Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

speedy delete

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables: speedy delete
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To 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.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The article should be speedy deleted, as a blatant and obvious hoax."
"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.[…]”"
"“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.”"
"“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.”"

Etymology

Back-formation from speedy deletion.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

speedy deletes (present, singular) speedy deleting (participle, present) speedy deleted (participle, past) speedy deleted (past)

Synonyms

speedy

Questions

What does speedy delete mean?: To 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.
Where does speedy delete come from?: Back-formation from speedy deletion.

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