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To process an WPfD discussion listed on Wikipedia:WikiProjects for discussion for more than 10 days, where discussion is not ongoing:
- If it may take significant time to assess the discussion and/or do the closing edits, consider first editing the discussion sub-page and adding {{Closing}} to the top, to notify others that a close is in progress. This helps to avoid edit conflicts during the close.
- Determine (using the guidelines) whether the consensus was to keep or delete the page, and if the associated talk or sub-pages should also be deleted.
- Enter the following text at the top and bottom of the WPfD discussion sub-page. (Together, these two edits will create a shaded box around the discussion thread confirming that it has been closed. See the example below.)
- At the top:
- {{subst:wpfd top}} '''RESULT'''.
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- {{subst:wpfd top}} '''RESULT'''.
- At the bottom:
- {{subst:wpfd bottom}}
- At the top:
- If the decision is DELETE, then delete the page. (This will be automatically recorded in the Deletion log.) Remember to paste a link to the discussion in the "Reason for deletion" box (ie add [[Wikipedia:WikiProjects for discussion/Page]] ). If appropriate, delete the page's talk page or any associated sub-pages first. Also remember to check "what links here" and either delete any redirects or redirect them elsewhere.
- If the decision is KEEP (including any variant such as REDIRECT or MERGE), remove the WPfD Header from the page (be sure the WPfD Category is also removed), and put a link to the discussion sub-page on the page's talk page (the template {{oldwpfd}} is recommended for this, so add one of:
- {{oldwpfd|date=date of nomination|result=result|votepage=PageName}}
- {{oldwpfd|date=date of nomination|result=result}}
- {{oldwpfd|date=date of nomination}}
- (the default votepage is the name of the page associated with the talk page)
- (the default result is "keep", so that parameter may be omitted)
- Remember to fix double-redirects if the page becomes a redirect.
- If the discussion failed to reach consensus, then the page is kept by default, but the decision should generally include a reference to the lack of consensus, in order to minimize ambiguity and future confusion.
- If that was the last open entry on that day's page of deletion discussions,
- Remove the day's discussions to the relevant archive by cutting and pasting the date header and the links to the listed deletion pages, which will look like {{Wikipedia:WikiProjects for discussion/foo:foo}}
- Go here and open the relevant monthly page, pasting the date header and links at the top.
- Convert the transcluded pages {{Wikipedia:WikiProjects for discussion/foo:foo}} to bulleted links * [[Wikipedia:WikiProjects for discussion/foo:foo]].
After closing the discussion, the page will look like this:
User:DeirdreAnne/WP:DELPRO/wpfd top RESULT. my name date
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Page
DISCUSSION THREAD User:DeirdreAnne/WP:DELPRO/wpfd bottom
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