Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 December 25

25 December 2013

 * Hang on. The decision was merge. I merged the content, but some weeks later. It came up at WP:RFD that I mentioned I had done so with the consensus, and took out the more jokey parts. Alan Coren is a reference, dunno why someone is referring to User:Coren, Coren being a very common Jewish surname and could be anyone but I was referring to Alan Coren and had the article well-referenced. I have the bloody transcript of J. S. Madden's pathologogy here. Everyone says this is or was a "joke article" or some such but I am actually being WP:RS more than most people are and nobody had even the courtesy to inform me it had gone to deletion review, which I barely knew existed.

But it is insinuiated I am out of order: yet at least some of that content has stayed at the article at Death of Beethoven, which I merged in, so it is a bit tough to then insinuate I am out of order when I have been improving the content of the encyclopaedia. You can look up the references yourself if you want: I have given you them. I may have had too light a tone at first, but I read this feuilleton as Coren liked to call it (that would be Alan Coren, to you, not the other millions of them) thirty years ago. It is in numerous anthologies as one of his classics.
 * You will probably tell me I am not adding to the discussion. Since you didn't bother to inform me it even was going on, I don't see why I can't add my bit afterwards. It would be polite to tell a creating editor that his article is under discussion: that's what we tend to do at WP:RFD and why I created the thing in the first place. I wasn't told, so I couldn't reply: hence I feel hard done by. I said sorry to someone else the other day when I got it wrong, but I never get one back.


 * The day this as opened I was making Christmas dinner for my family having flown two thousand miles the day before. The next day I was celebrating my wife's birthday. The next we had to prepare for the trip back, which was at 4AM UTC on 28 December. I hadn't exactly time to look up Wikipedia. Three days for a deletion review without even attempting to contact the article creator or discuss it at RfD where it first appeared?


 * That is just out of order. You'll delete this as being after a close – but I hadn't a chance to do so while it was open. I just improved Wikipedia instead. What do 'you' do, Sir?] Si Trew (talk) 00:06, 19 May 2014 (UTC)