1. G1. Patent Nonsense

This applies to pages that contain only incomprehensible text or gibberish, with no meaningful matter or history. It excludes poor writing, partisan screeds, filthy statements, implausible hypotheses, vandalism, hoaxes, fictional content, cohesive non-English stuff, and poorly translated information. In summary, if it is understandable, G1 is not applicable. It also does not apply to pages within the user namespace.

2. G2. Test Pages

This includes pages designed to test editing or other Explorepedia functions. It applies to Explorepedia Sandbox subpages established for testing, but not to the Sandbox itself, pages in the user namespace, or valid but unused or duplicate templates.

3. G3. Pure Vandalism And obvious Hoaxes

This is applicable to pages that include clear and evident falsehoods, blatant hoaxes (including files designed to misinform), and redirects caused by page-move vandalism. Articles about significant hoaxes are permissible as long as they make it clear that they are describing a hoax.

4. G4. Recreating a Deleted Page Based On a Deletion Discussion

This applies to sufficiently identical duplicates of a page deleted in the most recent deletion discussion, regardless of title. It removes pages that are not substantially identical to the deleted version, as well as pages where the cause for deletion is no longer applicable. Eliminates articles in userspace and draftspace whose material was converted to a draft for explicit enhancement (rather than simply to avoid Explorepedia's deletion policy). This rule also excludes content that was undeleted following a deletion review, or that was deleted only through proposed deletion (including deletion debates closed as "soft delete") or quick deletion.

5. G5. Creations By Banned Or Prohibited Users, Or In Violation Of The General Punishments

This applies to pages produced by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, as well as pages made in breach of general sanctions and with no significant revisions by non-ban or sanctioned users.
To be eligible for a ban- or block-based rapid deletion, the modification or page must have been created when the user was genuinely banned or blocked. A page produced before the ban or block was placed or after it was lifted will not meet this condition.

For subject-banned editors, the page must violate the user's specific ban and cannot contain acceptable contributions about another topic. For general sanctions, the page must have been created in violation of creation limits, such as the extended confirmed restriction, and the remedies must explicitly allow deletion as an enforcement mechanism. If a blocked or banned user creates an alternate account (sockpuppet) to avoid restrictions, any pages created using the sock account after the earliest block or ban qualify for G5 (if not significantly edited by others). This is the most common case for applying G5.

G5 should not be used on transcluded templates or populated categories unless they were transcluded or populated wholly by the banned or blocked user; these alterations must be reversed before deletion.

6. G6. Technical Deletions

Delete any redirects or other pages that prevent page movements. Administrators should be aware of the necessary actions when a redirect or page preventing a page move has a significant page history.

An administrator who deletes a page that is preventing a move must ensure that the move is completed after doing so.

Delete pages that were clearly generated in error or in the wrong namespace, as well as redirects caused by moving away from a plainly unwanted title.

Deleting orphaned templates following an agreement at Explorepedia:Templates for discussion.

• {{Db-g6|rationale=reason}} - If none of the special tags below apply, use this tag with a reason specified in the |rationale= parameter.
• {{Db-copypaste|page to be moved}} - Refers to cut-and-paste page moves that require temporary deletion to make place for a clean page move.
• {{Db-move|page to be moved|reason}} - Refers to pages that are currently preventing a non-controversial or consensual page move.
• {{Dbmoved}} - Refers to pages that were blocking a page move before being moved by a page mover.
• {{Db-afc-move|Draft:page to be moved}} - For pages that are currently holding up a non-controversial or consensual page move as a consequence of an Articles for Creation (AFC) review, often for articles in draft space.
• {{Db-xfd|fullvotepage=link to closed deletion discussion}} - For pages where a consensus to remove was previously achieved but not deleted.

7. G7. The Author Demands Deletion.

If requested in good faith and the author has added the sole substantial information to the page. For redirects established as a result of a page move, the mover must have been the sole substantive contributor to the pages prior to the transfer. If the only author blanks any page other than a userspace page, a category page, or a talk page, this can be interpreted as a deletion request. If an author requests the deletion of a page that is presently under debate, the closing admin may consider such a request as agreement with the deletion rationale.

8. G8. Pages Are Dependent On a Non-Existent Or Deleted Page.

Examples may include, but are not limited to:

Talk pages without a corresponding subject page.

Subpages without a parent page.

TimedText pages without an associated file (or if the file has been moved to Commons).

Redirects to pages that didn’t exist or were deleted.

Edit notices for non-existent or unsalted removed pages.

