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

Thu Sep 15 16:08:28 UTC 2005

>From: "Tony Sidaway" <minorityreport at bluebottle.com>
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>MacGyverMagic/Mgm writes:
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>"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?"
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_power_ballads

The example you have given seems to have been perfectly in order; the 
reasons given for deletion are reasonable and policy driven.

Jay.