[WikiEN-l] [Wikipedia-l] Entries for deletion.... issues from the Third World

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sun Jan 7 19:59:52 UTC 2007


> The case that drew my attention a little while back did so because it
> had been tagged as {{db-empty}}, and then deleted despite containing a
> {{hangon}} note, three external links, and 160 words of actual
> honest-to-god coherent content. It was a little patchy, clearly
> written by someone for whom English was not a first language and
> wiki-syntax was not a second, but obviously a survivable stub on
> something and certainly not an empty article. And the guy who wrote it
> complained it had been deleted, so I looked into it.
>
> Deletion summary was "(Deleting page - reason was: "Empty page" using
> NPWatcher)"

a) Which article?
b) Have you taken it to DRV?



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