[WikiEN-l] Re: Image deletion : policies and technology

[Bovlb]

Timwi <timwi at ...> writes:
> Bovlb wrote:
>> We could add some text to [[MediaWiki:Nogomatch]] that links to the 
>> deletion log and WP:VFD.
> 
> But we can't, without changes to the software, display different text 
> depending on whether there actually *was* a page that had been deleted 
> recently. It's quite unprofessional to go, "This page *MAY* have been 
> deleted... go check in the Deletion Log to see if that's the case!" 
> Like, as if it was impossible to have the software check for you.

I agree that it's suboptimal not to be able to present a different message if 
the page used to exist, but is my suggested wording really that bad?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Nogomatch

BoVLB