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Edmund Ken Carl

{{subst:refund|1= Edmund Ken Carl |2= I would like to modify the article for resubmission but due to computer malfunction lost all copy from late November 2017 through January 2018. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Washougal Boy (talk • contribs) 23:51, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

 Done I have restored Ken Carl as it was soft deleted. Also I made a redirect called Edmund Ken Carl, you did not do it before! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:07, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Columbia Springs

I, Imksfdw, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Imksfdw (talk) 22:27, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

https://www.columbiasprings.org/ has a new review process to allow to resolve the issues of this article.

We are checking with the Clark County Historical Museum for the resources to backup the facts in the article. Also, trying to find the process to show that the image used was given permission to be used in the article. —Imksfdw (talk) 22:28, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

  • Done – as a draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13, the page has been restored upon request. Drafts and Articles for creation are not for the indefinite hosting of material found to be unsuitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Note that only one human is to be associated with each user, so if you are multiple people, please register more accounts. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:09, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

The Apartment (TV series)

prodded article that was nationally broadcast —Atlantic306 (talk) 15:21, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

1914 Komagata Maru

Enter your reasoning here and then click the "Publish changes" button below —Mijanursrkr (talk) 12:28, 27 February 2018 (UTC) I don't want to delete my page. Its an upcoming Bollywood movie. If I did something mistake then its please resolve it. —Mijanursrkr (talk) 12:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC) I create this page with my own knowledge and get some elements from google for creating this page and its an upcoming bollywood movie, which is directed by G. Ashok and produce by Mehmood Ali —Mijanursrkr (talk) 12:56, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Acclamation (liturgy)

I, Ibadibam, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Ibadibam (talk) 01:09, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Draft:The LAVA Visual Analytic Design Language

I, 184.23.19.154, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. 184.23.19.154 (talk) 01:39, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

User:Malewis8805/Marc Lewis

I, Malewis8805, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Malewis8805 (talk) 01:58, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Done – as a draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13, the page has been restored upon request. Drafts and Articles for creation are not for the indefinite hosting of material found to be unsuitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia.
Restored by Graeme Bartlett. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:44, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Malawi24

I, Tukombo, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Tukombo (talk) 08:25, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Malawi24

I, Tukombo, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Tukombo (talk) 08:24, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

I would like to bring my article back and edit it to meet the policy of Wikipedia. I really need the article back. Your help will be greatly appreciated. —Ani Poghosian (talk) 10:38, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

 Not done It was 100% advertisement, so it is best to start completely from scratch. There is nothing you wrote before that is suitable for use. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:49, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Green Economy Coalition

I, TheseGlyphs, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. TheseGlyphs (talk) 15:12, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Have found additional independent references to meet notability guidelines, wish to add and re-submit —TheseGlyphs (talk) 15:31, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Draft:UNiDAYS

Cloudbuster1980 (talk) 16:03, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Cringe pop

The page was deleted through a Prod, the person who placed the Prod did not notify me, the page creator. The page was well referenced and at least deserved to have gone to AFD. —Vinegarymass911 (talk) 19:31, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Logan Grove

I, 108.24.75.44, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. 108.24.75.44 (talk) 19:38, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Mark Rushworth

I would like to edit this page and a previous version would be helpful could I please have it emailed to me —Jhrushworth1 (talk) 20:24, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

PDF Split and Merge

The page was deleted because "Non-notable PDF software. Not even fully open source". PDFsam Basic is fully open source since 2006, available on GitHub, SourceForge and also as Debian package. There are other commercial products offered called PDFsam Enhanced and PDFsam Visual but the page was only about PDFsam Basic, the free and open source one. As per the "Non-notable" it has around 100k daily users and it's been around for 12 years. Maybe the page can be renamed to "PDFsam Basic" to better clarify it's about the open source version, but it was one of the top results in Google, I don't think it should be deleted —Torakiki610 (talk) 09:32, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Client's Day

