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Part of an administrator's role is to delete pages due to speedy deletion criteria, XfD discussions, or articles that have been proposed for deletion.
Deleting a page is relatively easy. Basically, click on the "More" dropdown at the top of the page (the delete option will only appear if you are an administrator logged in to your account), enter a reason (or edit the automatically supplied reason), and hit delete. That's all there is to it. On very rare occasions, you might post a note at the Deletion Review page to allow others to review your speedy delete action, but that is not a usual practice. Restoring etiquette is the same as deleting etiquette when done per consensus such as per an XfD. However, if you restore a page without a consensus, it is considered proper to notify the page deleting admin of your actions and the reasons for your actions.
Below are instructions on how to delete and restore pages. Please follow the instructions to delete and then restore the page Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Deleting/delete2. The instructions below also describe how to use the revision deletion function and restoring selected revisions. As a new administrator, you may not want to use the delete/restore revision extension until you have adequate experience with basic admin functions.
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, or a particular criteria for speedy deletion such as A7. You should use an informative reason: "G12" is not helpful, "Speedy deletion per G12- Copyright infringement." is much better. If text from the article appears in the "Other/additional reason:" box, please review that text to remove any libelous, attacking, or other personal information which may appear there; otherwise that material will appear in the deletion log, where it is very difficult to remove.If you need to delete all the pages created by a particular user, you can use Special:Nuke. For other mass-deletion needs, you can use Twinkle's "D-batch" module (see tools).
Under certain circumstances, such as edits involving libel or a user's private information, a particular revision may need to be deleted from history. Before using this tool you should familiarize yourself with the criteria for redaction.
Please note that in some cases, revision suppression (which has replaced the old "oversight" process) may be required; see Wikipedia:Oversight for edits that may be suppressed. Administrators may elect to first revision delete the material, and then notify an oversighter directly or via the Oversight mail feature: email oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org (or use Special:Emailuser/Oversight).
It is possible to delete individual revisions of a page by deleting the entire page and then selecting revisions to be undeleted, but this method is no longer used routinely.
You can delete files the same way you would delete any other page by deleting the page itself. However under "File history" you can delete specific versions of the file or change their visibility. If there is more than one revision of a file, clicking the "Delete all" will do exactly that. You cannot delete the most recent one without deleting all older copies and the image description page as well.
For non-free images, only the most recent revision should be live. All previous revisions should be deleted per the policy on non-free content. This process usually involves tagging the article with {{orphaned non-free revisions}}, then after seven days the older revisions are deleted under CSD F5/WP:F7.
All deletions of versions of files are logged.