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

[Michel Vuijlsteke]

2009/1/13 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>

> 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.


 The entire discussion needed to be deleted, apparently. The page now reads
"The result was *delete*." with the rest of the deletion summary in html
comment.

I'm officially weirded out. :)

Michel