User talk:DalekSec

Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion pages. The notices and comments are needed to establish community consensus about the status of an article, and removing them is considered vandalism. If you oppose the deletion of an article, you may comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. --Anthony.bradbury 23:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I find this confusing as the notice states "You may remove this message if you improve the article, or if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason." Why does it instruct a user to do things that are apparently against wikipedia policy? DalekSec 01:04, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi there. First of all, I have no wish to criticise, denigrate or otherwise put you down, and I hope that you will continue to write and become a regular Wiki contributor. Your comment is well taken, and reflects a small defect in the templates available. There are three ways in which a patroller may mark an article as possibly deserving deletion. The first is a db-reason template, which normally results in the article's immediate removal and which I did not think your article warranted. The second is an AfD tag, which invites discussion from all sides and which seemed unnecessary. And the third is to apply a subst:prod tag, which I used. This gives you five days to react, the reaction normally being either to modify the article, or to put a comment on the talk page of the article justifying its retention. I agree that the flag does say that removal is ok if you disagree, and so it is; the template is not worded as well as it might be. While I personally, on principle, never re-tag an article in which a subst:prod flag has been removed, other editors might, without some justifying comment on the articles talk page, given that in the absence of explanation the notability of the article is questionable. I hope this answers your question; if not, please feel free to come back to me. All friends here.--Anthony.bradbury 19:06, 3 September 2006 (UTC)