<DIV><B><I>Daniel Mayer <maveric149@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; WIDTH: 100%">Rick wrote:<BR>>Now, I can't say that I DISAGREE with this policy <BR>>(although I think that having to put this notice on <BR>>every page to be deleted is a tad excessive), but <BR>>when and where was this policy discussed? Was <BR>>it ONE PERSON who made the decision, <BR>>UNILATERALLY, that nothing would be deleted <BR>>unless his/her pet boilerplate was put onto the <BR>>page in question?<BR>><BR>>Such new policies need to be discussed, not just <BR>>thrown out as a fait accompli. Other sysops may <BR>>just go ahead and delete pages without the <BR>>boilerplate, and have the right to do so, since this <BR>>"policy" is only one person's decision, and not the <BR>>agreement of the users of Wikipedia as a whole.<BR><BR>For Gods sake, this is the FOURTH place you have posted the SAME question! <BR>Instead of duplicating four different
threads, how about we continue this on <BR>the relevant talk page where some discussion has already taken place:<BR><BR>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion<BR><BR>Not placing the notice a page which is being considered for deletion and then <BR>deleting it, is denying the author (most often a newbie) due process. The <BR>Admin that wrote this was simply clarifying an implied policy by naturally <BR>extending our written policies of having an open and transparent process. <BR><BR>A notice is a no-brainer in light of this and should not be surprising. I was <BR>simply informing people of this policy when they were not following it. In <BR>retrospect the Admin who wrote this should have advertised the change a bit <BR>to see if anybody disagreed. <BR><BR>-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org<BR><A
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<P>Ugh. I wish I could delete part of that above, but Yahoo treats the thing as a whole and won't let me cut out the parts I don't want to discuss.</P>
<P>Anyway, the reason why I keep trying to bring this up is because this is a change in policy that was never discussed. Why is it so wrong to make sure that everyone knows that this policy was made by one person without input from anyone else?</P>
<P>RickK</P><p><hr SIZE=1>
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