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This page serves as a place to request and discuss restorations.

General

The following are the policies to the requests for restoration process.

1. This is an optional process; administrators can restore anything they believe is necessary.
2. If there is any controversy over restoring a certain page, abstain from a restoration war, do not restore the page, and bring the page in question to a restoration discussion as outlined in this article.
3. Anyone can nominate a deleted page (article, template, category, image, video, etc.) they feel should be restored.
4. If users want to make a request for a page that has been deleted due to the ESB Content policy then they need to have a test page of it in their userpages, (e.g. sandbox) that isn't against the content policy. Otherwise any restoration request on those pages will be counted as ineligible.

1. Fill out a form to create a restoration discussion.
2. Once the discussion is created, the nominator must explain why they feel the article should be restored.

a. If no explanation is given after twenty-four (24) hours, it will be closed as invalid.

1. Only administrators can close restoration discussions. Assistants can also archive restoration discussions if the final result is not restoration.
2. Restoration discussions generally last seven (7) days.
3. Exceptions

i. If 90% or more of votes (including neutrals) are either restore or keep deleted after four (4) days, the discussion can end with a result.
ii. If a restoration discussion does not receive a consensus (70%) either way after two (2) weeks, the discussion can be closed as "no consensus" and the page will remain deleted.
iii. If the page in question is a spam page, the restoration discussion may be closed immediately, and the page will remain deleted.
iv. A page cannot be nominated a second time (and so on) for restoration less than one (1) month after a previous request on the same page has been archived.
v. The creator of a restoration discussion may withdraw their discussion at their sole discretion.

1. Replace PAGE with the title of the page you believe should be restored in the box below.
2. Click "submit."
3. When you submit, fill out the information on the resulting page, then save the page.
4. Copy and paste the following under "requests" of this page, replacing "PAGE" with the title.

Requests for restoration (edit)
Only 20 requests may be active at once. Any created past that limit will be closed.
No current requests