Recently, r22642 has added the list of deletion log entries below noarticletext. It was bug 7691, and while i understand the reasons for adding it, it injects ugliness into the wiki's 404. Deletion logs are not politically correct, there are lots of "content was: <offensive text>", which are perfectly valid deletion reasons. But not appropiate for showing to the casual browser. When someone searchs about Foo, we may be giving <s>insults</s>misleading information about it, as (while saying it was deleted) we put "vandal #325 opinion about Foo" It wouldn't surprise me that some blogger/journalist discovers that "Wikipedia says X" on a log entry. We already had problems with viewdeleted history. If the user doesn't specify an ''editor interest'', page browsing shouldn't give information about wiki document managing. The log below newarticle text should be enough (though will show when arriving via red links... :s) If we still want to alert the user of deleted pages, i'd either make it a new message: "Warning: A page with this name was deleted [N times]" with the corresponding link to Special:log, or add it as a parameter to noarticletext for parserfunctioning it. Opinions? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Recently, r22642 has added the list of deletion log entries below noarticletext. It was bug 7691, and while i understand the reasons for adding it, it injects ugliness into the wiki's 404.