User talk:Wgfalice

Help! Question re: deleted page
Please help me with...a question about a recent page deletion. The question is about the page: Heather Arnet. Heather Arnet is the CEO of our organization, the Women and Girls Foundation. Our organization (the Women and Girls Foundation) has an entry/page in Wikipedia (since 2005). There are other Wiki pages that have links to our page, for example Abercrombie & Fitch links to us because we held a "Girlcott" against them in 2005 and that campaign is included on their page and a few others throughout wikipedia. In addition the Girlcott itself has a page and that campaign has been included in academic journals and books. Our question is that, like our organization, our CEO Heather Arnet, has had a wiki page entry since 2005. As our CEO Heather leads our national and international advocacy campaigns and is in the news a lot (appearing on NBC, CNN, MSNMB, Huffington Post Live, etc..).

She is also the Board Chair of a National organization (the Ms. Foundation for Women) which also has a page on Wikipedia. And she is the writer/director of a PBS documentary "Mandame Presidenta: Why Not U.S.?" Anyway, our question is that in September it seems that Heather's page was deleted. At this time she was running for PA state senate and it seems pretty clear that her opponent's media firm maliciously nominated the Heather Arnet page for deletion during the election. And then they had several of their own operatives post supportive comments. Their argument was that Heather's only impact is local and that her being the CEO of our organization is not relevant. But as we discussed above - she is actually the Board Chair of a historic national organization and a director of an international documentary and there are external links to external sources of national and international coverage and citations of her work. We have included just a few below. So, our question is what can be done to appeal this decision and have the Heather Arnet page un-deleted? We are happy to forward you links to external sources to confirm all of the statements made above.

Here are just a few of the external links: Here is a link to a Heather Arnet' recent appearance on Huffington Post Live (the story on Arnet begins at 22:50): Here is a link to an article by Arnet on Daily Beast: And here is a link to an article in Pittsburgh Magazine ranking Ms. Arnet #22 of the 50 Most Powerful People in Pittsburgh: Here is a link to Ms. Foundation Board List: Here is a link to the Abercrombie & Fitch wiki page including references to the Women and Girls Foundation and to the Girclott Arnet led: Here is a link to one of the many articles on the Girlcott:

AlicePA 00:21, 17 December 2015 (UTC)


 * The article was deleted as the result of a deletion discussion, which you can read at Articles for deletion/Heather Arnet (2nd nomination). In order to contest this result, the place to go is Deletion review. -- Diannaa (talk) 00:35, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes, Diannaa that is exactly our question. We originally went to the deletion review page and it directed us to open a "talk" page and "engage the editor directly" before submitting a review request. To be frank the whole process is pretty confusing. That is why we are asking for help. We have read the "deletion discussion". As you can see this "discussion" occurred within a few days recently in September 2015. This was at the beginning of a recent election period. The Arnet page was attacked and taken down by political operatives for political reasons. She was running in a quick 90 day special election against a very well financed opponent. That does not seem to be what Wikipedia should be used for. The commenters arguments were that Arnet has had only local impact - this is not true and can be proven by multiple external sources. The users who engaged in the "deletion discussion" either did not have access to the full facts - or were disregarding them. This was clearly a coordinated (and paid) effort and therefore does not represent the Wiki general public. This page has existed for ten years. The idea that it suddenly was "nominated for deletion" and then "seconded" in a matter of days - the month Arnet became a political candidate seems like an impossible coincidence. Also you will note the commentators mainly focus on Arnet being a state legislator candidate - but that was never a focus of her wiki page which was created ten years before she became a candidate. We would respectfully ask that the editor of the page at the least temporarily republish the page and reopen this discussion for real public comment. That political race is over. Our interest in having the page republished is not political, it is a matter of correcting the public record. Which is what wikipedia is supposed to be here for. For facts.