Brion-
I've added a more convenient link into the
undeletion system, which will
show in bold at the top of the page when viewing a page which has been
deleted (if you're a sysop).
I'm not sure what the point of this is. Now I get lots of annoying
messages on pages that have at some point been created as an experiment
and later been re-created as a real page. In virtually all of these cases
I don't want to restore the deleted revisions. The very few cases in which
there might be something useful accidentally deleted do not IMHO justify
enabling this for all 100+ sysops and not making it configurable. Can we
disable this by default and make it a preference? Otherwise people will
probably start restoring junk revisions just to get rid of the messages.
This is particularly problematic since the deleted revisions info looks
just like the "new messages" info and is in the same place. I know the
intent is to standardize style, but it reduces usability, as it makes the
much less common but more important talk page notification easier to miss.
Regards,
Erik