[WikiEN-l] Meanwhile, AfD grinds on

SPUI drspui at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 01:36:46 UTC 2005


Bryan Derksen wrote:
> Keith Old wrote:
> 
>> Bryan,
>>
>> If you had knowledge, that suggested it was worthy of retention, why 
>> didn't
>> you contribute to the debate?
>>  
>>
> Because I only found out the article had existed _after_ the vote was 
> closed and the article was deleted, when someone removed a link to the 
> now-nonexistent article from an article I happen to have on my 
> watchlist. I don't visit the AfD page.
> 
> Since the VfD was voted on and closed properly according to procedure 
> VfU is unlikely to help. Recreations of deleted pages without a VfU are 
> speediable, it's listed as general criteria #4. Any suggestions on how I 
> might argue a case at this point? I know of no avenues of "appeal" to 
> take to contest a deletion like this.

You can always write an article from scratch. If the assholes speedy it 
you'll have others on your side to restore it.



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