I've had a few complaints from people who said that, not being administrators, they felt unable to participate fully in [[Wikipedia:Deletion review]] because they could not see the content of the article under discussion.
I've decided to act on this, and have placed the following notice on the page:
"Some administrators take all good faith requests for undeletion on this page as de facto requests for temporary undeletion for the purpose of debate, and will honor such requests, unless the content is defamatory, copyright, a personal attack, or otherwise unsuitable for publication, for the duration of the debate. They reserve the right to will be not undelet if there is reason to suspect that this forum is being abused. Pages undeleted for this purpose should be clearly marked with a link to [[Wikipedia:Deletion review]].".
This should solve the problem. Basically I'll undelete stuff that satisfies the above criteria while it is being discussed on the forum, in the interests of encouraging full participation by all editors.
I am hugely in favor of this. There are some categories of deleted article which might be harmful to keep up, but otherwise there is no harm keeping the content available, especially if marked as being temporarily visible while an undeletion discussion is underway.
-Matt
Is there perhaps a template for this, datestamped with words to the effect that if no consensus for undeletion is established within 7 days of the addition of the template, it should be redeleted?
Steve
I am hugely in favor of this. There are some categories of deleted article which might be harmful to keep up, but otherwise there is no harm keeping the content available, especially if marked as being temporarily visible while an undeletion discussion is underway.
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On 1/28/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Is there perhaps a template for this, datestamped with words to the effect that if no consensus for undeletion is established within 7 days of the addition of the template, it should be redeleted?
I created a small template (I find large in-your-face boxes repellant) at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_under_review
I see that it's already been listed for deletion. Oh how fun! :)
There is a shortcut for it: {{dur}}
On 1/28/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
I created a small template (I find large in-your-face boxes repellant) at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_under_review
I see that it's already been listed for deletion. Oh how fun! :)
I must say that the recent trend to IMMEDIATELY LIST FOR DELETION any template or category associated with a policy or procedure suggestion someone doesn't like is rather disturbing.
-Matt
Matt Brown wrote:
On 1/28/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
I created a small template (I find large in-your-face boxes repellant) at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_under_review
I see that it's already been listed for deletion. Oh how fun! :)
I must say that the recent trend to IMMEDIATELY LIST FOR DELETION any template or category associated with a policy or procedure suggestion someone doesn't like is rather disturbing.
Can you IMMEDIATELY BLOCK THEM for violating [[WP:POINT]]?
(Or will they sue us IN A COURT OF LAW?)
On 1/28/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Can you IMMEDIATELY BLOCK THEM for violating [[WP:POINT]]?
(Or will they sue us IN A COURT OF LAW?)
In Trenton, New Jersey?
-Matt
You know what would be really really fun, if this template got deleted, then ended up at WP:DRV, then temporarily restored with a note saying "This template has been temporarily restored due to discussion..." etc. Now if anything would illustrate the sometimes curies practices that wikipedia uses for deletion, that would be it!
I'm almost tempted to go vote delete for that reason alone!!!
--Oskar
On 1/28/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/28/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Is there perhaps a template for this, datestamped with words to the effect that if no consensus for undeletion is established within 7 days of the addition of the template, it should be redeleted?
I created a small template (I find large in-your-face boxes repellant) at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_under_review
I see that it's already been listed for deletion. Oh how fun! :)
There is a shortcut for it: {{dur}} _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
It's almost enough to make you wish that this sort of deleted material (not defamatory, not a copyvio, etc) were stored in the edit history, like it would be under pure wiki deletion...
Ryan
On 1/28/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I am hugely in favor of this. There are some categories of deleted article which might be harmful to keep up, but otherwise there is no harm keeping the content available, especially if marked as being temporarily visible while an undeletion discussion is underway.
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