On 12/10/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/9/05, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
The problem is that a great deal of policing depends on people using their watchlists and/or Recent Changes. Deletion and undeletion show up on neither.
Deletion is evident in CDVF.
It's easy enough to make a watchlist for articles your interested in, and to spot their deletion. Simply create a list containing links to those articles (like the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tony_Sidaway/Watch, which was created for a different purpose). Whenever you look at the list, the redlinks are the articles that have been deleted.
Having said that, I don't like this idea of turning deletion into a content matter. We would in effect be condoning and encouraging edit warfare by making page-blanking an acceptable edit. For some people, it would be an irresistible invitation to vandalism, for others, a way of suppressing inconvenient statements.