When I improve articles on AfD, which is a regular occurrence, I leave notes on the discussion noting the changes and people regularly change their votes. If the vote us running heavily for deletion, I drop a note on the voters page letting them know that I have improved the article.
There hasn't been a case yet where the vote hasn't changed significantly. AfD voters are reasonable people and will reconsider their vote if presented with new information. You just have to tell them that the article has been improved..
If it were me seeking the undeletion, I would leave a polite message saying that you have significant additional information establishing the importance and verifiability of the webcomic in question. You might also wish to let others who have participated in this discussion
On 10/13/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/13/05, Anthony DiPierro wikispam@inbox.org wrote:
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.
Isn't that an easy VFU candidate. "This article improved significantly during its time on AFD but ended up deleted based on old votes." Such requests are easily undeleted.
Try to get such articles undeleted first and see if VFU is really as ineffective as you think. BTW, were the improvements mentioned in the AFD discussion so the closing admin could take it into account?
--Mgm
--Mgm
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l