[WikiEN-l] Deletions, lists, etc?

Thu Nov 30 13:47:34 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).

If people say they "never heard of it", the closing admin should've ignored
those comments and "votes". If that didn't happen then it was out of
process. So the merit of the deletion and the process or at least
interconnected.

Mgm