On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipedia@zog.org wrote:
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Anyone any idea where I could find the original AfD? It seems to have disappeared: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Th...
The edit summary just says "oops".
The deletion log helps in cases like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3AA...)
"OTRS Courtesy blank"
What probably happened is that someone who was unhappy with some of the things said in the heat of the moment e-mailed the Wikipedia OTRS service and asked for a courtesy deletion. Not quite ideal in some ways, as this is a deletion, not a blanking (as the summary says), and these two actions (deletion and blanking) are very different, but you are best off asking the admin involved what happened there, though he may be unable to tell you much more.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS
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