MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown

• Speedy deletions
  • Advertising or spam
  • Abandoned article – two day warning
  • Disassociated talk or comments page
  • Comments page of unpublished article
  • Redirect to a non-existent page
  • Wikinews is not Wikipedia – see What Wikinews is not
  • Patent nonsense
  • Test page
  • Pure vandalism
  • Disruptive trolling
  • No context; not news
  • Author request
  • Make room for page move or merge
  • Obvious hoax
  • Previously deleted
  • Foreign language, not news
  • Blatant copyright violation
  • Unused expired prepared story – after five days
  • Empty category
  • Optional redirect from pre-publish rename

• Formal deletions
  • Copyright violation – one day warning
  • Abandoned article – two day warning
  • Minimal information – three day warning
  • Press release – three day warning
  • Unsourced prepared story – ten day warning
  • Deletion request

• Other
  • Userspace deletion (owner's request)