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This template may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as a page created in violation of a contentious topic restriction or other general sanction, with no substantial edits by others. Specifically, this page has been created in violation of a contentious topic restriction. See CSD G5.%5B%5BWP%3ACSD%23G5%7CG5%5D%5D%3A+Enforcement+of+%5B%5BWP%3AGS%7Cgeneral+sanctions%5D%5D%2CG5

If this template does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice, but do not remove this notice from pages that you have created yourself. If you created this page and you disagree with the given reason for deletion, you can click the button below and leave a message explaining why you believe it should not be deleted. You can also visit the talk page to check if you have received a response to your message.

Note that this template may be deleted at any time if it unquestionably meets the speedy deletion criteria, or if an explanation posted to the talk page is found to be insufficient.

Nominator: Please consider placing the template:
{{subst:db-gs-notice|Template:Db-gs/sandbox|header=1|code={{{1}}}}}
on the talk page of the author.

Note to administrators: this template has content on its talk page which should be checked before deletion.

Administrators: check links, talk, history (last), and logs before deletion, and log the deletion. Consider checking Google.
This page was last edited by LaundryPizza03 (contribs | logs) at 12:21, 7 December 2025 (UTC) (13 days ago)
This is the template sandbox page for Template:Db-gs (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.
Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]
If you update the general sanction codes in this template, please keep the behavior in sync with Template:Db-gs-notice and Template:Db-gs-deleted. Thanks!
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General criteria
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G2{{db-g2}} {{db-test}}
G3{{db-g3}} {{db-vandalism}} {{db-hoax}}
G4{{db-g4}} {{db-repost}}
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G7{{db-g7}} {{db-author}}
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G10{{db-g10}} {{db-attack}} {{db-negublp}}
G11{{db-g11}} {{db-spam}} {{db-spamuser}}
G12{{db-g12}} {{db-copyvio}}
G13{{db-g13}} {{db-afc}}
G14{{db-g14}} {{db-disambig}}
G15{{db-g15}} {{db-ai}} {{db-llm}}
Articles
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A2{{db-a2}} {{db-foreign}}
A3{{db-a3}} {{db-nocontent}} {{db-empty}}
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A10{{db-a10}} {{db-same}}
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Redirects
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R4{{db-r4}} {{db-redircom}}
Files
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F2{{db-f2}} {{db-fpcfail}} {{db-imagepage}}
F3{{db-f3}} {{db-noncom}}
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F5{{db-f5}} {{di-orphaned non-free use}}
F6{{db-f6}} {{di-no non-free use rationale}} {{di-missing article links}}
F7{{db-f7}} {{di-replaceable non-free use}} {{di-disputed non-free use rationale}}
F8{{db-f8}} {{now Commons}}
F9{{db-f9}}
F11{{db-f11}} {{di-no permission}} {{db-no permission-VRT}}
!{{di-fails NFCC}}
Categories
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C4{{db-c4}} {{db-templatecat}}
Templates
T5{{db-t5}}
User pages
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U2{{db-u2}} {{db-nouser}}
U6{{db-u6}}
U7{{db-u7}}
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This template places the page in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as having been created in violation of general sanctions. Deletions using this template fall under CSD criterion G5.

Usage: {{db-gs|contentious topic code}}, for example:

{{db-gs|rusukr}}

The supported general sanction codes are "rusukr" (WP:GS/RUSUKR), "a-i" (WP:CT/A-I), "kurd" (WP:GS/KURD / WP:CT/KURD), "a-a" (WP:GS/AA / WP:CT/A-A), "apl" (WP:APLECP), "sasg" (WP:CT/SA, South Asian social groups), and "imh" (WP:CT/SA, Indian military history).

Consider adding a message to the contributor's User:Talk page:

{{subst:db-gs-notice|code=contentious topic code}} ~~~~
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Db-gs/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.
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Last edited on 7 December 2025, at 12:21

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