Those that like this idea may want to check out WP:PURE. If implemented, pure wiki deletion would give us deletion transparency, so any user could help patrol recent deletions. Friday (talk) 17:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

1. George Gerbner (undeletion log: Special:Undelete/George Gerbner) - proposer of Cultivation theory from where this article is linked. --- Charles Stewart 19:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Also mentioned in Media effects theory (unwikified). 5 bios prepared as part of a class [1] --- Charles Stewart 19:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Further bio, high quality [2] --- Charles Stewart 19:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Err, that sure looks like a legit speedy to me. There's nothing stopping anyone from creating a proper article on this guy. Friday (talk) 19:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The point of this patrol isn't to dispute speedies. We already have WP:DRV for that. It is to try to avoid losing information on clearly legit people. I saw this was leghit when I saw the page was linked to from several articles on WP already. --- Charles Stewart 19:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I forget not everyone can see these. The content was "{{empty}}University of Pennsylvania". Friday (talk) 19:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I saw already, the undelete log summarised the article contents. The log also indicates that most of the content was deleted following a copyvio claim. I'd have put the article on requests for expansion myself, rather than deleted. --- Charles Stewart 19:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a stub for Gerbner. --- Charles Stewart 19:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the one who deleted it, sorry about that, I should have done more research and checked the links first. Still getting the hang of being an admin.--Alhutch 21:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

2. CARA utility (Special:Undelete/CARA utility) - appears to be legitimate concept in economic theory, deleter gave no grounds for deletion except citing material apparently in keeping with established usage. Maybe copyvio?

• Description at History of Economic Thought website (an excellent resource, btw). It's in section C, on Arrow-Pratt risk aversion measures. --- Charles Stewart 20:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• What's visible in the log doesn't appear on Google, so copyvio is unlikely. Should be undeleted. Christopher Parham (talk) 21:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've listed it at WP:DRV, and notified the speedying admin. --- Charles Stewart 21:21, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So this page is really for complaining that a three word article such as the first listed on this talk page is somehow not speediable. Then, no, I won't spend any time here. -Splash^talk 22:24, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No arguments have been advanced for either case that the speedy guidelines were not followed (though in the second case I would have preferred if the edit summary made clear on what grounds the speedy was performed). They are just two things I found on the deletion log that rung a bell and I listed here whilst I gathered information about them. This is a talk page, not a page for appealing process. --- Charles Stewart 22:46, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]