Wikivoyage talk:Votes for deletion/Archives

Question on usage

The standard that seems to be emerging is for the archives to be broken up by month, which seems not just reasonable but essential given the traffic volume. A question, however: when a page is VFD'ed one month but not actually dealt with until a later one, should its discussion be archived with the month when the VFD is posted, or the one when the deletion/redirect/decision to keep actually occurs? I recommend the latter so that the discussion is easily found by referring to the deletion log (at least if the action was in fact a deletion), but can make arguments either way. -- (WT-en) Bill-on-the-Hill 10:51, 2 June 2006 (EDT)

Makes sense, I'd be in favor. -- (WT-en) Ryan 12:15, 2 June 2006 (EDT)

OK to continue discussion here?

I've missed a discussion on VFDing Heathrow Airport, and now I have a question I left for now in Talk:Heathrow Airport. Is it OK to continue discussion in a Project:Votes for deletion/February 2007#Heathrow airport respective page of archives? Are they watched by the same amount of people as Project:Votes_for_deletion? Otherwise, how can I attract attention of Project:Votes_for_deletion watchers to an afterwards discussion like in Talk:Heathrow Airport? Resurrecting it from archive back to Project:Votes_for_deletion? --(WT-en) DenisYurkin 04:29, 15 February 2007 (EST)

My opinion is that archive pages are not the right place to discuss anything (except perhaps the issue of archiving...)

• If you need to contest a deletion, there is the votes for undeletion page.
• If you need to discuss an article that was not deleted, there is the article's talk page. If you think that an article was wrongly kept, then maybe (extreme case) you can post it in the vfd page again (But please discuss on the article talk page first.)
• Looking at the Heathrow talk page, I see that you need to discuss something related to policy. Best place is Project:What is an article — (WT-en) Ravikiran 05:20, 15 February 2007 (EST)

I have a question re template that was deleted, Template:QuestionOnYourEdit. Trying to add a comment to Project:Votes for deletion/April 2008, I get the following message:

Edit conflict: Wikivoyage:Votes for deletion/April 2008

The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to an external site..

And the question I tried to add is this:

Is it possible to have such a template in my personal namespace? I keep using the text, but it would save some of my time if I could have substition of parameters in an automated way, not manually.

--(WT-en) DenisYurkin 16:32, 21 September 2008 (EDT)

Yes, it can be done. Here is an example: Template User:(WT-en) NJR ZA/Templates/Template:Test, when used as {{User:(WT-en) NJR ZA/Templates/Template:Test}} will render {{User:(WT-en) NJR ZA/Templates/Template:Test}} --(WT-en) Nick 01:24, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

Is it possible to undelete Template:QuestionOnYourEdit with all of its revision history and discussion page into User:(WT-en) DenisYurkin/Template:QuestionOnYourEdit? --(WT-en) DenisYurkin 13:24, 5 October 2008 (EDT)