Article was deleted stating of not meeting notability criteria, though many different reliable sources were cited, and many others are going to be added —Profis (talk) 09:51, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Digital look-alike

I, Redress perhaps, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Redress perhaps (talk) 09:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

ss fireglow

Enter your reasoning here and then click the "Publish changes" button below —Jpfoynes (talk) 09:58, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Actually the page was not deleted and was here: SS Fireglow. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:26, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

ss colonel crompton

{{subst:refund|1= Page name goes here |2= Enter your reasoning here and then click the "Publish changes" button below}

SS COLONEL CROMPTON

My additions and corrections are being deleted, and then deleted again after I have re-entered them with additional explanation and multiple PRIMARY (official) evidence UK National Archive reference numbers. Whoever created the original is not using archival sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpfoynes (talk • contribs) 10:13, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

  • Done – as a contested proposed deletion, the article has been restored upon request. Actually none of your work has yet been deleted. All I did was take off the prod notice. The page is here SS Colonel Crompton. Capitalisation is important. If you see any more of those prod notices, you can go in and edit the page and remove it yourself. Please have alook at WP:Referencing for beginners to see how to add foot notes. We would like to see secondary references as well such as newspapers or other books that may list these ships. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:31, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Vail Jazz Foundation

I, Colorado Christin, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Vail Jazz 17:21, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

User:Pipetko/sandbox

I, Pipetko, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Dafa Web / Call PC Help / 5host.space 18:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Lady Kitty Spencer

Article (Lady Kitty Spencer) was speedily deleted because an earlier consensus from a month prior chose to delete article for lack of notability. The previous article only mentioned her relation to Princess Diana. I rewrote the article, after reaching out to the previous editor who deleted the article, and focused it on her fashion career as a model, for which she is notable (and I had over 30 credible sources to back her notability) yet the article was still deleted. -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 19:11, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

List of Nintendo Switch games using Miis

Though this page was deleted per the WP:AFD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Nintendo Switch games using Miis, I'm requesting that this page be restored so that I can WP:BOLDly merge its content into List of video games using Miis#Nintendo Switch. This way, the content will not be a standalone article, but rather a section of a list article that already has a good amount of content. —Steel1943 (talk) 20:20, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Comment to ensure this doesn't get archived without response. Steel1943 (talk) 16:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Draft:GSE Open GPS Protocol

I, Gsateng, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Gsateng (talk) 19:55, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

  • Done Note that the license at the top is not compatible with the the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license due to the statement that the text of the license has to be included. What is there is not an encyclopedia article, just formats of messages. So what are you going to do with this? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:32, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Faithfully flat descent

The draft page is still needed (as it is under the development). —Taku (talk) 21:27, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Alexandre Garese

This page was deleted at 2007 via PROD procedure for unknown reason. But I'm sure, that person is realy notable by a basic criteria of persons notability - Alexandre Garese is a well known business and political person, having a big press coverage in a number of countries. Please, undelete an article, and I'l improve it for Wikipedia standarts. —Vladislav 1987 (talk) 00:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

  • Vladislav 1987 - there really isn't much to restore and your draft actually has far more content than the deleted version:
Alexandre Garese established AG & Partners in 1995, in Moscow. In 1996, he entered into a partnership with Russian lawyer and lobbyist Alexander Mamut. Since 2000, he has been specialising in arbitrage issues, major M&A and corporate restructuring. He is also a partner with Roman Abramovitch in the leading Moscow football club CSKA. Garese is a member of the Moscow International Chamber of Arbitrage.
There's nothing that says that you can't move your content live or run it through AfC, though. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 02:56, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Ronald De la Fuente

I, Struway2, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Struway2 (talk) 21:55, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Tom Blomfield

Believe he is notable, with multiple articles about him —82.2.102.14 (talk) 09:26, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Pooja_Surve

She is Indian Gymnast and played CWG 2010. Now She is an international coach & judge —Amekac (talk) 11:39, 2 March 2018 (UTC)


Trophy Wife (American band)

This article was deleted for failing G5 (created by a sock of a banned user). It was previously proposed for undeletion here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion/Archive_289#Trophy_Wife_(American_band). The consensus there seems to be that it would be acceptable to undelete if an experienced editor were to take responsibility for it. I am an experienced editor and will take responsibility for it. Full disclosure (stop me if you've ever been in this position before): A member of the band complained to a friend about the state of their article; that friend offered to ask a friend who edited Wikipedia (me). I agreed to take a look, assuming I'd have to find a delicate way of telling them that they weren't notable. However, an archived version of the article linked at the previous discussion looks neutral and with good sources establishing notability. A few tweaks and it would be a passable version, I think. —Tdslk (talk) 04:22, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

@Tdslk: The author of the article User:Earflaps created some good-quality articles. The archived version you have is the most current revision except for one minor edit made a couple days later to change a category name, but that's all. ~Anachronist (talk) 22:02, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your response, Anachronist. Should I just recreate the article by pasting in the archived version? I had imagined that undeletion would involve restoring not just the article but its entire edit history, for credit purposes. Tdslk (talk) 22:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
@Tdslk: I could restore it to draft space if you're going to make substantive changes to it. As you do have a conflict of interest (somewhat), draft space would be the best place to work on it. But the deleting admin should be consulted. @Sphilbrick: any objection? In my opinion, this would be a perfectly good main space article were it not for the identity of the creator. ~Anachronist (talk) 01:44, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Works for me, thanks for asking.--S Philbrick(Talk) 02:34, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, Anachronist and Sphilbrick. Are there any changes you think should be made before it is posted to main space? Tdslk (talk) 03:18, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
 Done. @Tdslk: I have restored it to Draft:Trophy Wife (American band). Try to make some substantive changes, not minor tweaks. That is the only way to protect it from G5 deletion again. If the only substantive changes have been by the creator, it will likely be deleted again. If you see unnecessary material, remove it. Add sources if you can find them. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Thank you. Tdslk (talk) 04:24, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
One more thing. There were two audio files with the original article. Can those be restored as well, or are those lost? Thanks, Tdslk (talk) 03:01, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
I can see there was File:Sister Outsider.ogg. However under fair use rules this can be there only if the page is an article. see Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria#9. So if it moves back to article space, then ask again for these files. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. Will do. Tdslk (talk) 14:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Jeremy Cunt

This was created as a good faith redirect (the edit summary on creation referred to a spoonerism by James Naughtie documented in The Guardian so it's not vandalism), but was deleted per G10. Per a recent talk page thread, multiple reliable sources do document this name, I can't believe Mr Hunt hasn't heard about this, and a great deal of people who have seen loved ones suffer because of his policies would not bat an eyelid at it. Nevertheless, I am not going to restore this without a cast-iron consensus that it's acceptable and crosses the BLP line from sensitivity to common knowledge. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Maybe not. It's not as if anyone would fail to know the correct name. It's not a plausible search term, it's just an open invitation to BLP violations. Guy (Help!) 16:40, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
I would have to say no too as I think only people who would be searching for that would be those who are not fans of him rather than curious people who heard the spoonerism and wanted to see if it was on Wikipedia (given it isn't even mentioned in his article!). Plus it could give the view that Wikipedia endorses the POV of the name because it is likely people would just keep using it deliberately or accidentally on purpose. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 17:29, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Summer Solstice International Conference on Discrete Models of Complex Systems

Enter your reasoning here and then click the "Publish changes" button below —Bruno.DiStefano (talk) 19:03, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Francisco Las Heras

I, Struway2, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Struway2 (talk) 21:47, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Le Palais Royal

Move the previously deleted version to my user space. —Jax 0677 --Jax 0677 (talk) 20:46, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Ten disambiguation pages

Among the pages that were recently mass-deleted per WP:G5 (as created by Mubarak 647, a user blocked for sockpuppetry), there are 51 disambiguation pages. I remember having a look at about half a dozen of them, and they were perfectly legitimate as dab pages. It will be too laborious to attempt to recreate them from scratch, so I think it's best if they're undeleted and then reviewed individually. I'm willing to take up the task of scrutinising and curating the restored pages. The admin who deleted them is not interested in restoring them, but will not object if others do [1]. My plan is to first have a batch of ten pages restored (listed above), and after I've examined them and all is OK, to request the remainder (provided below for reference).

