[Telaneo]

The policies are there for good reason most of the time, and rarely without there having been a lot of talk about what said policy should be. I found them very helpful during my time editing, since they accurately reflect what happens and why, with the whole process being transparent. Maybe I'm just biased.

Google isn't the end-all-be-all of sourcing, as has been shown by the articles that have been kept. If you can find reliable sources, it will be kept. Google is just the final nail in the coffin.

[leejo]

There it is, right? Seven days and twenty years, gone. To quote, it is "the slow decline, the emptying out, and the long, long process of forgetting".

Wikipedia's deletion proposals are the online equivalent of putting a small poster on a village noticeboard and being surprised that the entire world doesn't see it.

It's disgraceful.

[Telaneo]

It isn't Wikipedia's job nor mission to remember. The Internet Archive took on that mission. Hence why you can still find the article there. The article isn't gone. It's a bit less accessible. I love them both, but they work in very different ways.