I hope sysops will still be deleting test pages straight off, without bothering to link them here and wait for a bit, otherwise the sheer number of them will stack up. But I agree this can be a useful way for non-sysops to flag a page as a test rather than just blanking it. Evercat 01:38 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I'm against this idea. The article namespace should not be cluttered with messages like this one. This belongs on the user talk page of the user who created the page. It would also break my recent improvements to the page deletion feature [1]. --Eloquence 03:09 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

That would just mean that "Delete test and welcome" were suggested for the deletion log for such pages. How would that break anything? Indeed, that seems to me good practice - just as I currently add "VfD" for VfD pages... Martin

I'm strongly against this. There would be too many articles left behind for people to have to go back to to clean up at some point in time. -- Zoe

I hearby volunteer to regularly come here and delete any test articles that link to this page. I don't expect this to become particularly onerous. Martin 15:09 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

How do you parse "Delete test and welcome", anyway? It doesn't sound like English to me... -- Oliver P. 14:25 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Feel free to move to a better name... :) Martin 15:09 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Okay... Erm... No, sorry, it seems that I'm far better at moaning about other people's use of language than I am at using it myself. ;) -- Oliver P. 00:08 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Woo! :)

This seems like a good idea for people that can't delete pages. If it's used just for junk -- which admins could delete without listing of VfD -- then nonadmins can link here instead of cluttering up VfD. Any controversy, and then it goes to VfD. I'll try to keep an eye on this, if people start using it. (OTOH, there's no need for admins to link a junk page here rather than deleting it.) -- Toby Bartels 22:52 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)