No need to apologise :) It's not always the easiest thing to get your head around... I found this essay, from Wikiproject:Women in Red, really helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Essays/Primer_for_AfD,_AfC_and_PROD
All the best, Sara On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 10:29, michael west <michaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jan 2022, 10:11 am Andy Mabbett, <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> > wrote: > >> On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 21:52, michael west <michaw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I'm not sure if this is an appropriate place to ask, but, I was just >> going to look for >> > information about BBCs Tomorrow World presenter Howard Stableford on >> Wikipedia >> > and found that it had been deleted. >> > >> > The deletion remark said that he wasn't notable. The PROD was made on >> 26th >> > December 2021 and the article was deleted on 3rd January 2022. I can't >> find an >> > AfD discussion about the article. The deletion has left a number of red >> links. >> >> There is no discussion, because PROD is for uncontested deletion >> suggestions and no-one contested it. See: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion >> >> for details of the process. >> >> > Could an English Wikipedia administrator have a look to see if it was a >> Speedy >> > delete, without discussion? >> >> PROD is differenet to speedy deltion. >> >> I have asked the deleting admin to restore the article "so that it can >> be improved, or sent to AfD if anyone feels strongly enough". >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > Thank you. I'm sorry for my confusion about the deletion process, it's the > first time I've ever come across a proposed deletion. > > Michael West > >> >> _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- Dr Sara Thomas Scotland Programme Coordinator, Wikimedia UK 07803 505 172 https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/ <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland> <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *I work part time and am not in the office on Mondays. * *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513 (England & Wales) SC048644 (Scotland). Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Scotland, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gmail&source=g> . Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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