Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of pages protected against re-creation


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was No consensus to delete at this time, looks like this has generated efforts to improve the process that should be continued. — xaosflux  Talk  06:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

List of pages protected against re-creation
This page only contains a small fraction of the protected deleted pages (articles in list: 339; articles in Category:Protected deleted pages: 1869). In spite of being very incomplete, this list would be useful if any discussion on these article were going on here, but I do not see any. Note that a list of deleted protected articles, orderered by time, can be easily generated and maintained by a bot. (Liberatore, 2006). 14:47, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree that the current list is not very useful, I prefer Kotepho's list by timestamp. However, there should be a page that WP:SALT redirects to, explaining the process and perhaps linking to a bot-generated list, so keep after a complete rewrite. Kusma (討論) 14:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, what is there now should go, but a short description of deleted pages with links to bot-generated lists would be good. In that case, it doesn't really matter if the page is deleted or not; this will either be a redirect or written with a short description of deleted pages and links to bot-generated lists. —Centrx→talk &bull; 23:37, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If this is deleted, some automated list should replace it (efforts already seem to exist to this effect, but I'm not sure if they're permanent). Otherwise all of these articles become orphan articles. --W.marsh 14:40, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, there are automatically generated lists being used; the listing currently at this page is little used and mostly useless, the vast majority of deletedpages are not added to it, nor are they removed from it when deleted or changed to something else. Admins also should not need to add to it or remove from it; it is just extra work that is served better by Paolo's bot, or before that by Kotepho's manually initiated, but automatically generated list, etc. —Centrx→talk &bull; 15:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * For reference, the lists are User:Kotepho/reports/deleted page by cl_timestamp and User:DumbBOT/TimeSortedPD. The shortcut WP:SALT should point to something like Protected deleted pages rather than "list of...". (Liberatore, 2006). 18:13, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Right, that's basically what I mean. Redirect or move it there once somebody gets around to writing a decent description. Kusma (討論) 16:24, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Just redirect it to either list. Tito xd (?!?) 07:10, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I made a first attempt at rewriting here: Protected deleted pages, which points to both the categories and the lists of protected deleted pages and protected redirects. The only change I made to the original page is the suggestion to prefer protecting a redirect rather than a deleted page; this is because redirects are part of the encyclopedia content while is a self-reference and therefore should be avoided as far as possible. (Liberatore, 2006). 13:38, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Note, I've swung WP:SALT to the new page, and cross linked the other pages on it. — xaosflux  Talk  01:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.