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Thanks. QuackGuru 07:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

List of articles related to scientific skepticism

Well, firstly, no one really "runs" Misplaced Pages. It's an open community. The founders of Misplaced Pages were Jimmy Wales (who is still relatively active) and Larry Sanger. There are around 1,000 administrators along with bureaucrats and the link. But there isn't really an owner. The community runs it as a group. If you want to pursue other options, that's your prerogative. But I'm tellin' ya. With a 14 to 1 vote on AfD (most of them being strong or speedy) and what's right now a 6 to 2 vote on DRV, I'm not sure there'd be much hope that anyone would overturn the deletion. And I'm not saying that just because I'm the deleting admin (and I wasn't even aware of the article before I saw the AfD nor am pro or anti scientific skepticism). I'm saying it because Misplaced Pages runs on consensus. It always has. And generally, Jimmy or admins or bureaucrats do not overturn consensus unless it's something particularly egregious such as someone deleting (not just closing) an AfD or a DRV discussion and the like. So. Feel free to do what you think is best but having been here for 2 years, I can tell you that the odds are pretty long that someone will overturn the decision to delete. I would not have closed the discussion if I felt like it had any chance not to pass as a deletion. --Woohookitty 16:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

A good number of the votes didn't even mention that it was reposted content. If the deletion review also says that the article should be deleted, then I just don't think you have alot to stand on. That would be essentially 2 votes against you. I mean, if people in the deletion review say that the voting was ok and that the page should stay deleted, I don't see a whole lot of options for you. Recreating the article in any form similar to the one that has been deleted is just going to bring another deletion. --Woohookitty 17:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)