Forum:Origins of deletion policy

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Can we agree that when articles are given the proposed deletions tag they must have an explanation on the discussion page, however brief, apart from the very obvious acts of vandalism, for example the page Robot Class has been proposed for deletion but no reason is given. Sure it needs a cleanup but I'm not sure if deletions been proposed because of the quality of the article or because of the article's topic. It would be helpful if people could do this when proposing deletions. Thanks :). GingerM 21:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, and when anyone is placing a prop delete tag, please do not remove all of the other content that was on the page, many times it would be good to know without having to go that extra step to look back through the history to see what the page was. --Tangerineduel 13:37, 26 July 2008 (UTC)