[WikiEN-l] Votes for deletion and due process

Wed Aug 20 18:13:58 UTC 2003

Jimbo wrote:
...
It would be wrong of someone to add something like
this if they wrote
"When you list a page... you are required to place the
following
notice".  It would even be wrong to write it in a
command form, as in
"When you list a page... -- place the following
notice."
...

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I think what Nicolas may have been referring to was
not so much the note at the top of VfD, but the
message that mav left on many people's talk pages a
few days ago.

<quote>  When you list a page on Votes for deletion
you must say "Listed on Votes for deletion" on the
page you are listing. Otherwise the page will not get
deleted. --mav 23:38, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)  </quote>

The 'must' was italicised. Notices on VfD and on the
policy page that it is in fact optional were only
added after people took issue with mav's statement.

Angela.

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