So who is most harmed; the person who has to paste a small boilerplate message into an article, or the person who wrote that article or helped improve it, have the article mysteriously disappear one day without any obvious reason why?
What if the person doesn't check the page? Why not just contact the author instead of a boilerplate thing on the article, which, IMO, is just as bad a defacement.
Not placing proper notice on an article falling under the 7 day rule and marked for deletion, is akin to trying a person without bothering to tell them about the trial! Yeah sure it is on a publicly viewable page, but then so are court records; should society expect ordinary people to periodically check those records just to make sure they are not on trial for something? This lack of due process is very unwiki.
Deleting a page really isn't as bad as sending someone to prison. And no one's arguing that we should make any deletion records private. LDan
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