Easy way to rescue deleted articles?

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Easy way to rescue deleted articles?

Post by Dr Mario » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:34 am

Easy way to rescue deleted articles on wikipedia is by checking if they have been archived at some point by archive.org

For example here is an deleted article about video games set in the roman empire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_An ... ideo_games (the name of the article is obviously wrong; instead of delete the article it should have been moved to more proper title.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150523124 ... ideo_games

https://web.archive.org/web/20151026025 ... ction=edit

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Re: Easy way to rescue deleted articles?

Post by Eric Corbett » Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:10 pm

I'd probably argue that most deleted articles deserved to have been deleted.

As do a great many that haven't been deleted.

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Re: Easy way to rescue deleted articles?

Post by ericbarbour » Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:22 pm

Back in 2006 the WMF quietly decided to put "nofollow" on all Wp pages, to keep archive.org from saving copies. They'll never admit it but they did this to cover up dirty tricks. Apparently in recent years archive.org changed their minds and started taking captures of WP content again (only from article space though). Must have been an "interesting" argument.

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Re: Easy way to rescue deleted articles?

Post by Dr Mario » Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:27 pm

ericbarbour wrote:
Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:22 pm
Back in 2006 the WMF quietly decided to put "nofollow" on all Wp pages, to keep archive.org from saving copies. They'll never admit it but they did this to cover up dirty tricks. Apparently in recent years archive.org changed their minds and started taking captures of WP content again (only from article space though). Must have been an "interesting" argument.
I think its good that arhive.org changed their mind about this at least about main space articles so its in some cases possible to know what a deleted article was about. So if anyone needs the content for whathever reason then at least they can find it if they know how to look. Although to be fair, deletionsist go about things al wrong in majority of cases, even if some topics don't deserve their own article articles such as pure spam or some weird coporated adverts, in many cases those content should be included within a larger article about similar content. Deletionist usually just get article deleted without thinking that some of the content they are removing would prefectly fit fine within another article (even if it doesn't deserve an article on its own), redirects are undervalued method of preserving content. But diletionist also hate redirects so they go after redirects as well when ever they can.

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