[WikiEN-l] Automated VFDing was Re: Banality threshold

[George Herbert]

On 10/1/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> why would it be a bad idea? Because people would delete too much? Or
> that they would not use the simper process of PROD as a  first resort?
> I;m much more concerned of their using Speedy as a all-purpose resort.
>
> On 10/1/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/1/07, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Commons manages to have a "nominate for deletion" link in the sidebar,
> > > even when logged out. Is this all done locally?
> >
> > That goes to nfd_nomForDel() which is defined at
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Quick-delete.js and
> > included in common.js on Commons.
> >
> > We could *easily* make something exactly like this (to "AFD this
> > article") available to everybody on en.wikipedia but I really think it
> > would be a bad idea.

Out of curiosity... (my test MW wiki is off right now or I'd try this...)

If someone deletes an article on your watchlist, the deletion event
does not show up on the watchlist, correct?

I'm inclined to think that this is a bug...


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-george william herbert
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