Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Template:Deleted page

Template:Deleted page
And the following pages which transclude it:


 * Pokemon
 * Template:Banned user
 * Auction
 * Template:WoW

It's superseded by the MediaWiki feature which allows create-protection (Special:ProtectedTitles). If needed those four titles can be create protected. Guanaco (discuss • contribs) 06:18, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not opposed to this deletion, but what about the people who are not concerned by the create-protection? Our admins have at least this heads-up today (the protected warning looks like the deleted one, and its reason is limited to a few characters and not editable), and the bots can easily understand it too. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 08:20, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

01:26, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I see no grounds for deletion. It's a clear, easy-to-understand way of providing information to users, clearer, probably more polite, and technically more straightforward than the bells-and-whistles MediaWiki feature. If someone chooses to use this, I see no reason they should be forced to use the other feature instead. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:31, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * One problem with this (and Template:Naming policy notice) is that they show up on Random book. I found one at Overview after six tries. I agree with you about clarity and politeness, so let's update MediaWiki:Titleprotected, MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission, and MediaWiki:Titleprotectedwarning to provide better information. Guanaco (discuss • contribs) 20:53, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * While I agree about those hooks (given that the Foundation has foisted that baroque arrangement on us), thus far I still don't think we should delete. If there are disadvantages to use of the templates, warnings can be put on the documentation for them (until such time as fixes might be devised for those problems). --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:48, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep the template, add warning documentation, and delete the four pages I listed? Guanaco (discuss • contribs) 01:34, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Miscellaneous thoughts.
 * The template message is specifically for when a page has been deleted; the MediaWiki hooks appear unable to tell whether that's so. I'm trying to think of a way to make that distinction in the markup for the hooks.
 * If we were interested in choosing a random book not including pages in Cookbook space, that could be done via Special:RandomInCategory/Subject:Books by subject/all books. I've never been clear on whether or not those Cookbook spaces should be included as choices for Special:RandomRootpage. Random Cookbook pages could be selected via Special:Random/Cookbook.
 * --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:04, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I didn't think about Special:RandomRootpage and Special:Search. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:14, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
 * What happened to editnotices? This means that the template can stay, but not those pages.