On 7/15/07, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
This is a great initiative. I've run across a few excellent articles that were deleted -- by finding them through google searches and web links, and discovering the target article was gone -- because they had "only N ghits" and were on prod for 3 days --- or worse, rewritten with more information and deleted speedily as recreations.
There should be a clear exception in the speedy policy on recreations that exempts anything that is an attempt to improve on an article deleted for lack of sources or non-notability.
The problem is identifying articles which have been deleted because of content, and articles which have been deleted because of the topic. Virtually all speedies fall under the former; PRODs lie somewhere in between; most AfDs deal with the latter. But even then, finding out why an article was deleted is something most admins are clearly too lazy to do. A lot of people being promoted these days seem to clearly lack clue.
Johnleemk