Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Geo Swan/Hazrat Ali

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was deleted per WP:CSD. – xeno talk 13:39, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

User:Geo Swan/Hazrat Ali
Abandoned three year old WP:FAKEARTICLE a more recent copy of the article Hazrat Ali by the same user, so no history merge is needed either. Fram (talk) 11:11, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * History
 * I started an article on Hazrat Ali on April 28, 2006.
 * I added more material on October 17, 2006.
 * On December 14, 2006, User:198.53.156.42, blanked the page, and no one noticed.
 * On December 30, 2006, a quality control volunteers applies a db-nocontext to the blank page, without apparently realizing that the reason the page was blank was that it had been vandalized.
 * An administrator deletes the article, again without realizing that the reason the page was blank was that it had been vandalized.
 * On January 17, 2007, User:Berntas created a new version of the article.
 * I notice the new version, try to figure out what happened to the version I remembered, realize it has been deleted, and contact the deleting administrator for a copy of the last version I worked on.
 * On January 18, 2007, I merge the deleted text back in to the mainspace article.
 * I requested the deleting administrator to graft the old deleted revision history back onto the article, and they were kind enough to do so.
 * I believe any fair-minded observer will recognize that, while several mistakes were made, the only person who acted in bad faith in 2006 and 2007 was the individual who blanked the page. The tagger and the deleting admin should have noticed the page had been vandalized.  I can't remember if I was even aware of db-author in January 2007.  Now that I am more experienced that seems an obvious step.  Geo Swan (talk) 19:19, 22 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - Another, newer article exists on the same subject, and the article should be deleted pursuant to WP:FAKEARTICLE. --Yachtsman1 (talk) 21:53, 22 November 2010 (UTC)]
 * Delete per nom and Yachtsman1. IQinn (talk) 07:20, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.