[WikiEN-l] Undeletion service

Tue Dec 13 00:01:11 UTC 2005

On 12/12/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
> > On 12/12/05, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:
> >>David Gerard stated for the record:
>
> >>>I hereby declare that I will make deleted content (apart from copyvios
> >>>etc) available for reading. Of course, using it to recreate the deleted
> >>>content is speedyable, and using it to keep it hanging around in your
> >>>userspace may get you penalised as Anthony was for doing so. But that's
> >>>what you do with it afterwards.
>
> >>Watch out, David.  The AfD crew is vicious -- defy them in public like
> >>this, and I won't be surprised to see that you've been put up for
> >>deletion, Arbiter or not.
> >>And by the bye, I've extended the same offer for quite some time now.
>
> > Me too.  I'll get around to putting it on my userpage one of these days.
>
>
> I've just added the following to my page. Other admins should feel free
> to do so also.
>
>
> ==Undeletion==
>
> If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me.
> If it's not a copyright violation, libel or similar, I will make the
> text available to you. This is because [[WP:DRV|deletion review]] is
> infected with a crippling case of [[m:Instruction creep|process]] [[ISO
> 9000|fetishisation]] over [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an
> encyclopedia|product]] that ignores the actual [[Wikipedia:deletion
> policy|]] and is in need of being made [[WP:IAR|ignorable]].
>
> Note that using the text to recreate the deleted content is speedyable,
> and using it to keep it hanging around in your userspace has gotten
> editors penalised before. But that's your problem.
>
>
> [and if Anthony sends me a request a day I will at least raise an eyebrow]
>
>
> - d.

One a day?  But there are hundreds of deletions every day that I'd
like to see.  :)

Why can't some admin just write a bot to get them all, and email them
to me.  I promise I won't tell anyone who you are (use an anonymous
remailer if you don't trust me, they still have those right?).

Anthony