K.a.carroll
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Enjoy! —LrdChaos (talk) 14:44, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Peter Stibrany quote
editHi. I finally ran across the discussion page (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Votes_for_deletion_archive/Peter_Stibrany) describing why my first posting to WikiQuote, in November 2006, unexpectedly disappeared. You and the other 4 voters made some good points, mainly regarding notability and citations from Usenet articles. I would be happy to provide further information that would address these (some of which I left out originally, in the spirit of making the article concise), which I think might change your judgment on this one. Note: I thought I was complying with the draft policy at the time. Unfortunately, I didn't know that the deletion discussion was going on at the time, or I would have done this then. Is there a way to re-open this debate? And if so, does the original posting still exist in some deletion archive? (I put quite a bit of work into crafting it, but didn't retain a copy, assuming that I could always find my original posting in the edit history for the posting; 5 months later, I'd have a hard time reproducing it.) K.a.carroll 18:36, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- As far as reopening a discussion, we currently don't have anything similar to Wikipedia's Deletion review process (though we have, informally, discussed the potential need for such a thing). If you can provide enough source information and connection to the subject that you think satisfies the concerns raised in the Votes for deletion (VFD) discussion, then the best course of action is probably to re-create the page, providing the new information and perhaps an explanation on its Talk page about what is different. This will help to avoid the new page being speedy-deleted, but I suspect that the new page will also find itself nominated for deletion, for the notability issue, regardless of how well you might be able to source the Usenet quote.
- The original content isn't generally available (that being the point of deleting a page, really), but I can provide you with the last version of the page before its VFD nomination. I can either e-mail it to you (via Special:Emailuser, if you have that enabled in your preferences, or by creating a user-space subpage with it. Let me know which you prefer. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)