Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 12/12/05, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
David Gerard stated for the record:
I hereby declare that I will make deleted content (apart from copyvios etc) available for reading. Of course, using it to recreate the deleted content is speedyable, and using it to keep it hanging around in your userspace may get you penalised as Anthony was for doing so. But that's what you do with it afterwards.
Watch out, David. The AfD crew is vicious -- defy them in public like this, and I won't be surprised to see that you've been put up for deletion, Arbiter or not. And by the bye, I've extended the same offer for quite some time now.
Me too. I'll get around to putting it on my userpage one of these days.
I've just added the following to my page. Other admins should feel free to do so also.
==Undeletion==
If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel or similar, I will make the text available to you. This is because [[WP:DRV|deletion review]] is infected with a crippling case of [[m:Instruction creep|process]] [[ISO 9000|fetishisation]] over [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia|product]] that ignores the actual [[Wikipedia:deletion policy|]] and is in need of being made [[WP:IAR|ignorable]].
Note that using the text to recreate the deleted content is speedyable, and using it to keep it hanging around in your userspace has gotten editors penalised before. But that's your problem.
[and if Anthony sends me a request a day I will at least raise an eyebrow]
- d.