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| - The criteria for speedy deletion specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus to bypass deletion discussion, at their discretion, and immediately delete My English Wiki pages or media. They cover only the cases specified in the rules below. Administrators should take care not to speedy delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases. Contributors often create pages over several edits, so administrators should avoid deleting a page that appears incomplete too soon after its creation. Anyone can request the speedy deletion of a page or media by adding {{speedydelete...}} tag. 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 deletion 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 click on the button that says "Click here to contest this speedy deletion", inside the deletion tag. This button links to a discussion page with a pre-formatted area for the creator to explain why the page shouldn't be deleted.
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