Steve Bennett schrieb:
On 8/4/06, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Currently, this is done by putting a template on it and protecting the page.
This has the advantage of allowing the user to see a human-written explanation of why that particular topic is banned. It would be good if any technical solution can maintain that property.
No; at the moment the template just says that "this page has been deleted according to the (speedy) deletion guidelines for several times in the past. In order to prevent further attempts in creating this article, it has been blocked" or something like that (full text: [1]). This explanation may be an explanation for what has happened with this article and it may be human-written, but I don't think it will really help the user (or reader) who coincidentally comes about it. It would be good, if any technical solution for this problem gave the blocking administrator the possibility to enter a reason for the block and if this reason could be displayed directly on the page (i.e. instead of {{MediaWiki_Noarticletext_NS_{{NAMESPACE}}}} on non-existing pages some kind of {{MediaWiki_Noarticletext_blocked}} for blocked non-existing pages where the comment can be seen - dunno, but it surely will be too complicated/expensive regarding ressources ;-)
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