Meta:Requests for undeletion
Stuff is deleted by administrators.
Generally these decisions are correct and undisputed (see also Meta:Requests for deletion). Rarely, they are more controversial.
Generally the authors are told (or find out) about the forthcoming deletion, and have the possibility of disputing it. Sometimes they are not.
This page exists for people to challenge deletions that they feel were incorrect, or did not go through the proper process, or where the authors were not kept informed. It is hoped that this page will be generally unused, as the vast majority of deletions do not need to be challenged.
Non-sysops are handicapped in this because they cannot review the content of deleted articles. This is unfortunate. Sysops may decide to temporarily undelete articles so that an informed discussion can take place.
Deletion should be a consensus decision, or a BenevolentDictator decision, not the excercise of GodKing powers.
Current requests
Please undelete the wikipedia FL programming language. Briefly, it looks like the page was deleted for "copyright violation" with no attempts to contact page authors, and without ascertaining that there was an actual copyright issue. The wikipedia content is widely mirrored and could be recovered manually with a bit of work, but it's probably better to restore it the right way. See the current stub [[FL programming language]] and Talk: pages for further detail. RaulMiller 17:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Please undelete Test-wp/Nordfrasch/ (and its subpage) and Test-wp/sit-trp/. They have been deleted out-of-process by Elian -- no RfD, no notification to page authors, and previous extreme consensus against the deletion of other test Wikipedias makes it look to me like it was a wrong action. --Node ue 05:28, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
Please undelete ImageMagick. It was wrongly deleted with the reason "advert", which it isn't - it's a widely used piece of software which mediawiki uses, and information on it would certainly be helpful to mediawiki users. —Kate | Talk 22:38, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)
- Ok, but as it currently stands, it is an advert. I'll relist it for VfD if it isn't more relevant to MediaWiki in a couple of weeks. Angela 22:41, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Please undelete American Overseas Medical Aid Association. Our temp website was flagged. One of the doctors in Kosovo set it up for free until we can find a volunteer who writes HTML to do our real one on Go Daddy. It was a shell he borrowed, not a bad thing. I don't know how to write this language yet, so have tried tonight to get it, copying what I am seeing. This is terrific! This is all the time I have. I hope you can put the info on the tsunami list of international,non-governmental organizations. We have a dynamic clinic in a rural area in Aceh and are raising money so the mobile teams can role and docs can stay on with small salaries.
- Cheers User:Lucia Cargill, President AOMAA 00:58, 2005 Mar 12 (UTC)
Out of process deletions by Anthere
Anthere deleted two pages, Non-Antarctican Wikipedians and Wikipedians named "Mark", without first listing them on RfD. I have discussed the issue with her and she defended her decision by saying that she felt they were "useless" and refused to restore them. She also mentioned something about having lowered inhibitions due to consumption of alcoholic beverages (this was in #wikipedia). I would like to request its restoration and if Anthere objects she may list it on RfD. --Node ue 06:30, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I am afraid that everyone in the world is non Aniartican--207.200.116.202 01:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)