[WikiEN-l] Pointless deletions

[John Lee]

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>Two recent deletion listings.
>
>Tally, an article about an accounting software company that's been
>going for twenty years and has a number of major companies among its
>clients in its native India, including the Reserve Bank of India and
>the Indian IT giant, Infosys.  And SuperOffice, about a public listed
>company (ticker code SUO on the Oslo Bors) with a turnover of some
>Euro 30m.
>
>Easy keeps?  No, deleted on AfD.
>
>Turns out that the guy who listed them did so to make a point.
>
>I summarily undeleted these articles--articles on such prominent
>companies should never have been deleted and the process that deleted
>them is clearly broken.
>
>They have been redeleted.  Twice.
>
>I am utterly ashamed of the process and those who have deleted these
>good articles in the name of that process.
>
>I have undertaken a bottom-up rewrite of both, but we should not be
>deleting such articles and we should not be forced through the silly
>pantomime of rewriting in order to keep articles about these companies
>on Wikipedia.
>  
>
I beg to differ. The motive of the original nominator is besides the 
point. There's also the fact that the original articles did not make 
their status clear, so I think a rewrite would be necessary. (By the 
way, I "voted" to delete both articles on the original AfD.)

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])