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History only undeletion

History only undeletions can be performed without needing a vote on this page. For example, suppose someone writes a biased article on Fred Flintstone, it is deleted, and subsequently someone else writes a decent article on Fred Flintstone. The original, biased article can be undeleted, in which case it will merely sit in the page history of the Fred Flintstone article, causing no harm. Please do not do this in the case of copyright violations.

Temporary undeletion

Votes for undeletion

July 14, 2005

Abdullah ibn Harith

I hade several editions to the article during the voting. I agree that it was a possible canditade for a Vfd at the begining, but not at the time it got deleted, since it had been uppdated to be a article worth keeping.

Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Abdullah ibn Harith

• Undelet. Its worth a article now, and i can always add even more as i research more :)--Striver 13:36, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep deleted - valid VfD - What makes it worth an article now? - Tεxτurε 15:14, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

  Content at time of deletion: (not including see also and two external links)

  this is a sahaba of Muhammad

  When Abdullah ibn Harith ibn Sakhbarah Azdi was a young man he married Um Ruman, a girl of his tribe. He had a son with her named Tufail ibn Abdullah and then they moved to where he became the partner and companion of Abu Bakr. However, he passed away soon after this.

• Keep deleted. valid VfD. Page wasn't notable. He seems to want 100,000 articles like this. One for each sahaba. --Eliezer 15:23, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. Valid VfD (3 delete - 1 keep), if a little small. --Deathphoenix 15:30, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted - valid VfD. If your further researches do establish notability, you can always write a new article containing that info. - Mustafaa 16:05, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Ok, i agree with Mustafaa. --Striver 16:12, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

July 13, 2005

Islamophilia

I would like this article to be undeleted, at least temporarily, in order to salvage its contents. The arguments for undeletion are:

• less than 55% of voters voted for deletion, most votes weere cast when the article was in its infancy. This is against Misplaced Pages policy, a 2/3 majority is required.
• the word islamophilia has been used by several influential people and publications (sources are in the article)
• the word describes a real phenomenon

For this reason:

• Undelete, at least temporary. --Germen 18:08, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted, non-notable term.Heraclius 18:25, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • This term has been used in several printed and internet publications, so it is a notable term. --Germen 13:51, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. The majority of keep votes on Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Islamophilia were unsigned and made by anonymous users. There is no indication that this was deleted incorrectly. --Allen3  18:29, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
  • There is an indication. The majority was slim and valid arguments were ignored. --Germen 13:51, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Nonsense. A 25-4 delete vote is not a "slim majority" by any defintion of the word. Counting the parade of sockpuppets is flat-out dishonest. --Calton | Talk 14:07, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
      • What you called "sock puppets" were genuine votes of non-registered users. Calling anything which contradicts your POV dishonest is not a high-level discussion tactic.--Germen 15:41, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

An examination of the deletion policy shows that votes that are not signed, or are made anonymously, may not be considered valid by the closing admin. As the majority of the keep votes fall into this category, the number of valid keep votes is low compared to the number of such votes cast. While the term "sock puppet" is probably a little harsh the proper procedures appear to have been followed. --Allen3  17:47, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

