[WikiEN-l] Votes for deletion and due process

Fri Aug 22 09:02:57 UTC 2003

Jimbo wrote:
>I'd probably like it best if it said something like 
>"It is generally considered courteous to let people 
>who have worked on the page know that it might 
>be deleted, either by putting a note on their talk 
>page or by putting a note on the page itself that 
>says something like this..."

Done. The text on the policy page now says;

<blockquote>
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 -- it is generally considered courteous to let people who have 
worked on or read the page know that it might be deleted. The suggested way 
to do this is to place the following or similar notice above the page's 
content: 
....
</blockquote>

--mav