[WikiEN-l] Undeletion policy

Fri Sep 16 21:35:39 UTC 2005

>From: Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com>
>
>On 9/16/05, JAY JG <jayjg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > VfU is not
> > intended to be "AfD round two";
>
>
>Oh but it is. That is one of my key points: an argument improperly 
>neglected
>(for instance, if conditions mentioned in the original nomination have been
>met--which is grounds for a keep result unless there is some overriding
>reason to delete, such as a copyright violation). Or say an editor finds
>that an article has been deleted while he was otherwise occupied, and he
>raises the necessary undelete quorum. Or perhaps the article was deleted by
>a consensus on AfD despite the well documented fact that the subject was 
>the
>President of Mauritania for six months.
>
>Some AFU participants seem to be deliberately neglecting this function. A
>validly closed AfD *can* be challenged on AFU. Those who seek to deny a VFU
>undelete on the sole grounds that the closed AfD was formally valid should
>be told that their opinions will be ignored as inconsistent with deletion
>policy.

VfU is an appeals court, not "let's keep voting on this till we get the 
result we want".

Jay.