[WikiEN-l] Things about admins

[Steve Bennett]

On 7/17/06, Jesse W <jessw at netwood.net> wrote:

> Actually, now there *is* a nice, (hopefully) clear line in the message
> that comes up when you go to a redlinked page, that says:
> (paraphrasing) "If you expected a page to be here, it may be a database
> delay, or it may have been deleted - click *here* to check the deletion
> log, and *here* to see the discussion, if there was one."  So, while

It says this:

If you expected a page to be here, and it is not, the page may not yet
be visible due to a delay in updating the database, or it may have
been deleted. (See the criteria for speedy deletion for some possible
reasons). Please try the purge function, check the deletion log and/or
the deletion discussion page, and wait a few minutes before attempting
to recreate this page.

It could be clearer - these are really pretty exceptional
circumstances after all. The "delay in updating the database" is
almost unheard of. Something like this might be clearer:

Are you pretty sure there was a page here? It could have been deleted
- click here to check. Or maybe there's a database problem - click
here to purge the cache page, then wait a bit.

Ideally, of course, the page would just tell you. "There's no page
here, but there was one deleted 18 hours ago.".

Steve