[WikiEN-l] Wrongly deleted articles

Wed Sep 14 11:41:03 UTC 2005

MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote this:

"Name one article that was wrongly deleted in the past 3 days."

Oh I haven't done speedy patrol for a while, so I thought I'd take a quick
look for you and see what I could find.  I only looked at the first page
of the log,

FTSEurofirst 80: "FTS Eurofirst 80 Index is a stock index of European
stocks."

And there's a link.

Plenty of context, infinitely expandable--you can add the history, who
compiles it, who uses it, compare it to other indexes of this type in the
same and other markets, and so on.  Excellent encyclopedia-fodder.

A brief google search shows that this index is cited by the OECD, so it's
unlikely to be a hoax or vanity--and even if it were it would be a AfD
candidate.

A similar article, FTSEurofirst 100, was also deleted.

Here's another:

Buffalo Lake, Alberta: "Buffalo Lake is the fourth biggest lake in Alberta."

Short and sweet. Pop that on AfD and you'll have a decent article in no
time.  If anyone says "no context" I shall scream. It's the fourth biggest
lake in Alberta, for heaven's sake!  If it is we need an article on it,
and if it isn't we'll find out soon enough.

13th key: "13th Key is a RPG mage using RPG Maker by Matthew Smith. It is
a combination of A bad game and a good game in terms of grphics and
gameplay."

Well a bit POV but not speediable.  Of course I know who Matthew Smith is
and the deleter didn't.  He could have checked, though.    He's the guy
who wrote Manic Miner for the Spectrum as a seventeen-year-old, and he has
a Wikipedia article.

Are these articles worth bothering about?  Possibly.  Depends what kind of
mood I'm in.  At the very worst, each one of these is AfD territory, not a
speedy---as far as twelve hours ago--and I only looked at speedies by one
particular RC patroller.