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OK, I’ve taken a stab at what we’ve been talking about. http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Policy-Proposals/NFD-Policy Basically I’ve taken the two existing paragraphs and split them by adding Rescue and Vandalism information between. The two original paragraphs only have minor modifications for clarity. This also has the effect of clearly identifying a role and process for rescuing NFD’s as part of the deletion policy. I hope this will help the new users sometimes react negatively to NFD’s thinking there was no hope for their article. Here’s the original for clarification. The proposal is only intended to replace the two paragraphs immediately following the code table. http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Deletion-Policy I’d also suggest a new section in the Admin Notice Board for NFD Reviews. Feedback?

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I really like what Krystle had clarified by adding into the deletion policy… Krystle [had] said on or about 2010-12-01 this (with the ‘If you are unsure…’ add-in by Writelf):

She removed it 2010-12-12, saying: (removing recent addition till better consensus can be reached)

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Hey Mel, thanks for posting this. I think this is a step much, much closer to consensus. I’m a little unclear though as to whether you were pitching this as an unchangeable official policy draft, like in step two of the formal process , or if we’re still in the discussion phase? From the old forums it seemed like we were still sorting out a lot of ideas, and I’m a bit apprehensive about doing a formal policy vote until the forum transition is complete.

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Still in discussion phase. Due to the holiday, I don’t want to rush things.

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Here’s some NFD Tag trivia… I was working with an omission in the NFD template and found that if you enter {{nfd|tag}} on a User Talk page it will insert the following:

This was added in the template redesign on April 24, 2008.

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And the “original” version of that tag which was created back in 2007 was… http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Template:Nfdtag&oldid=519871 Copy/pasted below: Hi there! How are you today? I would like to thank you for your recent wikiHow edit. It is great to see you making some great contributions to this wonderful site. There is just one tiny problem. Although you are welcome to edit almost any part of wikiHow, we ask that you please don’t remove tags that have nominated an article for deletion. We like to give everyone the chance to voice their opinions when an article has been NFDed. In the future, you can voice your opinion on the how-to discussion page. I know your edit held good intentions and again, I would like to thank you for it. Please don’t be discouraged by this message, it is only a friendly reminder. Thanks, and have a great day! (end of quote)