Remainder of list

Please do not restore these yet.

Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 02:33, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Have you contacted User talk:Bbb23 to see if they are willing to reverse deletion in this case. Often the deleter will have a better idea of reason for deleting or restoral than we do here. If there is no response we can handle it here later. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 03:05, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Bbb23 does not wish to restore them but will not mind it if somebody else does (there's a link above). – Uanfala (talk) 04:10, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Erlan Karin

The person is the head of the biggest TV corporation in Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan (channel)). —18:57, 2 March 2018 (UTC)Mheidegger (talk)

Note: The page was deleted as a result of a deletion debate. Admins will not undelete pages that were deleted with discussion here; go to WP:Deletion review or contact the administrator that closed the deletion debate instead. —Jeremy v^_^v Bori! 22:54, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
He became head of Qazaqstan channel after deletion debate.Mheidegger (talk) 07:06, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
In which case you could start writing. I would suggest a Draft:Erlan Karin page. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:30, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Gracchus (band)

Article was uncontroversially deleted (proposed for deletion on 23 Feb 2018). —Titotambourine (talk) 12:38, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

  • Not done - this page was deleted in accordance with criterion for speedy deletion A7. If you believe that this decision was made in error, or that significant new information has come to light since the deletion, please contact the administrator who carried out the deletion, user JzG (talk · contribs). If you have already done so, your concerns can be taken to deletion review. Although it was proposed for deletion using a process which qualifies for REFUND, it was actually deleted using speedy deletion criterion A7, which doesn't. Hut 8.5 20:16, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Ajri dialect

Hoping that the article at the time had enough of a context to help in locating sources. —– Uanfala (talk) 18:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Miladkhoshdel

I'm going to help promote Wikipedia and now I'm familiar with your rules. Please do not remove my user. —Miladkhoshdel (talk) 17:39, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

I would suggest that you help improve Wikipedia by editing some content pages. You user page was just like a CV for your work experience. So I have made a user page for you that complies with standards around here, using userboxes. See Wikipedia:Userboxes and all the pages linked from the bottom. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:10, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

41 disambiguation pages

Per #Ten disambiguation pages above. I've examined the ten pages and I've done some MOS-related trimming, but there was nothing that was harmful or misleading. I think it's safe to restore the rest, which I will go on to copyedit over the weekend. – Uanfala (talk) 16:48, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

I have started to restore. I will come back to do more later. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:29, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:War in History (book series)

I, K.e.coffman, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:17, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Luo Haiqiong

I created and deleted it. I'm changing my mind. I believe there were sources. —Timmyshin (talk) 00:27, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Daniel Brin

Please undelete temporarily so we may save the work & adequately modify it to comply with all rules. —Solbash (talk) 17:38, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps someone will email it to you. If the candidate is elected, then there is a much better chance of this being restored. So you can ask later if that happens. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:43, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Banknotes from Vietnam

These files should be in the public domain now because prior to December, 31 1967 (see c:Category:Banknotes of Vietnam). If there are coins in the lot, we've OTRS ticket:2018030110001396. Thanks. --Ruthven (msg) 08:34, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

@Ruthven: restored except the last one which does not exist. Can you please correct the licensing info, and if possible provide information templates. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:41, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
@Graeme Bartlett: Thank you. I copied the files to Commons. The last file was the following (sorry for the typo) --Ruthven (msg) 12:07, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Taweelah

