On 3/26/06, David Alexander Russell webmaster@davidarussell.co.uk wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
The undeletion policy gives any administrator the power to undelete a wrongly deleted article. There's no need to go to DRV. If someone disagrees they can take it to AfD where a consensus would be required to delete.
Yeah, but unless you happen to have an administrator who knows how the article has developed (and if it's a niche subject the chances are there won't be) it's very unlikely that such an undeletion would take place - and in the recent cases where this undeletion power has been exercised, it has resulted in wheel warring, desyoppings and flamewars.
I think you're exaggerating wildly. I'm aware of one or two silly spats, but mostly undeletion of a wrongly deleted article is uncontroversial. I've done dozens and dozens of them.