It is possible that in testing the page deletion command, I had something to do with all of this. I was looking at some of these pages, fiddling with some other windows, and editing the URL line. I may have made a mistake at some point and in seeking to look at one of these pages, deleted it by accident. I am not specifically aware of doing this, but it is possible.
If it's really important, there should be no problem in re-creating these pages, and I hope that a mistake of mine didn't cause anyone any undue convenience.
I have never intentionally deleted anything other than a test page, and really have no plans to ever do so myself.
Pages that were deleted include [[Reasons for deleting page titles]], [[Wikipedia vandalism]], [[Vandalism/Talk]], TheCunctator's subpage of [[Wikipedia commentary]] listing pages that were deleted (unfortuantely I can't remember what its title was), and I don't know what else.
The following are really misnamed, and should at least be moved to: [[Wikipedia/Reasons for deleting page titles]] [[Wikipedia/Vandalism]] [[Wikipedia/Vandalism_Talk]] or something like this.
Certainly the mixing, on [[Vandalism]] of the general concept of vandalism and wikipedia-specific vandalism is probably not appropriate. A customer looking for information about vandalism -- perhaps statistics on vandalism, the history of vandalism, the story of the original vandal tribes, etc., is not looking for information about wikipedia vandalism.
LMS. He insists he did not delete [[Reasons for deleting page titles]], and I'll have to give him the benefit of the doubt on that one. However, he said on [[Reasons for deleting page titles]] (a statement he later deleted from that page) that "I have indeed deleted several other pages though" and that he didn't know who had deleted that page. Why did he make these statements and then retract them? Did he mistakenly think he had deleted several other pages, or is he just unwilling to admit what he had done?
I think it is not co-operative of you to suggest that he's "unwilling to admit". :-) Let's assume that I did it, by sheer accident, and let's accept my apology for any pain that I have caused, and let's all move on. I will help to restore the pages.
--Jimbo