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speedy delete en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Back-formation from speedy deletion.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon, transitive) To summarily delete one or more pages without having a discussion on whether to keep or to delete, almost always if the page is obviously worthy of uncontroversial deletion.
   • “Speedy Delete—G1 [general criterion 1], G2, G3, or G11—Take your pick. How about simply not notable, vandalism, hoax, etc? Whether it can be considered art or not is irrelevant. Wikipedia ain’t your canvas.” 2015, Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, →ISBN, page 59:
   • “Speedy Delete. Yawn. […] There’s *less* attention to him now than before. He’s little different than most teenagers that host a party without their parents^([sic]) knowledge, even if he does wear big glasses and make an ass of himself on TV.” 2017, Catherine Hartung, Conditional Citizens: Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation, →ISBN, page 101, note 10:
   • On Wednesday evening, Wales posted this note on Wikimedia Commons: […] “I think our existing policies here on commons are sufficient to deal with the problem – with the minor exception that many things should just be speedy deleted and argued about later.[…]” 2010 May 7, Jana Winter, “Exclusive: Wikipedia's Parent Company Starts Purging Porn From Its Websites”, in Fox News:
   • The article should be speedy deleted, as a blatant and obvious hoax.

Forms

Synonyms

speedy

Translations (7)

vi xóa nhanh (to delete without a discussion) · de Schnelllöschen (to delete without a discussion) · sv snabbradera (to delete without a discussion) · cmn 快速刪除 /快速删除 (to delete without a discussion) · es borrado rápido (to delete without a discussion) · ja 即時削除する (to delete without a discussion) · hi शीघ्र हटाना (to delete without a discussion)