Why was my thread deleted?

i posted this. It's a collection of quotes about the release date since the late 1990's.

Kurt Loder Interview : 1999

Loder: When do you think we will actually see this album? Is it possible to say early next year?

Rose: We're hoping. Yes, definitely, everything seems to be going well.

Rolling Stone Article: 2000

?The new Guns N Roses album is tentatively titled Chinese Democracy and loosely scheduled for summer 2000?.

''As far as I can tell,'' says GnR's manager Doug Goldstein, ''we are now 99% musically done and 80% vocals done. I see the record being done Feb or March for a summer release.''

Chile Radio Interview: 2001

DJ: When is it gonna be the new album? Is it possible that we're gonna have a new record from Guns N' Roses?

Axl: Yes, I've heard. Um, hopefully we will put out a new single umm sometime this spring and then the record gonna be done in June or shortly thereafter.

Seattle Interview: 2002

?Ditch: You've really, you've... It sounds like really nurtured relationships with these guys, and the new disc "Chinese Democracy". Umm, do you have any idea when the fruits of those labours will come to harvest??

Axl: Uhh, sometime during the next year.

RIR Press Release: 2004

?Guns will be moving forward and surprisingly (without giving away any details) this unfortunate set of circumstances may have given us the opportunity to take our recording that one extra step further. Regardless we hope to announce a release date within the next few months?.

Open letter from Axl Rose: posted on HTGTH, Dec 15th 2006

??this is not a promise, a lie or a guarantee, but we do wish to announce a tentative release date of March 6?.