[WikiEN-l] Meanwhile, AfD grinds on

Thu Oct 13 03:03:25 UTC 2005

Our Criteria for Speedy Deletion guidelines state that one of the reasons
for speedy deletion is that the article in question is

   1. A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was
   deleted according to the deletion
policy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy>.
   Note that:
   2. Administrators faced with a recreation of previously speedily
   deleted content must determine that it did in fact meet a criterion for
   speedy deletion and had been appropriately deleted before they delete it
   again; and,

   - This does not apply to content in userspace or to content undeleted
   according to the undeletion
policy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Undeletion_policy>.

In other words, an article rewritten to establish notability under the
criteria for Web Comics shouldn't be speedy deleted.

On 10/13/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
>
> This doesn't make any sense. We need to change the policy if that is
> how it works.
>
> Fred
>
> On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:07 PM, Kelly Martin wrote:
>
> > On 10/12/05, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> You can always write an article from scratch. If the assholes
> >> speedy it
> >> you'll have others on your side to restore it.
> >>
> >
> > No, you can't. If you recreate an article on the same topic as a
> > previously deleted one, it will be speedied, and VFU won't likely
> > accept that it was "rewritten" as an excuse.
> >
> > Kelly
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