[WikiEN-l] Deletion for its own sake (was MUD history)

[Wilhelm Schnotz]

The admin should at least give you a ticket number so that his action
can be reviewed by other otrs members.

On 1/13/09, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipedia at zog.org>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Anyone any idea where I could find the original AfD? It seems to have
>> disappeared:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Threshold_(online_game)&oldid=263769784
>>
>> The edit summary just says "oops".
>
> The deletion log helps in cases like this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FThreshold_(online_game)
>
> "OTRS Courtesy blank"
>
> What probably happened is that someone who was unhappy with some of
> the things said in the heat of the moment e-mailed the Wikipedia OTRS
> service and asked for a courtesy deletion. Not quite ideal in some
> ways, as this is a deletion, not a blanking (as the summary says), and
> these two actions (deletion and blanking) are very different, but you
> are best off asking the admin involved what happened there, though he
> may be unable to tell you much more.
>
> See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS
>
> Carcharoth
>
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