[WikiEN-l] Wrongly deleted articles from AfD: List of power ballads

Thu Sep 15 15:35:28 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> MacGyverMagic/Mgm writes:
> 
> 
> "Is there any article that was wrongly deleted within
> the past 3 days as a result of ignorance of the nominator or sheep
> voting by others without check the article and possible sources?"
> 
> Sorry, that was my fault.  I wasn't following the discussion properly and
> thought it was about speedies.  My apologies for dragging us briefly (if
> entertainingly, at least for me) up the wrong trouser leg.
> 
> Your timescale for this is a little short, but never mind.  Let's take a
> look at the deletion log, this time only AfD deletes.
> 
> Well it was hard searching, because of the way in which the AfD link gets
> screwed when an article is deleted.  So I stopped when I reached the first
> deletion that I think is rather dodgy.
> 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_power_ballads
> 
<snip summary of votes>
> There you are, apparently the one person in the entire discussion who had
> read and understood the deletion policy.  Looking at the list of "Problems
> that may require deletion", I have to agree: this article seemed to be
> very far from falling into any of those categories.
> 

I'd really love to start a VfU on this, but I have IRL things to get on
with...

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