The deletion archives were first created on 10 August 2002. The first post to Wikipedia:Deletion review, which was then known as "ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:Votes for undeletion", was on 14 May 2003. Seven months later on 3 December 2003, the archive was cleared because the Wikipedia database was transfered to a new server. Pages deleted prior to the database crash on 8 June 2004 are not present in the current archive because the archive tables were not backed up. This means pages cannot be restored by a sysop. If there is great desire for them, it may be possible to retrieve them from the old database files.
Deletions prior to December 2006 are listed by closing date. Decisions starting December 2006 are listed by nomination date. Monthly archives are very large and might take a long time to load. For a list of Deletion Review subpages, see All pages (Wikipedia namespace).
