Wikipedia:Speedy deletion patrol

Speedy deletion patrol is a WikiProject to patrol recent deletions of articles to seek undeletion of articles that may not have been properly deleted under the speedy deletion policy. This page is intended to coordinate effort in patrolling the deletion log to retrieve articles that should not have been deleted.

The undeletion policy provides for the undeletion of articles that have clearly been deleted out-of-process &mdash; for instance, during recent-changes or newpages patrol when there is no applicable criterion for speedy deletion. Articles that may still be deletable (but not speedily deletable) may be listed on Articles for deletion.

Newpages patrol and RC patrol are unpleasant tasks, and the workload is such that the admirable people who do it may well make mistakes. As such, the emphasis here is not on policy enforcement for the sake of it, but recovering genuinely useful material that shouldn't have been deleted &mdash; to act as a catcher. Speedy deletion patrollers tend not to query borderline cases. According to Jimbo, "it's ok for people doing newpages patrol . . . to err in the defense of quality, and . . . resurrecting a few things here and there behind them is a small price to pay for [avoiding inaccuracies]".

Project members

 * For technical reasons, active members have to be Wikipedia administrators. Please state if you are not currently an administrator but are willing to help in some way.


 * Tony Sidaway
 * Asbestos
 * SCZenz
 * Tkevin1
 * BlueValour - I am not an admin but am happy to help with this process. I take part in a range of deletion discussions daily. I also believe I have good forensic skills.
 * Tijuana Brass - On extended wiki-break.
 * JJJJust - Also not an admin, but, I do watch Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and have saved a few articles.
 * Tyson Moore - Wouldn't mind. Seems like a good WikiDeed :-)
 * Pedro 1999a | Talk  15:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC) - Again, not an admin but active RC patroller (see my user page) - if I can help in anyway I would be pleased to.
 * ebe123 - I'm not an admin but I will propose articles instead of automaticly deleting them.
 * calfaro - Not an admin, but have been looking for a way to get involved for many years. I can put in some time.

Recent patrols

 * 20 Dec, 2005: Tony Sidaway.
 * Fiona Sit
 * 15 Dec, 2005: Tony Sidaway.
 * Aaron Karo
 * 14 Dec, 2005: Tony Sidaway.
 * Recovered Charles Pellegrino, Marissa Siketa (redirect), Michael Viscardi, Jake Putnam, Sambit Bal, B C Joshi, Brian Brolly, Michael J. Skindell, Terry Carlino