I, Emir of Wikipedia, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:The Twilight Bark Newsletter

(This user used the preload form for G13 undeletion, but did not specify the name of the Draft they would like undeleted. Consider checking their deleted contributions.) Copax7 (talk) 01:40, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:The Daisygrinders

I, Drewza7, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Drewza7 (talk) 23:14, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

List of film broadcasting rights in the United States

I liked this page, and the information it provided isn't available anywhere else —Arisy01 (talk) 02:18, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Disability in Finland

I, Dodger67, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 06:31, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Javier Martin

I, Thealiengirl, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Thealiengirl (talk) 10:09, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Weinstock Immigration Lawyers

I, Lmartin85, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Lmartin85 (talk) 17:10, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Linear algebraic group–Lie algebra correspondence

This is an important topic not covered in mainspace. —Taku (talk) 00:36, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Quillen spectral sequence

An important topic and the draft does not seem to duplicate the existing article. —Taku (talk) 00:41, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Białynicki-Birula decomposition

An important topic not covered in mainspace (as far as I can tell). —Taku (talk) 00:52, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:K-groups of a field

Although we have algebraic K-theory, this is a subtopic that deserves a standalone article treatment (e.g., example calculations). —Taku (talk) 00:55, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Basic theorems of algebraic K-theory

(ditto basically) In Wikipedia, we tend to have standalone articles on important theorems. There are several foundation-type theorems in algebraic K-theory that deserve standalone-article treatment. —Taku (talk) 00:59, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

  • Done – as a draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13, the page has been restored upon request. Drafts and Articles for creation are not for the indefinite hosting of material found to be unsuitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. The original deletion here was not actually valid as the page had survived a deletion discussion. Hut 8.5 22:04, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Asia Spelling Cup

I, Ojellerton, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Ojellerton (talk) 01:37, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:List of Natural Heritage in Karnali Zone

I, Jjjjjjdddddd, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Jjjjjjdddddd (talk) 04:08, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft: Amsterdam Fashion Academy

Someone else with more experience wants to help me get this online click the "Publish changes" button below —Graemecun (talk) 14:36, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/All or Nothing H.C.

(This user used the preload form for G13 undeletion, but did not specify the name of the Draft they would like undeleted. Consider checking their deleted contributions.) Bassman1818 (talk) 17:44, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/All or Nothing H.C.

Lee Valmassy

While setting cross-namespace redirects for deletion, I tagged this article in error instead of the redirect. Please restore the article. —Sock (tock talk) 19:30, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/David W. Baird

I, Bardny, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Bardny (talk) 23:25, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

David W. Baird

Subject of article has achieved greater notoriety, based on new articles in the press and greater business success. —Bardny (talk) 23:28, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

I can't see such a page, but your draft is restored, see above. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:08, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Wong Seng Weng

I would like to request a copy of the deleted content so that we can amend the copy and upload a fresh copy with reference to the deleted copy —Irmankarim (talk) 00:14, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Are you asking about Wong Seng Weng? Note this was already rejected by J04n. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Magnetic (2015 film)

I, MichaelJEpstein, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. MichaelJEpstein (talk) 01:15, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

CISG Advisory Council

I, Sieg.Eiselen, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Sieg.Eiselen (talk) 11:03, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

{{subst:refund|1= CISG Advisory Council |2= Publication refused due to insufficient referencing and no subsequent editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sieg.Eiselen (talk • contribs) 11:06, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Showko Showfukutei

I, Keiayaja, request the undeletion of this draft or Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Keiayaja (talk) 10:54, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Lohitsya

