[WikiEN-l] Votes for deletion

Sun Aug 17 02:44:28 UTC 2003

>
>[[Wikipedia:Deletion policy]] seems to have sprouted the following 
>language:  "
>
>When you list a page on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion that you think will be 
>listed for the entire 7 days -- i.e., a page that won't be deleted 
>immediately -- please place the following notice above the page's content:
>
>    ''This page has been listed on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]]. Please 
>see that page for justifications and discussion.'' ".
>And [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] now says:
>
>"NOTE: Always indicate on the listed page itself that it is here. See 
>Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Listed_for_deletion_notice. If this is not done, 
>then the page will not be deleted. "
>
>Now, I can't say that I DISAGREE with this policy (although I think that 
>having to put this notice on every page to be deleted is a tad excessive), 
>but when and where was this policy discussed?  Was it ONE PERSON who made 
>the decision, UNILATERALLY, that nothing would be deleted unless his/her 
>pet boilerplate was put onto the page in question?
>
>Such new policies need to be discussed, not just thrown out as a fait 
>accompli.  Other sysops may just go ahead and delete pages without the 
>boilerplate, and have the right to do so, since this "policy" is only one 
>person's decision, and not the agreement of the users of Wikipedia as a 
>whole.
>
>RickK
>
I agree. Who 'decided' this?

JT

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