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  • Inappropriate in-universe pages
  • Inappropriate real-world pages
    • Subject is a charity work; not page-worthy per T:VS
    • Subject is fanfiction; not page-worthy per T:VS
    • Subject was an individual associated with a work we do not cover
  • Bot operations
    • Name change necessary for spelling bot to work well
    • Name change necessary for bot to work well
    • Plagiarism detected by bot comparison
    • Page created to test or assist bot; job now done
  • Categories
    • All contents moved to -->
    • Empty category
    • Eliminating recursion in category tree
    • Page listified category; recursion investigation over
    • Routine cleaning of Special:UnusedCategories
  • Disambiguation
    • Other similar pages disambiguated differently
    • Only 2 items on dab page; minimum required is 3
  • Forums
    • Duplicate or near-duplicate thread
    • Thread asking for ways to violate copyrights
    • No reason to archive; thread has no policy implications
  • Game of Rassilon
  • Maintenance
    • Author request
    • Consensus for deletion at this forum or talk page —>
    • Duplicate of existing, superior article
    • Housekeeping
    • Marked for deletion
    • Page part of a concluded bug or feature test
    • Preparing to merge with -->
    • Recovery after a database error
    • Blank page
  • Policy offender
  • Plagiarism
    • Obvious plagiarism of article found at this web address -->
    • Obvious plagiarism of this book or article -->
  • Redirects
    • Bad redirect: broken
    • Bad redirect: better future use of title
    • Bad redirect: detritus left over from page move
    • Bad redirect: plural form of a noun
    • Bad redirect: misspelled, but not AmEng spelling
    • Bad redirect: ordinary noun which likely exists in DWU
    • Bad redirect: name reserved for disambiguation page ONLY
    • Bad redirect: un-useful, unlikely to be linked or searched for
  • Talk page
    • Content was unrelated to the editing of the article
  • Timeline page
    • Blank, "placeholder" timeline page
    • No material on this page can be verified in a DWU source
  • Vandalism
    • Offensive language: better to delete than salvage
    • Spam: no cause for advertisements on this wiki
    • Title contains offensive language
    • Title subjective. Better suited to blog post than article
    • Not spam, not offensive, just not DWU-related content