[WikiEN-l] Meanwhile, AfD grinds on

[Tony Sidaway]

On 10/13/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/05, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You can always write an article from scratch. If the assholes speedy it
> > you'll have others on your side to restore it.
>
> No, you can't.  If you recreate an article on the same topic as a
> previously deleted one, it will be speedied, and VFU won't likely
> accept that it was "rewritten" as an excuse.
>

In practice a completely new article may get a little opposition, but
it isn't at all speediable and if speedied can be unilaterally
undeleted.  Another strategy is to merge the information into another
article and recreate as a redirect.  That would be impossible to
misrepresent as a recreation.