Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-92.232.180.244-20130731105525/@comment-188432-20130731205104

Hi :) No one disputes that the topic has been mentioned in the DWU or that it doesn't deserve a page here.

Indeed, when you click on the resulting red link — in this case British Rocket Group — you'll get a little note that pops up saying that the page has been previously deleted. Click on that and you'll get a deletion log, which tells you why the page went away. (If you've already been to the page, the message won't reappear. You have to click "Notification" in the upper right-hand corner to make it display.)

Additionally, there was a precedent discussion in this case that gives further explanation.

There's no reason that the page can't be recreated, but it should be recreated based upon valid sources — in this case meaning that no information should come from the tie-in website.

To answer your question very briefly, sometimes it's simply better to scorch a page to the ground and have it wholly rewritten, rather than to try to pick out which bits of the text came from an invalid source and which didn't.