You might've wanted to discuss this with AllyUnion prior to deciding on doing it. Nevertheless, it's a good thing. No need to make the long and hard to load page the default.
--Mgm
On 5/6/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
[[WP:VFD]] is now a page of links to individual day pages. The reason for this is (a) unmanageability and consequent insularity, but more importantly (b) this page is a noticeable and undesirable server load ALL BY ITSELF: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-May/029193.html
For those who can't live without the long form week-to-a-view version, it's at [[WP:VFDL]]. But at least that's not the default any more.
I await with some trepidation what AllyUnion's VFDbot will do at midnight, though, if he hasn't checked his talk page before then ...
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion for discussion of the hows and whys.
(Longer-term solution: make templates in templates stop working.)
- d.
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