[WikiEN-l] How to find an old TfD discussion?

[Andrew Gray]

On 04/08/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>   I gather that at some stage a template that I had created, {{ISBN}}
> has been deleted. I'd very curious to read what the reasoning was. I'd
> also be curious to know why no one told me about it ;)
>
> Anyone know how I can find the discussion in the archives? I can't see
> a way other than systematically plodding through all the archives for
> each day and hoping to stumble on it. But since I can only guess it
> was sometime in the last month or two. Can't find it with Wikipedia's
> search, can't find it with google...any ideas?
>
> I'm presuming that old TfD archives are actually retained...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:ISBN

gives us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_9

It's also in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/Deleted/October_2005#Template:ISBN

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/Deleted/May_2005#Template:ISBN

(the May one seems to have been "this needs an ISBN!", the later two
just conventional ISBN links)


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