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?