[WikiEN-l] Alternative to Blanking Pages

[Toby Bartels]

cprompt wrote:

>Instead of blanking articles why not replace the article text with a 
>redirect to a boilerplate text with something along the lines of "The 
>content of this article is being disputed. It has been blanked for the 
>time being, though older version are still accessible through the Page 
>History. It may have been blanked because of blatantly false 
>information, or non-encyclopedic garbage. This article may be awaiting 
>[[votes for deletion]], or awaiting a sysop to delete it. Please use the 
>Talk Page to discuss this dispute if necessary, and check [[Votes for 
>Deletion]]"

This is a good idea, to which I'd suggest one change:
Make several boilerplate text pages to redirect to,
and choose the appropriate one in each case.
None of this "It may have ...", "[it] may be ..." stuff.
And such boilerplate texts have already been written in many cases;
it'd just be easier to redirect than to cut and paste.


-- Toby