MediaWiki
- Reading
- Go | Search | Stop words | URL | Namespace | Page name | Section
- Backlinks | Link | Piped link | Interwiki link | Redirect | Category | Image page
- Logging in and preferences
- Logging in | Preferences | User style
- Editing
- Advanced editing | Editing FAQ | Editing toolbar | Export | Import
- Editing tips and tricks | Editing shortcuts
- Tracking changes
- Recent changes (enhanced) | Related changes | Watching pages | Diff
- Page history | Edit summary | User contributions | Minor edit | Patrolled edit
- Style & formatting
- Wikitext examples | Wikitext reference | Reference card
- HTML in wikitext | HTML elements
- List | Table | Sorting
- Special input and output
- Inputbox | Special characters | Displaying a formula | Images and other uploaded files | EasyTimeline
- Advanced functioning
- Template | Advanced templates | Parser function | ParserFunctions | Parameter default | Variable | Magic word | System message | Substitution
- Array | Calculation
- Page management
- Starting a new page | Renaming (moving) a page | Maintenance | Merging and moving pages | Protecting pages
- Resolving disputes | Deleting a page
- Special pages
- Talk page | Testing | Sandbox
- Lists of resources
- Lists of Categories | Copyrights | Infobox
- Redirect | Reference Desk | Shortcuts | Stub types
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