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5 April 2014

The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
Quillan Roberts ( talk| | history| logs| links| watch) ( XfD| restore)

Player has now started in fully professional game for Wilmington Hammerheads FC - see [1]. We need to change process so we don't waste so much time at beginning of season deleting articles for players who will start sooner or later. In this case as a starter in the first game of the season. Nfitz ( talk) 23:53, 5 April 2014 (UTC) reply

Best practise in this instance is to post to the WT:FOOTY noticeboard. An Admin will be able to restore it in seconds. JMHamo ( talk) 23:59, 5 April 2014 (UTC) reply
Good point, normally I simply talk to the deleting admin, but he appears to be indefinitely absent. Though it's also a perfect example of why we shouldn't spend so much energy deleting articles like this, only to recreate shortly afterwards. I think we need a process change. Nfitz ( talk) 00:03, 6 April 2014 (UTC) reply
I took the liberty doing it for you a few mins ago at WT:FOOTY. I hope you don't mind. I disagree with you that we need to change anything. WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL are pretty solid in my opinion but you are of course entitled to discuss this as WT:FOOTY too. JMHamo ( talk) 00:08, 6 April 2014 (UTC) reply
No, I don't mind. Nfitz ( talk) 00:24, 6 April 2014 (UTC) reply
It has been restored. JMHamo ( talk) 12:39, 6 April 2014 (UTC) reply
But not before someone recreated it from scratch, creating extra unnecessary work reconciling the two different versions. It's for this very reason I completely oppose this bizarre and unnecessary wholesale deletion of such articles shortly before the start of the season, that only result in wasting everyone's time. Nfitz ( talk) 16:27, 6 April 2014 (UTC) reply
The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.