speedy delete

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from speedy deletion.

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Verb

speedy delete (third-person singular simple present speedy deletes, present participle speedy deleting, simple past and past participle speedy deleted)

  1. (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.
    The article should be speedy deleted, as a blatant and obvious hoax.
    • 2010 May 7, Jana Winter, “Exclusive: Wikipedia's Parent Company Starts Purging Porn From Its Websites”, in Fox News‎:
      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. ”
    • 2015, Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, →ISBN, page 59:
      “Speedy Delete—G1 , 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.”
    • 2017, Catherine Hartung, Conditional Citizens: Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation, →ISBN, page 101, note 10:
      “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 knowledge, even if he does wear big glasses and make an ass of himself on TV.”

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