speedy delete

English

Etymology

Back-formation from speedy deletion.

Verb

speedy delete (third-person singular simple present speedy deletes, present participle speedy deleting, simple past and past participle speedy deleted)

1. (Wikimedia jargon) To summarily delete one or more pages without having a discussion on whether to keep or to delete, almost always if the page is obviously worthy of uncontroversial deletion.

   The article should be speedy deleted, as a blatant and obvious hoax.

   • 2010 May 7, Jana Winter, “Exclusive: Wikipedia's Parent Company Starts Purging Porn From Its Websites”, in Fox News‎^[1]:

     On Wednesday evening, Wales posted this note on Wikimedia Commons: […] “I think our existing policies here on commons are sufficient to deal with the problem – with the minor exception that many things should just be speedy deleted and argued about later. […]”

   • 2015, Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, →ISBN, page 59:

     “Speedy Delete—G1 [general criterion 1], G2, G3, or G11—Take your pick. How about simply not notable, vandalism, hoax, etc? Whether it can be considered art or not is irrelevant. Wikipedia ain’t your canvas.”

   • 2017, Catherine Hartung, Conditional Citizens: Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation, →ISBN, page 101, note 10:

     “Speedy Delete. Yawn. […] There’s *less* attention to him now than before. He’s little different than most teenagers that host a party without their parents^[sic] knowledge, even if he does wear big glasses and make an ass of himself on TV.”

Synonyms

• speedy

Translations

to delete without a discussion

• German: schnelllöschen
• Japanese: 即時削除する (sokuji sakujo suru)
• Spanish: borrado rápido
• Swedish: snabbradera