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

[Casey Brown]

It doesn't.  It really isn't a bug, a watchlist is supposed to show edits
made to pages, not log entries.  However, I can see why you wish this
feature would be added to the watchlist, but it's not a bug. :-)

On 10/1/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.herbert at gmail.com
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