Daniel Cannon wrote:
On 6/11/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
My recommendation would be to just have a little box with the note that the page used to exist and was deleted, and you can [see the deletion logs] to find out when and why.
Well, I think this is much more in line with what Rob Church has now done -- that is, it provides a warning only if the page has been previously deleted, and in a slightly prettier manner. I've also removed the log from Noarticletext, on the basis that the user has not yet expressed an editorial interest.
The deletion notice *should* IMO be given below noarticletext(anon) as well, to inform readers who arrive via links from other sites. That said, I agree with Brion that it shouldn't show the log itself, but rather a notice with a link to the log.
I don't, however, like the idea of removing the log from the view altogether. Would it perhaps do to simply remove the deletion _reason_ from the displayed log, perhaps with a link to the reason or allow the user to expand particular entries to see the reason?
This would seem needlessly complex and confusing, for little if any gain. Just tell the user that the page has been deleted, and let them click a link if they want to find out when and why and by whom.