I’ve (fortunately) never seen such a story. What sorts of things are usually reported on being considered for deletion?

Wiki discussions are a source everyone in university should check.

wiki is great when diving into a new topic, but the “talk” discussions are great to see where’s the debates in the field, new reach, controversies… then you can apply critical thought and do really well on reports.

It has been my experience, anecdotal as that may be, that a considerable portion of Wikipedia editors are fervent deletionists about anything not found in a paper encyclopedia, Molly White’s impression notwithstanding. The mind-set is, that at some point in the future, Wikipedia will actually be printed out somehow, and any extraneous pages just add more cost with no redeeming value. My own vision is more along the Encyclopedia Galactica line - the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comes to mind - where notability is a very low bar, as opposed to the current policy. Should there even be a deletion policy? Why? Maybe a better system would rank the topics by page views and surface the better ones. Why are some editors gatekeepers about public knowledge with their speedy deletion trigger happiness? That’s not the way it works in science publications - ooooh, I guess we need more that one Wikipedia to make that work.