Criteria for speedy deletion expanded
Six months after the previous modification of the speedy deletion criteria (see archived story), a new expansion proposal led to the addition of four new criteria and the rewording of one. A vote on this proposal held over two weeks (see related story) ended in the passage of measures that partially address the problem of handling vanity pages, along with some other technical changes.
Specifically, the vote results allow the speedy deletion of articles that do not claim any notability of their subject, serve only to disparage their subject, or simply rephrase the title of the article. In addition, articles that are transwikied in accordance with Votes for deletion consensus may now be speedily deleted afterwards. Furthermore, additional clarification was added to the criteria that calls for the deletion of articles recreated after earlier deletion.