[WikiEN-l] Pointless deletions

Tony Sidaway f.crdfa at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 10:06:16 UTC 2006


Two recent deletion listings.

Tally, an article about an accounting software company that's been
going for twenty years and has a number of major companies among its
clients in its native India, including the Reserve Bank of India and
the Indian IT giant, Infosys.  And SuperOffice, about a public listed
company (ticker code SUO on the Oslo Bors) with a turnover of some
Euro 30m.

Easy keeps?  No, deleted on AfD.

Turns out that the guy who listed them did so to make a point.

I summarily undeleted these articles--articles on such prominent
companies should never have been deleted and the process that deleted
them is clearly broken.

They have been redeleted.  Twice.

I am utterly ashamed of the process and those who have deleted these
good articles in the name of that process.

I have undertaken a bottom-up rewrite of both, but we should not be
deleting such articles and we should not be forced through the silly
pantomime of rewriting in order to keep articles about these companies
on Wikipedia.



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