On 11/29/06, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/29/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I'm mildly sorry for taking the shortcut of asking the list about things
I
could figure out by wading through the insanely complicated policy
pages,
but here goes-- if you think a page that went through the AfD process
was
wrongly deleted, what is the proper action?
How wrong is it for an admin to undelete a page?
It is a cardinal sin. If a page is deleted as a result of *fD it MUST go through DRV - despite the fact that "Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy", undeletion can only be done if the correct forms are filled out in triplicate, lost, found again... (I can't remember the rest of how that goes, but you end up having your house bulldozed).
In addition, DRV is the place where people comment, not on the merits of the deletion, but on whether the deletion was "in process" or "out of process". It doesn't matter if the article was about [[World War II]] and the discussion only involved three people would voted delete on the grounds of "never heard of it", DRV is supposed to comment on process, not merits of deletion (you'll be told "that's what *fD is for, and you should have commented when you had the chance).
If people say they "never heard of it", the closing admin should've ignored those comments and "votes". If that didn't happen then it was out of process. So the merit of the deletion and the process or at least interconnected.
Mgm