User talk:Jeffq/Experiments/VfD archive list

Initial organization

I've created this new WQ:VFDA page based largely on the existing one, with a few differences:

• The vote entries are only links pointing to subpages with titles in the form "Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/PAGENAME".
• There is no differentiation between kept or deleted pages, for 3 reasons:
  1. The main reason we did this originally, I think, was to reduce the amount of text in section edits, which is irrelevant with only links.
  2. Since articles may be voted on more than once with different results (consider "Adam Margolin"), we avoid some problems by keeping strict alpha order. (We may need to use WP's convention of appending a "/2" or similar for second votes.)
  3. One no longer needs to worry about the fate of a page to determine which section to put it in.
• My initial table of contents was rather hasty and could use some improvement. For one thing, we should probably create separate sections for "Category:" and perhaps "Template:" as well.
• I've omitted the "Deletions awaiting software fixes" section, as it no longer seems necessary.

The subpages currently use a format that I think would provide a full single VFDA page if it used the instantiation syntax {{ }} instead of standard links. But this sounds like it wouldn't solve our load time problem, so I suspect this won't fly. It means a little more work to create the individual links, but that's probably preferable to waiting 30-60 seconds for the darn VFDA page to load.

Another problem I see is how these pages show up in the Category:VfD archive entries. Each one is listed under "V" for "Votes for deletion…". This is because I used a {{vfd-archive}} template to make it easy to post a note at the top and category them. I know of no way to alter the {{PAGENAME}} variable that is part of these kind of templates. (I believe that issue is currently under consideration at BugZilla.)

Anyway, this is a start. Feel free to edit and comment to improve this process. Also, if no one objects, I'll probably move this page into a more formal location, like the either the old Wikiquote:Proposed Votes for deletion archive, or a new Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive (draft) if we don't want to delete the old one. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:19, 26 September 2005 (UTC)