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Hi there. Not saying this is a bad page, but ... it has an incongruous message of "under construction" though also has had many hits. http://www.summitpost.org/national-parks-in-northwest-europe/256498 and last edited nov 2007.

While we can gently nudge the maintainers to keep developing this page (or not so gently kick their lazy arses ), it's definitely not to be nuked!

Why was my page for Pic La Selle deleted?????? I went through the trouble of creating it so that I would have a link to put in the summit log i left on the summit for people to go to summitpost. I said I would be updating it next week when I got back from Haiti and when I went to do so it was deleted! How can I get that exact URL back?

What is this suppsed to mean?? "Deleted-- I doubt there's going to be a rush to post that peak in the meantime, so it doesn't belong on the What's New page." are we only supposed to post popular or easy to reach peaks on this site??? The fact that there is zero info online about how to get to this peak or any info on anyone having climbed it is the exact reason it should be on summitpost, plus it is a country highpoint.

Hopefully someone can help correct this for me.

The comment about no rush just means that since the peak not well-known and not in a highly popular climbing spot, it's unlikely that someone else would post it in the meantime.

I sent you a PM explaining the rest.

jmitch421 wrote:Why was my page for Pic La Selle deleted?????? I went through the trouble of creating it so that I would have a link to put in the summit log i left on the summit for people to go to summitpost. I said I would be updating it next week when I got back from Haiti and when I went to do so it was deleted! How can I get that exact URL back?

What is this suppsed to mean?? "Deleted-- I doubt there's going to be a rush to post that peak in the meantime, so it doesn't belong on the What's New page." are we only supposed to post popular or easy to reach peaks on this site??? The fact that there is zero info online about how to get to this peak or any info on anyone having climbed it is the exact reason it should be on summitpost, plus it is a country highpoint.

Hopefully someone can help correct this for me.

Like I said in the PM that I sent you, I asked that it be deleted because it was an empty page. Now that you climbed it, please make a page for it. I am eager to learn about Haitian Mountains.

For many people, SP is a bit like a weekly newspaper one likes to read once per week drinking the coffee while watching the newest peaks, articles, and so on in "what's new".

Imagine yourself reading a set of articles which say only "will be climbed next month or next week". Boring, no ?
It took me a bit of time at the beginning to realize it too, I thought it was stupid to take SP as a competition. But then I understood it was not about that, but about having permanently new content ready to be read.

It raises again the eternal problem newcomers regularly have with pages under construction - imho, the developers should have remedy to it long ago with something like a "publish" option. I said it few times but for some reason nobody cares...

visentin wrote:It raises again the eternal problem newcomers regularly have with pages under construction - imho, the developers should have remedy to it long ago with something like a "publish" option. I said it few times but for some reason nobody cares...

I think people care visentin, I think most people would like to see this feature. But it may take a while only because the benefit is small. Anyone can easily set up a construction page and that's what a lot of people have done to get around this.

Empty:

http://www.summitpost.org/boulder-mountains-id/170894

Nearly empty:

http://www.summitpost.org/cheam-range/355880

mrchad9 wrote:

visentin wrote:It raises again the eternal problem newcomers regularly have with pages under construction - imho, the developers should have remedy to it long ago with something like a "publish" option. I said it few times but for some reason nobody cares...

I think people care visentin, I think most people would like to see this feature. But it may take a while only because the benefit is small. Anyone can easily set up a construction page and that's what a lot of people have done to get around this.

One easy walk-around woud be to reset the creation date to the current date when a custom object (they usually serve as drafts) is turned into something else.

Updated the Pic La Selle page

http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock ... selle.html

Thanks for helping me get that URL back so that anyone reading the summit log I left on the summit can come to SP.

I agree there needs to be a under construction then publish feature for new pages.

http://www.summitpost.org/the-torngats/171181
http://www.summitpost.org/la-cloche-mountains/171012
http://www.summitpost.org/jasper-alpine-climbs/427401
http://www.summitpost.org/the-ouareau-f ... ark/297853
http://www.summitpost.org/paragon-peak/427228
http://www.summitpost.org/mount-pevril/552357
http://www.summitpost.org/morro-peak/676852
And all of the “huts and campgrounds” still owned by this guy
http://www.summitpost.org/users/pavolhornak/45456

yatsek wrote:And all of the “huts and campgrounds” still owned by this guy
http://www.summitpost.org/users/pavolhornak/45456

By deleting the guy all his (nice) pictures are gone as well. Some of them were used in some pages and it caused a terrible mess in the layout.
Delete bad submissions please but do not delete people arbitrary like this, especially when their material are used on pages.

mrchad9 wrote:http://www.summitpost.org/dugger-mountain-under-construction/676708

mrchad's correct.

And on the third day the Lord Bob did smite such incompleteness with a mighty sword