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For discussions that have not been well-archived (before 2004), the page history of the Articles for deletion page has to be used as a contingency archive. One can look in the Deletion log to obtain date and time of a deletion, then look in the page history of VfD near that time to see which edit regards the unlisting of the page, then view the previous version.

Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted – edit history before 13:45, 19 May 2002 (UTC) – also see its talk page and its entry on Nostalgia Wikipedia), histories go back to November 2001
Votes for Deletion – edit history (22:22, 15 May 2002 (UTC) to 06:24, 28 May 2004 (UTC))
Votes for Deletion – edit history (04:53, 28 May 2004 (UTC) to 22:58, 20 September 2004 UTC))
Votes/Articles for Deletion – edit history (00:03, 21 September 2004 (UTC) to Current)
Old VfD archive index (now AfD archives 1–31)

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+For discussions that have not been well-archived (before 2004), the page history of the [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|Articles for deletion]] page has to be used as a contingency archive. One can look in the [[Special:Log/Delete|Deletion log]] to obtain date and time of a deletion, then look in the page history of VfD near that time to see which edit regards the unlisting of the page, then view the previous version.
 *[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted|Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted – edit history before 13:45, 19 May 2002 (UTC)]] – also see its [[Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted|talk page]] and its [[nost:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted|entry on Nostalgia Wikipedia]]), histories go back to November 2001
 *[[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/archive May 2004|Votes for Deletion – edit history (22:22, 15 May 2002 (UTC) to 06:24, 28 May 2004 (UTC))]]