Michael P. Hopcroft wrote
Pardon me for the newbie question.
Not at all.
I have just had an article on Con suites apparently
deleted.
No idea what has happened to this. [[Consuite]] from 2004 exists. There are
deletion logs but without the exact title I'm not able to help further.
It is actually quite possible that, at times when the servers are
overloaded, some submissions are lost and never even added to the database.
I would always keep a text copy until I knew the particular edit had been
successful.
Another article on the band Uffington Horse is in
danger of deletion, but
at least in this case it was stated why.
[[Uffington Horse (band)]] has had one of our more polite tags added. You
need to establish notability of the band by expanding this.
What i would like to know is if there was a way to find
out why specific
articles were deleted so that corrections can possibly be made.
Thsi is especially useful as far as articles on fandom
topics (such as the
article on con suites, which are rooms at science fiction conventions
where free food and drink is served to participants) could easily be
viewed as irrelevant by non-fans and deleted needlessly or reflexively.
There are two classes of formalised deletions: speedy deletions handled by
admins, and deletions through [[WP:VfD]], our sanitary arrangement. VfD
(votes for deletion) is a formalised process allowing for full debate and
reply. Speedies are supposed to be tightly constrained; in practice the
criteria get pushed quite hard, but any admin should be willing to
reconsider a speedy deletion. Other than that, a few categories get deleted
on sight (graffiti, teenager prattle, that kind of thing).
With 1000 new pages a day we have to delete a fair number of pages. Things
do go wrong in a few cases.
Charles