[WikiEN-l] Being able to see an article whose undeletion is being actively discussed

Tony Sidaway f.crdfa at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 06:07:38 UTC 2006


I've had a few complaints from people who said that, not being
administrators, they felt unable to participate fully in
[[Wikipedia:Deletion review]] because they could not see the content
of the article under discussion.

I've decided to act on this, and have placed the following notice on the page:

"Some administrators take all good faith requests for undeletion on
this page as de facto requests for temporary undeletion for the
purpose of debate, and will honor such requests, unless the content is
defamatory, copyright, a personal attack, or otherwise unsuitable for
publication, for the duration of the debate. They reserve the right to
will be not undelet if there is reason to suspect that this forum is
being abused. Pages undeleted for this purpose should be clearly
marked with a link to [[Wikipedia:Deletion review]].".

This should solve the problem.  Basically I'll undelete stuff that
satisfies the above criteria while it is being discussed on the forum,
in the interests of encouraging full participation by all editors.



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