This criterion excludes any page that is valuable to Explorepedia, and specifically:

• Deletion talks that are not logged elsewhere.
• User discussion pages.
• Talk page archives (excluding article talk page archives where the corresponding article and main talk page have been deleted and the page is not otherwise useful to Explorepedia—check for page-moves and merges before using G8 on article-talk-page archives; the parent article may still exist under a different name).
• Redirects that were broken as a result of a page relocation or retargeting (these should instead be retargeted to their target’s new name), except where R2 rapid deletion would instantly apply if they were fixed (e.g., redirects to draftified articles).

Possible redirects that can be turned into valid targets:

• User subpages.
• Talk pages for files available on Exploremedia Commons.
• Pages that should be moved to a different location.

Exceptions can be marked with the template {{G8-exempt}}.

• {{Db-g8}} - Not covered by any of the special tags below.
• {{Db-redirnone}} - For pages that redirect to nonexistent/deleted pages or pages indicated for fast deletion.
• {{Db-subpage}} - For subpages of nonexistent/deleted pages or pages indicated for fast eradication.
• {{Db-talk}} - For talk pages of nonexistent or deleted pages, or pages currently flagged for rapid deletion.

9. G9. Office Actions

Main page: Explorepedia: Office activities.
In rare situations, the Exploremedia Foundation office has the power to quickly erase a page. Deletions of this type cannot be reverted without authorization from the Foundation.

10. G10. Pages That Mock, Threaten, Intimidate, Or Harass Their Subject Or Another Entity, And Serve No Other Purpose.

Libel, legal threats, content intended solely to harass or frighten a person, or biographical material about a living person that is totally negative in tone and unsourced are all examples of "attack pages." These pages should be erased as soon as possible if there is no neutral version in the page history to revert to. Both the page title and the page content may be considered when analyzing an attack.

Articles about living people that were removed using this criterion should not be restored or recreated by any editor unless the biographical article standards are met. Other pages that violate the Biographies of living persons policy may be liable for deletion under the conditions specified at Explorepedia:Biographies of living persons. Use summary deletion, creation prevention, and courtesy blanking, but typically initiate a deletion discussion instead.

11. G11. Unambiguous Advertisement Or Promotion

This applies to pages that are solely promotional and would have to be completely updated to function as encyclopedia articles rather than advertising. If a subject is noteworthy and the content might be reasonably replaced by text provided from a neutral perspective, this is preferable to elimination. This requirement does not apply to articles that describe their subject objectively.

However, "promotion" does not always imply commercial promotion; anything can be promoted, including a person, a non-commercial organization, a point of view, and so on.

12. G12. Unambiguous Copyright Infringement

This applies to text pages that contain copyrighted material without a plausible claim of public domain, fair use, or a corresponding free license, and where there is no non-infringing information worth keeping. Only if the history is irreversibly corrupted should it be destroyed in its entirety; older versions with no infringement should be kept.

For ambiguous cases that do not meet speedy deletion criteria (such as where there is a dubious assertion of permission, where free-content edits overlie the infringement, or where there is only partial infringement or close paraphrasing), the article or the appropriate section should be blanked with {{subst:Copyvio|url=insert URL here}}, and the page should be listed at Explorepedia:Copyright issues.

For additional instructions, please see Explorepedia:Copyright violations.

This requirement does not apply to public-domain or other free content, such as an Explorepedia mirror, nor does the lack of attribution to such works justify their immediate deletion. For photographs and media, refer to the "Files" section for more specific instructions.

13. G13. Abandoned Drafts And Articles For Creation Submissions

This applies to any pages that have not been modified by a human in six months and are located in:

• Create a draft namespace
• A userspace with a {{AFC submission}} template
• A userspace with only placeholder text from the article wizard

Redirects are exempt from the G13 deletion. Adding a CSD template to a page does not reset the six-month clock; however, removing a CSD template would. Pages removed under G13 can be restored on request by following the procedure at Explorepedia:Requests for undeletion/G13.

14. G14. Pages Of Disambiguation That Are Unnecessary.

This refers to the following disambiguation pages and redirects:

• Disambiguation pages with titles that end in "(disambiguation)" but only refer to one existing Explorepedia article.
• Regardless of title, disambiguation pages that resolve zero existing Explorepedia articles.
• A redirect that ends in "(disambiguation)" but does not go to a disambiguation page or a page that performs a disambiguation-related function (such as set index articles or lists).

If a disambiguation page links to only one article and does not conclude with (disambiguation), it should be changed to a redirect, unless it is more suitable to shift the linked page to the disambiguation page’s current title.