Wikipedia talk:Deletion discussions
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[edit] Informing the creators is being ignored
This was crossposted and has little to do with the specific workings of this page. Please discuss at Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy#Informing the creators is being ignored. The comments have already been moved. Please do not spam such complaints across multiple pages. Rossami (talk) 19:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Voting terms
Um, sheesh, how many ways are there to vote on something? "Delete," "Keep," "Upmerge," "Merge..." the list goes on. Is there a place I can look at all of these, because I aparently am saying one thing when, if I knew there was another option, would say it a different way. I couldn't find anything in the links at the bottom of this page (not the talk page, the project page). Thanks. —ScouterSig 17:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] When Deleting May be Vandalism
I recently noticed an article I was about to edite was just deleted and redirected to another article, no warning that I noticed and no merging. I saw no proposed notice of deleting it here. a) is there an archive of these pages so I can check if there was a warning I missed? Not to mention a way of restoring the article if it WAS vandalized. b) I see no mention of such vandalism or archives in this article itself and I can't be the first person who has suspected that vandalism was involved in deleting a page. Any enlightening comments welcome. Some other wiki page I should be looking at for info? Thanks! ;-) Carol Moore 03:51, 11 November 2007 (UTC)User:Carolmooredc User talk:Carolmooredc
- Click on its history tab. If you can see a lot of lines of edits, then it was not done by an admin and you can simply revert the redirect. Redirecting is simply replacing the text with
#redirect [[Target]]. Unless an admin deleted it, you can revert it just like you do with blanking. Of course, start a discussion on the talk page, and search for old discussions in odd places, like WP:ANI, the creator's talk page, (I assume you already checked WP:AFD and its logs) etc. before reverting. If you can't see a history, then an admin did delete it, and you should bring the issue up on their talk page. Sorry if this comment came too late! --Thinboy00 @936, i.e. 21:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "Old XFD" templates
Two things:
- Is adding the template,such as {{oldafd}}, to an article's talk page part of the discussion closing procedure, or is it up to the people who work on the specific article to add it? If it's not part of the procedure, could it be added? There are quite a few articles that don't have the tag, probably just because nobody thought to add it. It is very helpful to be able to point people to/refer to the old debate(s) when someone brings up the acceptability of the article, or if it gets renominated. (Yes, I know consensus changes so it's not a discussion closer, but it is nice to have the history to refer back to).
- Should we bother adding the tag at all if the result is speedy keep? It would seem to me that pages are speedy kept when the nomination was pointless and just a waste of people's times. Therefore tagging the article as being speedy kept really serves no practical purpose aside from record keeping. Additionally many debates that are speedy closed are because the nominator vandalizing/editing to make a point/trolling, so slapping the tag on the debate only serves to keep it going.
- Koweja (talk) 04:18, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
- Two answers:
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- Yes, adding {{oldafd}} to an article's talk page is part of the discussion closing procedure. In many cases, the closing admins may simply do this themselves. Any other user may add the template to the talk page.
- Yes, you should still add the tag if the result is speedy keep. In case of trolling, simply follow Wikipedia:What is a troll?#Not feeding the trolls.
[edit] Rename?
Inspired by a discussion at the policy talk page (Wikipedia Talk:Deletion policy), I propose renaming this page to Wikipedia:Deletion discussions (that page currently redirects here). I think "discussion" is a more accurate description given WP's consensus-based approach. (Note that the essay already is titled Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions). Any comments/objections? UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:29, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
- A change in wording might not change the actual atmosphere of some deletion discussions, but it can't hurt. I support the proposed rename. Black Falcon (Talk) 04:32, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, BF. Not hearing anything else in 3 days, I am going to kick off the move process. UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:35, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
