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This page describes the process for deleting images hosted on the English Wikipedia – for deletion of images hosted at Wikimedia Commons, see Commons:Deletion policy. If an image is available on both projects, and it is deleted here, it's a good idea to also bring it up for deletion on Commons.
This essay, Deleting from Commons, is a reminder to (when appropriate) speedy delete images, videos, audios, or other files from Wikimedia Commons.Most images seen in English Wikipedia (or the other-language Wikipedias) are actually stored in the Commons project, with a link-through from the image name.
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Users who want to see the article's history destroyed should explicitly recommend Delete then Redirect. Userfy/Draftify is a recommendation to move the article to either a subpage of the author's user page or the Draft namespace. Wikipedia allows greater leniency in the userspace than the main article space. The resultant redirect is always ...
fair-use images can only be used in articles (not e.g. talk pages or user pages), as specified in the image's fair-use rationale; and fair-use images become subject to deletion if not actually used in an article—see Wikipedia:Fair use § Policy and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion § Images/Media .
The resulting page history does not show the deletion and restoration themselves. If a new page with the same name had been created, this shows up as if the last deleted version was modified to the first version of the new page. Special:Log/delete is a full record of when, why, and by whom each page was deleted. It also records undeletions and ...
To view or search images previously uploaded directly to English Wikipedia, go to the list of uploaded images. Uploads and deletions are logged on the upload log. Many images can be categorized in one of the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia images by subject or its parent category Category:Wikipedia images. You may want to check there to see ...
A Wikipedian prepares to do some cutting. Content removal is the removal of material that provides information from an article, without deleting the article itself. While an entire page can be deleted only via the deletion process (ultimately completed by an administrator), even a single unregistered editor can boldly remove part of a page.