A Fool’s Wisdom

I am discouraged, unlike Vera an article I found useful not only was nominated for deletion, but actually deleted. List of news aggregators was found lacking and deleted. On the discussion page for this article, Harro5 wrote:

The article went through the correct deletion process and was deleted through a vote. It was then re-created three more times in two weeks, with no new content (ie. restoring the deleted version), and so there is still nothing to show that this article is different from the one which was deleted by a majority in a debate involving members of the Wikipedia community.Another debate could be undertaken at deletion review, but I see no reason to restore a previously deleted repository of links, clearly labelled in WP:NOT. Harro5 09:01, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Of course, the vote is by a self selecting group of Wikijudges, ready for the Wikipedia call to vote, as opposed to the people that occasionally come to WIkipedia because they find the content useful, or the 931 people, including myself, that took the time to link to it. The discussion page for this article is mostly voicing frustration that the page was deleted.

Would the voters time been better spent getting the page on the road to being wikiceptable.

Because the page is deleted entirely, I can’t see the history of the page. I can’t get a copy of the GFDL licensed content. Also, it is not in the Wayback Machine. Without the content, how does someone go about addressing the reason it was removed?!

I went to the #wikipedia-en channel, and WIkipedia Administrator Slowking_Man was generous with his time: he reviewed and then emailed me a copy of the page from prior to it being deleted. I know have a small piece for my own personal Internet.

I should probably make myself a copy of the following pages before they are also removed:

• List of web browsers
• Comparison of Web Browsers

And likely many more pages that do not fit into a traditional Encyclopedia. I may have a lot of work ahead of me. I have lost the game.