[WikiEN-l] Deletions, lists, etc?

Wed Nov 29 20:28:36 UTC 2006

On 11/29/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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).

That's total bullshit.