Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) wrote:
Hello,
This is a *very* useful feature on Wikisource. It should make it easier for readers to understand why they can't find a popular modern text they were looking for, and help curb repeated recreation of copyrighted texts.
The deletion log has been publicly viewable for as long as I can remember (with a convenient link from the messages on inexistent pages), so it was always a bad idea to include personal attacks and other excerpts in the reason. This is a good reason to education administrators, not remove the feature.
If the English Wikipedia decides to disable the feature due to poor deletion summaries, please disable it on a wiki-by-wiki basis. I would hate to lose it on Wikisource.
Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
Wouldn't a different message serve for the same purpose? "This page has been previously deleted, please remember that Copyrighted texts can't be placed on Wikisource (more info on inclusion criteria) - View delete log"
Educating administrators is good, but we already have lots of logs with page content. Why should be the feature *so* verbose? Maybe the "content was" feature is now a bug?
Having a look to wikisource, i learn that julie is hated[1], Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen are pretty cool[2] but the book is confusing[3]. Much more interesting, Declan Black found out that he was gay when he was born [4]
Pathoschild, your deletion logs are impressive.However, i should note that not everybody has a helper script to automatically fill the deletion summary (nor i'm sure it's a good idea).
PS 1: Ivan, we were talking about exposing deletion logs, not anon page creation. PS 2: GerardM, i found it active on every project i checked. Which ones don't have it?
1-http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Archy_and_mehitabel/the_hen_and_the_oriole 2-http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Talk:Pride_and_Prejudice/Chapter_1 3-http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Talk:Pride_and_Prejudice/Chapter_2 4-http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declan_Black