[WikiEN-l] Alternative to Blanking Pages

[Dante Alighieri]

At 06:09 PM 5/26/2003, you wrote:
>I was going to start doing this myself, but I figured it'd be better if 
>people talked about it first, and more effective if they knew about it.
>
>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]]"
>
>I wouldn't recommend that exact text be used, but basically, my idea is to 
>redirect articles to a boilerplate text explaining what's going on rather 
>than just blanking them.
>That way, Googlers and people who located the article in the index or 
>search function will know what's going on.

Sounds reasonable enough to me. I support such a policy.

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Dante Alighieri
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    -Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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