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Hey John, since we disagree on the use of the AfD page, I figured I'd bring this up for discussion before we get into a revert war. I think we're losing sight of the purpose of the AfD page. The reason why the page was kept sparse is because this is just an information page to let people know when there are HP pages nominated for deletion. When nomination is closed, we no longer need to pay attention to it. Keeping the history around just clutters up the page and brings the focus away from nominations in progress. We've gotten grief in the past from other Wikipedians because they feel that letting other people in the HP Wikiproject know about the nominations means we're trying to rally up the troops to get an article kept when in reality, we all differ on the notability of articles, but this page is supposed to bring the discussion to people who have a better idea about the article in question. Putting up a "history" seems to glorify the page and opens us up to criticism. Various Wikiprojects have similar AfD pages, and most of them keep the history out. For those of us who want to know whether an article was deleted or kept, the history of the AfD page should more than suffice. Please take a look at the article history to see how this page was used prior to December, that's the ideal use of a Wikiproject AfD page. Thanks for reading this, [[User:Deathphoenix|Deathphoenix]] [[User_talk:Deathphoenix|'''ʕ''']] 14:46, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
:Thanks, John! I wasn't sure if my explanation was incoherent (when I read it again, I even got a little confused!), but I'm glad you got my meaning. Don't worry about causing trouble for the Wikiproject, our usual response to criticism is to change the pages so that they conform to policy (take a look [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Harry Potter/Images|here]] for an example)... this is just a bit of preemptive action on our part. :-) --[[User:Deathphoenix|Deathphoenix]] [[User_talk:Deathphoenix|'''ʕ''']] 21:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
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