User blog comment:Fryz/My First Pasta Was Deleted.../@comment-25021327-20150408224747

I'm sorry that you're upset that your pasta got deleted, I know that it must be a pretty shitty feeling. I tried to be very fair and even-handed when I was going through the Needs Work category recently, many things were deleted, some were fixed.

S.M.W. was in the Needs Work cat for at least as long as I've been on the wiki. In that time, the only edits I remember seeing on it were my changing it to the standard wiki format, and your last edit, which changed it back to its original non-standard format. I read through some of it after you made your edit, and it appeared to be in the same state as it was, with few changes if any.

I didn't initially mark the pasta for work, but the category states that if a pasta is not brought up to the perceived standards of the wiki, it will be deleted. We now delete pastas within 9 days of the category being added if they are not deemed adequately improved. As I mentioned, S.M.W. was in the category for months with no changes.

You mention that you don't know why it was deleted. I gave reasons for marking it for deletion, including spelling and grammar mistakes, totally unformatted dialogue, as well as issues I felt affected the clarity of the story, making it difficult for me to read. If you don't know the reasons why it was marked for work, or deleted, then how could you have made any edits to improve it?

I know that the story was very long, and was written by a respected user. I made a point to give a warning af two weeks before marking the story for deletion, instead of just counting time served in the category toward it's deletion. This was not a luxury afforded to any other pages in the Needs Work category.

Again, I am sorry that things worked out the way they did, with your first pasta here being deleted, and I don't want to sound patronizing. That said, saying that you want it put back even though it was admittedly not very well done, or that it broke rules is sort of childish.

-Dan