Last modified: 2007-03-06 17:29:26 UTC
At [[:fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Hashar#Modèles]] I made a reference to the page [[:fr:Pages liées]] which should be deleted (because the content was moved to [[:fr:Utilisateur:Gangleri/tests/Pages liées]]). Now [[:fr:Pages liées]] is deleted but does not show any more in Special:Contributions. Should it? Some users maight be confused not being able to find the entries for deleted pages they where contributing / watching. Depending on the database modele it would not be possible to show this information. (If pages / MySQL records are realy deleded no MySQL querry could be made. But to my knowledge this does not seems to be the case.) Maybe a hint in the text at Special:Contributions and Special:Watchlist could / should be inserted about this. Regards Reinhardt
To get these records it would involve another query against the "archive" table, in addition to the queries done against "cur" and "old". I don't think it's worth the hastle (since you can't view the entries anyway unless you're an admin). Having a warning text might be worthwhile, but I'm not sure having a warning wouldn't cause more confusion than it solves. I'd be tempted to mark this as WONTFIX. Thoughts?
I think the watchlist should include a notice about the page deletion (like in the deletion log), since that is the important event that a user will probably want to know about. I don't think deleted pages really need to be displayed otherwise.
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Removed "Special:Contributions" from summary, as bug 1699 now covers it.
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When a page that a user is watching is deleted, there is no notification to the user on the user's watch list. If it was a speedy deletion, there may have been no other watchlist entry either. A witchlist line with "Deleted:" followed by the log summery would be very helpful. Thsi recently came up at Deletion Review on the en wikipedia, and we often see people at the helpdesk asking "what happened to Article FooBar". Therefore I favor this enhancement.
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Let me weigh in as an admin- this is very useful for admin pranks (Redwolf24 deleted my userpage, and it wasn't until he told me I noticed, despite my vigilant search of my watchlist. Likewise, this is useful for obscure articles since sometimes insufficient notice is given, and of course, this just plain makes sense- a deletion is a *major* edit.
Administrators who "mess about" and play "pranks" on each other probably shouldn't have the sysop bit.
Since watchlist is currently taken from the recentchanges table, we could take the opportunity to stick in special page-deleted entries in there alongside the log entry. Not quite sure what's the best way to handle this.
*note* When I opened this request I could not differenciate between [[special:Watchlist]] and [[special:Watchlist/edit]] (last syntax is probably newer then 2004-11-14). Bug 5490: Your watchlist after a "wikibreak" is more detailed about [[special:Watchlist/edit]] and item b) handles also issues related to "move".
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