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Rekha Surya – Moot. At this point, the original user sandbox has been moved into draft space, so there's nothing left to do here. – -- RoySmith (talk) 21:42, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.

I've created a new draft Draft:Rekha Surya that is basically an edited copy of the original article that was deleted. Kindly review this one. inam 10:28, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

This was speedily deleted as blatantly promotional, although the article is simply a description of a career, with sources, rather than anything promotional. I tried to discuss this with the deleting admin but he seemed to be more interested in bad-faith assumptions about my identity than with the article in hand. This is no more 'an attempt to "get the copy up"' than any other Wikipedia article, and the award, though it contains the word "Noble", which is rather similar to "Nobel", seems perfectly respectable according to our article about it. Even ignoring that award the article subject seems notable, but, even if not, this is not blatant promotion so the issue should be discussed at AfD if this is to be deleted. There is a copy of the article at User:Inamabidi/Rekha Surya, but there is no reason why it should have been speedily deleted from mainspace. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 19:02, 17 May 2018 (UTC) 86.17.222.157 (talk) 19:02, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Making a new version as a copy-paste clone is not a good idea, per WP:CUTPASTE. I've gone ahead and deleted the new draft. You are welcome to continue to work on User:Inamabidi/Rekha Surya, or even move (using the built-in page move function, not make another copy) it into draft space. Either of those will preserve the existing contribution history, which is immportant for enforcing our licensing requirements. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:53, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.