David Gerard (fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au) [050507 05:04]:
Tim, this is being bitterly resisted by VFD habitues
on VFD talk. Please
stop by and give numbers if needed to convince:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion#Can_we_pleas…
Jamesday may also care to weigh in - VFD is composed of metatemplates,
which are a known noxious entity.
Please let them know that insisting their 1.5 megabyte page be the
*default* deletion portal is actually a bad idea.
[[:en:User:jguk]] has boldly made a shorter and saner page. The original
longform page is at [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion (long form)]] (shortcut
[[WP:VFDL]]) for those who insist they can't live without it. 'Cos you just
know they'd recreate it in their own user space if it was taken away.
Weighing in may still be needed. Also, the change probably breaks
AllyUnion's VFDbot, so we'll see what happens when that swings by at
midnight ...
(Longer-term possible fixes: make templates in templates stop working.)
- d.