Template talk:DelEx

Cart before the Horse?

I understand the desire to keep deleted pages off Special:WantedPages but use of this template makes it appear that pages requested on A/SD or A/D have already been deleted. Sysops may overlook a request if they see a red link. ~ _{18:04, 28 April 2011}

It could always be added retroactively (i.e. Once it has been deleted). I originally had it as a blue link, but that looked somewhat silly. It's functionality vs. Aesthetics. It's just that Special:Wantedpages is 15,000+ entries long and many of them are links from A/SD and A/D.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 18:09, 28 April 2011 (BST)

It could be retroactive or even made so that through template attributes, the links appear blue pre-deletion and red post-deletion. Linking to pages on A/SD and A/D has been going on for so long that it would take a Herculean effort to clear them out of Wantedpages, I think. I suppose it doesn't hurt to stop adding to it, though. ~ _{18:18, 28 April 2011}

It would be nice to do it through template attributes, if I can work out how to do it. Yeah, doing it manually is an enormous task; It's the sort of edit that I would love to have a bot to do (but that would be pretty difficult as well). I would certainly like to stop it getting worse, given that my current project is the clear out broken links on the wiki (eta of that is about 2025 :P).--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 18:35, 28 April 2011 (BST)

2025 sounds about right if not a bit conservative. {{ifdef}} could be used to switch between link colors if some attirbutes are added. ~ _{19:01, 28 April 2011}

Yeah, I just need to find a magic word for the pagename. I know how to do it easily with Parserfunctions, but I'm not sure how to do it here. I'm looking through the documentation now.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 19:23, 28 April 2011 (BST)