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Black Kite Hi, I'm an administrator here, and have been since 2007. I'll try to answer any questions here as soon as I can, though I do have periods where I'm not available. For admins: if you think I've done something really f***ing stupid and I don't respond to a question about it, please feel free to reverse it ... we can work it out later on.
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Hi, while looking at Wikipedia:Database reports/Possibly out-of-process deletions, I saw you deleted D4-D as G6 ("Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup: already moved to draftspace, unsourced").
I am curious as to how this works with WP:DRAFTOBJECT, as I thought recreating a draft in mainspace was considered to be an objection and meant that the article should go through a full AfD? Sorry for the confusion! Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 00:40, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article had been moved to Draft as it was unsourced, where it had been declined by AfC reviewers (twice) for that reason; however it was then identically created in mainspace again by the same user. It was this one that I deleted, as the user (who has since been blocked for persistent sockpuppetry) was clearly just being disruptive. It wasn't the only article that they did this with, all of which were completely unsourced. Black Kite (talk) 10:02, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
From what I understand, even if an article is unsourced, recreating it in mainspace still counts as WP:DRAFTOBJECT and it should've been sent to AfD, right? I don't really see where G6 fits into this. If the user was a sock of a previously banned sockpuppet, G5 could've worked, but otherwise (even if it wasn't a big loss) it seems like a case of WP:NOTG6 (which includes Articles that were moved to draft space and then cut-and-paste moved back to mainspace). Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 22:44, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I know you can't see the history, but what I deleted was only a redirect to the Draft. The user had edit-warred with another admin to restore the article even after it had been draftified, and it was then restored by another new account (and reverted by that same admin). Perhaps G6 was the wrong code, but we were merely tidying up after disruption and the article was never going back into mainspace in its current state. Black Kite (talk) 10:27, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
