Wikipedia:Deletion review

Articles and multimedia are occasionally deleted by administrators if they are thought to have a decent reason for deletion. Sometimes these decisions are completely correct, and undisputed. Sometimes, they are more controversial. The forthcoming meta:deletion management redesign may address many of these issues, but that is some way off. See also:deletion policy and undeletion policy.

Please note that the archive of deleted page revisions may be periodically cleared. Pages deleted prior to the database crash on 8 June 2004 are not present in the current archive because the archive tables were not backed up. This means pages cannot be restored by a sysop. If there is great desire for them it may be possible to retrieve them from the old database files. Prior to this, the archive was cleared out on 3 December 2003.

Purpose of this page

It is hoped that this page will be generally unused, as the vast majority of deletions do not need to be challenged. This page exists for basically two types of people:

1. People who feel that an article was wrongly deleted, and that Wikipedia would be a better encyclopedia with the article restored. This may happen because they were not aware of the discussion on votes for deletion (VfD), or because it was deleted without being listed on VfD, or because they objected to deletion, but were ignored.
2. Non-sysops who wish to see the content of a deleted article. They may wish to use that content elsewhere, for example. Alternatively, they may suspect that an article has been wrongly deleted, but are unable to tell without seeing what exactly was deleted.
   • As a subset of this, sometimes an article which is appropriate for a sister site is deleted without being properly transwikied. If the page is undeleted temporarily, it can be exported complete with history using Special:Export, and then redeleted. This will be especially useful once the import feature is completed.

This page is about articles, not about people. If you feel that a sysop is routinely deleting articles prematurely, or otherwise abusing their powers, please discuss the matter on the user's talk page, or at wikipedia talk:administrators. Similarly, if you are a sysop and an article you deleted is subsequently undeleted, please don't take it as an attack.

If you wish to undelete an article, list it here with a brief reason. The procedure explained at Wikipedia:Undeletion policy will then be followed, and if the conditions are met, the page will be undeleted.

If you wish to view a deleted article, list it here and say why. A sysop will provide the deleted article to you in some form - either by quoting it in full, or by emailing it to you, or by temporarily undeleting it.

See also Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops.

History only undeletion

History only undeletions can always be performed without needing to list the articles on the votes for undeletion page. For example, suppose someone writes a biased article on Fred Flintstone, it is deleted, and subsequently someone else writes a decent article on Fred Flintstone. The original, biased article can be undeleted, in which case it will merely sit in the page history of the Fred Flintstone article, causing no harm. Please do not do this in the case of copyright violations.

Some articles are listed here, and after discussion and review, a consensus is reached to keep the articles deleted. They are listed at Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion/deleted. Archives of recently undeleted pages are recorded at Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion/undeleted

Votes for undeletion

Admins - please review the deleted history of these requests and provide the most complete version for discussion here.

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January 7

Dumbrella

The article was removed due to incorrect VFD procedure. Voting was going for only 2 days with two keeps and 5 deletes. Then it was delisted from vfd and 2 weeks later the article mysteriously disappeared. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Dumbrella. Grue 07:01, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• From the log: 04:17, Dec 29, 2004 SimonP deleted Dumbrella (listed on VfD, votes 5-2 in favour of deletion) Can you provide a link to the "improperly combined vote"? 5/7 is "rough consensus" in my book, so keep deleted. —Ben Brockert (42) 07:19, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
• The issue brought up wasn't the tally, it was the length of the vote. I see it was listed on VfD at 06:29, 2004 Dec 21 and was listed until 21:11, 2004 Dec 27. Seems in order to me. -- Netoholic @ 09:03, 2005 Jan 7 (UTC)
  • But isn't it suspicious that most of the people who vote on VFD on a regular basis completely missed this nomination? I'll blame Christmas for that - maybe the people who vote "keep" on everything had better things to do during that time. Still, I think it was a proper article (you can see no one gave a good reason to delete it, "not notable" doesn't count) which was created long ago, and if it was listed at another time, I'm sure the consensus would be to keep. Grue 10:24, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • No, it wasn't suspicious. I vote on VfD on a fairly regular basis but I vote selectively. My best reason for voting is when I actually have some special knowledge bearing on the topic. I have other less commendable reasons for voting, but I certainly don't attempt to vote systematically on every debate, particularly on obvious deletes whose outcome does not seem to be in doubt. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:09, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. No obvious or significant violation of process, probably no violation at all, and nothing about the article suggests that the outcome was inappropriate. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:09, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Deleted content consisted of a single sentence, a list of six members of Dumbrella, and a link to http://www.dumbrella.com. Single sentence was: Dpbsmith (talk) 17:09, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • Dumbrella is an alliance of webcomic artists who promote one another's sites, travel to conventions, and sell merchandise together.
  • Well, Keenspot is 4 sentences, a list of members and some links. I don't see how it is a better article. Any kind of information is useful in Wikipedia and having these 6 comics in one place would've been very handy. Grue 19:07, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. Properly deleted according to process, no compelling reason to undelete. Jayjg | (Talk) 17:37, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • There was no compelling reason to delete it either. Grue 18:53, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. I know nothing about the article nor about the Vfd arguments, but the fact that it was deleted following process means that it cannot come up again for undeletion just because you don't like the results. RickK 23:13, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • The process was obviously faulty, 7 votes is way below average, and 2 days vote span is ridiculous. Grue 06:02, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • It seems that it is only obvious to you. From my experience on VfD, people often don't vote on something if there's already consensus to delete it. As already pointed out, the vote span was normal. —Ben Brockert (42) 00:09, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

