User talk:Pookel

Hi, welcome to the 'pedia! Good recipe articles. Here's the FAQ sheet for handy reference, but it looks like you're doing well anyway. - Hephaestos 03:28 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Francis E. Dec
Hi Pookel - I tripped over the third AfD for the Dec article some time ago... I'd forgotten all about it until I got your note. People were really freaking out about the guy... that he was "too fringe" to have a WP article, that the article was really a fanzine and not a "real" article, etc etc etc etc. At that point, I could smell blood in the water and so copied the article to one of my Sandbox pages. Another editor somehow found out I'd done this, and had an Admin delete the Sandbox page. He also wrote me a snot-nosed talk message about how this was forbidden, against Wikipedia's Rules of Whatever, and basically admonished me for trying to keep the article alive by underhanded means. That was the last I ever saw of it. There is some way to ask an Admin to "restore" it in some uneditable form so at least you can read it, but I've forgotten how to do this, and it probably would be denied, anyway.

I'd hoped the Wayback Machine might have the article squirreled away but no such luck. A Google search yields only fansites. I'm sorry I can't help; keep me in mind if you ever get a hold of it. Cheers. Seduisant (talk) 02:09, 12 July 2018 (UTC)