Charles Matthews wrote:
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.
Hopefully I have done so to your satisfaction. You or someone also said that the article on the Goldschmidt Sex Scandal should be merged with that on Goldschmidt tiself. Since the article is on the effects that the revelation of the scnadal had on the relationship between portland media and public figures, I respectfully disagree.
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).
Is there an admin I can e-mail directyl if I have concerns about one of my articles?