[WikiEN-l] Re: Image deletion : policies and technology

Fri Jul 15 20:50:11 UTC 2005

Timwi <timwi at ...> writes:
> SJ wrote:
> > Even as an administrator, whe I go to a deleted page, or try to track
> > down a deleted image, it is hard to identify who deleted a given page,
> > and what reason was given -- the list of deleted revisions is not
> > coordinated with the deletion log.
> 
> I've asked this before and I can't remember what the answer was. Why 
> don't we just show this right on the page? At least up to 48 hours after 
> the deletion? "This page was deleted by <user> on <date> at <time> for 
> the following reason..."

We could add some text to [[MediaWiki:Nogomatch]] that links to the deletion 
log and WP:VFD.  Could we also make it filter for the page name, or is that 
not available?  If that is possible, then we could also link to the specific 
(possibly non-existent) VfD page.

Bovlb