[WikiEN-l] On deletion notices

Sat Aug 23 20:33:35 UTC 2003

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Subject: [ wikipedia-Bugs-793759 ] POST RECIPIES IS IMPOSIBLE!!!
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 07:05:00 -0700

Summary: POST RECIPIES IS IMPOSIBLE!!!

Initial Comment:
Yestaerday I posted two recipies from Argentina (Locro
and Milanesas) and Today there isn´t it here...
Why?...I need a special authoritation for do it?...and, if
this is real... Where is the free spirit of "Wikipedia"!?!?!?!

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See, this is the kind of stuff I get cluttering up the bug reports queue 
when we don't have deletion notices.

I checked the logs, and the pages in question appear to have been posted 
in Spanish on the English Wikipedia, and were deleted by Jiang with 
reason "not in English" within minutes of their posting. I don't see any 
sign that they were ever listed in 'Votes for Deletion', nor that any 
attempt was made to contact the author (an anonymous IP with no other 
contribs).

They weren't _great_ pages, and both pages had had newbie experiments 
dropped in them last year, but summary deletion isn't necessarily the 
best thing.

Putting a notice on the pages that they should be moved to 
es.wikipedia.org and/or translated into English would have taken just a 
few seconds, and may have made a new contributor very pleased and 
interested instead of angered and alienated.

(This isn't a criticism directed at Jiang, it's just a note on how this 
now very widespread click-delete-and-forget philosophy doesn't look very 
friendly from the other side.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)