On 12/10/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/9/05, Michael Snow
<wikipedia(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
The problem is that a great deal of policing
depends on people using
their watchlists and/or Recent Changes. Deletion and undeletion show up
on neither.
Deletion is evident in CDVF.
It's easy enough to make a watchlist for articles your interested in,
and to spot their deletion. Simply create a list containing links to
those articles (like the list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tony_Sidaway/Watch, which was
created for a different purpose). Whenever you look at the list, the
redlinks are the articles that have been deleted.
Having said that, I don't like this idea of turning deletion into a
content matter. We would in effect be condoning and encouraging edit
warfare by making page-blanking an acceptable edit. For some people,
it would be an irresistible invitation to vandalism, for others, a way
of suppressing inconvenient statements.