On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/12/11 13:38, Mike Dupont wrote:
I have also wanted this for a long time. http://www.petitiononline.com/urmwpnow/petition.html http://undeletewikipedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/clarity-in-petition.html mike
I don't think any sysop would reject a reasonable petition of a good wikipedian of the content of an article he previously wrote.
("good wikipedian" meaning it's not an instance of "I want that copyvio content to recreate it from sockpuppet accounts using proxies")
There are many articles that have been deleted, and we dont even know the full list of them.
That's not true. The list of deleted pages is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete For very old deletions (before December 23, 2004) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log
However, for most articles the deleted text would (should?) be in the lines of Article: John Smith Content: He's fat child in classroom.
In other cases they may be well-written articles which violate the copyright of eg. Encarta. So they can't be shown either.
You seem to be targetting good articles deleted due to the target being non-notable, and you indeed have a point for them. You could launch a project to host those files if you wish to (I think there was already one doing it? at least many wikis have spun off to their own wiki about their topic).
Well, I dont know what to say, except that I put work into my articles, and having them deleted hurts. I would like to have them in my userspace at least.
mike