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| '''The weather in London is used as an example of a broken link and a deleted page: see . A serious article about weather in London could be at ] or ]. Nonsense or unhelpful substubs such as "it usually rains" can be deleted: see ]. Serious articles can be moved and the automatic redirect deleted.'''--] 10:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC) | '''The weather in London is used as an example of a broken link and a deleted page: see . A serious article about weather in London could be at ] or ]. Nonsense or unhelpful substubs such as "it usually rains" can be deleted: see ]. Serious articles can be moved and the automatic redirect deleted.'''--] 10:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC) | ||
| *Then why not lock the article against editing and remove the little blurb from the top of the page that says, "this article is locked?" ] 10:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC) | *Then why not lock the article against editing and remove the little blurb from the top of the page that says, "this article is locked?" ] 10:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC) | ||
| **Unfortunatelty an administrator can only lock (="protect") a page if it exists. In this case, in order to protect the page it would need to be created first - making it a blue (rather than red) link.--] 10:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC) | |||
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The weather in London is used as an example of a broken link and a deleted page: see what links here. A serious article about weather in London could be at London weather or Weather in London. Nonsense or unhelpful substubs such as "it usually rains" can be deleted: see Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/The weather in London. Serious articles can be moved and the automatic redirect deleted.--Henrygb 10:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
- Then why not lock the article against editing and remove the little blurb from the top of the page that says, "this article is locked?" Cernen 10:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
- Unfortunatelty an administrator can only lock (="protect") a page if it exists. In this case, in order to protect the page it would need to be created first - making it a blue (rather than red) link.--Commander Keane 10:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)