MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown

• Formal deletion reasons
  • Copyright violation - 1 day warning
  • Abandoned article - 2 day warning
  • Minimal information - 3 day warning
  • Press release - 3 day warning
  • Unsourced prepared story - 10 day warning
  • Deletion request

• Speedy deletions
  • Advertising or spam
  • 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  • Comments page of unpublished article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
  • Make room for page move or merge
  • Author request
  • Obvious hoax
  • Previously deleted
  • Foreign language, not news
  • Blatant copyright violation
  • Unused expired prepared story - after 5 days
  • Empty category
  • Discretionary mainspace redirect

• Other reasons
  • Userspace deletion (owner's request)