On 6/21/07, Chuck Smith chuckssmith@gmail.com wrote:
- [Logged in] users should be able to view the deleted article, if it
was not deleted due to copyright or legal issues. I believe there are many articles that are being deleted that are still very educational to the public, and I don't think it is in the educational best interest of our public to ban someone's right to view a deleted article.
That brings up the question of what exactly the point of deletion is, then. Users can already get the text articles deleted for innocuous reasons from any number of friendly administrators, and if they don't know where to ask, that's something that the English Wikipedia should solve itself by editing the appropriate message.
- There should be direct links on the deleted page to the discussion
(and previous discussion if it was put up for AfD before), so people can more easily understand why an article was deleted.
Posting deletion logs was tried just now and changed, because it's ugly and because it partly defeats the point of deletion when it quotes the content right on the very page it was supposed to have been deleted from.
Possibly it would be interesting to allow a custom message to be added to a deleted article by admins, without actually recreating the article.
- Email auto-notification of articles on someone's watchlist of being
proposed for AfD.
Hard to see how this would be implemented without a fair amount of special-case code being written specifically for the English Wikipedia or whatever.