On 15/06/07, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> We have been doing it, on an ad-hoc basis, for a
year or so -
> generally after a complaint. It tends to be low-profile, because
> no-one ever watches archived deletion discussion pages so no-one
> notices...
[Low-profile here is "the reason people don't hear about it unless
they go looking", not "our cunning plan to keep it secret", I hastily
clarify...]
And nobody thought that it might be controversial and
should be
discussed by the wider policy community...?
(...)
I don't think
this was appropriate to do in more than a corner case handful of
special cases without airing it as a policy question to this group.
It was aired on wikien-l, in January 2006, when first proposed.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-January/037246.html
There's a thread of maybe fifty replies there discussing it, and it
may well have also been discussed in some of the related
AFD-is-a-PR-nightmare threads that month.
I would also feel better if you took the arguments
above and created
at least an essay on this on-wiki so that the policy discussion is
public and the result openly available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_blanking has been on
the wiki since September 2006, though it seems to have been merged and
redirected to the main deletion policy page a few days ago.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk