The criteria for speedy deletion specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus support to, at their discretion, bypass deletion discussion and immediately delete Modern Wikia pages or media. They cover only the cases specified in the rules below.
Deletion is reversible, but only by administrators, so other deletions occur only after discussion. Speedy deletion is intended to reduce the time spent on deletion discussions for pages or media with no practical chance of surviving discussion.
Administrators should take care not to speedy delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases. If a page has survived a prior deletion discussion, it should not be speedy deleted except for newly discovered copyright violations. Contributors sometimes create pages over several edits, so administrators should avoid deleting a page that appears incomplete too soon after its creation.
Anyone can request speedy deletion by adding one of the speedy deletion templates. Before nominating a page for speedy deletion, consider whether it could be improved, reduced to a stub, merged or redirected elsewhere, reverted to a better previous revision, or handled in some other way. Users nominating a page for speedy deletion should specify which criteria the page meets, and should consider notifying the page creator and any major contributors.
The creator of a page may not remove a Speedy Delete tag from it. Only an editor who is not the creator of a page may do so. A creator who disagrees with the speedy deletion should instead add (Template:Hangon) to the page and explain the rationale on the page's discussion page.
Besides speedy deletion, there are the following methods of deletion:
- Modern Wikia:Deletion discussions are the normal method of carrying out deletion.
- Modern Wikia:Proposed deletions, for nominating pages for uncontroversial deletion.
- Modern Wikia:Office actions, for rare, urgent, and important deletions usually involving legal issues, done by foundation officials