On Thu, 20 Jan 2022, 10:11 am Andy Mabbett, <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 21:52, michael west <michawest@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is an appropriate place to ask, but, I was just going to look for
> information about BBCs Tomorrow World presenter Howard Stableford on Wikipedia
> and found that it had been deleted.
>
> The deletion remark said that he wasn't notable. The PROD was made on 26th
> December 2021 and the article was deleted on 3rd January 2022. I can't find an
> AfD discussion about the article. The deletion has left a number of red links.

There is no discussion, because PROD is for uncontested deletion
suggestions and no-one contested it. See:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion

for details of the process.

> Could an English Wikipedia administrator have a look to see if it was a Speedy
> delete, without discussion?

PROD is differenet to speedy deltion.

I have asked the deleting admin to restore the article "so that it can
be improved, or sent to AfD if anyone feels strongly enough".

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Thank you. I'm sorry for my confusion about the deletion process, it's the first time I've ever come across a proposed deletion. 

Michael West 

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