But we ARE justifying and we ARE not just prepared to make a record, the record is actually being made. Have you ever even looked at [[Wikipedia:Deletion log]]? You'll find EVERY deletion of the past three weeks there, with the justification given.
Since it is such a rich resource for good articles perhaps it might extend back beyond 3 weeks and include an easy way to recover the text, small though it may be.
I don't consider this 'a rich resource for good articles'. There may certainly be a number of titles that are worth of being made into an article quickly, but there are a large number in between that are deleted because they are simply a mis-spelling that has been corrected, or a 'redirect making place for a move'. My own method if I want to look for non-existing articles to write about, is to go to page 10 or so of the 'Wanted pages', and scan it. It has the advantage that everything will indeed be linked-to, non-existing pages, and the format makes quick scanning a lot easier.
Then again, I should of course not be putting you down for having different preferences, and if there would be a way to get those old lists for you to scan, it would be good.
And I find coming to Wikipedia and seeing an article called "Bronx Zoo" with as its text "the zoo in the bronx" quite unpleasant.
A close case...the Bronx Zoo will be an article, but much more extensive than that.
Well, my point here is: There might well be a 'real' article on the Bronx Zoo on Wikipedia once, but if so, whoever makes it will probably do so by replacing rather than extending this sub-stub. I would have reacted exactly the same (although in this case it wasn't me who did the deletion, I just chose the example because it was very recent and showed in my opinion clearly what I meant) when it had been "the McDonald's in the bronx" at "Bronx McDonalds" (an obvious non-article) but also when it had been "the second king called Sargon" at Sargon II (which is high at the mostwanted list at the moment).
Many deletions are of titles that will never make an article, I would probably prefer titles that will remain, but we all have talked extensively of that, I think without any real referent in experience other than anecdotal, thus unconclusively. I guess what would suffice is to ensure that somewhere, for example, in this case, in perhaps the article on New York City, an empty link remains to [[Bronx Zoo]], just as a pointer to encourage an article.
Well, in that respect you can sleep quietly - there are _three_ links remaining to Bronx Zoo - from "List of zoos", "American bison" and "Bronx".
Andre Engels