Help:Deletion

Some articles or images may be candidates for deletion if they do not meet Wiki standards or conform to Wiki guidelines. Content may be deleted if it is vulgar or offensive, unrelated to Steam applications and their development, or meets other criteria for deletion.

Criteria for deletion

These are guidelines for articles and images that should be deleted. This list is not comprehensive and common sense should be used

• Any images that don't meet the Image use policy, such as images with nudity or unreleated to Wiki content
• Articles which do not cover any aspect of development or any relevant games or mods. An article about someone's school or a Gameboy game would fall into this category
• Articles which have been created for the sake of vandalism
• Articles created to attack individuals, games, or companies
• An article about a mod you are thinking about making but don't have a team or any content for
• Anything offensive or vulgar in nature

Suggesting an article for deletion

Only Administrators can delete articles and files. Normal users must add deletion template tags to mark an article or file that might deserve deletion.

Choose only one of the following tags, and put it on its own line at the top of the article.

{{delete}}

For suggesting a candidate for speedy deletion, no reason given.

{{deletebecause}}

For suggesting a candidate for speedy deletion, reason given. The reason is given after a | . Example: {{deletebecause|This article contains offensive content}}

{{deleteagain}}

For suggesting reposted content that has been removed before but brought back.

{{nonsense}}

For suggesting a candidate for speedy deletion because article is patent nonsense.

An administrator will review the content and determine if it should be deleted.

See also

• Help:Editing
• Help:Cleanup
• Image use policy