January 2008
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After an Article is Deleted
Someday, an article you created or worked on may be deleted, and you won’t know or won’t agree with the reason for the deletion. If so, remember that very little is actually deleted in Wikipedia—it’s still visible to admins, just not to regular readers. And Wikipedia’s processes are not infallible, so you have some options.
First, read Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? (shortcut: WP:WWMPD). Among other things, this page explains how to find out why an article was deleted. If an article was deleted as a result of a proposed deletion, any administrator will usually restore it upon reasonable request. Follow the link at WP:WWMPD to post such a request.
A second option is to try to persuade the admin who made the deletion that it was in error. This option is worth trying only for CSD deletions, since prods can be reversed by asking, and AfDs won’t be reversed just because you ask nicely. Before you make such a request, do your homework—does the CSD deletion really seem unreasonable? Don’t, for example, argue that the deletion was wrong because the article could have been fixed. CSDs are based on what was actually in the article, not the article's potential.
Another option is simply to start over. If the article was short, you’ve really not lost much if it was deleted. (You might even find a copy at Google—click the Cached link rather than the main link.) Just be sure that you start the article in your own user space, and don’t move it to mainspace (where all ...
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