SpongeBob Fanon Wiki:Deletion Guidelines

One of the responsibilities of the SpongeBob Fanon Wiki staff is finding and deleting articles that break the SBFW rules. Staff members can usually find rulebreaking pages in the Candidates for deletion category or by browsing Special:Recentchanges or Special:WikiActivity. If the staff member judges that the article does indeed break a rule, he can usually delete it without taking any further steps, though users may appeal on the staff member's talk page if necessary.

Fanon pages that don't break the rules should be deleted only in cases of excessively bad grammar, spelling, or formatting. Basically, if it looks like the author put no effort into the fanon page at all, it's usually safe to delete, but you should post a message explaining your reasons on the author's talk page for good etiquette. Blog posts usually shouldn't be deleted at all, as they're supposed to be a relatively free outlet for users to give their opinions on issues affecting the wiki or generally just talk about what interests them. Exceptions to this can be made, of course, like when a blog post is spam or is R-rated in nature, but outside of those exceptions, blog posts should be left alone.

These guidelines exist not to burden administrators, but to protect the rights of the creators who choose to share their work and ideas for other users to critique, and in some cases, add to. These users should be rewarded, not punished, for their efforts, and should be encouraged to improve their work through comments, not discouraged from creating at all due to the deletion of their work that, while obviously having effort put into it, may not live up to the standards that some administrators may judge it by. Generally, if an administrator isn't sure that a fanon page can deleted under these guidelines, he shouldn't delete it at all, because creators' rights should always reign supreme.