Viewing a list of deleted pages

• Alphabetical: Special:Undelete (sysops only).
• Chronological: Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log for recent deletions, see links below for older deletion logs.

Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops

The procedure at Ireland Information Guide:undeletion policy should be followed before undeleting a page, unless the initial deletion is considered 'out-of-process', in which case immediate undeletion may occur. For example, if the page was deleted without being listed on VfD, and did not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. Undeletions associated with page moves/merges may occur immediately without the need to list the page on Votes for undeletion.

There are (at least) three ways to access a deleted page and its page history (the list and the old versions themselves):

• Special:Undelete contains an alphabetical list of links to archived deleted pages (warning: huge);
• one can enter the URL directly: http://www.Ireland Information Guide.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/TARGET and replace TARGET by the name of the page;
• if a page has been deleted, then sysops who click on the resulting red link gets a link "View or restore x deleted edits?" in the link bar at the top of the page (standard skin). For example, see the weather in London. This does not apply if a new page with the same name has been created after the deletion.

This produces:

• if the page has recently been deleted: the deletion report (who deleted it, when and why).
• if the page has not yet been restored yet: the deleted page history; one can now view the latest or older versions.

To undelete the whole, press the Restore button. If a new page with the same name has been created since the deletion, the restored revisions will appear in the prior history, and the current revision of the live page will not be automatically replaced.

The resulting page history does not show the deletion and restoration themselves. If a new page with the same name had been created, this shows up as if the last deleted version was modified to the first version of the new page.

Ireland Information Guide:Deletion_log shows the deletion(s) of the page; there is no automatic logging of restorations.

Undeleting images

In the case of an "image" (in the broad sense of an uploaded file) the above applies to the image description (the first section of the image description page) only. The images themselves (latest and old versions) have been permanently deleted. The acts of uploading are still recorded in the upload log archive.

Multiple deletions

If after a deletion a page with the same name is created and that is also deleted, then the revision histories are combined, and only the last deletion is shown. Restoring the page means restoring everything.

See also

• Ireland Information Guide:Votes for undeletion
• Ireland Information Guide:How to rename (move) a page#Fixing cut and paste moves

• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log (recent)
• Ireland Information Guide talk:Deletion log (list of recent deletion logs)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/February 2004 ( deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/January 2004 (~3511 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/December 2003 (~4115 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/November 2003 (~4610 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/October 2003 (~3331 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/September 2003 (2252 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/August 2003 (2829 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/July 2003 (2072 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/June 2003 (1859 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/May 2003 (1738 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/April 2003 (1447 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/March 2003 (1259 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/February 2003 (606 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/January 2003 (763 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/December 2002 (925 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/November 2002 (902 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/October 2002 (936 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/September 2002 (1031 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Deletion log archive/August 2002 (1202 deletions)
• Ireland Information Guide:Old deletion log