User:Yunshui/Adoption/Shrikanthv/PROD

Proposed deletion (PROD) is Wikipedia's way of dealing with articles that are patently unsuitable, but that don't fall under any of the criteria for speedy deletion. Examples might include: non-notable books or films, personal essays, non-notable albums by notable artists, news stories, dictionary definitions and how-to guides. Basically, anything that's covered by What Wikipedia is not but isn't covered under speedy deletion can be a viable candidate for PROD.

PROD is for uncontroversial deletions only. For this reason, anyone, including the page's original creator, can remove a PROD tag. Removing the tag is taken to indicate that deleting the page would not be uncontroversial; because of this, PROD tags cannot be replaced. If an article has been proposed for deletion by this method once, it cannot be PRODded again. To check whether an article has been tagged before, you can look at the page history or at the talkpage (which will have an {{old prod full}} template on it if the previous PROD tagger did their job right).

It is important to offer a rationale for proposed deletions - you must give a reason, even if it's just "fails WP:GNG". Without such a rationale, PROD tags will usually be removed, if not by another editor then by the reviewing administrator.

BLPPROD

BLPPROD is a subset of the proposed deletion process that applies only to unsourced biographies of living people. Biographies of deceased people, or biographies with sources, are not subject to BLPPROD.

If a BLP article has sources, those sources do not need to meet the notability requirements. Nor do they have to be correctly formatted or contained in a section labelled "References" - as long as the article contains some sort of link or reference to a source that supports some of its content, it is not a candidate for BLPPROD.

Unlike regular PROD tags, BLPPROD tags can only be deleted after sources are provided - if a BLPPROD tag is removed without a source being added, the tag can be reapplied.

Quiz

1. Why do we have a specific deletion process for unsourced biographies of living people?

2. You come across an obviously inappropriate article (it's an unsourced personal essay) and tag it for deletion under PROD. The page's creator removes the tag. What would your next step be?

3. You encounter a biography of a living person which contains four paragraphs of text, but only one reference (which does little more than verify the subject's name and existence). What tag would you place on the article?

4. Why were [1], [2] [3] and [4] incorrect applications of the BLPPROD tag?

5. An unsourced BLP is tagged with {{prod blp}}, and the tag is removed after the addition of two sources. The page is still unsuitable for Wikipedia (it concerns an individual who's clearly only notable for one event, and is not likely to be notable for any other reason). Can you legitimately apply a regular {{Proposed deletion}} template to the article?