Gonejackal
Welcome! edit
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Notifying page creators edit
Hi. When an editor nominates a page for deletion, they're required to notify the creator of that page and any substantial contributors. This is not mere courtesy. In the specific case of TfD, see box III of WP:TFDHOWTO. Of course, there are common-sense exception, for example you aren't expected to notify users that are blocked, topic-banned or retired. Some editing tools (like WP:TWINKLE) automate the sending of such notifications. Thanks. – Uanfala (talk) 01:29, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
- But what happens when the creator is only the most minor contributor?Gonejackal (talk) 01:36, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
- As for example in the case of someone who created a redirect 10 years ago that somebody else has just now expanded into an article? The automated tools will just notify the creator and ignore everyone else – and that's bad. If you're doing it yourself, you can take advantage of the resources of common sense that are not available to the robots. So yes, "substantial contributor" would be the key phrase then. – Uanfala (talk) 02:01, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
- Well, just used twinkle. very fast.Gonejackal (talk) 02:36, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
- How does rollback work?Gonejackal (talk) 03:02, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
- As for example in the case of someone who created a redirect 10 years ago that somebody else has just now expanded into an article? The automated tools will just notify the creator and ignore everyone else – and that's bad. If you're doing it yourself, you can take advantage of the resources of common sense that are not available to the robots. So yes, "substantial contributor" would be the key phrase then. – Uanfala (talk) 02:01, 27 May 2017 (UTC)