This article will help you to better understand the wikiHow policy for Nominating Articles for Deletion, as well as the correct procedure necessary for making that nomination.

Steps

Read the wikiHow Deletion Policy, and How to Understand What wikiHow Is Not.
Select the grounds for deletion from the list below:

Reason	Code	Explanation	Example deletes	Example keeps
Accuracy issues	acc	Severe accuracy problems that can't be easily edited away. Use {{accuracy}} or edit to fix is always first choice.	Depends on content	Depends on content
Advertising / spam	adv	If the article cannot be edited to meet brand name guidelines, it will be deleted.	Buy Viagra For Cheap!!!!, Send Your Email Address Here to Get a Free Runescape Account	Use iTunes
Copyright violations		Use {{copyvio\|url}} instead of NFD. Anything that violates copyright policy	It depends	It depends
Duplicate Article	dup	Per merge policy, articles with almost indistinguishable titles will be merged or deleted.	Be Popular (My Way)	Be Popular
Recreational drug focused	dru		How to Make Meth	Use a Water Bong, Make Caffeine Jello Shots
Extremely Dangerous And Reckless	dan	Must be extremely dangerous, reckless and irrational.	Drive Blindfolded in Heavy Traffic	Fight, Wall Flip, Skydive for the First Time
Hate/racist based	hat		How to Hate Americans	Deal With Relatives You Hate
Universally illegal	ill	Must be banned in almost every country, state, and province.	Rape, Murder, Assault	Cheat on a Test, Hack a Coke Machine, Pick a Lock
Impossible Tasks	imp	Impossible or impractical	Travel to Mars in a Car, Clone a Human in Your House	Survive a Long Fall, Bend a Spoon
Incomplete and not useful	inc	While most incomplete articles are allowed to develop as stubs, some provide no help to readers at all and can be deleted.	Depends on content	Depends on content
Joke topics	jok		Make a Time Travel Machine	Be Funny Without Telling Jokes
Mean-spirited	mea	Instructions promoting destructive or mean spirited behavior or activities	Make a Snuff Film, Hit an Innocent Person in the Face	Fight, Toilet Paper a House, Play a Prank
Not a how-to	not	Articles that aren't how-to in nature	John's Diary, Map of NY, Political Opinion	Hide Your Diary,Make a Map,Vote
Potty humor	pot		Take a Poo	Make Fake Diarrhea
Sarcastic / reverse logic	sar	Sarcasm doesn't work in a how-to manual	Go Bankrupt, Fall Off Your Bike	Gain Weight, File Bankruptcy
Sexually explicit or sexually charged material	sex	Articles focused on sex, whether explicitly worded or not	Have Sex, Plan a Threesome	Kiss Passionately, French Kiss
Societal Instructions	soc	Topics only a whole society or its leaders can accomplish. Not possible for one person to follow instructions and achieve desired end.	Ban the Death Penalty	Take Action to Ban the Death Penalty
Vanity pages	van	Instructions that are only valuable to one person or to a select group of insiders	How to Drive to My House, Be Just Like Travis Derouin	Be Like Paris Hilton

Note that the above reasons do not automatically qualify an article for deletion. They are simply things which might qualify an article for deletion. In addition they are the only acceptable grounds for nominating an article for deletion. Please use one of the above and not arbitrary reasons like "Gross", "Inappropriate" or any other reason not specifically listed in the wikiHow Deletion Policy or How to Understand What wikiHow Is Not. You can either write out a detailed reason (still selecting from the above list, but clarifying how the article satisfied that reason, if necessary) or use the three-letter abbreviation. If you nominate an article for deletion on grounds other than those listed above, it is possible that the NFD tag will be removed as invalid, or changed to reflect a valid reason for deletion.
Edit the article that you wish to nominate.
Place the NFD template on the first line of the introduction section.
Complete the two-part template in the following manner:
- Type the NDF Template code: {{nfd|abc}} - replacing the abc with one of the 3-character codes from the list above.
- Optionally, you may add a second or third reason, or a comment about why you think the article should be deleted. An example: {{nfd|jok|not}}
- If placing an NFD tag for a duplicate article you need to indicate the duplicate article. This can be by placing a comment on the "Discuss" page of the article or by placing it in the NFD tag like this: {{nfd|dup|See [[Clean Silver]]}} Note that the words that go in the square brackets are the article title without the "How to" at the beginning.
- Only place 3 character NFD codes in the NFD tag. Do not place comments in the NFD tag. Put you comments on the article's Comment page. (Exception: duplicate link as described above)
- Note that you do not need to add an additional parameter for the date. This will be done automatically for you after you save the page.
Hit the SAVE PAGE button at bottom left.
Verify that the NFD tag displays. If you don't see a large notice at the top of the article, go back and try again. It should look something like this:

Tips

Provide additional justification for your nomination on the article talk page. Write persuasively, as others will check in to read your comments and make their decisions.
Check the article's talk page in about five days to see what other users have also written on the articles talk page. Feel free to make any necessary rebuttals.
Review other articles that have been nominated for deletion.

Warnings

Don't try to take matters in your own hands and blank out a page you want deleted. This will be recognized as vandalism. If the article is entirely inappropriate or out of hand, place a speedy deletion notice on the article instead.