On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:57:37 -0400, Poor, Edmund W edmund.w.poor@abc.com wrote:
Well, it finally happened. For the first time, someone has managed to delete an article I labored more than 4 hours over, in such a way that I cannot retrieve it even with sysop powers.
My original [[Missing explosives in Iraq]] article is gone, with a highly biased version in its place.
Well, I have no sysop powers to see deleted versions, but a quick bit of sleuthing turns up: "23:40, 28 Oct 2004 Jxg (Missing explosives in Iraq moved to Al-Qaqaa weapons facility)" [1]
which leads us to [2], which from dates and usernames suggests that your original text (just after the move) is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Al-Qaqaa_weapons_facility&old...
I'm sorry if I'm stating the obvious here, and that isn't actually the text you're looking for.
To complete the story, it was then expanded slightly [3], before being merged, albeit not very thoroughly [4] with another, already larger [5], article on the same topic [6].
No deletion I can see, just a maze of page moves and parallel development.
==Refs== [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Missing_explosives_in_Iraq&ac... [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Al-Qaqaa_weapons_facility&act... [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Al-Qaqaa_weapons_facility&dif... [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Al_Qa%27qaa_high_explosives_contr... [5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Al_Qa%27qaa_high_explosives_contr... [6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Qa%27qaa_high_explosives_controversy