On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/12/11 13:38, Mike Dupont wrote: >> I have also wanted this for a long time. >> http://www.petitiononline.com/urmwpnow/petition.html >> http://undeletewikipedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/clarity-in-petition.html >> mike > > I don't think any sysop would reject a reasonable petition of a good > wikipedian of the content of an article he previously wrote. > > ("good wikipedian" meaning it's not an instance of "I want that copyvio > content to recreate it from sockpuppet accounts using proxies") > >> There are many articles that have been deleted, and we dont even know the >> full list of them. > > That's not true. The list of deleted pages is available at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete > For very old deletions (before December 23, 2004) see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log > > However, for most articles the deleted text would (should?) be in the > lines of > Article: John Smith > Content: He's fat child in classroom. > > In other cases they may be well-written articles which violate the > copyright of eg. Encarta. So they can't be shown either. > > You seem to be targetting good articles deleted due to the target being > non-notable, and you indeed have a point for them. > You could launch a project to host those files if you wish to (I think > there was already one doing it? at least many wikis have spun off to > their own wiki about their topic).
Well, I dont know what to say, except that I put work into my articles, and having them deleted hurts. I would like to have them in my userspace at least. mike _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
