On 7/17/06, Jesse W jessw@netwood.net wrote:
Actually, now there *is* a nice, (hopefully) clear line in the message that comes up when you go to a redlinked page, that says: (paraphrasing) "If you expected a page to be here, it may be a database delay, or it may have been deleted - click *here* to check the deletion log, and *here* to see the discussion, if there was one." So, while
It says this:
If you expected a page to be here, and it is not, the page may not yet be visible due to a delay in updating the database, or it may have been deleted. (See the criteria for speedy deletion for some possible reasons). Please try the purge function, check the deletion log and/or the deletion discussion page, and wait a few minutes before attempting to recreate this page.
It could be clearer - these are really pretty exceptional circumstances after all. The "delay in updating the database" is almost unheard of. Something like this might be clearer:
Are you pretty sure there was a page here? It could have been deleted - click here to check. Or maybe there's a database problem - click here to purge the cache page, then wait a bit.
Ideally, of course, the page would just tell you. "There's no page here, but there was one deleted 18 hours ago.".
Steve