Changes: RuneScape:Deletion policy

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Deletion policy

Adhere to the deletion policy. Most deletions fall under RuneScape:Speedy deletion policy

Cases where a page can be deleted

Meets the speedy deletion criteria
Maintenance purposes (merging, redirecting)
Author request, where the page is reasonably young, and only the author has submitted "important" content (i.e. another editor made a typo correction)
Per the consensus at RuneScape:Requests for deletion over the page in question
If a version of the page has content that can be hazardous to its users or Wikia. This includes but is not limited to: Links to unverified applications, malware, material that is illegal under United States, English, or international law, and the unauthorised disclosure of personal details. Oversight should be requested for the offending edit instead of deleting the page outright, if possible.
Duplicate files of the same item or location should be deleted, with preference going to the first image, or the oldest version of the image first. Multiple versions of essentially the same item or location can be merged together instead of being deleted as well. Users should be encouraged to upload files using existing naming conventions where possible.

Cases where a page shouldn't be deleted

Legal threats were made by a third party. The infringing page content should instead be removed, and at the third party's request, the edit overseen.
Deleting would stir up a small controversy among editors, even if (a) criterion/criteria for deletion had been met.
Historical images of Runescape should be preserved, even if the content is otherwise not currently being used in any articles on the wiki at the moment. This includes but is not limited to images whose file format has changed (changing from GIF to PNG format, for example), and images marked with the {{SD}} tag. Where possible, historical images should be merged into the file history using the file merge administration tools, or otherwise explicitly noted on the current version of the image as having a historical version.

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 *Per the consensus at [[RuneScape:Requests for deletion]] over the page in question
 *If a version of the page has content that can be hazardous to its users or Wikia.  This includes but is not limited to: Links to unverified applications, malware, material that is illegal under United States, English, or international law, and the unauthorised disclosure of personal details.  Oversight should be requested for the offending edit instead of deleting the page outright, if possible.
+*Duplicate files of the same item or location should be deleted, with preference going to the first image, or the oldest version of the image first.  Multiple versions of essentially the same item or location can be merged together instead of being deleted as well.  Users should be encouraged to upload files using existing naming conventions where possible.
 ==Cases where a page shouldn't be deleted==
 *Legal threats were made by a third party.  The infringing page content should instead be removed, and at the third party's request, the edit overseen.
 *Deleting would stir up a small controversy among editors, even if (a) criterion/criteria for deletion had been met.
+*Historical images of Runescape should be preserved, even if the content is otherwise not currently being used in any articles on the wiki at the moment.  This includes but is not limited to images whose file format has changed (changing from GIF to PNG format, for example), and images marked with the '''<nowiki>{{SD}}</nowiki>''' tag.  Where possible, historical images should be merged into the file history using the file merge administration tools, or otherwise explicitly noted on the current version of the image as having a historical version.
 ==See also==