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.