I seem to recall that the page deletion facility used to have a place to say why you were deleting a page. Now it just asks "are you sure?" and, if so, does the deed and logs what was deleted and by whom.
Is there any place to record reasons for page deletions?
I don't know where that went. You could vote for deletion, state your reason, then really delete it...
Magnus
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I seem to recall that the page deletion facility used to have a place to say why you were deleting a page. Now it just asks "are you sure?" and, if so, does the deed and logs what was deleted and by whom.
Is there any place to record reasons for page deletions?
Vicki Rosenzweig vr@redbird.org http://www.redbird.org
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On dim, 2002-05-19 at 06:54, Magnus Manske wrote:
Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
I seem to recall that the page deletion facility used to have a place to say why you were deleting a page. Now it just asks "are you sure?" and, if so, does the deed and logs what was deleted and by whom.
I don't know where that went.
I don't think it's ever been there, in the software process of deleting a page. (At least, on the current software; I have no idea what the delete function in Perl-land was like.)
There _is_ a place to put an explanation for banning IPs, and there _should be_ one for deleting pages and deleting uploaded files.
In the human process of deleting a page, there are now two places where you can place your reasons for deleting something, but you have to explicitly do this yourself...
Is there any place to record reasons for page deletions?
You could vote for deletion, state your reason, then really delete it...
So what exactly is the overlap between [[Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion]] and [[Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted]]? Is the latter now deprecated?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
"Brion L. VIBBER" wrote:
So what exactly is the overlap between [[Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion]] and [[Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted]]? Is the latter now deprecated?
I think Votes for deletion is the better page of the two because ANYONE can access it just by clicking a button rather than actually having to physically go looking for the other page. The software does the searching for you...
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