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| DATE | 2015-06-28 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS deleted
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Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
> We were deleted from Wikipedea...
If there's a Wikipedia article you care about, it's wise to keep an eye
on it, watching for some Wikipedian naming it for proposed deletion.
Here's a case in point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Convention_Fandom%2C_Inc&type=revision&diff=564457718&oldid=549007393
Prposed-for-deletion complaint cites about the
Massachusetts_Convention_Fandom,_Inc page cited:
o Lack of evidence of 'notability' (This is what got the NYLXS page.)
o 'does not cite any references or sources'
o 'written in a confusing manner'
o 'maintenance tags' dating back to 2008 had been unaddressed a/o 2013
Some friends of mine and I who care about MFCI, Inc. responded to the
challenge by supplying creditable third-party site references proving
that MFCI is 'notable' (worthy of mention in an encyclopaedia, and not
just pushing a vanity page), cleaning up the article's style, rewriting
its text to make it clearer. This more than satisfied the 'deletionist'
critic Wikipedian -- this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrewman327
In the case of the NYLXS article, your deletionist critic considered the
notability such a slam-dunk that he used the expedited process called
PROD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROD) to suggest it's an
_uncontroversial deletion_, i.e., one that's so obviously needed that
no opposition is expected. A WP:PROD notice gets posted on the target
article for seven days. If nobody objects, it goes through.
Note this bit from the WP:PROD Web page:
Even after it has been deleted, a PRODed article can be restored by
anybody through an automated request for undeletion [link]. By the
same logic, PROD is one-shot only: It must not be used for articles
PRODed before or previously discussed on AfD.
AfD is the _normal_, unexpedited process for deleting an article that a
deletionist critic has in mind to elminiate.
So, the linneus bottomus: If you want to revive the NYLXS article, you
can easily do so. But then, if you do that, expect to do some
significan work improving it and proving the subject's notability.
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