Wikiquote talk:Votes for deletion/Log/2007 February

Problem with log-entry order
Our current practice is to list archived entries in the individual log pages by reverse chronological order of nomination times; i.e., the most recently nominated should be first. Our WQ:VFD order, however, is forward-chronological by nomination. This presents an additional challenge for VfD archivers, especially now that we've adopted two additional practices: The net result is that our WQ:VFD entries look exactly like our log entries in the edit window, EXCEPT that they're in reverse order. I can testify that it's a minor but regular annoyance to reverse these, especially when there are a lot of entries. (We've been known to have as many as 16 or so in a single day.)
 * Transcluding WQ:VFD subpage discussions instead of creating the archive pages from discussions embedded in WQ:VFD.
 * Adding an HTML comment noting the nomination dates in WQ:VFD, just like the ones we've been using in the log pages.

Because of this, I recommend that we change the order of the logs to follow the order of WQ:VFD; i.e., oldest first for every month. (This also follows archives of our other discussion pages, like WQ:VP and all talk pages.) I don't see a need to change the order of Votes for deletion/Log, but we could do this, too, if we wanted to make the entire tree consistent.

I've been thinking about this for a few weeks, so I'm prepared to do a mass reversal of the existing logs if we decide this is a good idea. (It should take me a fraction of an hour because I have a fast system for reversing lines from doing the VFD->Log reverses.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:13, 10 March 2007 (UTC)