Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-5619531-20140430193807

I do know that there is a deletion section where admins/VCROC are allowed to remove an article because of "Severe Formatting Issues". But it's quite annoying when an article gets deleted because it's text is like this (a paragraph from War Stories, the revision before I appealed it to the Deletion Appeal and fixed it):

 A year before he died, my Grandfather told me a story. He was, in the way that old soldiers often are, a no-nonsense, upright man of few words. It was the morning following my twentieth birthday, and he telephoned me at nine-thirty, on the dot, requesting my presence at his house on the outskirts of Salcombe – approximately half an hour's drive. I arrived, nursing a hangover from the previous night and he offered me a cigarette. When I hesitated, he just laughed and told me that he knew I smoked, and that he would not tell my father. We sat together on his porch and smoked in silence, watching the waves crash against the Devonshire coast. Eventually he stubbed-out the butt of his Silk Cut and produced a shoe box, which he handed to me.

It can easily be removed. When this article was removed, it's deletion tag was "Severe Formatting Issues" which it isn't. I had to go to the deletion appeal and one of the administrators actually appealed it, while he said that I do the work. Which it only took me a couple of minutes to remove it from all of the text to make the text to wiki text.

I can see if the formatting was something like this

A year before he died, my Grandfather told me a story. He was, in the way that old soldiers often are, a no-nonsense, upright man of few words. It was the morning following my twentieth birthday, and he telephoned me at nine-thirty, on the dot, requesting my presence at his house on the outskirts of Salcombe – approximately half an hour's drive. I arrived, nursing a hangover from the previous night and he offered me a cigarette. When I hesitated, he just laughed and told me that he knew I smoked, and that he would not tell my father. We sat together on his porch and smoked in silence, watching the waves crash against the Devonshire coast. Eventually he stubbed-out the butt of his Silk Cut and produced a shoe box, which he handed to me.

Or something even more uglier. But if the text is actually readable and you can understand it, rather than example B of what I shown, should it really be turned down and not even read because of the formatting of the text is something that you don't want to work on? This brought my attention yesterday, and I am quite curious on this. 