• • • • • • There is no reference to your statement in the deletion policy. Also unsigned votes can be counted as valid votes. There was no rough consensus and therefore Misplaced Pages policy has been violated. --Germen 09:49, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy#Decision Policy references Misplaced Pages:Deletion guidelines for administrators#Rough consensus for the methodology used to determine valid votes. The referenced section states "For example, administrators can disregard votes and comments if they feel that there is strong evidence that they were not made in good faith. Such "bad faith" votes include those being made by sock puppets, being made anonymously, or being made using a new userid whose only edits are to the article in question and the voting on that article." You now have the policy reference you have been unable to locate showing that the closing admin did not make an error. --Allen3  22:57, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep deleted. Only a few legitimate keep votes and over 20 legitimate delete votes. No error in process, thus it should not be undeleted. Carbonite | Talk 18:35, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Error in progress because Misplaced Pages policy was violated. See front. --Germen 13:51, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Which Misplaced Pages policy was violated? Carbonite | Talk 20:49, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
  • The Misplaced Pages policies of "rough consensus" and "keep when doubt" were violated. There was no qualified majority in favour of deletion, the reasons for deletion stated were not valid anymore. --Germen 09:49, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted - valid vfd - Tεxτurε 19:42, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted per Allen3 and Carbonite. --Deathphoenix 20:10, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Undelete. There is a (protected & disputed) article for Islamophobia. Seems reasonable to include an article on Islamophilia too. Arevich 20:59, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Votes for undeletion is about process, not content. The Islamophobia article has been around for a long time and several users mentioned its existence during the VfD. However, the consensus was still to delete Islamophilia. Carbonite | Talk 23:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
    • There was no consensus, there was a slim majority of just one or two votes. --Germen 13:46, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
      • That's wrong even if you count ALL the sockpuppets (29-25) and not even wrong if you don't (25-4). Why make claims that can be easily checked? --Calton | Talk 14:07, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
        • Let it be four votes. There was no qualified 2/3 majority.--Germen 15:57, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted - was deleted in proper vfd process. -- Francs2000 | Talk File:Uk flag large.png 01:42, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Deleting without 2/3 majority is a proper vfd process? --Germen 16:10, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
    • I can count only 3 keep votes that are acceptable under proper vfd guidelines. The deletion was justified. -- Francs2000 | Talk File:Uk flag large.png 20:50, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
      • I have checked Misplaced Pages policy, there is no proof for your statements. Unsigned votes are not invalid. There is also no proof the unsigned votes were sockpuppets. This means there was no rough consensus, as much less than 2/3 of voters agreed for deletion (the minimum required) and thus Misplaced Pages policy was violated to press a partisan POV. --Germen 09:42, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
        • Then you didn't look hard enough. On Misplaced Pages:Deletion guidelines for administrators under sction heading Rough consensus is the following text: For example, administrators can disregard votes and comments if they feel that there is strong evidence that they were not made in good faith. Such "bad faith" votes include those being made by sock puppets, being made anonymously, or being made using a new userid whose only edits are to the article in question and the voting on that article. Now I have every reason to believe both from the vfd debate itself and your actions since this page has been deleted that all but three of those keep votes were in bad faith. Please stop wasting my time. -- Francs2000 | Talk File:Uk flag large.png 22:10, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted - still a nonnotable neologism. - Mustafaa 16:03, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Islamophilia is a notable neologism as proven.
• Keep deleted. Valid VfD, invalid VfU. --Calton | Talk 14:07, July 17, 2005

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• • Why? Motivate this. --Germen 15:39, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted, votes that were discounted were done so properly. Dcarrano 17:40, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
  • Do you have proof? You have slandered me before without proof, which is not a commendable action. --Germen 09:49, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted votes were indeed counted properly and anonymous IP votes were legitimately ignored by the admin. Axon 10:15, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Cite your sources. I cannot find support for your claim in Misplaced Pages policy. --Germen 10:28, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
    • This is a VfU page, not an article, Germen: WP:CITE only applies there. That aside, the Misplaced Pages:Votes for Deletion page clearly states, if you take care to actually read it, that Anonymous and new users are welcome to contribute to the discussion, but their votes may be discounted, especially if they seem to be made in bad faith.. Axon 10:44, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. As a closer of some VFD debates, I count anonymous votes, and votes from entirely new voters, if I think they were cast in good faith. In this case, due to the sheer number of keep votes from such users, I don't think they were, and those votes were thus properly discounted (see the header of the WP:VFD page). Considering that almost all the keep votes were cast by entirely new users or anonymous users, I really suspect that it is a person (or a few people) casting multiple votes under different identities. If it is a group of several new users, joining together to vote keep, this is called "meatpuppetry", and is treated the same way as sockpuppetry. In conclusion, this debate was closed properly by Kelly Martin. Having reviewed the article, I would also have voted to delete this as a neologism. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:36, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. anonymous votes are allowed to be ignored. --Eliezer 12:27, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Undelete, The article was growing in popularity and detail. The calls for deletion were mostly reactionary and, at best, elitist. Very few legitimate arguments were made for deletion --jsaid2009
  • And the fact that this is your only edit on Misplaced Pages to date means that your vote may not be counted by the closing admin. -- Francs2000 | Talk File:Uk flag large.png 12:04, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted (valid VFD etc) and if Germen would please read the relevant policies at WP:SOCK and WP:GVFD? Radiant_>|< 12:22, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

July 12, 2005

Topological geometrodynamics and TGD

This is a complex topic in quantum mechanics; see . I'm concerned this article may have fallen on the wrong side of Misplaced Pages's anti-elitism, as described by Larry Sanger. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 23:38, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

• Undelete. Real theory, real importance, real complicated. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 18:04, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Originally at Topological Geometrodynamics; deleted per Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Topological Geometrodynamics as original research. JRM · Talk 18:09, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  The majority voted against deletion. Why was it deleted? ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 18:14, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  I never participated, but if I am to hazard a guess: that's probably because the majority was an army of anonymous voters who employed amazingly similar style, and who were never seen or heard of before or after they cast their votes. JRM · Talk 18:22, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  It should have been noted the anonymous voters came from diverse IP addresses, which means they were probably not sockpuppets, but researchers in related fields who were unfamiliar with Misplaced Pages.

  Indeed, further examination shows the votes came from Australia, Argentina, Indonesia, Uruguay, the Ukraine, Verizon, UUnet, and Shaw Cable. The anonymous editor with IP 137.111.13.34 (Australia) wrote this comment:

  I think this should be kept. Yes, it is the idea of one man. But he is a Professor. And I don't see anything wrong with including report of the work of individual academics, provided they are respected in their field as having some clue -- i.e. even if most other researchers think they are wrong, if their views are considered worthy of consideration by the scientific community, as opposed to quackery or psuedoscience, we should keep them.

  The IP address belongs to Macquarie University. Should Misplaced Pages ignore the votes of experts (who may have little time for editing) simply because they do not have registered usernames? ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 19:31, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  I can legitimately crank out edits from dozens of IP addresses belonging to the Eindhoven University of Technology. Shall I be called an expert in any of the fields the university's researchers are active in? Or I could log out and you could trace my present IP as a static address from a Dutch ISP, does that mean I'm the equivalent of an AOLer with no expertise to call my own?

  Our policy allows admins to override zero-edit-history votes with dubious provenance like these exactly to avoid this sort of pointless discussion. You are not going to demonstrate these were "experts" since they provided no references or demonstration of validity whatsoever and you have no way of contacting these people, I am not going to demonstrate that at least some of these IPs were anonymous proxies at the time of voting since these are ferreted out and closed down at a healthy pace, so what's the point?
  I do not principally object to another round of VfD. But I'm not going to outright support it, in a case that appears so clear-cut to me. Even if all the votes were made by distinct individuals who genuinely cared about the topic (and let's assume they were, because the discussion of who is or isn't a sockpuppet usually doesn't go anywhere) this still doesn't mean their numerical advantage means the article is kept! I note that none of the keep votes (sorry, I mean "non-delete" votes, to copy the jargon used by the "experts") attempted to refute the original research argument by providing external references. All we get is personal assertions that the "individual academic" in question is "respected in field as having some clue" (such ringing endorsement), the old chestnut of "prejudice against the page" and people pointing out that at least one person (namely the originator) has written up publications on the theory. If all this is sufficient to establish notable scientific research these days, we are in trouble.
  Voting undelete would be saying that the administrator who closed out the VfD vote made a mistake in interpreting policy, or that the voters got insufficient opportunity to state their case in light of our policies. I honestly don't think that was the case. JRM · Talk 20:34, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  A problem here is that these people may have expected that saving the article would require no more than a vote to keep. To someone who lacked familiarity with Misplaced Pages's policies, it would appear that the vote to keep was going to succeed. Since nobody disagreed with their statements, they would likely have seen no reason to make a stronger argument.

  The Argentinian with the INTA (inta.gov.ar) IP seems to have been the only voter who noticed RickK's indication that anonymous votes would not be counted. He rightly objects to the process: if there are few people who know of a science topic, but they do not use Misplaced Pages, how are they to vote against the deletion of an article on the topic, lacking accounts prior to the vote? This is a Catch 22, and not how VfD should work. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 22:05, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  On the contrary, this is exactly how VfD should work. We do not need people to vote "against the deletion", we need people who provide objective arguments why an article is valid and should not be deleted. "I, Random Person, have heard of it" does not count and never should. By those merits, anyone who could personally rally enough people to support a vote could keep any article they like, inclusion guidelines or no—or, indeed, delete any article they like. This is why your vote is not guaranteed to count, and why it's in fact very likely not to count if you had zero prior contributions: if you've never heard of Misplaced Pages, how can you be expected to know what is and isn't appropriate? Are you going to tell me all those experts seemed to understand Misplaced Pages:No original research and successfully argued why it wasn't? JRM · Talk 07:51, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

