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The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bielefeld (2nd nomination) (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (restore)

Page was deleted by G3, though it was created as April fool AFD nomination. Should not be deleted as G3 as it was April Fools joke. John123521 (Talk-Contib.) 13:04, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Question - Is this a foolish argument, two weeks after April Fools Day, about how to clean up an April Fools prank? Robert McClenon (talk) 14:57, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I mean, it's a fairly run-of-the-mill April Fools' AfD—not an especially funny one, but also well within the rules that the community has set out. I have a hard time seeing that as a valid G3 since there's no indication that anyone involved was trying to harm the encyclopedia. (The creator was a sockpuppet, but other editors contributed, so it also wouldn't be a G5.) If editors think these prank AfDs have gotten out of hand (which I would tend to agree with), then the place for that conversation would be an RfC. But I would overturn this speedy, although I do think (per Robert) that these sorts of deletions are probably not worth bringing to DRV in the future. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:11, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn. Based on what those who can access the deleted history said, this is a ROTM April Fools AfD that is not G3. Don't think this is worth taking to DRV though. {{ping|ClydeFranklin}} (t/c) 04:17, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Since there is evidently a ferling that this nonsense should be kept, I have reversed my deletion, though it is beyond me why anyone would think it a good idea to take up several editors' time by immediately starting a deletion review, rather than consulting me in the first instance. JBW (talk) 09:37, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]


The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.