[WikiEN-l] Daniel Brandt

[Rob Smith]

On 2/23/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/23/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't spend much time at DRV, what's the policy for DRVs that have
> > no consensus? This one is looking like a fairly even split. Common
> > sense would seem (to me) to be that consensus to endorse is required
> > for speedy deletions, otherwise they get undeleted, and consensus to
> > undelete is required for AfDs, otherwise they stay deleted. In other
> > words, this article should probably end up being undeleted. Is that
> > how it works, or is there precedent for something else?
> >
> Good question. A recent DRV of one of the Rachel Marsden articles -- I
> speedied it in accordance with an ArbCom ruling, which allowed speedy
> deletion if an admin felt there were BLP issues -- had a majority in
> favor of keeping it deleted, but an admin undeleted it anyway, then
> moved it to AfD, arguing that there had to be a consensus in favor of
> the deletion, not just a majority.
>
> The policy seems to imply this is the case with all deletions, not
> just speedies, which means that DRV has basically become pointless,
> assuming I've understood it correctly.
>
> Sarah


Before voting to keep, please review the evidence presented at

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=5641&view=findpost&p=22084

Thank you.

Nobs01