[WikiEN-l] Speedy deleletion patrol

Wed Dec 14 17:54:23 UTC 2005

I've decided to make this a little more formal, to coordinate this
work in case anyone else would like to participate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Speedy_deletion_patrol

This page is intended to coordinate effort in patrolling the deletion
log to retrieve articles that should not have been deleted.

The undeletion policy provides for the undeletion of articles that
have clearly been deleted out-of-process--for instance, during
recent-changes or newpages patrol when there is no applicable
criterion for speedy deletion. Articles that may still be deletable
(but not speedily deletable) may be listed on Wikipedia:Articles for
deletion.

The emphasis is not on policy enforcement for the sake of it, but
recovering genuinely useful material that shouldn't have been deleted,
so speedy deletion patrollers tend not to query borderline cases.