I had to revert a deletion of an article about a guy who was involved in the Jack Abramoff scandal. It's pretty sad.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>> Like I said in the original post, I would not have posted this letter > >>> had I believed this to be a one-off incident. But I have seen THREE > such > >>> incidents in the past week, including one incident of a literally > >>> encyclopedic shipping company tagged for an A7 speedy deletion. None of > >>> these nominations appear to have been made in bad faith, but I think > >>> they are all badly misguided. > >> > >> Tagged, but not deleted? Sounds like the system is working, then. > > > > Except that it was, apparently, only not deleted because the original > > author noted it and put a "hangon" in there. Had the author been away > > at that time, it might have been deleted by the next admin coming > > along. Yes this is speculation and yes I cannot assume whether that > > would have happened. But still, closing this as "Oh, but in this case > > it didn't actually *get* deleted, so move on" strikes me as a bit > > simplistic. > > > > Michael > > Michael Bimmler > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > The admin reviewing it wouldn't only decline the speedy, but remove > the speedy tag aswel. After that, it's no longer eligable for speedy > deletion. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
