[WikiEN-l] Deletions, lists, etc?

Wed Nov 29 20:22:11 UTC 2006

On 11/29/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm mildly sorry for taking the shortcut of asking the list about things I
> could figure out by wading through the insanely complicated policy pages,
> but here goes-- if you think a page that went through the AfD process was
> wrongly deleted, what is the proper action?
>
> How wrong is it for an admin to undelete a page?

It is a cardinal sin.  If a page is deleted as a result of *fD it MUST go
through DRV - despite the fact that "Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy",
undeletion can only be done if the correct forms are filled out in
triplicate, lost, found again... (I can't remember the rest of how that
goes, but you end up having your house bulldozed).

In addition, DRV is the place where people comment, not on the merits of the
deletion, but on whether the deletion was "in process" or "out of process".
It doesn't matter if the article was about [[World War II]] and the
discussion only involved three people would voted delete on the grounds of
"never heard of it", DRV is supposed to comment on process, not merits of
deletion (you'll be told "that's what *fD is for, and you should have
commented when you had the chance).

Also, are we trying to get rid of all "list" pages?
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