January 5

Jam 1575

This is an article about a UK student radio station which is listed in List of UK radio stations. Please have a look at this list before commenting on this undeletion request. I would like somebody to give me a valid reason why this particular radio station should be deleted while others on this list should not. The station broadcasts on AM, like many other stations in this list, and is a community radio station, like many others in this list - it is no more 'unnotable' than them. This article was also much more detailed than the articles of many of the other stations in the list.

There is no Wikipedia policy on radio station articles, so rather than telling me whether or not the VfD was legit, I would like someone to tell me the reasoning behind why someone cherry picked this particluar station for deletion out of the many which are listed and have articles on Wikipedia. This list was becoming a comprehensive guide to UK radio stations, a small and very useful part of Wikipedia which people should be proud of. Instead, people whith little apparent knowledge of this part of Wikipedia seem intent on taking parts of it away, without respect for the comprehensiveness or usefulness of this list. Please restore this article so that it can exist alongside other articles for other stations which are just as notable as this one. PJBeef 01:59 5 January 2005 (UTC)

• Probably notable. Best to be on the safe side. Undelete. Tim Ivorson 10:55, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• The article hasn't been deleted so this is not a matter for VfU. But if you want an explanation for the VfD: It's a small university radio station with nothing to make it special or out of the ordinary. That level of notability mandates a small mention in the university article at best. --fvw* 11:08, 2005 Jan 5 (UTC)
  • The article is now only a redirect page with the history wiped and all the information deleted. To me it is notable simply because it's a radio station. Do you really think it's right to go through List of UK radio stations and delete some articles because you think they're not as big as the others listed?
• The history is all there now. Either it was undeleted or it was never deleted. The VfD can be seen at Talk:Jam 1575. The version nominated to VfD deserved to be deleted. I support the VfD process (it's less than 2 watts! My computer speakers are more powerful), but if I was PJBeef, I'd wait a couple weeks, then put up a better version of the page in place of the redirect and see if anyone complains. —Ben Brockert (42) 23:46, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Undelete other radio stations are listed. Salazar 06:24, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

January 1

Sex Diet

I created a Sex Diet article. It was deleted for being an advert, which is ridiculous. My only guess is that the person who deleted it was not educated on the subject. I know the name is "sensational", but a Sex Diet is actually recognized by members of both the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists and the Female Sexual Medical Center at UCLA School of Medicine. If you speak to a sexologist about a Sex Diet and sexual nutrition, chances are pretty good they are familiar with it.

I'm guessing that the "advert" claim is because of the link to the book site. I only put that link up because it is the only current comprehensive book on the matter. It would be just as easy to take the link down but I think it's helpful for anyone who wants to learn about it (I'm not going to sit here and type in all 150 pages of a copywritten book). Heck, if you don't like what I wrote, research it for yourself and edit it, but don't delete it. (above from User:Lovelyrita)

• I undeleted this; it looked like an invalid speedy to me. "Looking like an advert" is not a cause for speedy deletion. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 16:58, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Good call, I'll probably VfD it unless it gets serious cleanup and improvement soon, but it wasn't a CSD. --fvw* 17:03, 2005 Jan 1 (UTC)
• Comment to User:Lovelyrita: I recommend you read wikipedia's policy on Neutral point of view, since you may be the best person to rewrite the article to conform with it. Kappa 20:34, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Bolivarian Revolution

and Revolución Bolivariana seems to be a talk page on this but no actual article - is this normal? The talk page has some very anti-chavez sentiments on it ... Is this the reason the Bolivarian revolution links don't work in Hugo Chavez? I would like the article (if there is one) reinstated and linked to Hugo Chavez cheers, user:max rspct 20.56 1st jan 2005 (utc)

• Delete should stay deleted. Salazar 06:25, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)