[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Soft deletion

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

Unfortunately, articles like that are usually reposted instead of reverted,
so making reverting non-obvious won't help. Also, with the amount of
non-notable coming in, this method could result in a lot of clutter. An
empty page already says something that was previously there could have been
deleted and goes on to point a reader in the right direction. So we're
basically telling them already.

In my experience shoving rules in people's faces won't help. They will
continue to ignore them.
Take for example [[WP:AFC]]: Despite the wizard, non-notable entries and
spam are still posted
and  despite the notice at the top of the page [[WP:HD]] and similar desks
still get inappropriate questions that belong elsewhere.

I think we should work more on pointing people to relevant rules before they
post their first article.

Mgm