On 10/12/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/13/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Since the VfD was voted on and closed properly according to procedure VfU is unlikely to help.
In practice no, but VFU *should* undelete pages on the basis that Wikipedia is better with them than without. It's in the undeletion policy; the fact that there's a strong resistance to actually implementing the undeletion policy is saddening.
That's certainly the way it used to be, but this changed at some point: "This process should *not* be used simply because you disagree with a deletion debate's reasoning — only if you think the debate was interpreted incorrectly by the closer. This page is about *process*, not content." Not sure who added that, and whether or not there was a vote to completely change the undeletion process, but that's right at the top of the page now.
Recreations of deleted pages without a VfU are
speediable
Recreation of pages deleted *under the deletion policy* (which does actually apply here).
One reason not to improve an article while it's under a VfD debate, unless you are sure it's going to win. I've seen a number of times when articles were improved significantly after most people voted, they were deleted based on those old votes, and now that newly improved content was speediable.