LPedia:Requests for Deletion/Talk:Abortion

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Talk:Abortion

Abortion article page already has been deleted. This shows up in search engines.

Discussion

Haven't done a request for deletion in a while and accidently put in full URL. So this page probably needs deletion too. In any case, the page Abortion already was deleted, but not the talk page. And Talk:Abortion shows up in search engines. LP-1979 (talk) 13:57, 16 October 2017 (CDT)

• Keep It seems like the abortion page was deleted by one of our maintenance bots - perhaps the original page should never have been deleted? I suggest we restore the abortion page and see what it says and make a decision after that. CarynAnnHarlos (talk) 23:36, 16 October 2017 (CDT)

• Restore We need a Restore template for this, don't we. There: made one. One day before WHUMP deleted the article at this location it was deleted by Brian Holtz, and the log entry for that deletion shows an except of text about some wonderful issue (?) about an Fda [sic] approved capsule. Because of the cleanup earlier this year the actual text is no longer in our database, but the indicated text doesn't look like anything submitted in good faith. That first deletion, however, looks like it involved collateral damage: http://web.archive.org/web/20110816083124/http://lpedia.org/Abortion -- I suspect that the article was completely overwritten with garbage and was then mistaken for an article that never had valid content. Our hypothetical of spelunking into our old, 30+GB pre-cleanup database has now ceased to be a hypothetical if we want the proper edit history. If not, this is what we can get from the Internet Archive to try to rebuild it, but note that I've still not completed this for the Carol Moore article, even though I've created a template for the non-recoverable edits in its reconstructed edit history: (Template:Lost Edit). -- Strangelv (talk) 01:13, 17 October 2017 (CDT)

• Remove or Change to "Libertarian Party and Abortion" I don't see articles on "drug legalization" or "taxation" or "military", so I don't think the purposeof LPedia is to generally explore issues. Now there is lots of information on the LP and abortion. For example a whole page on the platform over the years here. And lots on the debate surrounding Ron Paul and Bob Barr campaigns. If we're going to do do general topics, we might as well grab whole Wikipedia articles and credit them. LP-1979 (talk) 09:00, 17 October 2017 (CDT)

• • We do intend upon having discussions of various issues grounded in an historical context, thus the new category of "Issues" - anything here is already presumed to be about the Libertarian and X. And no need to grab WP articles, they sometimes are not very good, and oftentimes don't present a very good libertarian or Libertarian view and certainly are not coming at them from a LP history view. I think we need to start a new abortion page. I don't see any value in wasting volunteer time to re-create the old one or do the task of going into the old database - we don't have enough time to do everything else. Userr: LP-1979 is knowledgeable on the topic, and I am sure could start a good article. So I change my vote to delete and start new page.

OK. But it will end up being only what the few people editing are interested in. Me? Secession; individual rights vs states rights; psychology and aggression, etc. - with appropriate sourcing of course.  :-) Well, sourcing should be better on these than on a lot of stuff on LPedia that is just opinion. We don't need another debate forum... sigh... LP-1979 (talk) 11:21, 18 October 2017 (CDT)

That's the beauty of crowd-sourcing. The market decides. If someone cares about a topic - they will come :) CarynAnnHarlos (talk) 17:49, 19 October 2017 (CDT)