[WikiEN-l] AFD courtesy problem

[Kat Walsh]

On 1/17/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> 2. At the close of all VfD debates, the discussion is deleted.  If there
> is a need to have a stub page left there to guide people to the fact
> that there was a prior debate, then create that stub fresh, with the
> history gone.  In the event it is needed, the history can always be
> resurrected by some admin.

Why delete (instead of just replacing the debate with a notice,
perhaps even protecting it that way, without deleting the existing
history) unless there's some compelling reason? Non-admins also ought
to be able to go back and look at the debate.

-Kat

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