  • The article Lohitsya was deleted by way of the proposed deletion procedure. Under the rubric of WP:PROD, an article deleted under that procedure must be restored on demand. Accordingly I now ask for the article to be restored.
  • The reasons advanced for deletion appear to be either untrue or unproven and, in both cases, technically invalid.
  • Firstly the article was not unsourced. When I encountered this article whilst doing new page patrol, I rewrote the article and added a reference citing page 79 of The Indian Advertising Year Book (Our India Directories & Publications, 1962), which is a prima facie reliable source (ie unless you know something about that source that I don't) that makes the topic verifiable. Furthermore "unsourced" is not a valid grounds for deletion. As long as the topic of an article is verifiable in the sense that at least one reliable source exists somewhere, we do not delete that article only because that source does not appear in the article.
  • Secondly, as regards notability: (1) (a) Lohitsya appears to be at least potentially capable of satisfying GNG and likely to do so. Firstly "Lohitsya" appears to be a transliteration of a word from an Indian language (possibly Hindi or something like that) originally and normally written in a non-Roman script (possibly sanskrit). As I do not know the correct spelling in the Indian script, I have no choice but to infer that there is likely to be coverage in reliable sources written in that script (which will use symbols that bear no resemblance to the letters of our alphabet) which will not appear in a Google search for the transliteration "Lohitsya" because Google does not transliterate a query written in Roman script into any other script. Furthermore "Lohitsya" is not the only or even the most common transliteration into Roman script. The transliterations "Lohitasya" and "Rohitasva" both bring up a much larger number of relevant results in GBooks that appear to refer to the same son of King Harischandra. And there may be many more transliterations I don't know about. There is no evidence that the nominator or admin searched for any of these per WP:BEFORE. (b) The nature of this topic makes it very likely that additional coverage exists, possibly offline or in a spelling that I am not aware of. Mythological figures, especially when they are a prince and the son of a king, like "Lohitsya", normally receive the sort of coverage that would satisfy GNG easily and by a wide margin. It would be truly astonishing if such coverage does not exist somewhere. Under WP:NRVE, we do not delete articles if it is likely that significant coverage exists offline or in some other form (such as the aforementioned unknown spelling in a foreign script) that we cannot get at with Google. (2) Lohitsya is notable because he has to be presumed to satisfy WP:POLITICIAN. (I can imagine half the readers of this page now saying "A mythological figure can satisfy WP:BIO? Witchcraft!", but I am afraid it is true.) It has to be born in mind that folklore, mythological and legendary figures are not fictional characters. They are prima facie distorted versions (sometimes grossly distorted versions) of real historical people who really existed, and in any event, they are, for at least a period of time, absolutely believed to have lived their lives in exactly the way the legend describes by the members of the nation or religion in question. (For a more familiar example, most of the legend of King Arthur was fabricated by Geoffrey of Monmouth, but it is obvious that the Romano-British must have had a leader at the Battle of Mount Badon (which is briefly mentioned by the more or less contemporary Gildas), and that leader was "Arthur" to all practical intents and purposes and would satisfy WP:SOLDIER and WP:POLITICIAN.) Unless I am provided with evidence to the contrary, I have to infer that "Lohitsya" may have been the name, or may be the pseudonym, of a real prince who really existed, however inaccurate other parts of the myth might be. (I cannot say for certain such evidence does not exist as I have limited familiarity with this particular myth, but I can apply my knowledge of the general characteristics of myths to take an educated guess). (3) Even if I was wrong about the above (and I don't think I am), mere lack of notability is a grounds for merger and redirection, not deletion. There was valid sourced content in this article which ought to have been WP:PRESERVEd, if necessary by merger to the parent topic, which is probably our article on King Harischandra. The page name would also be a valid redirect from an alternative spelling or plausible typo, having appeared in the book I cited above.
  • As I have intimated, there are a few problems with this article (such as the page name is not clearly the COMMONNAME spelling, and there may be a case for merger and redirection to the parent topic). I would be grateful if the admin who restores this article fixes those problems or at least copies what I have said here to the talk page of the restored article, because I am unlikely to be able to do either of those things. James500 (talk) 12:39, 7 March 2018 (UTC) —James500 (talk) 12:39, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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