[WikiEN-l] Deleting talk pages of deleted pages

[Stephen Bain]

On 7/8/07, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> These discussions about an article -- including about its deletion and
> notability -- should be preserved just as deletion discussions are.
> They will be useful if the article returns later, if others try to
> determine whether it should have been deleted, and are a record of
> discussions about knowledge by people who cared about the topic.

That's if the talk pages actually contain any relevant discussion; in
my experience, a substantial proportion of the time the talk page
contains nothing but templates.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com