• Comment Please provide references to peer-reviewed literature. Dunc|☺ 18:41, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  Although I object to this burden of proof, Pitk?nen's papers seem to have been reviewed by the International Journal of Theoretical Physics. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 19:58, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep deleted. Eequor's feigned confusion at why this was deleted is almost amusing. Since when are anons ever counted in VfD votes? Especially near identical "please to enact the non-deletion of article" votes are cast. Surely not sockpuppets, but researchers in related fields "who were unfamiliar with Misplaced Pages", but who all just happened to search wikipedia for Topological geometrodynamics in the period of a few days. -R. fiend 19:25, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  It's reasonable that, upon being informed the article may be deleted, interested researchers might vote against its deletion. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 19:37, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  Is there some weekly Topological geometrodynamics shindig these guys get together at to discuss where this topic is discussed online? Whereupon they all pledge to strive their utmost, using the Topological geometrodynamics-approved terminology "non-delete", to prevent its removal from all forums? -R. fiend 22:17, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep deleted. Valid vfd. Gamaliel 20:19, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted Note that the army of anons all chose "Not delete" rather than don't delete, do not delete, or keep. I conclude that they are all one and the same person, who has access to a number of different IPs Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 22:13, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  I think it's likely the multiple "not delete" votes were simply mimicking the first vote against deletion, which is to be expected if they were unfamiliar with VfD. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 22:25, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  Nah there are some geinuine wikipedian keep votes, who unsurprisingly wrote "keep". Also the anons alternate between not-delete and non-delete, both of which are weird and unnatural. Plus if you read what they wrote they all have the same writing style, with English clearly not their first language although they all speak english pretty well. Definately the same person casting multiple votes. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 22:42, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  It's hard to believe Pitk?nen, a quantum physicist, would engage in such juvenile tactics. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 22:56, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  Don't know - I don't know the man. Besides I never said it was him Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 23:00, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  A major problem with the sockpuppet idea is that, on one occasion, whomever it was must have hacked into Argentina's equivalent of NASA or a division of the United States Department of Defense. That's an awful long way to go just to prevent the deletion of an article about an obscure physics topic. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 23:22, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  Oh I dunno, a misconfigured proxy posted on the web along with lists of hundreds of other open proxies looks like a possiblity to me. I know evidence when I see it staring me in the face. This was a valid vfd. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 00:01, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep deleted. Properly deleted in process. It's the job of supporters familiar with the process to assist those unfamiliar with it and the VfD time period is ample for this. Sockpuppetry is always a judgement call on the part of the acting admin, and in this case I see no reason to question the admin's judgement. Dpbsmith (talk) 22:19, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. Valid VfD, discounting socks. --Deathphoenix 01:47, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. Um...so I'm not knowledgable here, but I was surprised by the 877 google hits that this obscure topic turns up. Nevertheless, it is the original research of one man, and its inclusion on Misplaced Pages seems to have been written by himself, as the vfd for Matti Pitkänen seems to make clear. I have to classify that into the general vanity category. Interestingly enough, Matti Pitkänen himself seems to get about 739 google hits, mostly from websites that are making fun of him...that, in and of itself, might make him and his theory notable. If a single article covering both him and his theories were re-written at Matti Pitkänen, it might better survive a vfd today than it did the first time around, (assuming Pitkänen himself was not once again the primary author). In any case, the original vfd was valid. func(talk) 02:12, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. I see no reason to overturn previous VfD. jni 06:28, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted, valid VFD debate considering that the keep votes are all extremely similar and probaby from the same person. But R. Fiend, often I do count anonymous votes when I think they have been cast in good faith. The header on the VFD debate says that anonymous votes may be discounted, not that they will be discounted. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:53, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted: valid vfd, no new evidence of notability. Wile E. Heresiarch 14:15, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Deleted. Valid VfD. ("Geometrodynamics" sounds like the study of the motion of compact cars.) AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 14:20, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep deleted. And why the hell has an admin recreated AND protected the page with no concensus? Kiand 00:04, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

  Because the admin has temporarily undeleted the page. See the section above. The page will be re-deleted in time, don't get your knickers in a twist. JRM · Talk 07:23, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

  Re-deleted. See? JRM · Talk 18:02, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

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