And that's why it's not a good idea to run around marking things AfD. I personally didn't even know these were up for deletion, it's not like I need to look at the page on  every single day. But today I did, and it's gone, apparently forever until somebody reconstitutes the entire work. I wonder how many man-hours of effort that were put into these pages just got deep-sixed? It's pretty clear by this case and many others that the procedure for deletion is tragically broken broken broken.