On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:43:29 -0700, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com gave utterance to the following:
Erik wrote:
I choose not to follow this policy as I consider it unnecessary extra work, but I don't mind if others add the boilerplate notice. (We already bend over backwards to inform newbies whenever they make a mistake.) Just don't remove pages I add to VfD or reset the timer because of the missing boilerplate.
What? So you are saying that we can list items on VfD and /not/ make an attempt to inform the author and readers of the page that it is being considered for deletion? How are they supposed to know? I've already received several complaints from newbies who had their pages nuked without notice.
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