[WikiEN-l] Old VFD-type discussions on talk sub-pages

Thu Oct 6 09:25:56 UTC 2005

On 10/5/05, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just discovered that a bunch of these have been obliterated as an
> unfortunate side-effect of an entirely right-minded drive to delete orphan
> talk pages.
>
> The particular page which I stumbled across is
> [[Talk:Constitutional_Charter_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro/Delete]] which can be
> viewed here (if you have the right credentials :-):
> *
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Talk:Constitutional_Charter_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro/Delete
>
If I read this correctly the AFD/VFD discussion was put on the talk
page when it belonged on a A or VFD subpage. Why was it there to begin
with.

I don't particularly like moving old VFD discussions to AFD either. It
obscures their age.

--Mgm