On Feb 10, 2006, at 3:37 PM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Not a bad idea. It gives people time to work on an article and doesn't get the immediate hit your article is being AFDed, but is there some safeguard in place against people removing the tag?
If someone removes an AFD tag, you still have the central listing. What happens if they remove a prod tag? Do I have to watchlist it and hope it is the last edit on the article if I check it?
There is a log of the current status of any article which has had the PROD tag added to it at any time; i.e. if someone removes the tag, it shows up in this log - with the username, edit summary, and the current status of the article(AfD'd, deleted, copyvio, etc) visible in the log. That log is here: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/en_prod_history
Also, there is the currently tagged log ( http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/ en_proposed_deletion ), which lists the time the article was tagged, the article name, the reason provided, and the number of hours remaining before the article can be deleted. Overall, there is *more* information available about a PROD'ed article than is available about a AfD'ed article, although we could of course fix this with proper coding.
Jesse Weinstein