Sounds like a good compromise to me, although that won't cover pages that went through VfD very well.
John Lee (User:Johnleemk)
Angela_ wrote:
That wouldn't work with the way things are currently deleted as sysops usually don't type a reason when deleting speedy deletion candidates. They leave the full text of the article as the deletion reason, which helps others to check what has been deleted as any user can read this text in the deletion log.
As an alternative, I've added the following to [[MediaWiki:Noarticletext]]:
- If you created an article under this title previously, it may have
been deleted. See [[Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion#The cases|candidates for speedy deletion]] for possible reasons.
Perhaps this will help explain to newcomers where their article went.
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