Hi MisterSynergy,
through my work at wikidata, I figured out that some people which are deleting items are not writing "accurate" like you.
For example, you write "Does not meet the notability policy: content was: "ABCDE"
But others just write "deleted page Q123456789 (RfD: Not notable)"
I always "hate" when this appears, because a volunteery person who is using time to create something good, does not now which item was deleted, when their is no history visible. The "Deletion log" is not helpful.
May be you can help and show me any explaining page, how I could figure out which items were deleted.
My fair question are:
1) how can I see which item it was? I fairly would understand, if a item I created it is not notable but it should be fair for th the volunteer getting his "work" back. Even a change of a item is documented in a history tab but after deletion, only admins or backrollers are seeing this according to
2) why are other deleting persons are not following your schema? In your schema I could decide, Okay he is right, its not notable, So I leave it. But without your schema it is unclear what was deleted for the user. Even in OpenStreetMap you can see everything and it is understandable.
Is there a "Deletion workshop page" for persons who want to delete stuff, to discuss the schema / transparency for users? (I dont want to delete stuff, but like to understand more. I also try to fix things through merging and do QAQC. So merging is like a deletion of one of the duplette.)
3) How can I get back a historic version of a deleted item (not a undeletion, I mean, just seeing the version of the data of the item before deletion). I know there is the wikidata Dump but, If it is just one JSON, it should be possible to get this data and leave the decision by the deleting person / marked for deletion"-person and go on.
4) I also do not understand, why there is this "fast quick deletion process", and not a friendly alert / hint "hey your creation is not 100% right, could you please add more references?" even one week before deletion
5) As I see your "User talk", you get into interaction after deleting with the users. Is this the normal process? For that, they know what is deleted becuase of your schema. So thank you for beeing more transparent than others!
6) Why do yu have this nice user talk page, How can I implement this ? I saw people with many user talk also archive that. Is this somewhere described how to install it?
It would be really nice if you can help
Thanks a lot