Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140611010938/@comment-5619531-20140615162745

Princess Callie wrote: Really? You're still going on about this shit?

Blanking talk pages - makes it harder for admins to see if the person has been warned before and how long. 2. It's not your talk page that you can do as you please with outside of reason. We don't want to dig through history and logs to see if a user has ever made a spam page. But I'll tell you what. We'll send anyone banned for it to you, and you can dig hrough their history to check. We won't even check the talk page, because that is clearly the inferior method. Because I'm suuure you have time for that.

It's the same with archiving. It's a record. A record that could hold future use. Sure. I'll do the revision checking and see if each user that deserves a warning had been warned or not for the reason that they're being warned. And then I'll come towards an admin to do the blocking. Either way, you're still going to have to look at some history. Whether it is a re-uploaded story in the special=?delete section, and the block-log of the user when you're blocking them. Why not just go in their history, before they have blanked the talk page, click on a revision before blanking, ctrl +f for a warning like "Re-uploaded", or whatever that may be. If you think this is unnecessary, then I will dim down my reason to just allow only admins remove their talk page/delete it.

EmpyrealInvective worote: If a user really wants to delete their work, they can message an admin or simply tag their story with a "delete now" tag and leave a reason. Blanking the page still leaves the page up which results in users coming across blank pages in their search for content. This can add up to a number of blank pages littering the wiki over a long period of time. What if the user was scared to message an admin, or that they're new and do not know how templates work. I can see that they could put "delete this, I don't want it on the site - author", but user's may think blanking it would just make it go away.