Template talk:Delete

Creation of template
I've changed the style of this template to mirror Template:Pov more closely as this is the style that I'll be making some other maintenance templates in the near future. Of course, they can all be changed as needed. Molliewog 20:17, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I've changed the wording on this template so that the main "delete" template is for inappropriate content. Given that inappropriate content is that which we want to delete the fastest, I think it should have the easiest template name to remember when it comes to deletion. For other sysop deletion requests, we can create new templates that more accurately describe the reason to delete (like duplicate images). Molliewog 18:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Documentation and Examples
Thank you Steve for adding the comment parameter. We would like to edit this template (and all other templates) to include the documentation and examples by using the Documentation template. I noticed the comment parameter was added to this template, but users don't typically know to make use of the parameter. Instead of adding these instructions inside the 'noinclude' statement to the template page itself (which is how the templates are operating today), the preference is to move all instructions to the /Doc sub-page and then transclude the details onto the template page. (I'm still learning the terminology, so I hope that I am making sense.) Thanks again, Fran 19:14, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I have made some changes to the template so that the documentation is transcluded from the /doc subpage. I updated the instructions to include an example using the parameter to note the reason for the request. I have also added the ability to add a blank category parameter so that when the template is used in an example (see Maintenance Templates), the automatic category can be suppressed. --Steve 23:05, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Results of deleting a page
When a page in the wiki has the delete template added to the page, the page appears on the list of all pages that contain the delete template. What happens to the page after it's deleted when the template was still on the page at the moment the delete action was taken? This is hard to describe, but I was thinking that since deleted pages can be restored, then the page exists somewhere. So does the delete template on the deleted page still force the page to be added to a list of delete requests? Bottom line is - should the delete template be removed from the page prior to deleting the page? --Fran 16:12, 28 January 2010 (UTC)