Meanings
present singular third person speedy deletes · participle present speedy deleting · participle past speedy deleted · past speedy deleted
- transitivewiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargonTo 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.
3 more examples
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.[…]”
2010 May 7, Jana Winter, “Exclusive: Wikipedia's Parent Company Starts Purging Porn From Its Websites”, in Fox News“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.”
2015, Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, →ISBN, page 59“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.”
2017, Catherine Hartung, Conditional Citizens: Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation, →ISBN, page 101, note 10Synonyms: speedy
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo 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.
Origin
Back-formation from speedy deletion.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 快速刪除 /快速删除
- 快速刪除 /快速删除 (kuàisù shānchú)to delete without a discussion
German Schnelllöschen
- Schnelllöschento delete without a discussion
Hindi शीघ्र हटाना
- शीघ्र हटाना (śīghra haṭānā)to delete without a discussion
Japanese 即時削除する
- 即時削除する (sokuji sakujo suru)to delete without a discussion
Spanish borrado rápido
- borrado rápidoto delete without a discussion
Swedish snabbradera
- snabbraderato delete without a discussion
Vietnamese xóa nhanh
- xóa nhanhto delete without a discussion
Cite this entry
speedy delete. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/speedy%20delete
“speedy delete.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/speedy%20delete. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “speedy delete,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/speedy%20delete.
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