Author: mondgesicht
Description:
Today I created a new page (template specifically) at the German Wikipedia. It
was deleted within three minutes, as a template by the same name (and same
function) had existed before, and it had been the consensus after some
discussion that it was not needed actually.
If I was noticed that my new old template had been deleted before (with an
information were discussion about deletion is preserved), I could have saved
some fifteen minutes of my life.
Therefore my idea: When someone creates an article that has existed before and
was deleted meanwhile, inform the creator during his first edits about this fact
in big red letters and give a link to the discussion explaining reasons for the
deletion.
This could also end neverending creation-deletion cycles of articles, or at
least reduce them by some amount.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
OS: Windows XP