SourceWatch:How to delete pages
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Consideration for others demands that you exercise extreme caution in deleting pages. Think about what you are trying to accomplish. We generally discourage deleting information from the encyclopedia unless there is a good reason for it. Please review SourceWatch:Policy on permanent deletion of pages before taking action.
It is trivial to delete the text from a page. You can click the edit link, erase all of the text, and click save. However, this is rarely helpful, as the page's history is still available, and anyone can restore the text again.
Usually (but not always), rather than deleting a page, the page should be redirected somewhere useful. If someone writes a nice article on 'Eddie Bernays' it should be moved to 'Edward Bernays' (or similar) and a redirect put in place. See SourceWatch:How to edit a page to learn about redirects.
To request that a page be permanently deleted, put the page title on SourceWatch:Votes for deletion, with the reason why you think it should be deleted. At some point an administrator will come by the page and decide to remove it for you. Unless someone else comes by and decides not to agree with you, of course.
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