Sounds reasonable, but how do we make the distinction
between
'indispensible' an 'of interest'? Should we leave a note on the page that
an
admin is willing to retrieve info from deletion should be be needed?
Mgm
On 12/21/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
It's the hidden from non-admins part that is
a problem.
If you did any significant editing, the discussions on your talk page
could
be of interest to other editors even after you
leave. It could be
tagged
as
belonging to a left user, it can be protected
from trolls, and it might
even
be blankable, but it cannot be deleted.
In general, I do not agree with this approach. Allowing people to
vanish, including deleting their user and user_talk pages, is often the
best way to part company with dignity. "Could be of interest" should
not be the standard, I think, but rather "Is indispensable to the
functioning of the encyclopedia."
There can be exceptions, of course. If a user repeatedly joins and
deletes (perhaps sockpuppeting), causing a lot of disruptive demands to
delete their userpage, we could just ignore it if that seemed like the
best way to deal with it.
But in general, I see no reason to have a general policy of keeping talk
pages around that make someone who would like to leave us unhappy.
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