[WikiEN-l] Showing the deletion log on the article creation page?

[Gabe Johnson]

On 6/1/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
>
> I just got a note from a user who was upset that we had deleted an
> article that he had recreated. We even salted it after this deletion,
> because it had been recreated repeatedly. However, he didn't know that
> he was recreating something that failed an AfD; it just looks like
> [[Desktop Tower Defense]] was a favorite game and he was excited nobody
> had written about it yet.
>
> He's absolutely right that it was rude not to tell him that we had
> deleted the article before. He wasted a lot of time and we could have
> saved his goodwill for something else. Plus, we had to clean up the
> mess. A bad situation all around.
>
> What if we change the article creation page to explicitly say that a
> page has been deleted before, either including the deletion logs
> directly or giving them a link for it? Right now the fact that an
> article might be have been previously deleted is buried in the second
> sentence of the sixth bullet point. Instead I'm thinking a pretty
> warning box would be more appropriate, one that only appears when the
> article has actually been deleted in the past.
>
> Thanks,
>
> William
>

Well, it might have to distinguish between speedy and AFD deletions. ~~~~

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