Wikipedia:Undeletion policy/process

To nominate a page for undeletion:

1. Place the page title on Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion, with the reason why you think it should be undeleted. Sign and date your entry. (~~~~)
   • Pages that were recently deleted in accordance with policy after being listed on Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion should not be listed unless new information has come to light. If the article was deleted because it was a stub and contained little or no information and you believe you can write a non-trivial non-stub article on the subject, you should be bold and write it, rather than request the stub for undeletion. The speedy deletion criterion for "reposted content that was deleted according to policy" does not apply to a good article about a subject for which a stub was deleted earlier.
2. If the page was deleted via the Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion process rather than something that was speedily deleted, place a notice on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion with a link to the Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion heading for the article.

If, after five days have passed, at least 3 people (including the person who proposed it) currently want to undelete and a majority are currently in favor of undeletion, the page may be undeleted by a sysop. If ten days elapse and the proposed undeletion lacks 3 supporters and a majority, then the page remains deleted (to avoid rapid re-deletion since deletion requires a two-thirds majority).

When undeleting an article:

1. List the article on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. Further discussion can take place on the votes for deletion page, and after about a week the undeleted page will either be deleted again, or left undeleted.
2. If the deletion was not via VFD, notify the deleting admin that you undeleted the page.

If a request to undelete is made, a sysop may choose to undelete the article and protect it blank so that people may look at the article on which they are voting. This is done through use of Template:TempUndelete. If you wish to only view a deleted article, list it in the temporary undeletion section and say why. A sysop will provide the deleted article to you in some form — either by quoting it in full, or by emailing it to you, or by temporarily undeleting it. See also Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops.