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Articles and multimedia are sometimes deleted by administrators if they are thought to have a valid reason for deletion. Sometimes these decisions are completely correct, and undisputed. Sometimes, they are more controversial. Before using this page, please read the Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy and undeletion policy.
The archive of deleted page revisions may be periodically cleared. Pages deleted prior to the database crash on 8 June2004 are not present in the current archive because the archive tables were not backed up. This means pages cannot be restored by a sysop. If there is great desire for them it may be possible to retrieve them from the old database files. Prior to this, the archive was cleared out on 3 December2003.
If a short stub was deleted for lack of content, and you wish to create a useful article on the same subject, you can be bold and do so. You don't have to get the stub undeleted, and as long as your new version has content it should not be redeleted. If it is, then you should list it here.
Purpose
Deletion Review is the process to be used by editors wish to challenge the outcome of any deletion, speedy or otherwise.
It is always best to approach the deleter asking him to explain why he deleted the article.
If you don't get a satisfactory response you could try other methods in the dispute resolution process.
Deletion can be challenged here under two policies:
Deletion policy the chief precept of which is "if in doubt, don't delete"
Undeletion policy, the chief precept of which is that we should ask whether "Misplaced Pages would be a better encyclopedia with the article restored"
There are also provisions under the undeletion policy to permit the immediate undeletion of articles that were deleted out of process (that is, not in accordance with the deletion policy).
If you think that an article nominated for deletion should have been deleted and it wasn't, you may consider approaching the closer of the AfD debate and explaining your case, but remember that deletion policy adopts the approach of not deleting when in doubt. In extreme cases, you may always nominate the article for deletion a second time.