Fred Bauder wrote:
Well, we don't want really crappy stuff put up
over and over, but
when something decent comes along we don't want automatic deletion.
Perhaps a rule that after a year any article could be recreated?
But IMO the article in question should be recreated _now_, I see no
reason to wait in this particular case. I've located the comic's
archives in the Wayback Machine, it seems just as notable as the
artist's current comic (which survived VfD). The only difference was
that the nominator apparently didn't know the archives had long ago been
taken down and so couldn't find anything in a Google search to establish
that. If I wait a year the deletion archives might be cleared or I might
die, who knows? And since the contents of the deleted article were fine
I intend to use that text as a basis for the recreation, which means the
GFDL requires that the edit history be restored along with it.
Anyway, my current plan is to wait for one week and then undelete and
edit the article. I suspect that if it gets "noticed" it'll be speedied
and I'll be complained at for disrupting Wikipedia to make a point, but
such is life. I'll post an update here describing the results of the
attempt.