Last modified: 2008-09-07 01:12:00 UTC
Please implement a dropdown box with predefined reasons for deleting and protecting pages similar to the Dropdown-Box with predefined Block-Reasons. Admins sometimes give somewhat sloppy Deletion-Reasons, which may upset the Author of the deleted Page.
Refactoring to handle just the protection issue; bug 9633 handles predefined deletion reasons. I'm not sure we need such a list for protection, since a lot of protection issues will require a more thorough explanation, so I'm less inclined to think it a good idea to support a bunch of boilerplates.
I suspect a lot of cases are going to be fairly generic -- 'protecting for X hours in response to edit war' etc. It might be suitable to allow a combination of both a drop-down boilerplate and a custom comment to clarify. Or that might be crazy talk, dunno. :D
Having both a combo box and text box is exactly what we have currently for deletion and blocking; why should this be any different?
Done in r40555
I think the messages for "other expiry" and "other/additional reason" should be split into two messages for the labels and two messages for the options. for consistency with other labels, the labels should have colons and be capitalised. While the options should not have colons, and at least the other expiry time option should not be capitalised.
(In reply to comment #5) > I think the messages for "other expiry" and "other/additional reason" should be > split into two messages for the labels and two messages for the options. for > consistency with other labels, the labels should have colons and be > capitalised. While the options should not have colons, and at least the other > expiry time option should not be capitalised. > Didn't even notice. Done in r40561.
